CAKE : Thanks for your thoughts, encouragement, ideas, stories & emails with fun photos. A bunch of you mentioned cupcakes. I am right there with you. My mom and I tasted a few cupcakes at a local shop last weekend but between you and me, internet, we were not as impressed as we had hoped to be. So it's on the short list of things to consider but sadly not a knight in shining armor idea. What I did love most about your combined comments is the gentle reminder that anything goes, it's our cake and we'll make it work for us. Sweet.
PHONE : Early yesterday morning, in a feat that I wish had been captured on video, my sleeping self knocked my cell phone/blackberry off my bed and into a waiting cup of water. It was really a one in a million shot but of course it happened. The splash from it woke me up and I acted quickly to shove my phone into a bowl of dry rice to absorb moisture. Apparently though, I failed, and my blackberry seems to have short circuited. So NOW, I am making calls from a duct taped together flip phone that the rest of the family had deemed inoperative and traded up from. Temporary, but frustrating. And also email-less. Turns out having email at your fingertips really is an addiction that takes a few days to recover from.
PHONE UPDATE : I tried the phone again a few hours after writing this post and turns out a night with the rice was all it needed. Working great. SO GLAD!! Now I really should buy the big digital SLR before I break anything else.
DANCING WITH THE STARS : Anyone else hooked yet? Man, I LOVE fall television.
TRIPS : I am off tomorrow to LA for a great visit with a few of my girlfriends from college. I can't wait to see them. On Sunday, Paul is driving up from San Diego to get me and then we'll spend a week together there before flying up to Oakland for the USC v. CAL game that Saturday. Quick & fun journey, it will be fantastic. I will be blogging all next week with albums on the road, plenty of photos and the save the date reveal. I hear on good authority that my decorated envelopes are making their way to homes everywhere. I realize now, I should have sent one to Paul who really never saw it. HA!
