August 4th, 2008
Why on earth do these kids keep insisting on growing up? 14 years ago today, she came into my life - a week late (and she’s been late ever since!) and almost 10 pounds of bouncing baby girl. My joy, my trial, my partner in all things of the snarkilicious variety… my daughter. My First Daughter.
Every day is a treat, a delight in something new. She’s sensitive, caring, smart, snarky, bitchy, delightful, open, daring, strong, sassy. She’s everything I could have asked for and more. Fourteen years. Seems like yesterday…
Happy Birthday, Snarkette. I love you.
PS. Please try to keep from killing the budget as I pay for that phone, huh? TIA!
August 2nd, 2008
So. We broke out the hair dye a while ago, including the blue, and set the blue jar on the counter in the bathroom like usual, and thought no more about it. There were jokes of dying the cats for fun, but naturally I said no, and there would be none of that to MY kitty cats. Laughter all around.
But we didn’t account for said kitty cats. One in particular. Annabelle.
You see, she decided she wanted to lay down exactly where that darn bottle was on the counter. So she batted it. And rolled it. And discovered the lid was loose, and batted it some more, and then got bored and laid down to sleep on the countertop.
Right. In the puddle. Of Blue. Hair. Dye. she had created. Ace went one step further, and just stuck his foot Right. Into. The. Bottle.
The Boy got his wish, I suppose, as we now have cats with blue streaks. Heh.heh.heh.
July 29th, 2008
…have any idea how hard it was to hold this lil bundle and not dip him in butter and chew those lil chubby baby legs right up?
What’s funny is the minute Auntie Ladybug was saying goodbye, mama wouldn’t let me anywhere near the baby again. Apparently I’m only trustworthy with the sis around. Or something. I just laaaaaaaaughed… but not until I was in the car, of course. I’m not that heartless! *g* Hell when I was on my 3 kid i was letting everyone hold her. Those chubby thighs belong to baby number FIVE… and she HOMESCHOOLS too. Some folks is CRAZY.
In related news - not even a twinge. Brief baby fix and I’m all done. *L* I’m SO glad mine are all growed up!
IN completely unrelated news- on the “electronics that hate me” front, my DVR box went on the fritz yesterday. A call to my buddy at the desk, and he sent the refresh command through and you know what happened? It ERASED ALL MY PROGRAMING and saved shows!!! All of them! Every episode of Celebracadabra! DAMMIT. Harumph. Sorry, TBF. Guess I won’t get that recorded for you to see. SIGH.
Lola is still offline. Waiting on a compatible ethernet card. Sigh. Should be here by Friday.
July 27th, 2008
Anna is back!
I know, you didn’t even know she was gone. But she was - she snuck out behind one of the kids, and was missing for three days. We did our best not to say anything, to look and just be hopeful that she’d find her way home, and three days later, the girls saw her behind the ManSpace outside and were able to get her back inside and home.
Whew.
And clearly, Ace is VERY happy to have his sister back safely, while she is planning her next escape, naturally. *g*
I’m glad she’s home though, as these guys have been hanging around too:
I almost ran over one of the babies the other night, but saw them just in time. I tried to get some night time pictures of them at the time, but it was just too dark and my camera good enough with the flash, and I didn’t want to get closer. They may look cute and fuzzy, but if you get between Mama and the Babies… well, it’s just not good at all. They’re big and strong and can trampled ya if your not careful.
But them babies - CUTE!
IN other news - Mom and I are having a contest over at Big Brother Craze starting tomorrow - head on over and check it out!
July 25th, 2008
So. the computer. It’s still not completely fixed, though it has been rebuilt completely from the floor up. Because, you know, it was tore up from the floor up. Haha. Ended up having to get a new hard drive, because the ordered motherboard didn’t support my drives. Good news is, said drives then could be set up in an external drive case, and I was able to recover EVERYTHING. This makes me giddy. There may have been happy squeals of a girlish nature, even.
Unfortunately, said motherboard also doesn’t recognize the internet. So we got an ethernet card - which apparently isn’t Vista compatible.
…so it works - deliciously fast even. But can’t get online. And as 95% of what I do is online… yeah. So he’s still trying to find a card that works and we’ll go from there.
In other news - Guess who passed lvl 3 swimming lessons today? That’s right - the pup is on her way to lvl 4, where they concentrate on all of the individual strokes, and getting the timing down in preparation for the swim team. She’s unofficially on the team - as she can swim the length of the pool on her belly and back, and thats the minimum requirements. Coach wants her to pass lvl 4 too, though, to get that much more of a head start when the season starts in November. Very proud kiddo, she is! And very proud are we, too!
