First off, happy new year of the Rat!  To the ratsies in the audience: you are wonderful and crafty and clever.  Don’t get down on being rodents, okay?

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Super Tuesday, super tornado, and super everything.  Watching the news this morning, the CNN anchor actually whined about there being too much news to cover.  It is then, kind of a tight spot you’ve put yourself in, as an all-new channel anchorman, is it not?

And dear people in Tennessee: I am so very sorry.

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I’m not sure if four years is a lot or a little.

It’s a little if we’re talking about a person, or a company, or a stone.

It’s a lot if you feel like the sunny Saturday wherein you said your "I do"s seems like it never really happened; or alternately, like it happened to another person in a parallel universe and you yourself have never really known the difference between being married and not being married.

As if someone had made up a story just for you, when you look at the pictures and realize that, in fact, there was a life before this one.  One you can’t quite remember unless you talk to people from the past.

Happy anniversary to me.  To us.  And I would like a Kitchen Aid mixer encrusted with amethysts.

More later, I promise.