Jan 14, 2009

Thank you to everyone who has written me. A pox upon those of you who
haven't.

No, I'm kidding.

No seriously. A POX.

I will (ihopeihopeihopeihope) get around to writing you all back
individually, but for the moment I'll just say I really appreciate all
the love and support and advice. Don't worry about me too much,
though, apparently I managed to impart a bit more dire feeling in my
email than I had intended. I was mostly just feeling pensive, not like
my world was at an end. I mean, SOMETIMES I feel like my world is at
an end, just not, y'know, right at that particular moment. :)

It has been pointed out to me that I have been, perhaps, a bit remiss
in the sharing of newsage recently, and I wish to rectify that before
enough time goes by that I completely forget what is going on, so...

Elliot is ONE! For this he had THREE birthday parties. There was the
party in Nicaragua, where he got kissed by pretty girls and got to run
around naked and sit in his birthday cake. There was the party in
Maine, where was reunited with his one true love, the Bito, and
presented with a CareBear cake, and then got to go to bed early. And
there was the party here at our house, when nothing much happened but
it was his ACTUAL birthday and he got two sweet new toys, one of which
makes noise and one of which has ten separate, lose-able pieces. Oh
joy.

Waxor still has a job. This is excellent news. The company is looking
around at possible iPhone applications they could market, and that is
actually something that I can think about and contribute to, so that's
nice. Of course, so far my only meaningful contribution may have been
"So, if iFart is the number one selling app, clearly we all just need
to be targeting the juvenile humor audience." Yeah, you read that
right. iFart. Number one iPhone application. i freaking FART.

Waxor will be 29 this month (on the 29th, in fact.) He will begin his
last year of not-real-adulthood. I wonder if he's worried about it.

Fuzzy and Dante and Waxor and I have pretty much come to a firm
agreement that we're going to start looking for a Duplex to buy in the
spring. Look for updates on that front starting in March or so.

Chimabasa, thank goodness, seems to be adjusting to being the only
dog. I suspect it's because he gets all the tuna juice now, and it's
just taken him this long to realize that fact.

I have to take a break to make dinner, but if my email barfs again and
sends this out you'll know it isn't finished yet. :)

This year is an exciting one for my family. The JHC is 30 years old
and the CDCA is 15 years old. There's a special delegation going to
Nicaragua, and I am going to be there, along with the boy and the
baby. We're hoping Tiff will be there as well (hint hint) but he's
gotta check his vacation days.

Over vacation I read 11 books. That was pretty great.

Whoops, gotta go, so I'm sending this now. Look for your personal
responses at some later time.