small kimonos

Still feel as if my head has been stuffed with hot cotton and kicked around a couple times. Opting out of UT practice tonight to try to get over my bug.

Jeff and I went to my Dad's yesterday evening. Jeff went to help my dad set up his new digital camera; I went along for the company, but ended up spending most of my time lying on my Dad's couch and surfing his zillion channels, struggling to stay awake. I did manage to rouse myself enough to go snooping through the photo albums stashed in my old bedroom upstairs. One of my projects this year is to start taking some of the old family photo albums, digitize some of the pictures (see above photo), and burn them onto CDs so they'll last longer. I'll be posting them in my Blatherings from time to time.

I hate the kind of colds that sap just enough energy so you don't feel like doing anything, but don't knock you out enough so that you can't spend the day in bed without feeling guilty.

As a result, I did manage to get a fair amount of work done over the past couple days, including organizing and filing my shoebox of receipts from last year, setting up a budget in Quicken for this year (now the challenge is to keep it updated!), wrote 1000 words for my novel so far today.

I've also officially taken over as Market Watch columnist at WritersMarket.com as of yesterday. I love being paid to surf. :-)

Blatherpics:

- My sister Ruth and me in front of our house on O'Connor Drive. I'm four, she's two. I think Ruth looks adorable in this photo, and I also find the resemblance between her and her daughters at this age is remarkable.

Today's Poll:

Do you own a CD burner?

recovering

It's been a crazy-busy holiday season, but isn't it always?

One thing for sure, however...I enjoyed this year's Christmas holiday SO MUCH MORE than last year's. Last year was fun, but underlying everything was the knowledge that I'd have to be flying back to Philadelphia, away from family and friends again.

I'm glad I'm home for good. :-)

happy new year!

Ugh, sicker today. Ended up watching the 2002 countdown on television in my pajamas at home. Jeff and Parki kept me company, and I crashed soon after.

More later, if I feel more coherent.

Links:

2001 timeline: by Google. Interesting perspective how the most popular search terms changed, depending on what was happening in the world.

Blatherpics:

- Our friend Alison (whom we visited in Tokyo), at Parki's party last week. Her baby is due next month.

Today's Poll:

Were you awake at midnight last night?