I'm Back, Progress, & the Ultimate Boyfriend

I'm back from my mini-vacation to FL to visit the in-laws. No, I didn't hang out on any beaches, but I did thoroughly enjoy the warm weather. The main downside to the in-laws is their craptastic internet connection. The 1-bar of wireless signal wouldn't even let me view a blog. Had to surf on my phone, and while I love my iphone, leaving comments with it is just painful. So I was a big o'lurker for the past few days.
The upside to the craptastic internet was that I got a lot written on Convincing Leopold. Arthur and Leopold have already smexed it up twice (including office smex - but sorry, no tree smex in this one) and I'm ramping up to major angst. All in all, good progress so far on the book.

It's a testament to how well the kidlet knows me that she doesn't bat an eye when I whip out my phone and snap pictures of Ken dolls at stores. This one almost came home with me. I could have had so much fun with him. *sigh* I resisted, however, but I could not resist sharing pics.
Sweet Talkin' Ken - the ultimate boyfriend who always knows the right thing to say. Press a button and talk into his stomach, and he'll repeat what you said. In a 'Ken' voice! It really worked (of course, I had to try it out). There are actually 3 voice options - your own voice, the masculine Ken voice, or a high pitched voice...not sure why Ken needed that last option, the poor fellow. If I had brought him home, I just know kidlet would have stuck him in high voice mode and just tormented the guy. Couldn't subject Ken to that ridicule, so I left him on the shelf. I hope everyone had a great weekend! The artic north is darn cold, but I am happy to be home and rockin' a real internet connection again. :)