If you would have told me that this would be a quarterly blog, I would have argued mildly while knowing you were right. I'm the Jackie-of-all-trades, master of none. I like doing a little bit of a variety of things and love to bounce around among hobbies...obviously including this blog. Unfortunately for you, it means long waits between updates. Sorry 'bout that, and hope this one is interesting enough for you. :)
So first, Happy New Year of course. 2008. I'm planning to make it a lovely year. I love the idea and feel of a fresh start - the beginning of each year is a very emotional time for me as I, like many others, assess my life and dream of improvements thereto. Since last post and especially in the last month, I've been exercising regularly, growing my hair out some, drinking too much Mountain Dew, procrastinating some work that needs to be done and completing other work that doesn't, reading books on homebuilding & sketching floorplans late into the night, shopping, doing my best to keep the house cleaned and uncluttered, and enjoying the presidential race. I'm NOT enjoying the stupid fricking writers' strike that has taken away my vegetative time and has left me hanging on fictional unresolved issues on a few favorite shows. Share the pie, studios. Settle down on the demands, writers. Get back to work, everyone. Ugh.
Our holidays were very peaceful and fun. The kids were thrilled with all of the time we were able to spend together with Herb working from home for a month between semesters and with all of the excitement that the season brings. Owen's very disturbed by the fact that it's winter but the snow show is zip. He's all like, WTF? All of the stories have snow when it's winter. I
know my seasons, people, and if I can run around in my underwear in the backyard, it is
not winter. O also has returned to school and while he was devastated that his school would be closed for a couple of weeks, he seems almost as unenthused to have returned. I'm hoping it's just because he's working hard and needs more rest to transition back rather than an overall disappointment with what's happening in class.
I got a new monitor - a bargain widescreen one - and I love it. Just had to declare that as I sit here enjoying it.
My Kristen girl definitely seems like she's almost two - though it doesn't seem possible that almost two years have passed since I had her. She counted to five the other day. She says A, B, C, D, E, F, G and then throws four to six more miscellaneous letters out there to finish up the alphabet. She sings Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star nearly on key. She has great manners, what with the pleases and thank yous and all. She has a ridiculous sweet tooth and she's not so much into the veggies. Though she generally will try (and like) just about anything you put in front of her, she requests macaroni and cheese every day. She's super-affectionate, especially toward daddy. She'd be all over brother if he'd let her - she loooooves her bwuh-buh. She's not particularly ticklish and it takes a lot to get a laugh out of her, much like her daddy. The other day, when clarifying a point to Owen, she used the word, "actually". And when she pulled out a can of juice concentrate from the cabinet and showed it to me the other day, she referred to it as "Mountain Juice" (I told you I was drinking too much Mountain Dew).
That's about it for tonight. See you in three months or less.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~Really explore the studio space this time. I mean, really... explore
the space
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