The last month has been a l-o-n-g stretch. Not a day went by when I wasn't in the office or at least perched in front of my laptop, pounding away at work's big project. I was stuck in my own little world of work/twitter/eat/sleep for the last month...totally detached from just about everything non-work related (I did manage to catch a sneak preview of Ratatouille last weekend - cute, cute, CUTE!) We finally hit our beta milestone last week, so I got to enjoy a free weekend hanging out at the family farm, playing Wii with my youngest niece most of the time.

Tucked into the crazy month, a promotion and salary bump came my way - Associate Creative Director, Web & Media. Wooohooo! To celebrate, I'm planning to make my way out to San Francisco for the iPhoneDevCamp event. Any other LJ geeks attending?

Also, I currently use a pair of Sony MDR-EX51 headphones. They're great for complete isolation, but it's too easy for people to sneak up on me (a fav. pastime of cow-orkers.) I'm looking for a good monitor-style set. Recommendations?

Thanks Santa Steve! I can finally ditch my craptastic Motorola "phone" for THIS! Gasp! It uses multitouch! Hooray!

Guilty as charged...I'm an Apple fanboy. There's an Apple logo sticker on the back of my Jeep. I've owned AAPL stock for a long, long time. I joined a throng of folks camping out overnight when the local Apple Store opened. You get the picture.

And today's an exciting day...It's Macworld San Francisco Keynote day! At noon Eastern, Mr. Jobs will be taking the stage at MWSF to, hopefully, announce some fabulous new things. I've blocked the time out on my work calendar, so I can spend my lunch keeping track of the announcements. I'll be watching the liveblogging at LoopRumors.com and MacRumors.com, as well as playing Keynote Bingo (I'm really hoping that at some point there's a 5-in-a-row winner and an entire mass of folks shout "Bingo!" in the middle of the event.)

Tons of folks have speculated on what will be announced, and I've probably read all of them. I have some hopes on what I'd like to see announced, but regardless of that, the energy surrounding the event is the most exciting part. I love surprises!

Gosh...It feels like Christmas morning!