THE OFFICIAL 2011 update

...from the iPhone
PATRICK: Are you ever gonna update your blog?
LIZ: lol Yesss!
PATRICK: Don't 'lol yes' like you're gonna update it soon.

I just shook the handshake.
I just sealed the deal.
I'll try not to let them take everything they can steal.
People always told me
Don't forget your roots
I know.
I can feel them underneath my leather boots.
                                         --The Handshake/MGMT

Here it is: THE OFFICIAL 2011 update.

It's been one year since I moved to DFW and things have done a complete 180 since I've been here. I'm almost finished with the book/script I've been writing since 2009. I actually planned to have it done last weekend, but an unexpected death in the family threw me slightly off  course, and I took some time to re-RE-assess my life before I finished up the final edits on the book.

To add to the insanity of trying to finish my manifesto, I got an email last week from a man who lives in NYC named Kevin Allison. He's the creator and host of a storytelling podcast I listen to called RISK!. When I first arrived to DFW, I pitched a story idea at him via email and now, a year later, he wrote me back and asked me to record the story for the show. So the book is put on hold for one more week while I work on the story for RISK!.

Then there's the Superbowl, and ESPN and the Green Bay Packers are staying on my home turf in downtown Ft.Worth, TX. The business we'll get at Starbucks I'm sure will be tremendous, not to mention that Ryan's restaurant GREENZ in uptown Dallas will be busy because they're located next to the Packers' practice field at SMU. Kinda makes me sad that Brett Farve isn't with the Packers anymore because I was really looking forward to making small talk with him and getting some d*ck pics out of the whole thing.

I kid, I kid.

Finally, someone crept back into my life a few weeks ago, whom I met when I first moved to DFW. [If you guessed DRAKE DARKO, you were right.] With everything going on, it's no wonder the night terrors have returned and I haven't slept in nearly two days.

So there it is, THE OFFICIAL 2011 update.

LIZ: Are we really using our phones to look at the Pei Wei menu?
PATRICK: Um, YEAH. I bought these iPhones for us because they do everything.
LIZ: Gotcha.

Click here to watch me and Ryan in a ridiculous commercial at one of our favorite hang out spots, J.R. Bentley's in Arlington, TX.