New Blog Post?!?!

So...uh... hey.

Yeah, this corner of the 'net certainly got a little dusty. As much as I would like to blame my uncover spy missions or being kidnapped by pirates in the Pacific Ocean, it was merely laziness that kept me from posting to you all. Well, and also much of this past year has been devoted to having foster children in the household, and we have had a busy year in that regard. There's been less than 20 days this year that the house has not had ANY kids in it, and most of the year we've had at least 2. Alas, confidentiality clauses in our contract forbid us from mentioning the kids who reside here and any tangible way (like if we had a child in our care called Shazam, every time we would mention the child, it would look like " 'S' had a good day at school today, and then had karate practice, etc etc.") but if you want to get all Cliff's Notesy, the police were here multiple times, and there was more than one occurrence of lighters being stolen/"found" and misused. Thankfully, there was no lasting damage to persons or properties, and everyone got an appropriate punishment. Other than that, as far as huge news that's occured since my last post, my beloved Dodge Neon as on the IR after an accident in Monroe. So we have a new van and I am now chiefly driving the old one. We also changed cable providers (out: Dish Network, in: AT&T Universal), got a new game system (a Wii), I got a new compy AND an iPhone. I also think my 3 point percentage went up slightly, although I have no realistic way of gauging that, except by saying my pursuits for errant basketballs seemed to taper off.

So the main purpose of this blog is to announce one of my new Year's resolutions is to blog more than I did this year (which for you counting at home was 1. Erm, this one, to be exact.) I also hope to lose weight, learn a foreign language, and read 5 of the 100 Greatest Novels ever written. Lord knows why I'm posting this so everyone can see it -- I think most people keep their resolutions to themselves and that way the inevitable dissapointment never gets past the 1st person. But, it never hurts to shoot big, either. So add these to the list:

* Win the lottery.
* Write the Great American Novel (or short of that, the Decent Armenian Novel.)
*Develop a sustainable way to teleport large distances.
*Challenge some of pro wrestling's greatest sports entertainers to a game of Scrabble
*Finally contact that dude that dude from Nigeria about transferring his fortune to America

Whew! Even for me, that's a lot! But stay tuned to this blog and we'll see how much I can accomplish....