Slip-n-Sliding to the Chiropractor

Well, apparently my life is crazy during the school year, because I haven't posted since LAST JULY.   Hmm.   Laziness is abounding in many non-required areas in addition to blogging, such as dusting, car vacuuming, and book organizing.   As we speak, many books are organized in that they were pushed under the edge of my bed in the order I read them.  Soon, Matt will be able to lean over and pick a book that is peeking out from under his side, competing with his Cabela's catalogs.

Have no fear, because a new source of blog posts has come to light, as I found about 20 rolls of undeveloped camera film in the back of one of our junk drawers.   It would be admirable if I had found them from unprompted decluttering, but  I'm not that spontaneous, so they were actually a byproduct of a superfund cleanup of our kitchen in prep for renovation.  That's a post for another day...

At any rate, there were some real treasures in those rolls of film.  Most appear to be from late 2005/early 2006, including this charming vignette:

SETTING UP THE SLIP-N-SLIDE FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME

Yay!!  Fun with water!

Aunt Jenny and Daddy hook up the hose.

Ethan takes the first slide, and Meg goes next...

 NO!!!   I NOT YIKE DIS!!!!

Meghan is somewhat confused about how to go about this new activity.

Daddy decides to intervene assist. 

 Giving a little boost...

WHAABAM.

PULL BACK!! PULL BACK!!  TOO MUCH!!

Meg decides (miraculously!!) that This Is Fun.

It's a Slip-n-Slide Success Story!!

Do We Not Get Enough Snow As It Is?

 Seriously. 

It's exhausting being us.

Eloise at the Plaza

When Meg and I went to Lancaster a few weeks ago, I read the fine print and discovered that there was a 10 dollar breakfast that was included with our room charge. Excellent. Saturday evening, after the competition concluded, we found a breakfast menu in our room. It had instructions to make our selections and hang on the door by 2 a.m. Done! We happily made our selections and slung the menu on the door knob.

The next morning, we were awakened by a nice young man toting this tray of breakfast goodness. Yum! Good omelets, coffee and fresh fruit. We snuggled up and dug in.

Here is Meghan, unknowingly enjoying her first Room Service Breakfast, which was not, in fact, 10 dollars. Guess I didn't read the fine print closely enough.

More Zaniness

mOre ZaNy pIctures for yOur vIewing pLeaSure!

yOu'RE weLCome!!

#@)(%*$@ CORDS!

ok i might start CAPSLOCKING ALL OVER THE EFFING PLACE because I cannot get pictures from my camera to my computer, nor from my phone to my computer, NOR FROM MY COMPUTER TO THIS BLOG because of a sneaky hate spiral of cord mating in my junk drawer.

I took a picture of this greatest of suburban nature's spectacles, but you won't be able to share in my joy because a tiny but apparently omg important piece of metal fell out of my camera USB port, and because my phone has decided that I don't actually mean it when I attach pictures to an email. Conveniently, I have a cord that you can attach the smart stupid phone to the computer, which would be good, SINCE THERE ARE 574 PICTURES IN THERE THAT WOULD BE NICE TO SHARE WITH OTHERS.

However, the cord to the computer is lost, I can only assume, as I took all 900 cords OUT of the junk drawer, separated them from groping each other, labeled them and put them into separate Ziploc Bags, including one labeled ??? that has a phone cord to a phone I don't use, and two AC adapters for somethings that I will need them for as soon as I GladBag them. Please, PLEASE tell me I'm not the only one taunted by wires and plugs.

sincerely,

ME

P.S. :

here is a picture of the cords copulating, obtained only by uploading a single shot to facebook, downloading from there, and re-uploading to blogger. UGH.