Seven Quick Takes

1.  I'm making a statement.  It's more like an ant stamping its feet than anything else, but it's my statement and I'm already growing fond of it.  I'm taking a break of undefined length from posting my blog updates on Facebook.  Why?  Good question.  It's probably a fairly dumb idea because according to Blogger a lot of my traffic comes from click-overs, but occasionally I will write a post that I really enjoyed putting together, (like the one previous to this) and then I don't post it on Facebook, just to see.  And the 'ratings' are always abysmal.  Which makes me sad, because it's pretty clear that people don't habitually check my blog, or necessarily enjoy reading it, unless it's shoved in their faces by the 'book.

So.  If you like, you may read me over here, where I will happily keep writing away.  If the feeling of needing a reminder is there for you (and I've got a Google reader too, my friends, I know its cosmic allure) then I will do my utmost to figure out how to get a 'follow' button up on the old blog so you can keep in touch.  Otherwise, it will be up to you.  And I understand if that's a lot of effort and I don't see you around much anymore.  That's okay, too.  I'll still smile at you in the grocery store and everything.

2.  Early spring sunset.  I wish they made deoderant that smelled like that.  The other day in the bathroom David commented that someone smelled like a glacier.

3.  Okay, I didn't see it at first, but now that Clara is almost a year old (next month!  eek!) I think she and Samuel do sort of look a bit like each other.  See?



Samuel on his first birthday.

Clara in December.  Granted, terribly unflattering photo, but cute all the same.



Do you see it?  Is it just me?

4.  Our phone(s) have been dying slowly over the past several months.  First the one upstairs started to have battery issues.  It wouldn't stay charged for more than a few hours, tops, which made my hours-long conversations to my friend Amanda, in which I would complain about life, next to impossible.  And I need to complain about life.  Then there were hiccups with the downstairs cordless phone, which I ignored because I didn't want to deal with it.  At which point our answering machine bit the dust.  Hey, who cares, my phone comes with call display; whatever you had to say to my answering machine you can say to me.  Except that NOW the downstairs phone is really dying.  And I have had to break out the old fashioned corded phone, which used to have a call display screen but it died and I can't get it to work.  So essentially answering the phone in this house consists of running into the hallway to see who is calling on the cordless, which you can't answer because it will die, and then running back into the livingroom to pick up the corded phone.

I could buy a new phone, but I'm cheap.

5.  Are you reading what I'm reading?

6.  I'm spring cleaning with a vengeance over here.  You should see my basement.  On the other hand, why don't you just wait until I'm done down there and then come on over?  I found a box I had packed when we moved from Toronto, for heaven's sake, which was almost four years ago.  It was filled with china and weird knick knacky things and fossilized candles.  And of course any trip to the basement isn't complete without the internal monologue..."what if I need this someday and I have to buy another one?"  To which I reply "Self.  Seriously?"

7.  We made sugar cookies yesterday with a friend and I learned something amazing that I'm sure everyone but me knows, but here you go.  If you mix granulated sugar with a bit of food colouring it makes coloured sugar.  I would have thought it would dissolve or something.

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