Twas Brillig

When I go a few days without posting, commenting, or emailing, I often get wonderfully sweet notes from my dear Bloggy-Friends, who are used to me being so completely addicted to my computer that everything else takes second place. Usually people are wondering if I’m all right. “Oh my! Brillig hasn’t blogged in three days! I bet she’s lying dead in a ditch somewhere!!!”

This particular note was sent to me via Yahoo Messenger today, from my dear friend Jenn in Holland, who just happened to catch me in online (which is an incredible feat in and of itself lately) :

Jenn: Brilly button are you there?

           Brilly button are you fair?
Brillig: As a matter of fact, I am. Both.

Jenn: quiet please, I am creating

Brillig: So sorry.

Jenn: Ahem.
Brilly button are you there?

Brilly button are you fair?

Brilly button can you see?

Just how much you mean to me?

She’s a frickin’ brackin’ talented one, that girl. Oh, how I adore her.

And I appreciate ALL the notes and comments that I get when I go AWOL. Truth is, I still won’t be around for a while. ‘Tis the season for insanity, no? Today is my brother and sister’s birthday (they aren’t twins, they’re two years apart), tomorrow is my other sister’s birthday (apparently my parents couldn’t keep their hands off of each other in March every year. However, that thought is so utterly disturbing that I refuse to contemplate it any longer…) and we shall go out and celebrate in style tomorrow night. Then, my sister (whose birthday is today… come on, keep up) is COMING INTO TOWN FOR THE WEEKEND! I haven’t seen her in FOUR. YEARS. Ever since she and her husband and six children (did you just pass out?) moved to Germany. Anyway, she and her husband will be coming out to play with me and stay with us here which means, of course, that I will be cleaning and bed-making and baking… and then spending every possible second with her. Then on Saturday, we are throwing a grand birthday bash for Princess Fluffy, whose birthday is next week. Then Sunday is Hubby’s and my anniversary!

(And throw in all the school and church Christmas parties going on, and OH YEAH, the fact that I haven’t done ANY Christmas shopping, and you can see that the world is spinning a bit faster than I can gain balance. Even my Christmas tree can’t seem to gain balance—I just heard it crash in the living room…)

So… chances are very good that I will not be online, and that it will NOT be because I am lying dead in a ditch somewhere—though I will be sure to post if I DO somehow end up lying dead in a ditch. That would totally make an awesome blog post…

While you anxiously await my return, go make yourselves useful by, like, clicking on my ads over there in my sidebar or rating all my stuff at Cre8buzz or inflating my Technorati rank by randomly linking to me or something, okay?

Love you all!