grateful for board games

There's something to be said about blogging. It's definitely a wonderful tool to reach family near and far. Sometimes it can involve too much information, and to that I say time to get a life. But mostly, it requires too much time, and I need every minute I can get. However, blogging can also be a useful tool to keep you company when your spouse is off playing games (risk, monopoly, cards, games he refused to play with me when we were dating). So yes, because of board games, here I am, undeleting my blog in hopes to feel better about myself.

I got a new camera for my birthday and actually took some pictures. no more camera phone for me.

By some miracle, I had last weekend off of work. So I attempted to sew a few items for our living room. In two days I completed the ottoman cover and started couch pillows, but Jonas got a hold of those and ripped them open so I'll have to re-do those. For my birthday, I worked in the morning, went to lab, ate lunch by myself at 5th street bagelry, resisted the urge to nap for four hours, went to Winger's with Tay and finished the night off with a trip to the grocery store. Then the next day Tay's family had us over for chicken carbonara. MMM.

The family is well. My dad's job moved him back home, so now he doesn't have to juggle Boise and Pocatello. Jenna is singing and dancing in "White Christmas" so that's fun. My mom's busy doing stuff. Richard just got called to serve as an AP for his mission president. I thought him being home in 4 mos was great, but this is awesome. Everyone else is keeping busy and so far, knock on wood, has maintained superhuman status by not contracting the swine flu.

I can't explain the sudden haitus from blogging. I probably came across someone's post with 50 pics of their kid's being forced to model all seriously with a gerbera daisy bigger than their head on their head. Excessive accessories make me vomit or delete my blog. So that explains that.