Ode to Terry, and a Guilt Trip

Once upon a time, I had a marvelous friend named Terry.  Terry and I worked together at the Cache Chamber of Commerce in Logan, Utah, and we had a grand time.  We ate lunch at the Copper Mill at least 2 days every week, gossiped and laughed (in a good way - ha ha) about our coworkers and always ordered the "pork butt" sandwich and thought it was funny every. single. time.  We even went on vacation to Disneyland together! 

I don't have any photos handy of the two of us, but if I did it would look something like this.

In the meantime, here are the places of note - the illustrious Cache Chamber of Commerce, where it all began:

And the Copper Mill, home of the equally illustrious pork butt sandwich (and most over-rated restaurant in Cache Valley, in my oh-so-humble opinion):

Then one horrid dark day, Terry's football husband (now dumb schmuck ex-husband) got a bigger and better job (yes, bigger & better than coaching USU football, true story.  Ha HA.) and Terry moved away.  We never saw each other again.  Terry was off in bigger and more exciting lands doing exotic things like attending the Kentucky Derby and winning an NFL Superbowl in Florida.  Little 'ole me was left behind in boring cowtown, Utah.

Not one to take a hint that I'd effectively been dumped (she just wasn't that into me anymore), I persisted in sending Terry Christmas cards every year.

Fast-forward SIXTEEN YEARS later and *message alert ding!*, I received an email from … Terry!  She'd found my 2008 Christmas card with my email and blog address on it, realized how much she missed me and how much she'd neglected me, and read every blog entry.  That's a LOT.    And then emailed me to tell me she was wondering why I'd stopped blogging late last year and what the heck had happened in the last year?  Was I DEAD!? or what!?!

As it turns out, the rumors of my death based on my lack of blogging in 2014 (and for most of 2013) were much exaggerated.  I'm alive, just lazier.  But in my euphoric state of being re-connected with my dear Terry again (YES, I forgave her and took her back), I promised to rev up my blog again.  And I even put the address on my 2014 Christmas cards to MAKE myself do it.

So, COMING SOON, will be our Ritchie 2014 just-barely-getting-it-in-under-deadline blitz blog entries, brought to you courtesy of peer pressure & guilt trip from Terry!