well, she was off to a good start

"WHAT HAPPENED?" you've asked. What's up with the lack of posts?

Well, life happened. As most of you know, things got hectic. Especially once I got that invite to Israel last fall. Everything after that was an insane blur of permission, passport, planning and packing. Then I was off.

Back home, there was frantic catching up at work, followed quickly by a visit from my Mom, Dad, Kevin, Tine, Ethan and Noah for Thanksgiving. And then Ry and I headed north for Virginia for two weeks in December.

I've had two or three miserable colds since returning to the US, and I'm finally taking my doc's advice and having the tonsils jerked. I've given some consideration to posting a pretty awesome pick of how the tonsils looked on Thanksgiving Day, but I couldn't figure out how to make it optional, or to hide it behind a black box that you could look in if you really wanted so that I wouldn't cause unsuspecting visitors to pass out. Let it suffice to say that they were a uni-tonsil that day, and that there was no obvious route for any turkey that I might have wanted to swallow to take .

So the tonsils are coming out on Monday. My doc (Ron Moses) seems nice enough, and I've heard and read some pretty good things about him. I promise a post once I'm well enough to turn the computer on and tell you how its going. And at some point, maybe I'll go back (ala those flashbacks in Lost) and post some of the funnier tidbits from Israel. Stay tuned.