I'm baaaaacck!

No, I did not forget that I have a blog. Really.

It's not that I have nothing to say, it's that I would get fired if I am blogging at work (understandable), and when I get home from spending nine hours on a PC in an office, I don't exactly feel like jumping right back on another PC at home. I would rather spend quality time with my family.

However, topics keep swimming around in my head, and I kinda enjoy forming little blurbs about these topics that I could be adding to my blog. For example, I have been watching LOST on DVD and finding myself caught up in the adventures of Kate, Sawyer, Hurley and everyone else on The Island (yes, the world really needs another LOST blogger!). I also have a small vacation planned for next week with The Husband and The Pepper up north to go ice fishing.

There is plenty to blog about, but I need to just set some time aside - perhaps on weekends - to type it all out. Goodness knows I am opinionated enough to type comments on almost anything... like stupid government bailouts, a pope who doesn't realize he's rehabilitated a bishop who is a Holocaust denier (which is illegal in the pope's home country), fertility doctors who help a single woman with six kids have eight more - at once, and so on...

We'll see how long it takes before my next post... I will at least have to post about the ice fishing!

Who needs Mexico?

Since my wonderful Pepper is having surgery on his right back knee (torn ACL - poor baby!), we are not going to Mexico this winter (just like last winter, when Pepper had surgery on his left back knee).

We still wanted a getaway of some sort, so we headed Up North. No, it did not compensate me for missing out on waiter service under a palapa on the beach, wearing SPF 45 while the waves of the Caribbean tickled my toes. We stayed in a cabin at a resort in Grand Rapids, MN (average temperature: 10° F). The cabin was on Lake Prairie, so Dave managed to get some ice fishing in. Pepper enjoyed romping around, only slipping on the ice a few times (if he didn't have a torn ACL already, he'd have one now!).

Some highlights:

So, since Pepper does not have any more anterior cruciate ligaments to tear, we just might make it back to Mexico in February, 2008.