Happy New Year!

It's 2009...and we got 8 months 19 days to go 'til it's "walking down the aisle" time. It's been a crazy start to the year. My parents started a house renovation project right before the holidays, so the house is a MESS. Stacks of boxes in the garage and in the living room...insanity! So the holidays flew by (no Christmas decorations of course...there's no place for them!), and here we are in 2009 and the renovations have continued. Francis and I took a mini-vacation to Vegas the weekend after New Year's, and thank goodness we did, because when we came back, my room was wrapped in plastic! I didn't have access to any of my stuff...clothes, shoes, hair straightener, anything! So it's good I had my essentials due to our trip, so I've been living out of my suitcase for a good week now. Almost everything in the house is blocked off...the kitchen, the bathrooms (with the exception of the master bathroom), the bedrooms...ARG! So I got frustrated with not being able to get to anything, so I packed up my doggie and hightailed it to the Residence Inn this past weekend. Oh sweet Internet and fitness room...I missed you so. :-) But I'm back home now...my room and the office have been completed, so "woo-hoo" to accessing my stuff again. And the Internet is back up so I give that a double "woo-hoo"! The kitchen should be unwrapped by the time I get home today, and, hopefully, the treadmill can be unwrapped again...but since I have access to gym clothes I can head over to 24.