rhapsodic.org is a weblog by Valette Keller

Hello Dolly

I just got back from a long trip to my homeland for my mother's surprise 60th birthday party. Which should explain the lack of activity around here.

The reason I was hush-hush about it, the reason I did not tell you of my absence, Dear Internet my Love, is that you have a really big mouth and would have blabbed the entire thing to my mother. And I couldn't have that.

Highlights include:

• Making my mom cry in front of a whole ton of people
• The Glacier Drive-In being closed on Mondays and missing my chocolate peanutbutter fix (damn you, Sonny)
• Heidi's tiny wiener dog going for Lacey's jugular and my arm getting in the way
• Visiting my dad in the hospital, who was seeing cats in the television
• The staff at Benihanas mangling my name when singing my happy birthday song
• Pretending it was my birthday at Benihanas
• 28.8kbs dial-up intarweb connection
• My dad's Frankenknee
• Getting to second base with the Nordstrom's lingerie sales associate

More details and pictures will be forthcoming, but for now I have to go... "spend some time" with my husband. Meanwhile, my dog caught the blogging bug while in Anchorage.