Do you ever get so behind on something that everyday it gets to be a bigger and bigger task and you have a harder and harder time thinking about digging in and getting started because it's too daunting? Yeah, that's how I'm feeling with my blog. WAY behind. I *still* haven't written about my Hawaii trip, and now there's also Christmas and New Years and...well, you get the idea. So, I hereby give myself permission to talk about things out of order. If I don't, I may never get started because there's a lot of catching up to do. I put this token beach picture in at least, and now I will proceed to tell you some stuff that happened yesterday.

Yesterday morning I was walking in the church parking lot carrying in six grocery bags full of bagels and cream cheese for a stake young men/young women volleyball activity when suddenly I found myself biting it hard, elbow first, on the ground. In my defense, there was at least a half inch of solid ice (thank you, Illinois crazy winter full of freezing rain--how is freezing rain even possible, by the way? The temp is WAY below freezing, shouldn't it be snow? Somehow the water supercools and stays liquid--at least until it impacts and then it instantly freezes. WEIRD. Crazy stuff like that does NOT happen in New Mexico. Or Utah.) But in my, uh, non-defense, I had just watched a bunch of other people slipping around on the ice (none of them fell though) and I knew to be careful. The same bunch of people all watched my fall...and then, I felt dumb.

But, I did get a very cool bruise on my elbow from the ordeal. I tried to take a picture, but my camera is out of batteries. :(

Okay, gotta go eat dinner--you'll all have to make do with this little tidbit for a little while at least.