I'm a slacker. I haven't posted since TBWITWW's Birthday (Actually the day before... not because I forgot when her birthday was, but rather because I've been just that little bit off so I'm not sure what day it actually is on a regular basis.)

Anyway... it's been a while. We've moved, gotten settled in, gotten pregnant, miscarried, both of my parents have gotten re-married. (Hi Yvonne and Jesse!). So there's my life in a nutshell for the last 6 months. Wow... boring.

I also signed up for a MySpace account. Yeah I know. I had to take a couple showers afterwards. So, if there's anyone still reading this. What should I write about? I feel like I should update this more, since going back and reading stuff has reminded me of things I'd mostly forgotten otherwise.

I'm reading The Confusion by Neal Stephenson right now. (Ooooh... it's a link to LibraryThing, which is the coolest nerdfest on the net in my book.)

I also just picked up a copy of American V: A Hundred Highways by Johnny Cash. Rick Rubin deserves some kind of Nobel Prize or McArthur grant for helping Johnny Cash put out the brilliance that he did at the end of his life.

Anyone who wants to buy me a Canon 30D is more than welcome to.

Wow... this entry reads like something off of myspace. Crap.

As my "darling" little brother has pointed out, I haven't posted lately. I've been very busy. So suck it up. All three of you.

As far as why I've been busy... well... since April 1 (my last real post) I've:

Buried my Grandfather
*Gone on Vacation
Moved
*Buried Aiden
*Gone to a Wedding

Items marked with * were out of state.

So yeah I've been busy. And most of the busyness has been very emotional for me. I'm not one to share my emotion with the world at large. So not a lot of what I go through on that level gets posted, because if I don't share it with you, then it's probably none of your damn business. Nothing personal, but I have a good close network of friends who I share with who I know will provide the support I need. Maybe someday you'll be in that group, and if so, you'll know I'll talk to you directly, rather than through this page.

That said, I do appreciate those people who do read the page, and things should be calming down a bit in my personal life (work is another matter, it's about to go all kinds of stupid) so I hope to have a chance to write more soon. In the mean time, go read the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson. That'll keep you busy.

Today TBWITWW and I went to the Newberry Library for their annual book fair. TBWITWW and I are a little book crazy so library book sales are like, I don't know... half off at The Gap or something. So we got...

• Heloise's Work and Money Savers by Heloise Cruse (1967)
• How to Clean Practically Anything by The Editors of Consumer Reports Books (1996)
• Better Homes and Garden's New Cookbook (The red and white checkerboard cover, no year listed, but there's none of that new-fangled "Metric" nonsense)
• Cracking the GMAT by Geoff Martz (2001)
• The Weekend Quilt by Leslie Linsley (1986)
• Martinsville: Report of the Illinois Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility Siting Commission on its Inquiry into the Martinsville Alternative Site by Seymour Simon, William J. Hall and Carolyn Raffensperger (1992)
• The White Plague by Frank Herbert (1982)
• Flash Forward by Robert J. Sawyer (1999)
• The Deus Machine by Pierre Ouellette (1993)
• What to Expect When You're Expecting by Arlene Eisenberg, Heidi Eisenberg Murkoff and Sandee Eisenberg Hathaway, R.N. (1988)
• VHS- Olympic Winter Games: Moments of Glory (1991)
• CD- The World So Wide by Dawn Upshaw (1998)
• CD- God Fodder by Ned's Atomic Dustbin (1991)
• Vinyl-Symphony No.8, in B Minor ("Unfinished") by Schubert (no idea of the date, but it's older and in better shape than you)

All this for less than $15.00 Not bad I say... Not bad at all.