Depth

Montgomery just came out of his room wearing a black tee shirt. Usually, this near-teenage son of mine considers tee shirts of any color fit only for sleep, and that period of post-sleep that lasts on the weekends until I threaten to withhold food or tv. Tee shirts are not a part of his fashion statement. But today, it is. And it's black. Oy.

After somewhat gracefully accepting the hard time I gave him over his new wardrobe (What? What? WHAT?? - he added a new word to his vocabulary along with his new shirt) he told me a joke. I'll leave you with this :
Why are three dimensional games better than two dimensional games?

"They have more depth."

Cheers and Jeers

Cheers to YBP Library Services for their plan to distribute eBooks to academic libraries. Where they lead, may many more follow! Details here.

Jeers to Blogger. Oh, how I am coming to loathe you. Today's wackiness began with me not being able to leave a reply on a friends blog. This has become such a regular feature of Blogger that I have all but given up commenting on Blogger blogs; I typically read them through the rss feeder and don't even click through to try. But today someone pulled my heartstrings and I really, really wanted to comment. Only to be told to "Type the characters you see in the picture above." But there WERE no characters, there was no picture above. Then I came here to blog about my disgust, and was told repeatedly that Blogger was unavailable.... try back later. Hopefully after I'd cooled down.

Blogger, you've about ended your usefulness to me. A change has been a long time coming.... This link will soon be moved!

Ha. Take that.

I'm sure they're shivering in their timbers over my intention to move my free blog elsewhere....

"I guess we'll have a good Christmas after all"

My tree is beautiful. Definitely a top 5 tree. Maybe a top 3. It inspired this quote from Samantha : "I guess we'll have a good Christmas after all."

I'm not sure what made my four year old think we weren't going to have a great Christmas in the first place, but looking at the tree is definitely enough to inspire one to visions of a good Christmas.

Sean's mystery headaches have mostly tapered off. After our scary trip to the ER last Friday night he spent most of Thanksgiving weekend in bed doped up on Vicoden. This morning he woke up with chest tightness and a bit of coughing, so off he went to the DR. Now I'm not saying it's mental, not at all, but he left here at 2pm breathing fine and came home at 4pm wheezing and gasping for breath after they told him he may have bronchitis. Drugs are inbound - cough medicine with yet more morphine and antibiotics - here's hoping he feels better soon. Hopefully by the weekend; he's got a tournament in Orlando Sat / Sun.

Samantha and I are going down to help with registration on Saturday; we were planning on coming back right afterwards, but now he is worried he will be too tired to handle finishing it up. And Montgomery has his Duke TIP test Saturday morning (yay for aunts that will get out of bed at 6:30 on a Saturday to drive my kid across town, since Sean needed me to go with him!) - I'd hoped to be here to take him and pick him up, but now it looks like we won't be back by the time it's over. I'm trying not to think about the last time we stayed at this hotel, when the bedtop deflated and I couldn't walk for weeks. Happy thoughts! Block out the bad memories!

Sick-and-wheezy is hungry. Looks like it's time to go brave the empty pantry and turn bread crusts, broth, and frozen lima beans into a feast fit for the bedridden. I knew I needed to go shopping today....

My back has gotten a bit better every day. I can sit for up to 30 minutes without cringing and moaning when I finally stand up. Yes, that is progress!!

The laptop is on it's last legs, and only boots up when it wants to - yesterday it decided to play nice, so I got some of what I've written longhand typed up. Ran out of time after only about 10 pages, but it's progress. Unfortunately I'm not going to make the Golden Heart deadline now (which is today!!) - I'm just too far behind. But I've got several friends who entered, so I'll keep my fingers crossed for them. And I signed up to judge; should be able to learn a lot just from looking at others entries this year, and be ready next year with my own.

Starting to get excited about the holidays. Found a great web site that tracks all the Thanksgiving sales ads http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/index.php
and just the thought of shopping is getting me all excited. And I see some great deals on there. So now I'm torn - get up early and shop with many other people there (ugh! People!!) or stay at home and miss the deals? Going to be a last minute decision I'm sure.

We're having dinner at the in-laws this year. As long as the weather stays nice (fingers crossed) it will be a great day. With the Broncos playing at 8, we'll be eating by 6 so Sean can make it home to watch the game. The table will seem much quieter without sis here this year; I'm trying to get over it. (sobs quietly) I'm on bread (sourdough, cheese, and yeast rolls this year)and dessert (pumpkin pie, apple pie, and a third not-decided-may-have-to-test-a-few-in-the-next-week variety that will be something new and exciting. Or it may be cherry. Which doesn't pass as new, but is always exciting. Or at least delicious.

Time to get up and move around a bit before my spine fuses together. Is it bad that I've gotten used to it makeing firecracker sounds when I stand up?

On the fly -

HowManyOfMe.com

There are: 350 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

And there are 104 people sharing my husband's name, 65 sharing my daughter's name. My son is unique!~