back for the first time

(Yes, that title is a reference to Ludacris's inaugural album, as only true fans would recognize.)

Here's what you missed, or what I missed telling you:

• I think I love writing fiction
  
• I think I hate writing fiction
  
• Fact: my grandfather dated Grace Kelly
• You cannot fold a piece of paper in half more than 7 times... unless it is tissue paper
• You can get overly attached to a pet fish you've had for 2.5 years
• Roaches can allegedly survive an atomic blast, but not a good dousing of Raid on my kitchen counter
  
• The difference between 24 and 25 feels gargantuan
• Somehow it's been 11 years since Brian McKnight's song Anytime was on the Billboard charts, but damn if I don't still love it like the first time... Where are you now Brian? (Google says he was on last year's Celeb Apprentice... missed that)
• Yet another thing that makes you feel old: friends getting married and engaged
  
• In order to burn off 1 cheeseburger with large fries, you have to run for 117 minutes
• Fact: I cannot run for 117 minutes
• I had a cheeseburger for my birthday dinner, then washed it down with rootbeer, coffee and cannoli
  

Happy to be back.