Yep. I'm back.

So I've been missing for several months. OK. Seven months. What made me go away? Laziness, apathy, boredom.. So what made me come back?

Well...

1. I am now new and improved as you can tell by my new blog look. I'm still kind of up in the air about this. It seemed cool at home and then I came into work where I have a 24 inch screen, pulled up my fancy new blog and I got scared. The picture looked huge. Looking at big pictures of myself is uncomfortable. Kind of like the feeling you get when you hear your own voice on an answering machine or in a video. It may be coming down.

2. I am in demand and wildly popular. That's slightly exaggerated. Two people have asked me recently about the blog.

3. In my blogging absence, I have been on Facebook a lot. It's like crack. Yet at times, I am totally confused by the facebook etiquette or lack thereof. Have you run into this?? You get the email from Facebook "Girl you haven't spoken to in 12 years has added you as a friend. Confirm her as your friend." Then I confirm the friend and there's no catching up or emails exchanged. I just see pictures and updates about her in her new life that really don't make sense to me.

4. Gears of War 2 came out. Marty's logging hours a day on the xBox. I have been cut off from my television set. He no longer speaks to me. I was bringing work home to entertain myself as I listen to chainsaws and guns in the background. Not good. I figure the game might "break" in a couple weeks, but that I can entertain myself with the blog for a little while. It was that or alcohol. I bounce back much better the morning after blogging than the morning after drinking. And stupid me bought him three new games for Christmas and I think one of them may be about the zombie apocalypse. I should probably rethink this decision.

5. I'm still not smoking. The anger subsided for a bit. But now it's back. Maybe it's the added stress of the holidays? Not sure. I need something to do to distract myself. This works.

6. Don't know if you've heard, but apparently the economy is going down the toilet. I've learned that our retirement statements should go from mailbox to shredder without getting opened. I live in a one income household (5 months til graduation!!), so we have this new plan: don't go out to dinner, don't go shopping, don't go to the bar, don't go on weekend trips and don't internet shop. Super. WTF am I supposed to do with myself? Cook, scrub, vacuum? No. No. No.

So here I am...