Every time I go to write a new post, I think to myself, OK that really didn’t take a whole lot of effort.  I can do this more frequently… and then a month passes and I get busy and forget.  So the cycle begins.

The past 40 days have been pretty busy though.  We:

- Had a TV show film near us.  The first time we heard gunshots, we dropped to the floor.  Then they re-did the scene 10 times and it got old fast.

- Built a bed out of thin air.  OK that’s not 100% true.  R. built a bed out of thin air.  Thin air and 2×4s… which might as well be thin air.  I am sitting on the king size bed right now, and it looks like it was made by Mennonites.  This bed was nothing but 800 dollars of oak boards a month and a half ago.  CRAZY.

- Celebrated my nephew’s fifth birthday.  I can’t believe he’s five already.  Time flies.  Today is also my younger nephew’s first birthday.  He made a cooing sound over the phone to me.  I think it loosely translated as “Why didn’t you come over for my birthday?  I will hold this against you forever.”

- Moved everything out of the old place.  Moved everything into the new place.  I painted 5 rooms in two days.  I got maybe three hours of sleep a night during the week of the move.  I was a wreck.  ETC.  A lot of crying was involved.

- Did an overnight sleep study at a sleep clinic.  Electrodes and wires are not fun to sleep with.  Knowing that someone is watching and filming you sleep is extremely weird.

- I fed a donkey an apple.  It made his lifetime.  For real.  I had never seen this particular donkey happy until that day.

- Longed over a farm.  Two actually.  One six hours north, and one three hours east.  I dedicate probably two hours of my day thinking about owning a farm.

- Went to my good friend Meg’s wedding.  HER wedding.  It is still crazy.

- Visited Niagara Falls for two days.  Stayed at a Hilton hotel.  They give out cookies on check-in.  I approve!

- Watched the end of season four of House and cried my eyes out.  R thought I was a loser because of it.

The end!