. . . since u been gone . . .

. . . oh, no ~ wait . . .

. . . it's ME who's been gone . . .

. . . it all started with a cable outage . . .

{xoxo, cox communications! (not)}

. . . but it turned into more . . .

. . . i've been the proud owner

of a pretty iMac like this

for a little over two years . . .

. . . during which time . . .

. . . i've been "lucky" enough . . .

. . . to need two ~ TWO! ~ new hard drives . . .

{xoxo, three-year AppleCare!}

. . . it's great to be up and running again . . .

{xoxo, brent rasmussen!!!!!!!!!!!}

*not my actual hard drive ~ but similar

. . . seven days without the internet

is quite a while . . .

. . . and a few things happened

during my down time . . .

. . . exciting news! . . .

. . . i got my dryer vent cleaned! . . .

{helpful hint: this probably needs to be done more often than once in fifteen years}

. . . who knew a load of towels

could dry in less than three hours? . . .

{xoxo, keith bloomfield!}

*not my actual dryer vent ~ but similar!

. . . we had freakishly cold/dumb weather . . .

. . . let us observe a moment of silence

for my frozen geraniums . . .

. . . and every single new shrub

tyler planted around our pool

last march . . .

{xoxo, mother nature (single tear)}

*my actual former geraniums

. . . my first-born ran . . .

. . . a very l o n g way . . .

. . . twenty-six point two miles to be exact . . .

. . . fast enough to qualify for the boston marathon . . .

. . . melody described her best ~ "part cheetah" . . .

{xoxo, amber!}

*my actual daughter!

. . . have you seen

the valentine version

of junior mints? . . .

. . . half of them are red inside . . .

{xoxo, dark chocolate!}

*obviously not my junior mints ~ mine are gone

. . . lash extensions . . .

. . . hurray! . . .

. . . no more mascara! . . .

{xoxo, kori}

*not my actual eyes or lashes

{p.s. want some? i can hook you up!}

. . . tagg "made" me watch this movie with him . . .

. . . my first time . . .

. . . two words . . .

. . . 1} ken . . .

. . . 2} barbie . . .

. . . but this scene? . . .

. . . and the one before it

where andy's room is empty

as he's leaving for college? . . .

. . . fuhgeddaboudit . . .

{xoxo, buzz and woody}

*no more mascara ~ luckily!

. . . AND . . .

{drumroll, please}

. . . romney grandbaby number seven

is on the way! . . .

. . . too many congratulatory comments

to post here . . .

. . . but we are SOOOOOOO excited . . .

{xoxo, rasmussen baby in may and johnson baby in august}

*i heard this good news before lash extensions ~

runny mascara alert!

. . . so there you have it . . .

. . . randomocity at its best . . .

. . . it's good to be back . . .

. . . what's up with you? . . .

. . . it's gonna take me a while

to skim through the 1000+ posts

in my google reader! . . .