Well then, so I haven't been writing. What ELSE is new, I ask you? Not a whole helluva lot on this end, that's for sure. Lesseee.... first off, I am on vacation beginning tomorrow. About a month and a half ago, I scheduled this vacation and finally, FINALLY it has arrived. I've been looking forward, nae pining, for some serious time off since I started working full time; I am thrilled to have 9 days in a row to be a lazy bum. Well, sort of. I'll still have school stuff to take care of but I will have 45 more hours to devote to it over the course of the week. We're currently in the middle of week 4 and my hope is to get all the homework done and submitted next week, as well as get a signficant chunk of my final project completed. The beginnings of said final project are here, in case you want to take a gander. A lot of items up there are just placeholders at the moment but as it is my final project for a scripting class I'm hoping it will be a bit more fleshed out by the end of next week.

In addition to the "must do" stuff, I am also going to take Miss Rennie to the coast one day and treat myself to a day of pampering on another. I am SO looking forward to this...

Also, my older brother and his woman are getting hitched (for those of you who are wondering, I love her and her adorable daughter; I couldn't be happier for my bro). So it looks to be a rather busy week.

Yesterday I celebrated 7 months of sobriety. Yahoo! Go me! Aside from the occasional drinking dream, things are good on this front.

Elise has an interesting Shrimp Ceviche recipe posted here. Looks tasty, no? May give this a whirl this week.

Earlier this week, Newsweek ran a "20-years Later" story regarding its predictions in 1986 that women who were 30 and still unmarried had a better chance of being killed by a terrorist than they did of ever getting married. Despite the fact that these rather desperate odds are refuted in this follow-up story, the piece still seems to proliferate the idea that marriage-and-children is the ideal and that there is something wrong with those who don't have - or want - this situation. What is up with that? Why is the "married" state of being the "ideal" state in this country? Why is there the abounding impression that if you're not "with" someone you couldn't possibly be happy? Bahhh!

Anyway, so the week is shaping up to be a good one, the minor issue with my website (yesterday) aside... For those of you who didn't notice, for some reason my webhost didn't renew my domain name correctly, rendering my website totally screwed up for the last 24 hours. It only recently came back up, thankfully.