Call of the search party

...eh, who am I kidding. Don't roll your eyes at me!

I have not been around blog land for almost a month...a MONTH. We've been busy, and I have this weird thing about safety. You see, back around the time of my last post (Dec 8) we set up plans to go to The Beehive State for Christmas. I was busy planning, etc and I didn't exactly want to announce to all of cyberspace that we would be away from our house for a week (read: vacant urban apartment guarded by a scardy cat...feel free to plunder). I do have things to share, but I am on a bit of a seafood hangover today and my brain is running in slow motion (probably because of the amount of butter I consumed yesterday) and I am struggling to get sentences strung together. Hopefully I'll have better luck tomorrow.