First, the good news:  I have my “new” (aka refurbished and new to me) iPhone!  It came in today and I don’t think I’ve ever made it from our house to the Cedar Hills Shopping Center that fast on foot in the whole time we’ve lived here.  I got totally overheated (when am I going to learn that my new coat is actually warm?) and probably looked like a maniac but.  I have my beloved phone again.  It has been “restored” and, thanks to the resiliency of the sim card, I still have everything.  All of my photos, contacts and even my text message history are in tact.  The phone is charging right now but every few minutes I go over and pet it.

It is amazing at how completely dependent upon technology I have become.

When I was waiting for them to find my phone in their stock room I met a fellow writer!  Whose name I did not get!  But she was very friendly and we exchanged commiserations on how hard it is to find decent writing gigs these days (she’s a technical writer).  She asked for my name and I gave it to her, along with this here blog name, but I was so distracted by the getting my phone back/turning in of my “loaner” phone that I didn’t manage to get hers until she had already left the store.  Bummer.  But, if you’re reading: hello fellow in-line-waiter!  It was nice to meet you!

Next the pretty cool news:  I don’t know if you read or follow Kristin (of Kristabella fame), but she decided that, instead of giving up something for lent, she was going to do (among other things) try to post to her blog at least five times a week during lent.  We chatted about it on twitter when she was deciding whether or not to make the commitment and I told her that if she did it, I’d do it to.  So! More posting during lent to, hopefully, keep my blog mojo up.

Finally the arrrrgh news:  It’s crunch time.  You know how it gets when you live paycheck to paycheck and its the last week of the month and the rent is due and you and your husband are looking at each other and saying “oh crap.”?  Yeah that’s where we are right now.  This means that I super need to get my nose to the grindstone and turn up work and bring in money pretty much any way I can get it to come in.  So! This week’s postings might be sponsored.  And there WILL be ads appearing in the sidebar pretty soon to help bring in $$ for next month as well.  And that means yet another site re-design to accommodate everything.  Which, when paired with the awesome new posting frequency, might start to feel a little drudgey by Friday.  I’ll do my level best to keep it interesting around here, but if you suddenly see a few wonky links that I wouldn’t usually post? It’s a fair guess that someone is paying me a few bucks to stick them there.  Until next week, when I’ll get a lot more selective about advertising, paid posts and all that stuff.

Also? In case you couldn’t tell, I am caffeinated today.  Next week: decaffeination.  Again.  This ol’ wagon is getting a leeettle bit wobbly.