January 4, 2008
it’s been so long long that you’re all, wow, you’ve changed
I realize that I have gone away on yet another unplanned hiatus. I’d like to claim it had something to do with the writer’s strike by way of trying to look important but it turns out I’ve just been trapped under a mountain of laundry and the children who created it. The funny thing about winter break is this: it’s no break.
Christmas was good and went off without a hitch despite my being completely ill-prepared and sick. Yes, sick. I got a cold day before. My nose is still running like a bandit getting away from the train robbery. You know that wet you just felt? It was my snot. Sorry.
I’d like to tell you about all the awesome gifts I got but it’s been so long that they are put away and forgotten. Oh but I remember I got this exact awesome hat and some ski socks and a pretty bracelet and other stuff that seriously? Can’t remember without thinking hard and I do not have time to think hard.
I’ve started running again (yes, in winter! i know! rock star!) and it feels good. I’ve got two pilates dvd’s coming in the mail and I am going to start weights next week. These things do not result from newyearsresolutions. I don’t do that.
Oh and omg I just remembered something else awesome we got for Christmas! After so many years of dreaming and hoping, TiVo has finally come to Canada and I? Well I am recording programming with reckless abandon and cannot imagine having ever been without this absolute necessity. Remember vhs? The Tyranasaurus Rex ate them. Oh how we laughed.
So, there you go. I’m back. Didjya miss me? Didjya?
Now tell me my hair looks pretty and get me a beverage.
Sparkling Red said,
January 5, 2008 @ 12:35 am
I did miss you.
Your hair looks pretty.
Here, have a root beer.
tommy said,
January 5, 2008 @ 3:29 pm
your hair looks pretty.
make dan a sandwich.
jenski said,
January 5, 2008 @ 6:23 pm
Yay, you survived the holidays! TiVo is the devil, for the record.
You’re hair looks pretty and have a glass of wine. I hear it helps dry up snotty noses (not really, but it doesn’t hurt).
honestyrain said,
January 5, 2008 @ 6:49 pm
but you have to tell me WHY TiVo is the devil. because i know people say that but WHY. because i love it. there is no devil here.
Momo said,
January 6, 2008 @ 2:01 am
Hey lady! Just stopping by to wish you a belated Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I would have missed you if…I’d been around to notice you weren’t here.
Anyways though, your hair is lovely and I agree with Jenski, have some wine!
Enjoy your TiVo!
Danielle said,
January 6, 2008 @ 3:13 pm
Okay, I’m totallly missing something, because I don’t see a photo of your hair….
But I can tell you that TiVo is awesome. When it tries to choose shows that it thinks we would like, I’m not so thrilled. And when it changes a station in the middle of something you are watching in order to tape something else it thinks you will like, I’m doubly not thrilled. However, the ease of recording shows is soooooo much better, that it completely makes up for any small inconveniences. Just get good at finding the ‘last’ or ‘previous’ button on your controller. And I guess I should say that every now and then, it guesses correctly on something we’d like to see. So the suggestions aren’t all bad.
jenski said,
January 6, 2008 @ 3:38 pm
So to combine the devil and awesomeness that Danielle mentions, TiVo is so awesome sometimes that it is the devil. I don’t have TiVo myself anymore, but my ex had it and I ended up watching WAY too much TV. My parents have fallen in to that trap too, even though they claim they haven’t. Because it is so easy, they started getting in to more shows that are on past their bed times. TiVo does make skipping commercials and keeping up with shows you want to watch super easy! So easy, it’s the devil.