Runaway October

This was sup­posed to be posted yes­ter­day, but I was hav­ing tech­ni­cal dif­fi­cul­ties. I fig­ured out it was my theme. Hang out for awhile while I mess around with find­ing a new one I like. Changes to come.

OH! I got my cam­era. We’re back in action! Yay!

You all may have noticed that I haven’t posted much lately. It’s actu­ally not because of blog­gers block. I have lots I’d like to do. Instead it’s because lack of cam­era is just frus­trat­ing. Blogs that don’t have some kind of pic­tures are usu­ally removed quickly from my Google Reader. Also, once I switched to host­ing my own blog, all of the WYSIWYG for­mat­ting has just turned into… crap. Take a look at some of my pre­vi­ous posts and you may see what I mean. I have a weird sense of per­fec­tion­ism. If some­thing doesn’t come out per­fect, or rel­a­tively close, I rarely try again. Kind of a… “Why bother if the next one is going to suck too?” type attitude.

Any­way.… Here’s what’s hap­pen­ing today:

Work­ing On: I recently found Swap-Bot and have a few swaps that I need to get going, includ­ing a pri­vate one with my beau­ti­ful chum, Nicky. I’m also try­ing to put together an order for a Co/Op with Fron­tier. Oh, did I men­tion I have 5 kids under the age of 3 today? Yeah, I might just pop a few brain cells today.

Eat­ing: Nutella! Why is it that I was 24 before I dis­cov­ered this sin­fully deca­dent treat? Maybe the vaguely “foreign-looking” label­ing made me think of pureed mar­mite or some­thing? Although I’ve tried it many ways, the best way to eat it is with a spoon or to use in bak­ing. Any other ideas? Oh, and did you know that it’s made by the same com­pany that makes Tic-Tacs?

Lis­ten­ing To: Matt Nathanson. Yum. (Since Matt asked — Yum is for the music, not the artist.)

httpv://youtube.com/watch?v=vxn-E61Hv6s

Read­ing: The Mem­ory Keeper’s Daugh­ter. My older sis­ter, Bon­nie, has Down Syn­drome. So does one of my lit­tle day­care dudes. I was hur­ry­ing through CostCo and decided to pick up a book, so as I was cruis­ing through the aisle I just grabbed one with a famil­iar title and a vaguely inter­est­ing cover. Ugh. It’s a tear­jerker, but in a good way I sup­pose. I try to imag­ine what my fam­ily went through when Bon­nie was born, and just can’t. I’ve obvi­ously never had an issue with Spe­cial Needs kids because I grew up with one, and some of the pas­sages in this book just made me so so angry. I rec­om­mend you read it.

Wait­ing On: Matt to get home, of course. But I look for­ward to the UPS guy even more…! He has my cam­era, a whole stash of fab­ric and crafty stuff, as well as a new carseat for Mr Rowan. Of course it’s not all com­ing today, but I can hope. He should be drop­ping off a screen for Matt’s new toy too.

Research­ing: St Patrick’s Day recipes. There’s so many to choose from, and I don’t have much time to do a trial run first.

• Molten Choco­late Cakes with Irish Cream
• Soda Bread
• Col­can­non
• Rum­blede­thumps
• Gui­ness Cakelettes
• Choco­late Stout Cake
• Etc…

Drool­ing Over: Wall Graph­ics!! What I wouldn’t give for some of these beau­ti­ful murals in my house… Wait, step one is own­ing a house? Are you sure? Drat.

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