Am such a bad blogger. Bad. Bad. Blogger. Will now make Joel slap my wrist.

Wow guys, I've been so bad at writing lately. But I swear that I'm not going to blame it on the fact that I ate to much pumpkin cheesecake and traveled through 8 states twice in two days. I'm also not going to use the excuse that I've been doing things like, oh, working until 1am, working on my day's off and putting in 50+ hour work weeks.... Exciting huh! Yeah for me. But enough complaining. I'm lucky to have a job. And even luckier that Joel just got 3 job offers! Pretty soon we'll be a single car, dual income family. I get shivers just thinking about it. In the meantime its all about trying to stretch the $2 in our bank account. But our heat is on, our soup is hot and our love is strong. We can weather any storm (awe-aren't I swweeett).

So our Thanksgiving was awesome! Nothing says Happy Holidays like a snowy New England setting. Just perfect. The food was amazing, but hands down the company was even better. It's always fun to see old friends, especially when they have new members of the family you've never met. Their oldest girl, Meri, is one of those children you debate on kidnapping. She acted like a wee adult with a penchant for the "Bumble" in Rudolph. When we first arrived she led me by the hand into her living room to show me around. Dismayed at the mess she politely asked "Would you please help me pick up the room- its a disaster." She's 2.5 people. Meri's little brother Will is 14 months and cute as a button. He's also impervious to pain. This little guy will FLING himself backwards at any given notice. Its like he's aiming to hit every sharp object in the house. The two of them together were quite a treat. What can I say? Were suckers for playing "Auntie Ashlie" and "Uncle Joel".

So, I'm sure that many of you are wondering where the funny, cynical Ashlie of yesteryear has gone. You're probably thinking that all the smoking on the East Coast has given me second-hand "your no longer funny" syndrome. Cause really? That's what I'm blaming it on. I've never seen SO MANY SMOKERS in my life. Do these people know what there doing to themselves? Have they seen the Phillip Morris ad's saying that smoking is addictive and evil. I mean, HELLO?!?!? If the company that makes the cigarettes say its stupid than what the funk is everyone thinking??!?! Smoking is not only un-healthy people, it's expensive and smells like a mixture of tar and rat poison. Oh wait. That's cause it has tar and rat poison in it. Not to mention the amount of botox you people are going to need to get rid of those "not so fine" lines around your mouth. *steps off her soapbox* Anyway, that's all I have for today. I'm about to see who the Biggest Loser is in a few minutes. But really? Who wants to be the BIGGEST LOSER?!?! "Hi, my names Molly and I'm the biggest loser eveeerrrrrr." Seriously- who's going to go around flaunting that title?

So now that I've offended smokers and losers I'm going to retire to the livingroom to commence the mocking. This is all part of my "offend everyone" campaign. Last week it was people who ride camels. Its a talent I should be grateful for......


p.s. We have a freaking tornado warning! For Baltimore!!! Today. So cool. I knew that natural disasters would follow us over here. Volcano's, earthquakes and now tornadoes? All we need is a hurricane and our collection will be complete.