I’m Back

Hi! Remember me?

In case it’s been so long that you’ve forgotten, this is what I look like:

This is what my cats look like:

And this is what I look like when I make duck faces at the cat:

Anyway, I’m back! Maybe just for a little while, maybe for good. So many things have happened that I wanted to write about – the finale of HIMYM, the anniversary of Roger Ebert’s passing, Stephen Colbert setting off hoards of angry tweeters and also announcing his new late night gig. I wasn’t feeling very inspired to blog, but I have a bit more free time now because …

Our back room is almost finished! In case you’ve forgotten about its state in the before pictures, here are some before and afters:

Just don’t ask about the week when we piled everything up in the living room to sort through it. It was awful.

All in all, we got rid of a bookcase (and one and a half bookcases worth of books), a couple of DVD shelves (and downsized our DVD collection by about 300 movies), three bags full of clothing, and what felt like a literal ton of garbage.

I’ve been racking my brains to come up with a list of all the fun things we’ve bee doing that have taken my attention from blogging, but honestly … Not that much.

We went to Emerald City Comic Con (this is one of the two pictures I took.)

And I never thought I’d say this, but we’ve been learning to play Dungeons and Dragons.

Riveting, I know. We played an easy game set in the Tolkien universe around the same time as all things hobbit, and I was like, “I GET IT. I understand the appeal, now.” We’ve been learning the ins and outs of the game (there are a lot) and it’s been mostly fun and only a little frustrating. Anyway, it means we’ve been spending most of our weekends with our friends Phil and Meredith, which means …

Joel has befriended their tortoise.

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That’s all for today. I’ll be back soon!