Hi. I'm not totally back but here's a quick update.

I'm not doing a whole heck of a lot at the moment. Work, reading, hanging with the cats.

The cats do not like the harnesses I bought and put on them this morning. In fact, Hudson got out of hers in under one minute flat. Since the appearance of a neighbour out on the deck and his claim that Hudson keeps going into his apartment to visit--she's nothing if not friendly--I have been unable to let them out on their own. One possible solution is to put them on a harness and tie them out on the deck. I guess that isn't going to work so well...or will take a lot of practice and patience on my part.

I've done some more baking for work. Today I made walnut brownies with a caramel sauce on top. They look yummy and gooey...hope they taste good.

I finally decided on a vacation destination....Argentina. Yep, South America here I come. I will be going down to do a GV build with Habitat. I'm pretty excited about the trip even though as usual it is MONTHS away. I'll be celebrating my birthday in Argentina this year--how cool is that. (December)

Yes, I'm still alive...I'm still not quite ready to blog FT...but that will come. Oh, and I'm an Aunt. Again. My sister had her baby today...a bouncing baby boy. Mother and son are apparently doing fine.

Thanks for the nice notes everyone, its nice to be missed.

Thunder and lightening storms seem to be an almost daily occurence here in FMMA. They never seem to last for long but they are very regular events. Friday night, Saturday afternoon and evening, Sunday noon and by the looks of the sky I'd say we are getting another one this evening. I've never seen to many thunder storms in all my life.

The cats are for the most part not bothered by them, I guess the noise is just another noise in the long line of noises they hear everyday. Although the storm at noon today was directly above us and the thunder and lightening were coming in quick succession and the noise was unbelievably loud. They cowered at one point but I coaxed them out and we played some ball...all was good.

The lack of blogging isn't over the money but I'm not posting any pictures because of it...it isn't the money, its the principle of the whole thing. When I go to add a photo it tells me I'm over my limit and then when you click on the link you get this...

"Images and photos that are uploaded through Blogger get stored in your Picasa Web Albums, which are part of your Google Account. The number of images you can upload is therefore dependent on the amount of space you are using on Picasa Web Albums. To find out how much space you have available, please see these instructions.

If you would like to purchase more storage space, the Picasa Web Albums help center can tell you how.

Note: If you have recently upgraded your quota limit, you may have to login to your PWA account in order for the new storage quota to be reflected on Blogger."

It's a tad confusing cause it doesn't seem that all my photos are on picaso. I dunno. I'm still thinking about the whole thing.

I made these last week:
http://www.cupcakeproject.com/2009/01/cranberry-orange-cupcakes.html

They were well received at the office. This week I'm hoping to make red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. My office mates are spoiled.

Any other bloggers out there who have reached their max amount for photos? I need to buy more space before I can post more photos. Don't like that idea. Thoughts?