Top Ten Excuses for the Absence

10) I was in a coma.
9) I was trapped under something heavy and unable to get to my computer.
8) I was injured in a horrible spelunking accident in which all of my fingers were broken.
7) The work project took up every spare second of my life.
6) When said project was done (and a big, fat success by the way) I got really busy celebrating.
5) A new and welcomed development...a very funny man who helped me keep my sanity the last few weeks. With a glance and a smile across a crowded room Wednesday night he lowered my blood pressure by 20 points.
4) Cooking club Monday night left me in a food coma for several days. Once again, we made enough food for 40 people and there were only eight of us there.
3) Going out last night and not getting home until 4:30am left me exhausted.
2) So moved by the writers' strike in Hollywood, I decided to suspend production on Just Me in solidarity.
1) I am lazy.

So the Big Fat Work Project is over and it went even better than I could have imagined. I'm rewarding myself by working on Monday and then taking the rest of the week off. And it's shaping up to be a great week - I have a 90 minute massage tomorrow night; Christmas shopping on Tuesday; my sister, Kelsey gets home on Wednesday; Turkey Trot and lots of cooking and food on Thursday; and perhaps some skiing over the weekend. And perhaps I'll squeeze some writing in there as well.