For those of you that might have been wondering where I've been... I've been sick.  Very sick.  As in "went to the hospital today" sick.  All's better now, but over the past coupe of days I've had a fever that topped out at a hundred and three, cold sweats, fever rashes, dehydration, debilitating head aches, and a cough so violent that I found a way to injure my damned diaphragm.  Truthfully, and as nodeva put it, "I didn't even know you could do that."

On the bright side of things, I turned thirty last weekend, with the help of feanor1138, feanorsgrrl, and harrytheheir, and have managed to stay standing. 

Also, my brother is getting married!  How fucking wild is that?

I'd elaborate and espouse but, let's be serious here, I'm taking pain meds.  I'm not exactly in the right mind space to be trying to form coherent thoughts.