Sorry to disappear for 3 days last week, but I'm sure you know by know that I am about neither quantity OR quality. Things were really hitting the proverbial fan at work last week, even considering the fact that I got out of work early on Thursday and worked from home on Friday. The bigwigs were having a monstrous meeting today for which they needed information, so we've spent roughly three weeks gathering it, and last week was a fire drill while we tied up loose ends (not that the hem isn't still fraying just a bit).

ANYWEG. Here are the various updates in our lives:

• My foot: still aches a bit, but functions reasonably normally for walking. I twinged it a bit at church yesterday, so I'm back to limping a bit today, but it's not bad.
• Cinderella: really coming along. Since school let out early last Thursday, I didn't get to rehearse with the pit band, which was VERY annoying, but we've gotten through most everything at least once. I should be able to spend the next couple rehearsals fine tuning various jaunpiece. The chorus has known most of their parts for weeks now, since there ain't much to learn. The soloists sound great too. Oughta be a hell of good show.
• Annoying Item: the last few weeks we'd been planning to meet some friends on Saturday night to see Cabaret at the New Candlelight Dinner Theatre up in Arden. However due to some issues, we weren't sure if we were going to be in town until the last minute, so we couldn't order tickets until last week; we called, and they were sold out. We tried to pull some strings via friends of a friend, but to no avail. So we said oh well darn, and on Saturday made plans for dinner with Kyle (of Kyle's New Girlfriend fame) and Kristy and some other friends. While we were enjoying dinner? Our friend calls. Two seats opened up.

  Dammit.

• Inspired by Jeff Kay, we were hoping that we might rip out our carpeting and put in nice wood flooring, or, even better, find EXISTING hardwood floors underneath. So just now, after I got home from work (short day due to blizzard conditions), we handled some stuff, and I went into my bedroom closet with a pair of pliers.

  I am so happy I may have to do the Humpty Dance.

  Beautiful oak hardwood underneath our hideous carpeting. It won't even need much work; it's in gorgeous condition, probably won't need sanding or anything, maybe a coat of polyurethane and some wax. We are so excited we can barely keep ourselves from peeing.

  Now, to figure out how to move the piano so I can get the carpet out from underneath it . . .