I have NEVER typed with my hands on the correct keys. I can type 87 words per minute (on average) with no mistakes but if I put my fingers where they are “supposed” to go, I type more slowly and I make a bazillion mistakes. My mom calls me a ‘hunt and pecker’ which, with her northern accent, sounds pretty dirty. If you know what I mean. ;)
Interesting fact: I held the camera with my chin for this photo. Hee.
I was trying to take a photo of me for my 366 and the kids were driving me crazy. I considered locking them – or myself! – in the basement for 5 minutes but then Monkey said, “Hey Mama! Take a picture with us!” So I just did. I didn’t intend for this to be my 366 for the day but if you’ll notice in the photo Boo isn’t paying attention. What she IS doing is trying to find something to get into. Ha. Anyway, I never got around to taking another photo so this is it. :)
“I love to play hide and seek with my kid, but some days my goal is to find a hiding place where he can’t find me until after high school.”
-Author Unknown
I’m dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
-Irving Berlin
This is our Christmas card this year. I don’t like the photo much but hey – with four people (who, with the exception of Boo) were all in bad moods I guess it could have been worse. I was the one doing the timer and then running (with Boo, which is why she was having so much fun) to get into the shot. So by the time I sat down I would have just time to get settled and I hardly remembered to smile!! I suck, haha. Out of the 10 I took this one came out the best. Anyway. That’s it. And I am dreaming of a white Christmas because we haven’t really had one in years, dammit.
Also, it’s kind of blurry because this is a “print screen” from the website (the photo in it was taken today, however) I ordered the cards from. Whatever.
“What do you do when you’re alone?”
My husband asked me that this morning and I didn’t have an answer. I’m never really truly all alone. I mean sure, I sort of get time to myself if the kids nap at the same time & he is at work. But that’s not the same thing. I mean, I can’t wear just a white shirt, some shades and boxers while I dance to Old Time Rock and Roll at full volume. You know?
So today Kent took the kids (yes, BOTH of them!!) out for a few hours. At first I just felt guilty so I did the laundry, cleaned the floors and did the dishes. Then I finished up my photo gift orders online. And then? I just sat there. I felt weird. I wasn’t listening for a baby to wake up or waiting to go pick the boy up from school. I had nothing to do and it didn’t feel nearly as great as I thought it would. Eventually I grabbed my book but I couldn’t even concentrate on that! I would read each line 50 times and finally I gave up and decided to take a photo of me pretending to read for my 365 days.
Woo hoo, right?
Oh and P.S. I’m totally wearing a Halloween shirt. :)
“You can drink pickle juice and imitate gorillas and do silly dances and sing stupid songs and wear funny hats and be as imperfect as you please and still be a good person.”
-Stephen Manes, Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!
Not the best photo of my husband and I but we were having fun, goofing around and I just grabbed the camera (he was actually trying to take it away from me here, haha). We are dorks and proud of it. I guess.
“O bed! O bed! delicious bed!
That heaven upon earth to the weary head.”
~Thomas Hood, Miss Kilmansegg – Her Dream
I went to bed before 10pm. I know! Hard to believe, isn’t it? I can’t even tell you the last time I did that. I hadn’t taken a photo yet and by 9:30 pm I could barely keep my eyes open. I was watching a movie with my husband and I kept drifting off to sleep so finally I just said, “I can’t do it, I’m going to bed!” I think he was about to have a heart attack when I said that, haha! Anyway, I snapped this and then I went to bed and slept for TWELVE hours (my husband had today off and let me sleep in). It was so great. Although I still have about 3 years worth of sleep to catch up on. Oh well… ;)
“Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money.”
-Author Unknown
We went out today. As in, shopping. Eeek! We only needed some lights for the tree but I felt like we HAD to go today because we always put our tree up the day after Thanksgiving. So, for the first time since I worked in retail, I ventured out on Black Friday. Bleurgh. My guess is that it will be another few years before I do that again.
“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hate this photo. I didn’t have a very good Thanksgiving Day. It could have been worse though. However by the end of the day I forced myself to think about the things that really matter and I ended up feeling very thankful for the people, things and circumstances in my life.
“Friendship isn’t a big thing – it’s a million little things.”
-Author Unknown
This is one of my son’s million little things.
