Good morning!

Wow, nothing really gets my day off to a great start like waking up to someone pounding on my front door at 5:40 a.m. (especially when I went to bed around 2:00). Yeah, it's also awesome to stumble in the pitch dark to the peephole and realize that it would have been a good idea to replace the burnt-out lightbulb above my door; I'd been meaning to do that for days. I absolutely love being able to see only a man's shadowy profile through the peephole--as he keeps pounding and pounding. And I've been watching too many horror movies lately and receiving too many phone calls where the person on the other end never says anything, including one call the other night around 3:30 in the morning. So, you can imagine. I think that incident took some days off of my life.

Actually, my hot water heater had broken and flooded the apartment downstairs, so I was spared and have no real reason to complain. But this continues the trend of having something in my apartment break while I'm on vacation. Seriously, it always happens. The maintenance man and I should be BFF by now. Hey, we were hanging out yesterday morning while I was still in my robe, so you know we're close.

I'm back!

Yay--I can access my own blog again! I've upgraded to beta, and everything seems to be working at the moment (after being completely unable to post or access comments last week). Dear readers, please e-mail me and let me know if you experience any problems leaving comments, etc.