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17.12.08

'tis the season

(Mira, third from the right)

...for losing my mind at work! Things do NOT slow down come holiday time. Operation Santa Claus gifts were delivered yesterday...that's roughly one hundred families' gifts, two or three carbon copies of each form to find, sort, alphabetize, and their corresponding telephone numbers to call. Nevermind disconnected or out-of-service numbers. And it's tax training time...IRS VITA site coordinator meeting this morning. Drama there, too. Paid preparers are trying to dismantle the volunteer-run program. And then there's my other, top-secret work Christmas project...not to mention Christmas cards and keeping the cats out of the tree at home.

Back on subject (was there a subject?)--Mira's daycare had their Christmas program last Thursday, on our Auntie Joyce's birthday. Since I had forgotten that morning that the program was that evening, Mira was one of only two girls in the class not wearing a dress. And she noticed. The picture above shows only about a third of her whole class.
And, for fun, here's a pic of PGG, about 3 or 4 years old. And looking at this picture, I'm wondering if maybe the baby's nose, which has been causing me some confusion, is PGG's after all. Noses, of course, look much different as they get older along with the human hosts, but Torrin's was instantly recognizable as his dad's. Mira's is actually still somewhat of a mystery but it looks more familiar, if that makes any sense (probably not). Orion's was puzzling. But maybe not. Maybe. We'll see. So also we'll see, if Orion gets the crazy eyebrows (notice too the awesome late 80s background, semi-mullet, and rockin' ninja shirt).

Earlier this evening I walked out to the living room from the kitchen, where I was cooking dinner, and found Torrin reading to Orion on the couch. Cute, huh? And what was he reading to him? Maybe a nice board book, something for babies, maybe even something for older kids? No. Ghosts Among Us, which I doubt the author intended for reading to infants, or small children of any kind, for that matter. Torrin has dubbed it "creepy." I wouldn't know, since I never got around to cracking the cover, let alone actually reading it.


31.12.06

Bonne Année!

Tonight's Stats: Mugs of hot chocolate: 2; Bonbel cheeses: 3; Delivered Meals: 1, tonight was the first night I've ordered food since I've lived in this house!; Number of Times Checked on Mira Due to Whining/Crying: 2; Rooms Cleaned: 0

26.12.06

The Day After Christmas

The Day After Christmas

And all through the house...
The Floors are covered with New Toys...
Dinos...dolls...an ugly blouse.
Okay, I made up the ugly blouse part.
The thing I hate about Christmas (well, actually there are many things) is that the rooms have to be rearranged to accomodate the new junk. Somehow, this little house has to absorb two carfulls of Christmas booty.
The second thing that stinks about today is that this is the Very First Christmas I have celebrated where I had to go to work the next morning. Last year, I was still out of work from having Mira and before that I was always a student with a no-more-than part-time job.
And it was the most worthless day of work I have attended yet. Note I say "attended," as I did no real work today. My supervisor was out, the three others in our department were out. Heh. They'll all be back tomorrow (probably anyway) and I'll be gone (my very first personal day ever!).