Sorry, folks, it's been a while!

Well, I'm officially back. The trip was awesome and fantastic, and my worries and concerns were mostly for naught. We did so much that I am still having a hard time going through it all in my head! While I sort things out, I have the following tidbits to mention today.

- I am officially not a fan of this later-in-the-year daylight savings time deal. This morning I left for work in the pitch black, stumbling to my car with my little Dodgers key chain light while hoping to not come across a lingering coyote. Or, for that matter, our owl friend who likes to swoop. Also? I miss seeing the sunrises I was becoming so accustomed to.

- The spiders at our house seem to have disappeared while I was gone. They are no longer inhabiting the corners of our ceilings, and this both comforts me, and makes me wonder where the heck they've gone to.

- Sean found a mouse in our kitchen trash can the day before I left. It was alive, and wondering how the shit it could get out. Because he's the man I love, he released the mouse outside, then debated whether or not to tell me about it. (He obviously did tell me and was visibly relieved when I didn't freak out.)

- I found a dead mouse on our steps on Monday when I got home, and I sincerely hope it is not the same one that got stuck in our trash can. Because the idea of that makes me sad. But I have a sneaking suspicion that it is the same mouse, and he couldn't survive outdoors after living behind our kitchen sink.

- I have been totally lazy at work.

- Sean didn't tell me about the cable bill that came in the mail while I was gone, leading to a cable bill that is being mailed today, five days after it's due date. It was bound to happen sometime.

- I really need to make appointments at the neurologist and dermatologist. My referrals are almost expired.

- I'm completely over the election. (I know, horrible.) I would like for Obama to be elected already, so I can stop seeing Sarah Palin every damn place I look. And so that McCain can go back to his own political beliefs, and not the sell out Republican beliefs that got him where he is today.

- I am also ridiculously tired of the term "Joe Plummer."

- I recently found out that the sister of an acquaintance is Sarah Palin's hairstylist. This makes me irrationally angry. The sister is a HUGE pain in the ass, and I can't stand Palin, but damn, her hair usually does look fabulous.

More later, when I'm more caught up on my actual work!