Update Well, we decided to move suddenly one day. Or rather, James did. He called me at work one day and said "I'm moving stuff over to the other house, it will now be our primary residence". So, here we are now. And we were without internet access here until the other day, as it took an entire month for the local cable company to hook us up :-p They suck.

Anyhoo...for those who didn't get caught up in the mass email that I sent out earlier this week, James also recently decided totally *against* starting up his own Domino's franchise. So, no move to Hendersonville either. The former being just fine and dandy with me, I wasn't too keen on it to begin with, but I really would like to move out of this hick town with nothing to do! Which of course is still an option, but we'd have to find jobs first in order to do that. bleah.

So I'm still at the Morganton News Herald only now I'm working at the front desk as co-receptionist/data entry. I don't much like it, but we need the medical insurance so I'm kinda stuck for the time being. I was recently diagnosed with Grave's Disease which is an auto-immune that knocks the thyroid totally out of whack. I'm taking 20mg of methimizole per day to try and get that all back into order. According to the endocrinologist I saw, he said Graves' mostly goes into complete remission after a couple years of treatment, and usually doesn't come back for most patients, so I guess that's an ok diagnosis. Left untreated however, it could have killed me eventually, so its lucky that Burke Primary Care does Thyroid levels in the routine blood work at yearly check-ups!

It is freezing rain today here, we had hoped for snow, but no luck. Again. Should be fun at work tomorrow. NOT.

We are currently considering a trip to Ireland perhaps this year sometime. If we can find the money, what with James being an unemployed bum at the moment. I thing what would really kill us is the airfare, otherwise the trip could be done "on the cheap" as they say. We'll see.

And congratulations go out to friend Becky and her husband Jerry on the birth of their first child Emma.

More congratulations to Cousin Dee and her boyfriend John as they are expecting a baby in the summer. Her first, (at age 41!) and his 3rd. He has 2 girls from a previous relationship. Both girls are in their teens, and are excited about a baby sister or brother. If its a boy, Dee says John wants to name it Junior. Yuck! There are quite enough John's in the world John! Be original! Sheesh! ;-)

Our smelly fur-kids are going for baths on Tuesday. Thank the Gods! They were supposed to go the other day, but it was freezing rain and yucky and George had broken one of her claws completely off when she tripped UP the basement stairs, and I figured she's not going to want to spend the afternoon standing in soapy water. But my goodness they stink! Its been a while since they had a bath. Like before Halloween. Yuck!

We had a great Christmas here, I got lots of new music CDs, and a ZUNE MP3/Video player. So next time I'm travelling by air, I won't have to lug around my portable CD player and CDs. YAY! Woo Hoo! I got James a CD player stereo for his pick-up, it sounds pretty good.

Oh, and last weekend we made our annual pilgrimage to Asheville to see Enter the Haggis in concert at the Grey Eagle. They're now playing larger venues because the pubs just won't fit all their fans anymore. We got there early enough for close seats :-) They're still great, and we bought their latest CD Soapbox Heroes, as well as their PBS special DVD Live at Lanigan's Ball.

And hopefully by summertime I will have my Bowflex body! We got new exercise equipment all set up in the basement, with a Bowflex and another weight machine of namebrand I can't remember at the moment. James somehow cracked his sternum the other day, so can't do anything for a few weeks, and with my Grave' disease my muscles are always sore, but I worked on the Bowflex a bit yesterday, and its a pretty good workout. I'm stiff and sore today, but should be ok to do 15 to 20 minutes tomorrow after work, depending what type of day it turns into. If the past 2 weeks are any indication however, I'll be completely knackered when I get home and will just want to crawl into bed. I swear, you'd think you need to be a brain surgeon to deliver newspapers around here :-p

Well, I think that's about it. Drop a line so I know you're still alive!  ¶ 2:38 PM