Hello on this last day of 2007. Hard to believe that this year is already over. We are enjoying some down time on the shore of Lake Michigan in Indiana with my brother and his partner. 2007 has been a fantastic year, but I know 2008 will only bring more joy and amazement. Wishing everyone a safe and happy New Year.
Randomness
My Modem Hates Me
I get this fabulous new computer for Christmas and my modem decides it no longer wants to work and offer me internet service. So here I am at Panera using its free wi-fi and rue the day. I just want to be able to play with my new computer and check my email. I love email. I miss email. I have gone for nearly two days with limited internet connection and I am going to go crazy. I am going out of town tomorrow so won’t have much if any internet access and that just frustrates me more. UGH!!!!
Things have been crazy at home. We are working on Minnow’s fifth day of Christmas. The presents just keep coming. I am ready to be done with wrapping paper and putting things together. Have I said how much I love my new laptop. It rocks. It has a raised battery so that it is nicely propped for easy use and the keyboard slightly rises for more comfort. Hubby is the best.
I promise to post some pictures from Minnow’s Christmas extravagance as well as some video. Did I tell you all that my little 20-month-old can play the harmonica? Well he can and he is pretty good. This boy’s talents never cease. My MIL leaves tomorrow and I am so sad for Minnow. He is smitten with her. He follows her around everywhere and wants to be with her all the time. It is awesome. I am sad she is leaving and that she lives 2000 miles away and only sees Minnow once or twice a year. That just totally sucks. It has been great having her here.
Well, I am off to get back home. I have one more chair to put together and a babysitter to line up for tonight. Hope everyone’s holiday season (whatever holiday you celebrate) was great. See you all soon.
Need A Laugh?
Must Focus Now
Must not procrastinate (some how my warped mind does not feel that posting is task avoidance). Must get paper done. Must read hundreds of pages of articles with titles like “Engendering Naturalism: Narrative Form and Commodity Spectacle in U.S. Naturalist Fiction” or perhaps “The Display Window: Designs and Desires of Weimar Consumerism.” Must write 12+ page paper about books I don’t really care for and about some obscure and original topic that will warrant me a decent grade. Must complete power point presentation for class on Thursday. Must write a page of indeterminate length to explicate my power point and show my deep understanding of Writing Across the Curriculum. Must change clothes. Must take a shower. Must drink coffee.
Must thank Hubby, who after 12 hours of electrical work got all the wiring in the garage worked out and who thanks to I can now park in my garage without getting out of my car and opening the door manually.
Must say good-night. Must read now. Must poke sharp and hot sticks into both of my eyes. Must never take another literature class again. Yay!
Degree of Loserness
It only took me 7+ years to buy and hang curtains on the front windows of our house. So, for all of you who are driving or walking by at night, that is right–you can no longer watch our too big for our house tv nor watch me walk around naked…I know upsetting isn’t it?
It is nice to finally 1 have some privacy and 2 feel like a grown up in my own house 7 years later….
I will write a list of all the things in our house that it has taken us 7 years or even more to do. My degree of loserness will defintely increase exponentially.
Embracing Imperfection 