Holiday activity sucks young mother's brain: film at 11
Got the ornaments done, went to Savannah (Jeff was wonderful, and not at all a celeb type - seeing him wrestling with the little cousins while one of them hiked his t-shirt over his head and beat on his skull was cute as could be, and is probably going into some storage area of his brain for Jackass Junior, or something). Dog is essentially healed, save a little stiffness when she gets up in the morning. House is a disaster from various holiday related projects, including the ornaments (which came out all right, but were NOTHING compared to this or this or this), rearranging the storage space under the stairs to accomodate all my photo crap, knitting (and I hate to knit! damn you, holiday spirit!) various hats for the various babies who are shortly to infest my friends' lives, and trying to raise two kids in the middle of a PLETHORA of photo shoots. Yeehaw and pass the cranberry garland, man.
My biggest project is taking over our bedroom, since that's where the desktop and the scanner live. When we cleaned out my grandparents' house in October, somehow the photographs and memorabilia ended up in my car, and from there in my closet. My mother has a bunch of these, but my uncle has almost none, so I'm making two copies of everything and putting them in order in archival boxes. I'm having a pretty good time with it - either I'm awwwwing at the cuteness of my "old folks" as children (this child is my two-greats-grandmother) or sighing with relief that my parents didn't go for the reuse-ancient-family-names thing (in this case, Beulah.)
Must get back to it - just wanted you to know that I ain't dead yet, and say that I hope you all had some kick-ass turkey. Because that family togetherness thing? SO OVERRATED WITHOUT SOME GOOD EATIN'.
PS - congratulations to MB, who has recently outed herself with news that I got to know a while back. Supamama, do you know how hard it's been to keep my mouth shut?? When we're up there in January, can I come over and pat your belly like an old woman in the grocery store? Because I will totally not leave your porch until you let me.
Posted in: Me Me Me, secret messages on 12/02/2006 at at 1:29 PM
You got an ornament from Janet, too? What an swap slut. The creator of the swap got one from her too. hehe I'm just kidding, Janet. She's just too crafty.
Because I am super-psycho, I have joined a swap on craftster.org. It's a chain thing where I
(person B) make something for A and get something from C who gets something from D, etc etc. Try it after the new year.
I didn't get anything from Janet, nah. I just thought those pictures were pretty, and WAY WAY better than my pathetic little paper heart basket thingies. And the packaging, what's up with that? My people got Christmas cards. Period. I suck.
You are extra-super-psycho, but it's all right. It's all in the spirit of giving and whatnot. What are you sending, and what did you get?? Tell us all about it!