Hi.

I don't want to make a big deal about anything, because there is no big deal to be made. I mean, you see me every weeknight (unless you're sensible enough to go to bed at a reasonable hour), so it's not like I've really been missed.

But, I want to say that the people who were nice enough to leave a comment, a message, say a few words about the show, voted in the poll... touched me very much. I have been reading through comments and I haven't even gotten through all of them yet. But I want to say thank you very much for your thoughts.

I had it with everything around here for a while, and I needed to leave and take some "me" time. I will try to continue to post here, because of the wonderful people who have been so kind.

I still haven't decided about what to do with the late_late_show, but one thing at a time.

I missed some birthdays in the past week, so I'll attempt to make ammends for that. And yes, Avril lavigne is guesting on the show Thursday night. I hope more of the MBP gang starts turning up on the show this summer. That would make for some more excitement and fun.

I see a lot of things have happened, many new people have joined in since my last post, and there seems to be much more drama lately. I'm not sure how much intensity I have left for the group, but I guess we're about to find out. I have some friends list comments to read, and a proper update to post.

Proud of you.

Whoosh

Did you know that there were over 1200 posts in the past two weeks around here? There's just no way I can go through all of that. I tried to go through them but that's a real mountain and I'm out of practice.

I do owe special birthday wishes to g_gershon who looked wonderful at the Tony Awards and who I'm sorry I didn't get to dance with for her big birthday bash arranged by one of our new hotties, keanu_r.

I owe a belated birthday wish to the adorable larisa_oleynik! I'm sorry I wasn't on time, but come by "54" and I'll see that you get the new alcoholic version of the "GC-161!"

Speaking of that, we have to do a new "juiced" version for natalie_portman as well. Don't drink it all in one place, and, of course, you've got a comp in on my tab.

I also missed j_depp's day. Sorry, John!

And today, I'm just in time to say a happy birthday to joshuajackson!

I hope everyone is doing well and please stop by "54" everyone!