I don’t usually do year-end re-cap posts (although I read all of yours) but Britt’s idea (posting the first sentences of the first post of each month) was too neat to skip. We’ll see how it goes and maybe it will be a tradition.
Most of you know that I switched over from Vox in November. Before that I had a Blogspot address, and I had transferred everything from there to Vox in January. The Vox blog is DTM which should make this re-cap a little more interesting.
January 2007
We’re home, after a wonderful week with my parents…sharing a bedroom with Sherman (I don’t know how you co-sleepers do it…), wearing sunscreen and tank tops, riding bikes and drinking coconut rum punch, a possible infant sinus infection, a much-anticipated announcement, a new upper bicuspid, and ringing in the new year with my new son and terrific friends (including a wonderful midnight surprise).
The obligatory Key West recap post. Funny how I still considered Sherman to be “new” at 8 months. “Baby’s First Christmas” and all that, I suppose. Dr. P and her husband had spent New Years in Key West with us.
February 2007
Sherman’s new shoes came in with free overnight shipping right on schedule! Aren’t they adorable??
My first try of www.endless.com.
March 2007
1. We got my mom an engraved iPod nano for her 50th birthday (which we are going to Florida for next week). It came in yesterday and I am so jealous that once again my mom is cooler than me.
Beginning of a list of random things. The first time my mom was cooler than me was when she got a RAZR phone (which she subsequently dropped in the pool while we were visiting at New Years). Other things on the list: Sherman can feed himself cheerios; my joy in changing the calendar to a new month; we got an excellent tax refund; we bought a laptop; we ate at California Tortilla for the first time; my father-in-law was back in the hospital after his Valentine’s Day liver transplant.
April 2007
Monday night: the stomach bug that’s going around…I won’t give you any details
Tuesday morning Train starts it.
Tuesday spent lying on the floor while Sherman crawled around us in between bathroom trips.
That was the first time I had been sick since Sherman was born, and just our luck that Train and I both came down with it. I begged my parents to move their flight up by a day to rescue us, and they arrived around dinner time. I think it took me three days to get back to work.
May 2007
Sorry it’s been so long BLAH BLAH EXCUSES EXCUSES. Work is busy and when I do have time to update in the evenings I am overwhelmed by how long it’s been. However, I have caught up on a 5 week backlog of Tivo and I am inordinately pleased with myself.
This wasn’t posted until May 12! At this point I had started a special project at work that lasted through the summer.
June 2007
I had a nice trip to Denver but it was very fast. I had envisioned doing some work at the hotel before dinner, then getting back and settling in the nice comfy king-size bed with a DVD of The Office Season 1. Of course, I got picked up for dinner at 3:30 Denver time so we could go hang out and have a drink and make small talk (my boss’ boss’ boss was also out from DC and we had the same flight from Chicago) and didn’t get home from dinner until 9pm (11pm East Coast time).
Work travel. My presentation went well, and Denver was gorgeous. I flew out Monday around lunch time and returned home bedtime Tuesday.
July 2007
Dear Discover, I CANNOT TAKE IT ANYMORE.
A long rant about how Discover had screwed me out of $125 in rewards by not telling me about their Open Road card in a timely manner. Home Depot did it to us too. Then I find out if I have two Discover cards, I have to have two separate Discovercard.com accounts. Asinine! Then I discover (ha) that they have an ADDITIONAL “Get More” rewards program that you have to sign up for each quarter! WTF!!!! (Wow it still makes me mad just re-reading this)
August 2007
I think there is nothing more annoying than having to repeat myself. I don’t mean say the same thing over and over to someone who hears me but just doesn’t take the action I’ve requested, although that is pretty irritating. I mean just in normal conversation or interaction, saying something (which knowing me is probably incredibly witty) and having the person say “huh?” or “what?”
This irks the shit out of me. I admit that I am a mumbler, but I’m trying, and when someone has LIVED WITH ME FOR FIVE YEARS you would think he would try to OPEN HIS EARS. (My mom has terrible hearing and I say everything to her at least 3 times.)
September 2007
My parents got here Thursday afternoon and we spent this weekend working on the first 2 things on the to-do list I created for them: (1) organizing the basement and (2) organizing the shed.
We did a lot of work that weekend and our basement still looks amazing! HGTV has nothing on Mom and I.
October 2007
Well, yesterday was Sherman’s first day as the only kid at day care and Alice said they had a great time. He took a good nap and they had lots of fun.
All of the other children either moved, went to preschool, or were taken out because his mommy had a hissy fit when Alice’s mother was dying in New Jersey. Later that month Alice agreed to take Sherman to a toddler tumbling class across the street, and they did that for about 8 weeks. He is still the only child at day care, although Alice’s daughter is pregnant and due any day, and one of the kids who went to preschool has a new baby sister that might stay with Alice.
November 2007
I have something terrible, sexist, and potentially inflaming to say. Don’t judge me. I have to be honest.
I think single girls that are waaaaay into professional sports teams are just trying to fit in with the guys.
There, I said it. I’m not even going to qualify it, because I know it’s so wrong. But I’m definitely not talking about you.
This was brought on by one of Train’s female co-workers, who came over to watch football most Sundays this fall, and gets seriously way too personally involved in the game. She’s a nice girl though.
December 2007
For those of us born just before and during the early 80s, there’s no question of the significance of Dirty Dancing. While it was originally released in 1987 (when I was in 1st grade), I remember watching it endlessly on video with my friends in 3rd or 4th grade.
Asking for your favorite quotes from Dirty Dancing after discovering a certain someone had (unashamedly) never seen this classic.
