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Is anyone still out there. Anyone. Anyone.

Just kidding, from the beginning I've written this for myself. Self, you know it's true.

But now that this is a wedding planning blog, everyone's gonna want a piece of this!

Oops, I was going to lead up to that. Ben and I are engaged. If you weren't already aware of this, kindly write to me and tell me so as a form of demographic survey. I want to know if those hits from Singapore and the U.K. are real people. Something (the pornographic nature of their sites when I click on them, the gibberish their blogs contain) tell me they aren't. But still, you never know. And I think those are the only people we haven't told.

Also, there was this big earthquake a week ago that I was going to write about. I thought it would be ripe with potential for self-searching and searing insight into my true psyche. But never mind. We're so over it!!!!

That reminds me of the guy who came into the bookstore once and chewed me out for half an hour because someone (it was me, but no way was I telling him that) had used three exclamation points on a flyer. "You would never put three periods at the end of a sentence, right? Right." I think he had recently read Eats, Shoots and Leaves and was high on his own perceived potential as a grammarian. He engaged me in a debate between A) it never being appropriate to use !!!, and B) there being a right time and place for everything. The relativist position (B) was me, and the guy left thinking he had won. I guess he did--for the rest of my time there, I obsessed over every punctuation mark on every flyer I designed. Bastard Bookstore Guy with a ponytail.

But he's probably not engaged, and I am. So there.

holy frijoles!

Gall durn, New Mexico. Will you ever stop?

From the AP:

Three workers at a Burger King restaurant were arrested after two Isleta tribal police officers discovered that the hamburgers they ordered were sprinkled with marijuana.

The Isleta Police Department officers ate about half of their burgers Sunday before discovering marijuana on the meat. The officers used a field test kit to confirm the substance was pot, then went to a hospital for a medical evaluation.

Let us add this to the list of idiotic things people in New Mexico have done to make the national news:

1. Landed a police helicopter while on duty in the parking lot of a Krispy Kreme.

2. Tried to smuggle black tar heroin into a prison via a burrito, only to have it confiscated by a guard, who then STARTED TO EAT IT.

To think, I was less than a few miles from that Burger King days ago. Had I only known.