Well, you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't

I didn't want to 'upgrade' to the new version of Blogger. Unfortunately, though, when I logged in yesterday, the only choice I was given was to login to the "Old" Blogger one last time. As I logged in, I caught a glimpse of "you can only do this once," and I realized they were forcing me to upgrade. So there you have it, I've upgraded. Whoo.

What's the best part about this? I just tried to add the label "Blogger Can Suck It" to this post, and my publishing failed and instead I got a big fat "Error" screen.

Blogger rules!

My So-Called Life

Ahhh, I remember the days of going out late at night and staying up until the wee hours of morning. It's been too long since I've done that.

Last night I went out with my girlfriends on a whim. Just decided at 8pm that I was going to shower and meet up with them after telling them I had too much to do and couldn't come. (I hosted a shower here for very close friend of mine today and last night when I left I had about 60% of the work left to do...)

I left the house last night with no plan for when I'd come home and made no promises to my husband that I'd be back in time to feed the baby. There was milk in the fridge for her and he could deal with it this time. It was SOOOOO his turn.

I stayed out for a few hours, had a couple of drinks, talked to some old friends. I think I took this stuff for granted way back when when I had these freedoms. I never realized how freeing it is to go out for an evening and not worry about anyone but yourself. It's been much too long.

So I'm adding to my list of New Year's Resolutions. Once a month I'm going to put the girls to bed and go out and do whatever the hell I want to for a few hours. I need the escape. All those years I partied it up and never thought twice about how I might not have that freedom when I "grew up." Now I'm all grownded up and in need of a barstool and a drink and a few hours of nothing but... nothing!

Ain't all it's 'cracked' up to be...

Seriously people, please, please, for the love of all that is good and decent, put your freaking butt cracks away. I am so tired of having to look at your ass cracks every time I go into public.

Put them away!

Cover them!

Wear clothing made to fit you, not someone four sizes smaller.

I can't take seeing any more butt crack! Something that used to just be reserved for plumbers has now become a national epidemic. Next thing we know it'll be cool to have sweat rings under your pits. What about hairy backs? Let's make those popular too!

Get it?

I just have to put this out there...

and I mean no disrespect to anyone who likes and/or wears these shoes. I don't get them. I know, I know, they're comfortable. But sorry, sometimes fashion has to override function. If I'm being totally honest, I think they're hideous.


There, I feel better now.

A Day in the Life

This is a little photo project I did for my online moms' group called "A Day in the Life." I took so many pictures that I decided to make a slideshow and just post it here since it's an easy place to put the code for the Google video player.

Caption This

A couple of years ago, I took this picture of Avery. I asked some friends to help caption it, and the best one (I thought) that they came up with was "Hey! This thing is out of milk!"


It kind of reminded me of this picture of Ainsley, so I thought I'd try the caption thing again. Anyone want to take a shot at it?

"That is some weird wild stuff"

So after it was 80 degrees the other day (Wednesday? Tuesday? -- who knows) it snowed at my house yesterday. It's currently 34 degrees at 9am this morning. Oh, but according to our live weather thing on the Tivo, it 'feels like 35 degrees.' Whew! I'm so glad it doesn't feel like the actual temperature.

It was a weird day for weather in Southern California. Lots of places that never get snow were dusted with it. Lower elevations than we're at got more than we did, even. The mountains look gorgeous though. That's the bonus.

Here are a couple of pictures outside my bedroom window. I had to snap them quickly before the snow melted!