Where Have I Been?

I just got around to crawling out of my Rapture bunker. I climbed down on the 20th after making my last post. And since I'm pretty cut off from the rest of the world down there, I didn't realize the Rapture hadn't happened until I worked up the nerve to peek out this morning. You better believe my face was red. Too bad. I wasted a lot of provisions down there just to find out the Rapture has been rescheduled to October 21st.

I'm kidding, of course. (You guys know I don't really have a Rapture bunker...right?) Actually, I've just been super busy lately.

Like I mentioned in THIS POST, my mom is opening a kennel soon and we're working out asses off to get the thing built in time. But everything is coming together nicely. We'll definitely make the June 1st opening if we keep going at this rate. And before we know it, we'll be up to our armpits in these things:

In other, less strenuous news, my little brother, Ronnie, turned seventeen last Sunday.

D'awww.

(They grow up so fast!)

He spent Saturday playing paintball with a couple of old friends and Sunday playing video games. (Doesn't sound like much, but for someone who's been working as hard as he has lately, I'm sure a couple days of relaxation was just what he needed.)

Funny story--in between rounds of Call of Duty, one of Ronnie's besties (they've known each other since they were, like, five) decides he wants chocolate milk. Problems? We don't have any, I'm not buying him any, and he's too cheap (or frugal, as my mom would put it) and lazy to go get his own. But that's never deterred Zack before.

His solution?

Melt chocolate chips in the microwave--after adding a heaping tablespoon of butter for some odd reason--and stir it into a glass of milk.

Now, this might have worked if he'd A) actually melted the chocolate all the way through, instead of settling for what looked like a cup of chunky peanut butter ('cept with chocolate...I'm sure you can visualize that for yourself) B) realized chocolate melts better if you stir it at regular intervals, and C) stopped to think about what happens when you put something incredibly hot into something straight out of the fridge.

So, what he ended up with was a glass of slightly brown-tinted milk and a huge, crusted hunk of chocolate in the bottom of the glass.

Silly boys.

And my final reason for not being around:

I've been in serious writing mode.

Like, no joke. The new Sims 3 expansion pack is coming out on May 31st.

And I know myself well enough to know exactly what's going to happen when I get my hands on it. I'm going to spend at least three days straight playing around with it. So, I'm trying to get as much work done as possible before then.

So, yeah...between working, writing, and spending time with the family, I haven't had much spare time lately. But things will normalize soon.

I know I keep saying that...just try to bear with me.

What've you been up to lately?

HAPPY WRITING, LOVELIES!