Hope everyone had a great Halloween!

Well here we are on the 16th now, and obviously there are still no 12 on 12 pictures on my blog. This is not due to a lack of effort – believe me I tried to get some pictures up, and did in fact manage to take about a half-dozen pictures. However, I ultimately failed…

I wish I could say that my blogging hiatus was due to a sabbatical, sat on a beach for three weeks and enjoyed the end-of-summer weather.  Unfortunately my disappearance is nothing that glamorous or exciting, but simply due to an extremely stressful month.  To answer the question, "Where the heck have you been?" School started…

So it’s the second day of school, beautiful late-summer evening, work piled up a bit today, let alone reading that needs to get done for school… And what do I do? SPEND FOUR HOURS IN A BAR! Yes, I am a bar-room degenerate…  I was over at Old Chicago’s from 8pm until Midnight!!  That’s nuts! …

We spent our wedding night back at home, figuring if we would arrive to a hotel so late that we likely would be too tired to enjoy it.  We also wanted to take the opportunity with visit with all of our family and friends as well, which led to Sunday’s Brunch at my mom’s house. …

Well another weeks starts and with it another list of things that I must do…  The list has really piled up and I really need to knock some of these things out.  What better week to get started on these than finals week as well – but no worries, my finals are pretty much a…