Saturday, January 31, 2009

Yes, I've been totally slacking, blogwise


Sorry, but I've been busy. Also, sick. Like hacking, wheezing, passed out, gallons of mucus, sweating out a fever sick.

The busy part was scouring the internet for album cover art. Because if I don't have album cover art for a particular song, it shows an ugly blank page when it plays on my iPhone. And that just... bugs me. But I found almost all of them, and since most of the music I listen to is at least thirty years old, that was quite a feat!

BTW, I've discovered that a lot of music is fine to listen to as background noise on iTunes while I'm reading stuff online, but when it's being drilled directly into my head via earbuds... eh, not so much. So I've been ruthlessly deleting songs from my playlist. Over 400 gone out of about three thousand so far.

Yes, fascinating, I know. Moving on...

Britt hasn't been sick, but she does have a nasty paronychia on her index finger. I took her to the minor emergency center today to have it lanced and get some antibiotics, and she was very brave.

In other news, it was really cold and icy here last week. By the time the weather finally warmed up a little, Britt was suffering from cabin fever and itching to go outside and play. But first she tried to scrub some "pisgusting stuff" off her "gwubs."

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And then she put them on all by herself first the first time ever! With her fingers in all the right spaces and everything!

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So proud!

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The other day I fixed her a hot dog for dinner while she danced around my feet singing something about "fishy dog, fishy dog." I told her nope, there's no fish in it. And then she stood stock still as a more disturbing possibility occurred to her. With big eyes, she asked, "Is it... from a dog?"

And then I died. The end.

Monday, January 12, 2009

Holiday Hangover


I'm still feeling depleted from all the stress of the holidays, but I figured I ought to let y'all know I'm still alive since NOT ONE OF YOU HAS BOTHERED TO CALL ME ON MY NEW iPHONE!

Gah.

Anyway, the very best present I got for Christmas this year was being able to spend a few all-too-short hours with this precious little nubbin:

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Our marathon began on Christmas Eve at home,

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and then we went over to Candy's where we had snacks and watched the kids open their gifts from her, and Britt made a new friend:

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On Christmas Day we were off to the in-laws'. But not quickly enough to suit Miss B, who was saying, "Let's go. NOW."

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Because she knew lots more presents awaited her there:

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And then we had a couple of days off before heading to Tahlequah to see Baby Sister and Daddy and the rest of the family. And to open more presents!

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And to help Baby Sister open hers:

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Baby Sister was less than impressed.

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She was adorable, though:

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Britt spent most of her time outside

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playing with her cousins,

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while the rest of us stayed inside, soaking up baby sweetness:

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Before we all went our separate ways I tried to take a group portrait of Daddy and his girls, but Britt wasn't being very cooperative. This was the best I could get:

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Oh, well, they're still a bunch of cuties.

Thursday, January 01, 2009

Happy New Year!


We rang in the new year with two bottles of Moët et Chandon Imperial Nectar and an Absolutely Fabulous marathon. Britt, of course, decided that tonight of all nights she would stay up until 1:30 AM, so the new year has not yet been properly, um, inaugurated. Enough said about that.

Cheers!

Cheers!

Boy, did she love the bubbly!

Mmmm, bubbly!

Oh, chill. Hers was just ginger ale.