A Happy Medium

bye bye computer

2010-02-12T21:04:00.002-07:00

Well, it looks like the apparent life-saving surgery our big ol' computer had a couple weeks ago, failed. It's been "blue screening" us almost daily since we got it back, and is running terribly slow, despite all our efforts to remedy that. I don't feel comfortable working with it, and I fear it's going to violently crash and burn at any time.

So. This sucks. I'm still taking photos daily, even though it's been a struggle at times to be motivated or inspired. However, I truly have no clue when I will resume posting them again.

I should probably use this "down time" to actually WRITE about stuff instead of just shooting it...

forty.

2010-02-09T16:45:00.000-07:00

The kids are in a "game" phase - their favourite activity is playing Uno, Snakes and Ladders, The Ladybug Game or Pass The Pigs (seen here). Although Munchkin generally hijacks the pigs to play "farm" with them instead, which drives Monster craaaazy :)

thirty-nine.

2010-02-08T16:18:00.000-07:00

I caught Monster quietly reading to Munchkin after he got home from playschool today. Moments like this do not last very long!

thirty-eight.

2010-02-07T21:36:00.000-07:00

I wub this kitten :) I suppose she's not a kitten anymore (7 years old, haha). She has such a sweet face.

thirty-seven.

2010-02-06T19:07:00.000-07:00

I hate to cook. Hate.it.with.a.passion.
My husband, on the other hand, really enjoys it. We watch the Food Network constantly, which always inspires him to create something new and unusual in the kitchen.
Today we tried polenta for the first time. I had no idea what it would taste like, but it was pretty good!

thirty-six.

2010-02-05T20:58:00.001-07:00

Monster: "Hey Mommy!"
Me, not looking up: "Yeah?"
Monster: "Look, we're monsters! Rawr!!"
Munchkin: "Yeah, I'm-a dottewr! Haha Mommy."
Me: *burst out laughing, grab camera*

They had soooooo much fun tonight with those tunnels.

thirty-five.

2010-02-04T21:06:00.001-07:00

My purple girl holding Purple Girl. That's her name. Sometimes she calls her Hakka (how she pronounces her own name) but otherwise it's just Purple Girl.

thirty-four.

2010-02-03T21:05:00.000-07:00

The sky looked so eerie tonight. Definitely wasn't northern lights... I'm betting aliens :)

thirty-three.

2010-02-02T15:07:00.000-07:00

My precious little man is a bundle of non-stop smiles and giggles these days. I can't get enough of him.

thirty-two.

2010-02-01T15:06:00.000-07:00

Munchkin asked me to take a picture of her today. I love how she holds out her pinky when she drinks, so refined.

thirty-one.

2010-01-31T15:05:00.000-07:00

Today the spectacle that is the Grammy awards was broadcast. What utterly ridiculous, pointless tripe it was...

thirty.

2010-01-30T15:03:00.000-07:00

Bokeh is so pretty :)

twenty-nine.

2010-01-29T15:02:00.000-07:00

This Bad Cat ALWAYS is messing around in the living room blinds. Drives me crazy nutso.

more frustration

2010-01-29T09:24:00.003-07:00

So.

I just found out that as of March 26, I will no longer be able to use this blog via Blogger.

Sigh. At least I have 2 months to figure out what I'm going to do about it. Either

a) I can switch URLs to elviskitty.blogspot.com (which I've already claimed)

or

b) find a new blogging service that offers FTP publishing. For free.

Since I *just* renewed the elviskitty domain name, I'm going to try and go with option b. Though that will undoubtedly entail re-writing my design template's code... *insert massive hair-pulling-outage here* We shall see.

Oh. And.

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Still no computer.

EDIT 31 Jan - My much more knowledgeable husband will be able to remedy this with a simple redirect. Never mind. I am lame.

twenty-eight.

2010-01-28T15:01:00.000-07:00

New phone! We switched to a cell and ditched our landline, so now I have another gadget to familiarize myself with. Yay?

twenty-seven.

2010-01-27T15:00:00.000-07:00

The Monster got a tent with crawl tunnels from Grandma and Grandpa B for his birthday. He loves them :)

twenty-six.

2010-01-26T14:59:00.000-07:00

Today my firstborn turns 5!!! Happy Birthday Monster!!

twenty-five.

2010-01-25T14:59:00.000-07:00

Mmmm bread :) I'm so domesticated now that I bake my own bread, almost every day. There's nothing like it.

twenty-four.

2010-01-24T14:57:00.000-07:00

My Munchkin has gone on a trip to her Nana and Papa's house for a whole week today. I MISS HER SO MUCH

twenty-three.

2010-01-23T14:57:00.000-07:00

A castle birthday cake, requested by the Monster. He was thrilled!

twenty-two.

2010-01-22T14:56:00.000-07:00

My mom and dad are up for the weekend, and our (their) dog tagged along. He LOVES playing ball.

twenty-one.

2010-01-21T14:54:00.000-07:00

I nearly forgot to take a photo today! Yikes. Not much interesting happening late at night, but Buster was sleeping so peacefully, he made a good subject.

twenty.

2010-01-20T14:54:00.000-07:00

Another beautiful evening sky tonight.

nineteen.

2010-01-19T14:53:00.000-07:00

Hewo, Bad Cat.

eighteen.

2010-01-18T14:52:00.001-07:00

This is one of my favourite photos I have ever ever shot. EVER. I think it might just have to go on a wall.