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Its all very random.

My hair’s starting to grow back. Some may remember that awhile back I
posted about my post-pregnancy joy of loosing all the luscious hair I
developed while pregnant. Well, now its growing back and making me
look silly. I can hide the signs of the growth at my forehead hairline
with bangs, but another place that it happened was at my temples, and
I can’t hide that. Oh well – looking like a mad scientist fits my
personality pretty nicely actually.

Today’s my last day before my ten day vacation. I’m excited :) Trying
not to build it up though because as long as ten days sound, it will
fly by – my six weeks of maternity leave sure did – the holiday will
make sure of it. Thursday we’re going to my sister’s for Thanksgiving,
Friday we’ll be going to the in-laws, and Saturday we’ll be recouping
from the holidays :P

Found R2-D2 in Star Trek – nice Easter egg.

Been playing Dead Space with Paul, it’s a good game – very scary. It
would be more scary though if the music let you know you were being
attacked from behind. Sometimes you can’t tell until a random limb
appears around your head. Paul thought the game ended at Chapter Six
so imagine our surprise when we beat that boss and got another
objective. Oops, guess we shouldn’t have spent all our money trying to
beat that guy.

Only two more weeks until I get my Nook. With the gift card fiasco
cleared up I’m getting more and more excited. I got a sample of Ron
Paul’s book, “The Revolution”, and was really inspired by the snippet
I read. I think I’m going to check that one out from the library
though because it doesn’t seem like a book I’d read more than once.
Now to just find my library :)

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Made it to Disneyland – FINALLY!

Yesterday we finally made it to Disneyland! Paul & I have season passes, we
bought them in June, but we hadn't gone back since because we needed someone
to come along and help us with Evy. Paul & I decided to gift my sister early
this year for Christmas with a one day pass to Disneyland – so she could get
a season pass too. It was a lot of fun, I'm glad my sister went because she
kept reminding me not to stress out (like I always do) because we had season
passes. Our trip was filled with a lot of bumps, but just laughing through
them.

We got a late start, good traffic though. Once in Anaheim we stopped at a
Burger King for something to eat – but they wouldn't take our credit cards
so we had to go across the street to another place. We got a bit lost on the
way to the parking because Disneyland was redirecting to a different parking
structure and the signs they had were confusing. Then once we'd parked we
had to ride a bus to the park. Then we got to the park entrance and
discovered that Paul had left his wallet (and his season pass) in the car so
he had to go back. That took awhile because he had to wait for a bus, get to
the parking center, wait for another bus, and then come back. My sister & I
decided to go into the park and get her season pass, but then I discovered
I'd left HER ticket in my purse which was in the car. Luckily Paul was able
to grab it and we got into the park around noon.

We didn't ride very many rides, but we still had a really good day! Pirates
of the Caribbean, Indiana Jones, Haunted Mansion, Space Mountain – bit of
the Christmas parade. We ended up leaving pretty early because we just got
such a late start, but since we have season passes we'll be going back :)

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QotD: What’s a bigger enemy to a clean home: a puppy or a baby?

Oh a puppy – all the way. Sure, babies come with a lot of clutter
but it's acceptable to put a baby in diapers and it's expected
to have 24-hour care. When you get a puppy, it's NOT acceptable to
use diapers – you're supposed to train them. And it's
acceptable to leave them alone for hours at a time so there is more of
a chance of mess. When Ripley was a puppy she chewed on everything
from carpet & wicker baskets to Paul's Playstation 3 – NO
JOKE.


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Sabriel: Just as good the second time.

I purchased Sabriel – by Garth Nix – as an eBook a few weeks ago, and
finished it on Monday. DAMN that's a good book. Even though I knew
what was going to happen I was still enthralled, held by the suspense,
and chilled by the visuals created.

If you've never read it, do it! I would characterize it as fantasy for
people who generally don't read fantasy. It didn't require a map, a
genealogy chart, or an index of terms. It wasn't a thousand pages long
and require three books before and three books after to understand.
Just an awesome read with fantastic descriptions and a brilliant plot.
Nix's idea of Death, a cold multi-layered river that necromancers wade
through, is amazing. The writing itself is also very…flowy I guess
you'd say? Not flowering, but just so easy to read that I want to read
it out loud with cultural accents and excited hand motions. Despite
it's seemingly dark story, this is a book I'd love to read aloud to or
at least with Evy when she gets older.

One thing I'd say though is: Give it time. My sister recently began to
read it and she found it a bit confusing at first. Having reread it, I
can understand. If you're not used to fantasy and plunging into
another world, it could take some time to get used to and comprehend.

Here's a good synopsis, if you're interested:

"After receiving a cryptic message from her father, Abhorsen, a
necromancer trapped in Death, 18-year-old Sabriel sets off into the
Old Kingdom. Fraught with peril and deadly trickery, her journey takes
her to a world filled with parasitical spirits, Mordicants, and Shadow
Hands. Unlike other necromancers, who raise the dead, Abhorsen lays
the disturbed dead back to rest. This obliges him–and now Sabriel,
who has taken on her father's title and duties–to slip over the
border into the icy river of Death, sometimes battling the evil forces
that lurk there, waiting for an opportunity to escape into the realm
of the living. Desperate to find her father, and grimly determined to
help save the Old Kingdom from destruction by the horrible forces of
the evil undead, Sabriel endures almost impossible exhaustion, violent
confrontations, and terrifying challenges to her supernatural
abilities–and her destiny."

Thanks to Jenni who suggested it :)

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QotD: What tourist attraction near you have you never seen?

The Griffith Observatory. I don't know why I haven't! My sister & I were just talking about this, we need to make a trip. I hear its quite a drive though :)


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Good, and bad.

Evy didn't sleep too well last night, not sure why & I'm not going to over-analyze it like I always do. She's sleeping right now, her second nap today (she woke up at 9am but went back to sleep shortly after), which is working great because I'm finaly doing some cleaning around the house.

Shameful admission: I don't like to clean – and often times I just don't do it. I haven't mopped in about… five months, and I know this because I had some help cleaning the house the week Evy was born and that was the last time they were mopped. I haven't vacuumed in close to two months, but I'm going to blame that on the fact that our vacuum is broken and we have to borrow my sister's and it can only be for one night because she has to vacuum everyday what with having a toddler & infant herself. But I'm finally doing the mopping & I'm going to borrow the vacuum tonight hopefully to get that done.

What I wouldn't give for a cleaning service that I didn't feel guilty spending the money on…

On another "house" note, last Tuesday my Dad came over and helped me finally trim & shape the tree in the front yard. It looked really good once we were done and I was excited to enjoy the shade with the baby. Friday comes around and this guy that lives on our street – who I'm assuming did most of the handy man work around here for the homeowner – comes by and says he's going to trim the tree on request of the homeowner. I wasn't home, but Paul was and he said that it was because it had bees.

BEES. This pisses me off because I happen to like that fact that the tree flowered and bees were pollenating it and making other flowers and the circle of life was continuing as God intended. What worse is he BUTCHERED it. It looks terrible now and with the summer season ending it likely won't look as full until next spring. Out of all the things about the front yard that pisses me off, the tree wasn't even on there. The stupid – now fried & dead – flowers made for an east coast climate are still roting there but it's the beautiful tree be takes his pruning chainsaw to. I understand that trees need to be trimmed, but he went overboard.

Whatever. It's not my house I just happen to live here.

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