my blogging opinion, for what it's worth

So it is my humble opinion that anybody who ALREADY has both a blog and a flickr account should be using their flickr account to add photos to their blog. Because they work so beautifully and seamless together so it makes no sense not to do it that way and it drives me slightly nuts when people don't.

And anybody who blogs and doesn't have a flickr account should get a flickr account.

And even if you don't blog but you like to look at or share pictures online you should also get flickr account. because basically flickr is THE BEST photo sharing site ever (for reasons I'll go into if you really want me to....) so there.

that's all. for now.

ing

The kids are all asleep so I was cleaning up the kitchen and had every intention of finishing up the rest of the laundry folding. But the laptop was sitting there on the kitchen counter....taunting me, teasing me. So now instead of dishes and laundry I am blogging and flickring.

And don't you love how you can make any word a verb by adding ing to the end. Because let's face it flickring sounds so much more cool and important then "looking at photos on flickr and uploading some of my own"

talk about the weather

So, a lot of the blogs I read have been talking about the weather lately, so I hate to do ANOTHER weather post....but it just really is getting old!!!! spring, winter, spring, winter. I just can't take it anymore. We were at the Gateway on Monday kids were in their swimsuits playing in the Olympic Fountain. Then rain and snow on Tuesday. Today was nice again not quite play in the swimsuit nice, but the kids played outside without sweaters. So just now I pulled up my Google homepage to check up on any new blog posts and my weather feed says it will be nice again tomorrow (74 degrees) and snow again on Sunday!!!! Come on already. When we gonna get spring for real?????

Haunted by the need to be perfect

Although blogging is a relatively new addiction for me I have taken to it wholeheartedly. Maybe a little too much. What started out as a way just to express myself and to write again (I've missed writing!) and also just to record the going ons of our growing family has become a relentless pursuit of perfection. (all this is one short month!)

See, I've started having the urge to make every post really great! Like simply writing what was on my mind wasn't good enough. Everything had to be "worth reading". Call it the writer in me I guess. Or maybe it's because I knew this wasn't just merely a "journal" but that other people were going to actually be reading this (a special thanks to my reading audience of 3 1/2 for coming back again after the first post)

The problem is that I now have this long list of things I want to blog about that I've never gotten around to writing because I'm waiting for the "inspiration" to make it truly memorable.

Case in point. Adam's birthday was over a week ago now. And I've been wanting to write about it. I've even been picking out the perfect pictures to use. But I wanted to make it this awesome post that was funny and insightful and special for Adam, too. Like I had this idea of starting out by talking about all the things that happened on April 6, 2004. So I literally spent an hour and a half last night trying to search news archives to find out what happened that day. (I have only 3 memories of that day really. hours and hours of labor, finding out that Sister Hinckley died, and that it was Elton John night on American Idol.) You would think in this age of Google that such a task would be a piece of cake but an hour and half later I was mad at myself for wasting so much time and not being any closer to having a "cool" blog entry!

When maybe really the point is to just start writing. And maybe it won't be perfect. And maybe some won't even be funny. (scandal, I know) But write anyway! The magic is in the writing.

and perhaps this is also an analogy for the rest of my life as well. Maybe I don't need to wait for inspiration or perfection to do other things, either. Maybe I should just start.

I love Mondays!

Crazy, huh? I mean NOBODY likes Monday. But we have a new routine at our house that makes me simply adore Mondays.

You see, Monday is laundry day.



So we stay home all day. I usually run around in my most comfortable sweats or work out clothes and the kids hang out in jammies all day. I don't try to get any other housework done, it's just laundry day. So in the morning while clothes are washing I play a lot with the kids in between changing over loads.

After lunch and after all the clothes are clean it is movie time. So we hop in the car and go get our free Monday rental at Red Box. (you too can get a free movie code texted to your cell phone each Monday)

Then we watch movies while we fold all the many loads of laundry. I usually rent a chick flick, something I know my husband will hate and I get to watch it without all the peanut gallery remarks.

Meals are low-key on Mondays, too. Like today the kids and I are eating pop tarts and popcorn for lunch. Dinner will be left overs from Sunday dinner last night.

So tell me truly now, what's not to love about Mondays?

A HUGE Colossal Waste of time!

But it made me laugh my head off because this has happened to me almost EXACTLY like this SO many times I've lost count. So if you have 10 minutes to waste check it out It's mildly hypnotic and you can't look away. You want to but you can't. You have to see how it ends.

It's 10 minutes of your life you will never get back.

Doing the happy dance

Went to our accountant tonight and did our taxes. We're getting a refund. I'm doing the happy dance! (which is not to be confused with the sacred boot up dance. )