Finally...

Ok, you can see my first attempt here.

CRAZY Busy

So, new camera. Where are the pictures, you ask. Well, let me tell you. I have been looking forward and oh so patiently waiting for this camera since JULY!!! That's right July. When it came last week all I wanted to do was bust it out and play, play, play. HOWEVER, I had to wait for the battery to charge (and figure out how to turn it on, read the manual, and wonder why I could see anything on the LCD screen. Not to mention wondering what the freak all the other buttons do.) In the mean time, I was in the middle of our crazy busy Christmas season for Voices (more on that later), working at the place we all know and love, Old Navy, trying to finish up Christmas my shopping, making a very lame attempt at cleaning my house for the holidays AND glancing over the music that I had just gotten to play for the Sacrament program on Sunday. So came Friday night. As I went to sleep I was thinking how glorious Saturday would be. I didn't have to work until that night so I would have all morning to bond with the Canon. Then starting at 2am, poor little Alyssa-Lou-Magoo-Who starting puking her ever loving guts out. Every 20 minutes from 2am until 7:40 the poor little thing was throwing up. Needless to say when she finally fell asleep, my hopes for Canon love turned merely to dreams as I crashed myself on the couch. Then came today. I had it out, long enough to actually open up my blinds with some glorious sunlight and shoot. AND I must say, I'm in love. Seriously, I feel like I'm trying to translate Japanese when I read the manual and I have no idea what the crap I'm doing, but I LOVE IT!!! So, photos ARE coming. If the darling little one will allow it, tonight even. Nothing glorious, but something all the same.

IT'S HERE!!!

It's here and it is glorious. Unfortunately, I have to wait for the battery to charge before I can play. BUT I'M SO FREAKING EXCITED!!!!!

Some Baby Elves

So I created some cousin Elves. Enjoy! http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1321000646

It's Coming...

It's coming. This week. It's coming. Hopefully tomorrow, but maybe not until Thursday, but it is coming. And it is coming this week. Be excited, be very excited.

Number 2 game of Tag

Tag, tag, tag. Ok, 6 things about me. Ready? I talk to myself, sometimes to the point that I make myself laugh out loud. Not about anything in particular, mostly just creating scenarios in my head. Then when I explain my "logic" to Tim, he says, "wow" really slow, like I'm losing my mind or something. I HATE putting lights on the Christmas tree. I was absolutely thrilled last year when we bought an already lit up tree! I enjoy watching people. (It plays into the scenarios in my head.) I just read a book, willingly, for the first time in 15 years. The other ones I was forced to read through out jr high and high school I could probably count on one hand. I throw away food on the day stamped as the expiration date. Even if it's sour cream, yogurt, buttermilk. All that stuff that Tim says "it has so much preservatives in it... it's already sour, it can't go bad" Whatever, if someone cared enough to stamp that little date, I will care enough to dispose of it after said date has passed. Now... Renee, Sam, Becky and Leslie. Your it!

Oh the glorious game of TAG!

Well, I've been tagged. Here's a brief history of my life.

What was I doing 10 years ago? Hmm.. I was 16 and a junior in highschool. I was in drivers ed, but spent more time getting donuts and pepsi from the snack bar than I did in the simulator. Which probably accounts for my mad driving skills. It was the end of my second season of high school soccer, I was the goalie, my mom always threatened my coach "If she injures her hands... I've invested way too much money for broken fingers!" Piano, what can I say? I was also still taking piano lessons, accompanying concert choir. No fingers were ever injured during soccer. It was that crazy church basketball that I always managed to jam them up. What was I doing 5 years ago? Tim and I had just celebrated our first anniversary in Park City. It was the weekend of death, by the way. We got lost trying to go to dinner, wound up on some dark road with no lights, that I swear was going to lead us off some cliff. Plus it was stormy, that didn't help much in the vision department. What was I doing 1 year ago? Huh, beginning the crappiest year of our lives together. Tim had just lost his job at the bank and we started the lovely roller coaster ride that we're on now, wanting so desperately to get off. On a happier note, we were also celebrating Alyssa's first birthday. Love that little girt. She keeps me going. What was I doing yesterday? Hee, hee. My vocal group, Voices, had our first performance of the year and it was AWEFUL!!! Oh my, we made some very comical mistakes. We went to Kerri's house to watch and critique the video after it was over. From forgetting lyrics to screwing up the choreography, not knowing which song was next or where we were supposed to be sitting or standing. COMICAL I tell you! Let's just say I'm glad we were at an Alzheimer's center. That's bad to say and so is this, but at least they won't remember right? 5 snacks I enjoy: Pepsi, Breyer's natural vanilla ice cream with Hershey's chocolate syrup and peanuts, Pepsi, snicker doodles, Pepsi 5 things I would do with a million dollars: Hmm... pay off my crappy debt, start some kind of adoption fund, start some kind of IVF fund, take care of Alyssa's college education, and put the rest away for a rainy day 5 places I would run away to: Cocoa Beach, Disney Land, My grandparents houses, my sisters places of residence, and a desert island. 5 TV show I like: Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice, Scrubs, The Office, 24 - Mmm Jack Baby 5 things I HATE doing: Cleaning the shower, throwing up, washing dishes by hand, touching slimy things, going to the dump 5 biggest joys of the moment: Alyssa, Tim, The Christmas Season, music... ok fine, and Mike.

All righty then. I tag Mikey, Melanie, Kaarina and Angela. Let's hear the juice people!