A Big Fat Welcome to Me

I did it! Here I am, at long last, blogging! And on my new brand-new, first-ever laptop, no less, enabling me to occasionally glance up at Duff's bizarre creations on Ace of Cakes or Alton Brown (Good Eats) dressed up like a giant pocket pie. Ah, Food Network--quality television. Makes you wonder why anybody's even watching Survivor in its fifteenth incarnation or whatever other nonsense they're trying to call reality these days. Anyway maybe the best part of all this is that it's happening on my fluffy, comfy, olive green sofa in my almost-cozy, slightly drafty living room, rather than on the family desktop PC in my unspeakably cold basement!

So since you may not know me at all, you may not know that all of this is evidence of how I'm moving up in the world--a recent upgrade from basic cable to digital (which, in defiance of all logic, actually saves me some dollar 84 a month or something like that--"Uh, how is that...possible?" I asked the Time Warner guy on the phone trying to sell me an upgrade to all-in-one, a handy system combining your phone, cable, and internet into one package thereby allowing Time Warner to control all communications coming or going in or out of your house...does this make no one else just a little bit nervous? But I digress...as usual)--anyway I've had Food Network for quite some time now but will readily admit to enjoying a useful new run from channel 501 to channel 534 which includes three channels of history, numerous science channels, six channels of cartoons and almost no crap (something more than I can even pretend for the other several hundred channels we now receive).

And then there's this lovely green DELL inspiron with which I have recently begun what's sure to become the second-greatest of all love affairs (the greatest of all love affairs would naturally be with my husband, purchaser of aforementioned laptop, although of course that's not why I love him). It was my Christmas present (and, he informs me, my Valentine's day, birthday, anniversary, Christmas, Valentine's Day, birthday, and anniversary present). And all I'm obligated to do in return is finish the book I've been working on for the past two and a half years.

Last but not least on the evidence list, less new but no less wonderful, my favorite shoes, red leather mary janes with a big fat thick sole capable of standing up to a few inches of snow, an absolute must in our upstate NY climate from October to April. April. April. Only 4 more months of winter. We can do it. Anyway, right, the shoes--the shoes were a birthday gift from my co-blogger, sister #4 of 6, our very own Karen Rita. They're dead-lady shoes, another story, but that doesn't make me love them any less.

So as I say, moving up in the world--digital cable, great shoes, and a new laptop--blogging, people, is only just the beginning! I can feel it--I'm going places...if only first I can just get through the snow...