To do: update blog

This is totally on my to-do list.  Granted it’s like, item number 516, but whatever.  Point is, it’s on there.  And I didn’t strike it off like I did some things in a rare moment of clarity, when I realized that things cannot stay on your to-do list for years at a time.  They simply cannot.  At some point, you just have to let them go. Like dusting or  balancing your checkbook.

Kidding.  I totally dust.  

Kidding again.  Chris dusts.  I complain about the dust.  

Anyhoo, summer is coming to a close and I realize with incredible guilt that:

1) We have not gone on a real vacation, so Jay will have nothing to report on when he has to write the “What I did for summer vacation” essay this year.  But that is o.k. because he won’t have anything to write the essay with anyway, because buying school supplies is like item 987 on my to-do list. See how I am a problem solver like that?  

2) I did not blog about Ella’s birthday.  Despite the fact that she is my favorite daughter, and she turned the big one vee (roman numerals always make something more important.  Google “Olympics” or “Super Bowl” or “film copyright dates.”) I did not manage to get a single post about how awesome she is.  Rest assured, she is awesome and she celebrated three different times and was well sugared up for the entire birthday week.  By the third celebration she did ask if she was still four, or if this actually made her six, instead?

3) Awe, screw it.  I always feel guilty.  I was raised Catholic and am an environmentalist.  Guilt is my currency.  

I sat down tonight to crack out the lengthy to-do list that has been keeping me up late at night.  Funny that  how no matter how tired you are, the random things you need to complete will keep you awake, dancing around in your head painfully like my dad at a polka concert.  No offense, Dad.  (Do they have polka concerts?) 

Right.  So, in other news, Jack is taking his first steps.  It occurred to me that I should record that.  That at some point, he, or I, or his future spouse, or an FBI agent will want to know when he took his first steps, and I should record that somewhere.  Totally. 

Crap.  Where? 

I can’t find a freaking pen that works or a pencil with a point or a pencil sharpener or a sheet of paper without concentric coffee mug circles.

Ah, here!  On this blog!  Be so noted, world, that Jack took his first steps.  Recently.  Like a monthish or so ago.  Or, maybe not that long ago.  Maybe more like a couple of weeks ago?  Like soonish, but not yesterdayish. 

He’s up to about six steps at a time and is on the move constantly now.  Which means we’re all on the move, too, as we follow the newly toddling toddler. 

And now on to item number 517 (crawl into bed before sleeping baby wakes up.)  Speaking of sleeping babies, please go read this: Honest Toddler: I'm Sorry.  I laughed so hard it nearly made me pee (item numbers 324 and 712, respectively).

Getting to know you

I posted this on FaceBook earlier today, but thought I'd post it here, because... Well, I guess just because. These things are big on FaceBook, getting sent from person to person in mass message sorts of ways. I got hit up for my answers, and while I usually ignore these things, I decided to answer it today. Here are fifty random things about me.

1. What time did you get up this morning?
7:25 ("Get up" puts it nicely. More like "spastically flew out of bed to race out the door and chase down the bus." But, eh, "get up" works, too).

2. How do you like your steak? Tentatively. Recovering vegetarian.

3. What was the last movie you saw at the cinema?
Land of the Lost. See? That's exactly why I avoid theaters.

4. What is your favorite TV show?
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5. If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be?
Madison, WI. Absolutely.

6. What did you have for breakfast?
Oatmeal.

7. What is your favorite cuisine?
Is dessert a cuisine?

8. What foods do you DISLIKE?
Celery, cauliflower, radishes, or anything else that tastes like ass.

9. Favorite Place to Eat?
My kitchen, especially when there is fresh bread just coming out of the oven.

10. Favorite dressing?
Ranch.

11.What kind of vehicle do you drive?
Saturn. The kind that has bumper stickers holding the fender together.

12. What are your favorite clothes?
Blue jeans and white t-shirts.

13. Where would you visit if you had the chance?
Nirvana

14. Cup 1/2 empty or 1/2 full?
1/2 full...of coffee, preferably.

15. Where would you want to retire?
Somewhere wooded with a lakeview and good bird watching.

16. Favorite time of day?
Dusk

17. Where were you born?
Miami, FL.

18. What is your favorite sport to watch?
Is knitting a sport?

19. Who do you think will not tag you back?
Chris Leyda

20. Person you expect to tag you back first?
My sister-in-law, Terry... if she's on FB at work.

21. Who are you most curious about their responses to this?
Yours.

22. Bird watcher?
YES.

23. Are you a morning person or a night person?
Night, though I am evolving from my knuckle dragging ways.

24. Do you have any pets?
Two dogs and an army of dust bunnies.

25. Any new and exciting news you'd like to share?
Um... I am almost finished knitting a pair of socks. Hey! Do I know how to have a good time, or WHAT?

26. What did you want to be when you were little?
A rabbit.

27. What is your best childhood memory?
They were all good. (What? It's true!)

28. Are you a cat or dog person?
Dog.

29. Are you married?
Yes- 8 years.

30. Always wear your seat belt?
OMFG- ALWAYS.

31. Been in a car accident?
Yup.

32. Any pet peeves?
Empty ice cube trays in the freezer, seeing people walk around town with ear buds and tuned out to the rest of the world.

33. Favorite Pizza Toppings?
Where to start? Feta cheese, olives, peppers, tomatoes, onions... Good thing it is Friday night, which means PIZZA NIGHT, BABY!

34. Favorite Flower?
Sunflowers, but mostly anything wild.

35. Favorite ice cream?
Vanilla, topped with hot fudge and brownie crumbles.

36. Favorite fast food restaurant?
Eh.

37. How many times did you fail your driver's test?
0

38. From whom did you get your last email?
Cheri, who tagged me with this.

39. Which store would you choose to max out your card?
Max out my card? Are you effing crazy? Do you know what the interest rate is? Hooh boy, yes, I am getting old.

40. Do anything spontaneous lately?
I spontaneously planned to make a trip to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan recently. Er... I guess I should have just answered "No".

41. Like your job?
Yes.

42. Broccoli?
Love it. Especially with ranch dressing.

43. What was your favorite vacation?
Ozarks, Arkansas- two years ago.

44. Last person you went out to dinner with?
Chris and Ella- Great Dane. Jay was spending the night with Grandma and Grandpa.

46. What is your favorite color?
Green.

47. How many tattoos do you have?
Well, since my parents aren't tagged... one.

48. How many are you tagging for this quiz?
I dunno yet

49. What time did you finish this quiz?
10:30 ayem

50. Coffee Drinker?
Prodigious.

A New Look.

I updated the look of my blog today because obviously I do not have enough to do and also I needed something new and also, also, I came across someone's blog today who was using the EXACT same template and I was all, oh HELL no, and so I picked out a different template that I am sure four million people are already using but at least I haven't seen it yet and that makes it unique. Or something.

Only I am not sure I like it, because it is different than what I am used to and therefore inferior because change = disaster and mayhem and all manner of horribleness.

I'll give it a few days and see if it sticks. Or maybe I'll just keep screwing around with it while I am supposed to be writing my papers, because having a unique blog template is so very, very important and oh my god if another woman shows up wearing my blog to the party I will just DIE of embarrassment.