Rusharound

(This one was courtesy my classmates at school.)

This, brought to us by the ever-reputable Onion News:

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

You know that little pang of frustration you get when you come home from the grocery store and learn that you forgot to put something on your list or that someone else in your household needed something that you didn’t know about?

It happens to us a lot, but I think that’s about to change.  A new friend of mine has created something that I’ve wanted to create (or at least have) for a long time – a very simple, but omni-present grocery list.  Good news – it exists.  It’s free.  And it’s pretty near perfect.

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Another day, another celebrity look-alike.  This one comes from Mr. William Sawin (age 4.5), as relayed by his mother:

We turned the TV on the other day and Will says, “Look! That  guy looks like Rush!”

To see what Will was watching, click the link below:

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Happy (Nearly) New Year!  It’s an hour and a half before the Year of the Baby and Sarah and I are enjoying it quietly, here together.  Of course, you’d know this already if you were a Twitter-er.

I’m a late adopter to Twitter.  To be honest, I don’t really know why I’m trying it.  But I will say that I was rewarded for my experimentation today when this email arrived in my inbox:

Happy New Year!  – R & S

In the last three days, the house has seen new rugs, cute little baskets to hold all of Hambletiny’s stuff, a dusting of all the baseboards,  a  re-configured home office area  — I’ve even reorganized my iPhone app directories!

The books tell me Sarah should get her nesting groove on very soon.

Two additional  non-sequiturs (before I scrub the floors under the desk):

1. Pre-apology to our neighbors:  We’ve heard from personal experience that the walls are kind of thin, so we are sorry that we’ll inevitably be sharing some of our parenting experience with you.  If you knew some of the sounds we’ve heard at odd hours of the night and day, you’d appreciate the sweet irony of keeping one particular neighbor up with baby’s cries.

2. Does anyone have any hints on how I can shred 2 boxes’ worth of old documents?  (Think old tax records and phone bills.)  We have a consumer grade shredder here that would take about 8 hours to do the job.  Any ideas?

I’m not a big movie-goer.  I never was.  So maybe that’s why it wasn’t until 2008 that I saw the holiday classic, A Christmas Story for the first time.

The central character looked  familiar.   What do you think?

Me, Circa 1983	Ralphie, Circa 1983

I admit, I’ve been sort of a delinquent poster recently. There’s been lots of rushingaround, but very little of it blogworthy.

That’s why I hoped to get you all jazzed up with that last bacon post. (Zero comments!).

Maybe this photo of Sarah at 37 weeks will draw out a reply or two? (Yes, I know I am kind of begging now.)

(Sarah at 37 weeks. Due date: Jan 14th)