My email is down.

As such, so am I.

If you’ve tried sending me email to wendy@shaggy-money.flywheelsites.com, you probably received an error message.

In the interim, please contact me at wendytownley@gmail.com

Until next time…

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I learned late yesterday that Omaha’s very first Apple Store will officially open it’s gorgeous glass doors on Saturday, Sept. 23 at 10 a.m.

You can bet I will arrive next Saturday at sunrise to ensure I’m one of the first 1,000 Apple fan(atics) to receive a free T-shirt and other goodies.

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Question: Using a cell phone tip calculator in public is:

(a) smart
(b) tacky
(c) smart yet tacky
(d) other

This just in: Apple has brought back candy-colored iPods. Mr. Jobs also announced a teeny, tiny iPod Shuffle at today’s special event in San Francisco.

How much smaller will the iPod get? The world may never know.

Also: Say hello to iTunes 7.0.

Two of my favorite things arrived in the mail yesterday:
• My box of Aveda Comforting Tea Bags;
• My first issue of W Magazine.

This means I’m more than ready for fall’s arrival.

Join me in wishing my sister, Katie, a very happy birthday. Today, she turns 23!

Send Katie your birthday wishes to katielynntownley@yahoo.com.

These photos were taken on Labor Day at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif.

Me and Katie outside the famous castle as you enter the park.

Me, Katie and her boyfriend, Matt, taking a train ride.

Katie and Matt outside the Disneyland castle.

Katie on the carousel, our first ride of the day.

Katie and Matt on the carousel.

The three of us on the Buzz Lightyear ride. (Check out my horrible score at the time this photo was taken.)

We were surprised that Jessie from “A Toy Story” 2 stopped by for this photo.

Matt enjoying ice cream at the end of our day at Disneyland.

For anyone looking for beautiful hair or a soothing cup of warm tea, try these two products I learned about from my sister last weekend in California.

Join me in wishing my cousin, Renee, a very happy birthday. She turns 27 today.

For the next three months, she and I are the same age — kind of.

Come Dec. 6, I turn 28.

Egad. I’m getting old.

I have returned from visiting my sister, Katie, in warm, sunny California a little tanner than when I left.

We did some fabulous shopping, eating and drinking the past few days.

The entire trip was lovely, as documented in these photos.

Katie and me at breakfast at the Sugar Shack in Huntington Beach.

Katie and me at the pier overlooking Huntington Beach.

Enjoying a Ketel One and cranberry cocktail. (I love how it matches my new dress.)

Katie smiling for the camera before dinner. (She’s a little tipsy from just one vodka tonic.)

We’ve had a few libations. Can you tell?

Doing one of the things I love most: eating pasta.

Savoring the first few sips of a perfect after-dinner cocktail: Red Bull and vodka.

After dinner and drinks in downtown Fullerton, stuffed and tipsy and still in love with my new dress.

More photos coming soon…