Post Orals Absence

Well, Mark passed his orals. Yes, more like crushed them into the ground with his heel (he did very well). As a result, I have been rather scarce around The Blend.
We have been quite busy enjoying the new X-Box Mark bought to celebrate his done-ness.
We have been eating out recklessly (who wants to cook when orals are over?)
We have been sleeping in late (he more than I--I do still work), laying around on the couch, enjoying the cold weather, watching movies.
All in all, we have been far too busy for this blogging business :)

But, I dropped Mark off at the airport this morning.
And I have fairly little to do at work as the semester has already come to an end.
So, here I am.
Dropping a little visit to my neglected fans.
I'll try to be back with pictures soon, but I'm afraid all I would have to offer are self-taken portraits of me pouting b/c my house is empty of Mark :)
(No, I haven't actually taken such pictures, but if pictures were demanded, that is what they would be.)

So far the highlight of my morning has been the discovery that my sister, Sarah, has started up her very own blog:
http://homeofthebudds.blogspot.com
A place where ample pictures of my niece, Ellen, can be viewed (to my utter delight).
(how does one spell "niece" "neice" anyway? it doesn't seem to come up in the ryhme about "i"s and "e"s...)

Enough rambling.