where HAVE you been?

Well ... I'm right in the midst of my busiest season here at work ... Mid October-January is pretty crammed. On top of that, our new pastor is here, starting his first week. He's fitting in well, and we're all enjoying working together. BUT on top of an already-busy season, he's trying to find his way around town, get settled in his office, etc. And that requires my time as well.

Then in outside-work life, I've accepted a few more responsibilities than I should. Those should be letting up in mid December.

But until then, I'm grabbing shreds of time with my fingernails trying to stay on top of it all! :)

Exercise has been happening, though not as faithfully as before, simply because of all the above mentioned commitments. I actually took a couple hours vacation time yesterday afternoon just to get a walk in. It was one of those late-autumn days that just calls you to be outside.

Did get gas this morning for $2.09. This situation is definately looking up.

I'll make up for my blogging negligence with a delightful collection of plays on words that appeared in my in-box this morning:

For All You Lexiphiles (Lovers of Words)

1. A bicycle can't stand alone because it is two-tired.

2. What's the definition of a will? (It's a dead giveaway).

3. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

4. A backward poet writes inverse.

5. In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism, it's your count that votes.

7. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.

8. If you don't pay your exorcist you get repossessed.

9. With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.

10. Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft and I'll show you A-flat minor.

11. When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.

12. The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered.

13. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.

14. You feel stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.

15. Local Area Network! in Australia: the LAN down under.

16. He often broke into song because he couldn't find the key.

17. Every calendar's days are numbered.

18. A lot of money is tainted. 'Taint yours and 'taint mine.

19. A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.

20. He had a photographic memory which was never developed.

21. A plateau is a high form of flattery.

22. The short fortuneteller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.

23. Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.

24. When you've seen one shopping center you've seen a mall.

25. Those who jump off a Paris bridge are in Seine.

26. When an actress saw her first strands of gray hair she thought she'd dye.

27. Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.

28. Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.

29. Acupuncture is a jab well done.

30. Marathon runners with bad footwear suffer the agony of defeat