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200 Post, and I’m whining about not being at Blogher today!
Happy Blogher 2007 if you’re there. Happy Unauthorized Pity Party if you’re not. Thank you to Love is Blond for this wonderful pitty party Icon.

Ten seconds or less. Let’s see if I can manage that.

Hi, Welcome to Dink(y), I’m Elizabeth. This started out as a newlywed blog - double income, no kids (yet). I’m still married to him. He’s still a geek. Still no kids (yet). We have a puppy. I have a degree in Education, I like to talk about Adult Ed, but not here.

I rededicated my life to Christ a few years back, and have lost some friends over it. Oh well. You still love me, right? I haven’t quite got the cahones to talk about Christianity on my blog. I just don’t feel like attracting any trolls. I know that technically makes me a Judas, deal with it. Or click the little X at the top right corner.

I also have baby-planning on the brain right now. I can’t blog much more about that because I don’t want the questions from my extended family. Yes, mom, I’m taking folic acid, now leave me alone! Lately, there have been one-too-many things on my mind that aren’t blogable.

Married life is great, but boy is it lonely. Noone warns you about that, just like noone tells you what pregnancy is *really* like until just after you get married. Blogher 2006 made me feel so un-lonely for the first time since I got married. This year we’re going on a cruise to Alaska so I can’t afford airfare and hotel in Chicago for Blogher 2007.

I like reading blogs. I heart reading, you know, “this one,” and “that one.” I’ll let you decide if you think they’re entertainers or trainwrecks.

But after Blogher 2006, I heart these people and want to marry them. She’s so pretty, and I wish she was my big sis. Seriously, she’s my pal, she’s my lifesaver, she’s my hero, she’s my idol, she’s adorable, she’s a crack-up, she’s a force to be reconed with, like IN REAL LIFE, and not just on their blogs! Have fun at Blogher 2007! Be sure to drink a nasty Yahootini for me!

My first High School reunion is coming up in November. There were 500 people in my class. I’ll be excited to see maybe 20 of them.

Our puppy just graduated Puppy Kindergarden. My dog is an overachiever. I can’t wait to get her into agility training.

I love scrapbooking. Or at least I used to. Or, I thought I did. Or something. Something has got to explain why wedding album still isn’t finished yet.

Maybe I don’t love scrapbooking?

I love horseback ridding. Or at least I did, until I got sick of riding around in 20-meter circles. And fly spray. And the futility of bathing a horse. And the circles. And the barn-drama. And the sunblock. And the circles.

Maybe I don’t love horseback riding?

I love taking pictures. I love Photoshop. We have an expensive digital camera. I never use it. I think I broke my point & shoot. Why replace my point & shoot if we have such a great digital camera? I like film prints better.

Maybe I dont’ love taking pictures?

I love glass beads. I haven’t made a single piece of jewlery in two years. I rarely get a bracelet or necklace to stay together without breaking. I should take  a jewlery class. Jewlery classes are cheap, and offered where I work. I never sign up.

Maybe I don’t love making jewlery?

It baffles me that some things that are so easy for me are so hard for my husband, and vise versa. He sleeps like a rock. Why is it so hard for me to sleep? It’s 3:30 a.m. I should be sleeping. Maybe I’ll go try again.

It’s 3:03 a.m. I’m tired. Why can’t I sleep?

Now I have A Chorus Line stuck in my head.