Catching up

So, I haven't been blogging for a while, so I guess I should do some catching up. David's home from Malaysia, and has been for a few months now. They cut his grant period short, which made us happy and disappointed at the same time. He was looking forward to a lot of things he thought he was going to be doing, and I would have been glad to have had more time to work on myself (losing weight, learning the fiddle, etc.). But, neither of us can say for a second that we aren't glad to have our life back.

Since he's been home, things have really gotten right back to normal. Unfortunately, that includes our horrible eating habits and lack of exercise. We've both gained quite a bit of weight back, and really need to work at losing it again. Also, I haven't touched my fiddle, guitar or mandolin in months. I can't bring myself to sit here and squeak and squawk with David here to hear me. It's so embarrassing! He's being uber-supportive and hasn't done the first thing to make me feel bad about it, but I can't help it. I know it sounds awful, and I feel very self-conscious about it. It's my problem. I need to just go ahead and buy the electric fiddle with the silent practice mode so that I can practice without feeling like I'm bothering everyone. Maybe I'll get one for my birthday!

In other news, I signed up for a new, all-inclusive, really cool-looking knitting website called Ravelry.com. They're still in beta, so they're only adding a few hundred a day. I'm currently #40,279 in line, with 13,411 ahead of me in line. I can barely stand the waiting!! I keep obsessively checking my place in line, hoping that I'll jump forward in line dramatically overnight. Since they do a link-up to your blog and allow you to post photos, I'm working on getting my blog updated and I'll be signing up for Flickr too.

I'll do more updating of what's going on in my life tomorrow. David just got out of the tub, and he leaves town for the weekend tomorrow, so I'm going to hop offline and spend some time with him.

Ciao!