closes #9
fixes #8

Squashed commit of the following:

commit 721e09566de7376cadf07ee564fcc9f2e72fdf02
Author: tspurway <tspurway@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Nov 13 10:15:42 2014 -0500

    adding statsd to setup.py

commit f2a201c40b6a13db5cce27caaa578887a4b02a4f
Author: tspurway <tspurway@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Nov 13 09:12:18 2014 -0500

    adding statsd integration