Three things I should tell you...

1. I hope y'all had a FANTASTIC April Fool's Day!

2. I've never actually pulled off an April Fool's joke before. Or at least not one of the "try to convince someone something that isn't true" variety. Usually, if I celebrate, it's something more like THIS. This year, I decided to try the convincing thing. In case you were wondering, I'm a terrible liar. REALLY terrible. (And now that you know that, you can rest assured that when I give you a compliment, it's because I really mean it. Yes, I have trouble lying even then.)

I can write, though! And I figured that if I wrote a joke instead of telling it in person, I wouldn't give away that I am, in fact, lying by my every facial expression, every bit of body language, and every single voice inflection.

I DID NOT quite anticipate the level of guilt that would come along with it. Curse you, guilt! See? That's why people don't lie. The guilt that comes along with it. Totally takes the fun out of it.

Well, not all the fun. I did enjoy writing my life going in another direction. But, I wasn't kidding when I said that my roots here go so deep that I don't see myself moving more than a block away from where I live now. I really love it here.

3. To everyone who DID believe me: You rock my world. A trusting personality is an incredibly awesome thing that this planet could never get enough of. Hopefully I didn't shake yours at all.