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The Magic 2008 Ball, pee on everything, and the worst segue ever.
January 1st, 2009
TheHuckablog was one year old yesterday. I did not start telling people about it until around the end of February, but have been writing it for a year now. I keep a file filled with ideas for posts on my laptop. It seems to be a black hole because I never seem to write anything from those ideas; maybe I should change the title of the folder to something I might open on a regular basis, like “How to take a shower when you have a two year old boy who insists on trying to injure himself or others when left unsupervised for more than 20 seconds,” or something similar. Anyway, in the folder which is now titled, “Ideas for Huckablog” there is a partially written post called, “The Magic 2008 Ball”. I was going to come up with some questions for what was going to happen in 2008 and use an Eight Ball to predict the future. It was going to be cute, and easy, and fun to follow up whether the ball had any right answers. I never did it. I got busy, I needed to write about other things, I never found the pictures I wanted to go along with the post, and then it just seemed weird to write about 2008 predictions in August.
I deleted the post from the folder today. Just in case you were wondering, none of the predictions were right (Hillary Clinton is not the president elect for example.)
I am sorry I have not bothered to write a real post in weeks. I have had a nice vacation and have been spending time traveling and with family and friends I rarely get to see, and while I am sad to see how low my hits dropped this month, I think I needed a little blog break.
I got to see CAT long enough to hug her and talk about The Office, I had a cheese pizza with Ang long enough for The Son to insure she may choose to never have children, and Shoeshe came to stay for a few days. While Shoeshe was here we took my teenage cousin and The Son to the best, cheesiest amusement park on earth where The Son rode a roller coaster which my BiL will not even ride, and I got nauseous on the teacups we had to ride twice (pictures to follow). She also stymied my panic attack in a laundromat at two AM as we washed bathmats and kitchen rugs that my OMFG why will you not just pee outside you whacked out little mutt new dog seems to have confused as her own personal lavatory. Shoeshe never even complained. Not even when I told her she could wash her feather pillow. Ooops.
We got to see all of our grandparents, some for longer than others, The Husband’s cousin from Texas whom we love and who I envy because she can wear boots without looking ridiculous, another cousin with a baby almost as cute as mine. We saw Gabs, my cousin who lives with my Ma (my grandma, her Great-Grandma), who is ENGAGED, which makes me feel really old because I was old enough to be holding her when her umbilical stump fell off (I screamed and handed her back to her mother.) We spent another great weekend at the elder (but not old) Huckablog’s Scenic Compound where I laid in the hammock even though it was 40 degrees outside. I am glad I did it then, because I may never be invited back because my OMFG why will you not just pee outside you whacked out little mutt new dog chose to pee on MMiL’s feather bed. All in all it has been a bad season for feather linens.
So that, in a nutshell, is what we have been up to around here, plus you know, like parenting and stuff. New Years resolution! Not to say like and stuff so much! Hey, how about some New Years’ resolutions? (did you like my segue?)
Here are my 2009 resolutions for TheHuckablog.
1. Add a pictures page. I have tons of pictures I would like to share, but cannot always come up with time to write about them. To relieve the stress, and make relatives happy, I will just post directly to a separate page and people who want to look at twelve pictures of The Son eating spaghettios can, while other’s can ignore them.
2. Add a book club page which other people write. Some of you miss the Read it or Rants, others want to start a book club, I want to read what other people think about books other than Thomas, the Tank Engine. First book for the book club is really a series. Twilight. I know, I know, that is so 2008. CAT told me not to waste my time, MMiL thought it was okay, others think it is the BEST.BOOK.EVAH!
3. Finally get around to doing what it takes to have ads. By someone other than an EVIL CORPORATION THAT I AM PRETTY SURE SLAUGHTERS KITTENS AND PROBABLY HATES THE SIMPSONS.
4. Do the leg work to have some cool give aways. Did you know lots of blogs get cool free stuff to give away? I want to do that!
5. Write a post at least every other day…unless I need a vacation…or want to read instead…or have time for a toddler free shower.
Happy 2009 everyone.
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I’m glad I don’t/can’t have feather anything. Down makes my allergies go haywire. Besides, I always get a mental picture of those poor birdies walking around in dirty underwear! (I know they don’t strip birds for down, but there’s a song called The Tennessee Bird Walk that makes me think of that!)
I keep saying it is not her fault that she was being kept in a crate 24/7 before we had her, and we do love our Ellie-Mae, but I am getting a little irritated by her resistance to potty training. She is finally starting to go consistently on puppy pads, as long as there is no other rugs, dirty clothes, magazines, bath mats lying on the floor.
A tip from Grammy:
Though recommended not to be washed because soap strips the feathers of germ resistant oils, down can be washed. If done, it should be dried with a couple of tennis balls in the dryer. The tennis balls pummel the wet feathers breaking them apart and make them fluffy again.
Our “feather bed” is really “down alternative”…commonly known by we ordinary people as polyester fiberfill. It actually feels better than a feather bed because it never clumps like feathers do. So, no worries Sheri, the birds are safe from us.
FFIL believes Ellie Mae is more acting out than she is untrained. He bases that opinion on the fact that she had been outside for a really long time and immediately upon coming inside, she went into our bedroom where a lot of people were gathered, jumped up onto our bed and peed on the topper under the full eye of the humans in the room.
I agree with him. (You know, he’s pretty wise and is almost never wrong.) Oh, and perhaps if we had put her in the mud room with the elderly dalmation before we went to church that morning we would not have come home to the hysteria-based disaster she left in the bathroom.
Rest assured…you are still welcome at our home. As for Ellie…ummmmm, well we’ll talk.
My New Year’s revolution (er, resolution) actually got started between Thanksgiving and Christmas and is almost a habit now…power walking at least 30 minutes a day on my new treadmill. I’m up to 45 minutes and 3 mph! It’s not about weight (thank goodness since that’s not decreasing at a discernible rate), it’s about have the endurance to keep up with TheSon when he’s here!!
Happy New Year!
sorry…”having” the endurance
The laudromat was certainly an experience, as I had never been to one before, but all in all I had a great visit! As for the pillow, it has fluffed itself out quite nicely, as it has now had two more rounds in the dryer. It feels as good as new, so no worries here either!!!
Oh, and my down pillow is microdown (mom explained the process)…basically they use real down, but it has been cleaned and stripped of most common allergens associated with down…and has been chopped up extra finely so that it resists clumping. So really…it is fine!
Oh, so I’m not actually the last person on the planet to jump on the Twilight bandwagon!
What a relief…if I can tear myself away from book #3 long enough, I could probably write you a review of the first two, but I’m not sure I have much to say except that they are to books as the new NKOTB cd is to music. In other words, both are like crack and impossible to resist!
Crystal, I am hearing you there! I have read twilight and Eclipse in less than 24 hours!
Microdown? I don’t think I’ve ever heard of that. And potty training dogs….such fun! I was glad when we finally got ours trained and now if they’re inside, they’ll basically let us know they need to go out by coming up to us and staring at us. Then we ask them if they need to go potty or go outside and they run for the back door. Oh yeah, we have 2 big dogs. Talk about a puddle if they do pee in the house!
Finished Eclipse (book 3)–had to check it out from my district’s HS library because I don’t buy hardbound books and couldn’t find a paperback (sorry, HeyYou…guess you’ll have to visit your library for it). Will check out #4 this week…only bad thing was that Eclipse wouldn’t fit on my book rack on the treadmill.
I just feel for Jake…you only really get to know him in Eclipse and Bella has just about worn out any patience I had for that particular character. Wuthering Heights indeed!
I agree Sheri…NKOB is a good comparison for the Twilight series. But, I couldn’t put them down either.
back from my trip, and finally read your post. I read the first three Twilight books in the same amount of days. They annoy the crap out of me, but for some reason I couldn’t stop reading them. The fourth one really turned my stomach, but I still got through it.
I saw the movie and am ashamed to say I was very entertained. I must be a very shallow person, but I think I already knew that.
I am now on another teen series. I am reading the Gemma Doyle triology. I read the first one on the trip and now I am on the second.
Maybe I should go to the grown up section of the book store next time..
(if this comment made no sense, I am still recovering from a week of no sleep)
HeyYou spilled a bean from book #4 tonight by accident. (Okay, I kind of started it when I said I wish someone would just eat Bella….as in, chomp, chomp and GONE.) She (HeyYou) has the speed-reading record…all four books in one weekend!
Anyway, I still have #4 to read, so I obviously won’t be checking your comments again until after I’m through with it. See ya! Oh, and if you haven’t finished reading, be careful when reading HeyYou’s upcoming posts…I have a feeling she’s going to be talking about the books very soon.