food for thought

so yesterday the internet was acting up, and we were without the magical superbox for most of the day. it turned out to be a rather productive day. i'm not saying these two things are related in any way.

lies and the liars who tell them.

trying to come up with an appropriately sheepish/gee i've been super busy this...year phrase is kind of hard. i think i thought blogging would come somewhat more naturally, but i confess that while i really enjoy reading others' blogs, i haven't forced myself to sit down and update my own because...i'm lazy. i like updating my facebook status because i can do it in one or two sentences and that's it. i suppose i could just write one sentence blog posts but i don't know if that would go over so well. 2010 looms on the horizon and i'm avoiding making a declaration about the frequency of upcoming posts, since we all know how well that turned out for me THIS year. still, i believe in the idea of this blog! i have faith that eventually i will magically turn into a super blogger. or at least one who writes more than twice a year. maybe if i tell myself i don't have to post any pictures ever, that'll take the pressure off and i'll actually write? 

i just attempted to sum up the last year in one paragraph and then i realized that would be both dumb and ineffectual. here's the quick status on life RIGHTTHISMINUTE.

Quinn is 3.5 and loves going to preschool 2 mornings a week, and pretending her name is Jessie. (why? i have no idea.)

Georgie is 14 months and lives to walk/run/destroy everything, all the time

Boo is still a fat lazy cat who lives to eat plastic and then puke on the rug

Geoff's practice is going really well--he is having a good time and staying busy

I'm running around like a chicken with my head cut off most of the time. my sister Amy and her two kids (Sophie- age 5 and Marcus-age 2) are living with us now, and Amy is going back to school. so that means we have a one, two, three, and five year old in our house. good thing we finished the basement last year. :)

alright. i can now officially cross off "update stupid blog already" off the continual list of "things i should really get around to doing but probably won't". hurrah. 

bits and bobs. no pictures though.

"fresh with no mistakes in it"...anyone recognize that line from anne of green gables? i love january (at least the first few days of january) because i haven't made TOO many mistakes yet. we started off 2009 with a bang-geoff and i ran the polar dash 5K along the mississippi yesterday morning with 800 of our closest friends. brrr it was chilly (about 9 degrees) but once we finally got going we warmed up quickly and really enjoyed ourselves.

this was a well organized run-the team that sponsored it actually holds a series of 6 races throughout the year, and if you do all of them, you can get a really nice running jacket. it's a bummer because you have to do all 6 races, and 2 of them are held on sundays. geoff and i do not participate in athletic events on sundays (email me if you are interested in knowing our reasons behind this) so we aren't eligible for the jacket.

it's kind of dumb, i know--running isn't about the t-shirt or the jacket, and i know plenty of people think it is stupid to pay money to run with a bunch of people you don't know when you can just run on your own for free. but i freely admit to being totally motivated by the t-shirt or the jacket, and i love running with a big group of people who are all just as excited to be there as i am. i'm not a very good runner, but now that i have experienced a few races, i don't think i'll ever be able to give this hobby up. yes, i admit it. i do pretend all the spectators are there to to cheer ME on. :)

we spent the rest of the day cleaning out the closet and desks in our computer room...sadly, it did take all afternoon. when we lived in the duplex, i was really on the ball about keeping the junk from coming into the house, and i made drop-offs at the thrift store almost weekly. we just didn't have the space to do otherwise. now that we are in a much larger house, the clutter has begun to take over...it is subtle and takes a while to notice, because we have lots more places to stash it. but it has started getting to me so i'm back on the decrapification bandwagon. (special credit to audrey and tyler for that excellent term, decrapification). i know i'm not the only one who gets this way at the beginning of a new year--i'm sure the thrift stores will experience a swell of donations in the next few weeks. hopefully people will donate good stuff and not trash.

in other news, quinn is rapidly approaching her 3rd birthday and is currently deep in the throes of "i can do it myself-itis". it's great, except for when it sucks. most of the time i love it that she is becoming so independent and that she wants to do things on her own. but when she tries to do something and she can't quite get it, she goes from happy and independent to impatient and whiny in about .4 seconds. THAT is the part that sucks. one of the things she is unable to do on her own is to put her mittens on. i should call them "glubs", because that is the only way she refers to them. so she wants her glubs on and she wants them on RIGHT.NOW. well, honey, i can't help you because i'm driving right now and i don't want us to go off the road and die in either a fiery ball of anguish or an icy pit of despair (these being the two options when you live by approximately 953 lakes) so could you pretty please wait for just a minute until we get to the stoplight? no? ok, continue with the wailing and gnashing of teeth.

georgie is our deliciously chubby smiler. she has 3 rolls on her legs--ABOVE the knee. she is coming up on her 4 month mark and i think she weighs almost 18 pounds. i would worry except that quinn was almost the same and while she is certainly not petite, she has slimmed down and gotten quite tall. besides, there is just something so yummy about a big round squishy baby girl.

and yes. we do have pictures. there are about a zillion on our camera. i've been putting off blogging because i haven't taken the time to get the pictures off the camera. but again, i resolve to do better. 2009 will be the year of pictures. you won't be able to get away from us. just call us britney.