ok you nosey ladies.....you sweet, wonderful nosey ladies :)

I'm baaaaaack!!!


And I must admit that vacationing agrees with me! It was, of course, wonderful to get home to the boy squad and kiss their little faces all up and squeeze them till their heads popped off--but the trip was really nice too. Really, really nice. Like it's 41 degrees here and 69 degrees in California nice :).



Looking at my comments, I see a lot of you seem to think you've got my little mystery all figured out.....


I need to give Mystery Man a good code name, but it's too stinking late tonight and I can't seem to think anything but "go to bed. go to bed. go to bed.". And no one wants the nickname "Go to Bed"-- so--YOU LADIES (and few gentleman) give me some ideas for a name, and I'll just call Mystery Man **MM** for now.




Here's the scoop--


MM is NOT New Boots. New Boots did move away to California, but we haven't had much contact since then. I was serious when I said New Boots and I were not a match. I met MM through a mutual friend that I grew up with, and that he roomed with in college. We were described by said friend as "the two nicest people I know with the the worst luck". And so MM and I have been getting to know eachother for the past few months via the phone and the computer, and got to the point where we needed to see if we got along as well in real life.


I think we did.

(And how!)




And yes---MM sent my flowers. The flowers that made me smile like a giddy school girl for a week. He is extremely thoughtful like that.



But that's about all I'm going to reveal about MM for right now, because--well, we're still kind of writing our story. When we get closer to the ending--be it happy or sad or somewhere in between--I promise I'll tell you everything. Just like a good blogger should!


Hopefully you'll settle for a few random vacation photos for now (though I didn't seem to take my camera along nearly as much as I should have)...




I think this is my face behind the giant cup. Mmmmm......vanilla steamer.And breakfast that was totally picture worthy:
Eaten amongst the blooming flowers. I had to keep reminding myself that it was DECEMBER!!!



More blooming flowers:

I have shopped IKEA online for years, but NEVER gone into one before...until Friday. It was like joining a Swedish cult I tell ya! Loved it!

I haven't gone to Disneyland since I was barely 5 years old. I got so excited to see this entrance! What was great is that MM had a season pass, so it was no biggie to just pop into the park for a few hours and then leave instead of making an all day ordeal out of it. I don't much like anything involving the words "all day" and "ordeal". One day I'll tell more about the Disneyland trip. I liked it a lot.

Would you take a look at MM's backyard?! I don't even care that the picture wouldn't rotate for me---I'm sticking it up here anyway!It's gorgeous! I actually wandered down to that bench to just sit and enjoy the view and the sound of running water for a while---and fell asleep. Outside. In December. And I wasn't even cold!

There was also a great night of pizza and strolling with MM's really cool friends (hello group of really cool friends! If any of you are reading this!--I had a blast! You guys made my face hurt from laughing so hard! Next time someone has to lick the weird snowman!).

And while I'm still not revealing much about MM, I can't help but ask again---isn't he just too cute :) ?!

And he can totally kick my butt at Rock Band. And he bought me my first ever (3) Sprinkles cupcakes. And he doesn't mind that I trip a lot just walking down the street. And that's all I'm going to say about that. :)

As of tomorrow, I shall take you out of my mystery life *** and return you to your regularly scheduled posts.***

I know---you're hanging on the edge of your seats!.....

Did I happen to mention that I love you nosey ladies?!?! Thank you SO much for the support.