Rescue Team Locates Woman Under Rock in North Minneapolis

Howdy friends. Thank you for the concerned e-mails and comments. I apologize for being amiss. You see, I've been neck-deep in research. I'm still in it, at least up to...oh, my arm-pits? So you know where to find me the rest of the weekend. But anyhoo...here's a news round-up from the last few weeks:

My sweet friend Stacy who lives down the street just gave birth to a lovely baby girl named Frances! Yay! I can't wait to go play with her as soon as I crawl out from under this rock.

Lon & Jaime also just gave birth to a beautiful baby girl named Alice. Congrats!

Shad spent a week at the San Diego Comic-Con (that's "Nerd Prom" for the rest of us), and spent some time in LA w/dear SummSumm and others.

Geoff and I went to Wicked. It was awesome.

My new sewing machine arrived a few weeks ago! But it's still in the box. Grumblegrumblegrumble...

Congrats to pals who took the Bar Exam this week! DWJ & Luke, you've been holding a special place in my thoughts.

I went home to visit my family last weekend in western MN. My aunt and uncle were visiting from Texas, and we did a lot of drinking and fish-frying and relaxing by the lake. That is the life.

I hosted a party on the patio a few weekends ago with my lady-friends. The dress code was "wear that thing in your closet that you have no other excuse to wear." This was obviously a thinly veiled excuse for me to wear my kimono and drink cocktails all afternoon. jL took the cake with her "I-just-killed-my-husband-with-this-butcher-knife-and-now-I'm-going-to-cut-up-limes-with-it-care-for-a-mojito?" ensemble.



We had a blast, and at one point I realized we--the bigggest wierdos in the whole neighborhood--were sitting around talking about how strange the neighbors are. Oh my God, in 50 years, we are going to be the craziest crazy old ladies ever. I swear we already are. I hope we all end up in the same retirement community.



Oh yes, and there was this:



So, I'm done with work in one week, then I am going on vacation with my family for four days; we are renting a houseboat on Rainy Lake near International Falls. After that, I am hopping on a plane to bring my little sister Sarey to college in Tempe, Arizona.



(That's Sarey, for those of you who don't know.)

After Arizona, I plan to plant my butt on the patio for a week and cram in as much relaxing as possible before I start school August 28.

Ack! This sunlight is burning my eyes. Must crawl back under rock now...