excuses for not posting

oh yeah. of course i have them. since the beginning of august we have had:

• unexpected visitors and an impromptu birthday party
• a new cousin born
• a monster jam birthday party, complete with late night grave digger cake issues
• a trip to upstate NY for the nascar race
• an earthquake
• an epic hurricane
• a computer meltdown requiring 20+ hours on the phone with tech support to repair
• a delayed and then frantically packed-for trip to the outer banks
• a trip north to massachusetts to meet aforementioned new cousin and see monster trucks at the fair
• a broken iphone
• oh and full-time jobs to do

and now i am one-week in to some sort of of plague (perhaps as a result of the above stress) that has left me wiped out and useless, with a horrible, hacking cough and the inability to stand or walk with feeling drunk and dizzy.

so yeah, excuses.