Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.

I epically fail at keeping a blog.

In other news, my fortune cookie the other night when Sarah and I ordered from Lulu's was "You will find a way out of a financial mess as if by magic." I thought, hey, that's an awesome fortune, and then forgot about it. UNTIL Tuesday when the fine folks at Pitt called me to tell me that I had a rebate check from 2004 that was never cashed. AND THEY ARE GOING TO SEND ME A NEW ONE.

Fine folks at Pitt, can I please make out with you?

I'm not going to get too excited, because my fortune the next morning when we went to get brunch at Fuel and Fuddle was "The only way past grief is through." WTF kind of fortune is that?! I'm hoping not ALL of my fortunes come true. That would stink.

P.S. The reason we went to brunch on Sunday was because we drank an entire bottle of cherry vodka between the two of us Saturday night while watching Now and Then and the Princess Bride. And also while arguing whether or not the location of Prague is common knowledge. I said yes, Sarah said it was in Russia. When I told her that it was in the Czech Republic, her exact words were, "Yes. Which is in Russia." Nope. Not really, friend, but good try.

And finally, good people of the internet, I cannot leave this first post of 2010 without paying homage to one of my all time favorite authors/recluses.

J.D. Salinger died at the age of 91.

The Catcher in the Rye is one of my top three favorite books of all time. Holden Caulfield is one of my all time favorite characters.

Here's to you J.D. Catch you on the flip side.

"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be."