Happy Belated New Year

I've been mulling over how to begin the brand-spanking New Year on the blog & wanted to do something grand for the first day of January. I had lofty ambitions of making inspiring New Year's Resolutions & promising to blog something totally hysterical everyday.

However, in light of a big move hanging over my head, I decided to keep it real (publish when I'm properly inspired) & stick to the Bitch Blogging.

At least for the next few days until the boxes are crated & we are living in the hotel apartment.

This post should serve as the Great Equalizer & make you feel really good about how you spent the first day of 2009. If we accomplished nothing else, I'm sure we are making many of you feel glamorous by comparison.

Yesterday, while I was not blogging, MiniMe demanded that I drag out my camera & take this staged shot of her. She told me that what she was doing needed to go on my blog & don't worry, Mom, I'll even tell you what to say. Great idea! I've been so scatterbrained lately that someone coming up with blog ideas, complete with pictures & words, might help me keep things moving right along & my readers happy.

Stay tuned, folks, with that kind of enthusiasm, it won't be long until MiniMe will be taking BlogSpot by storm.

Yes, my friends, in the picture below she is drawing on packing paper - leftover from the last move that was, oh, not quite 12 months ago. And, she did manage to sorta kinda get dressed. Black velour skirt, pink PJ top & a tiara. That counts as dressed, right?

I spent an incredible amount of time in the kitchen trying to diminish the massive food supply around here. I made wheat bread, banana pancakes, apple oatmeal muffins & cherry-amaretto oatmeal cookies & used up the rest of the flour, brown sugar, oatmeal, cherries & made a decent dent in a mostly full jar of wheat germ.

See? I have no shame. I'm wearing no make-up, ratty clothes & this is my PCStressed smile. Not pretty, but it works well for the Bitch Blogging. And, don't you feel like a Movie Star by comparison?

You're very Welcome. That's what I'm here for.

Man spent the majority of his day on the couch recovering from a silly little cold the ManFlu. He's also taking the ratty clothes & no make-up thing quite seriously.


Last, but certainly not least, Laze-E is also going sans make-up, but she had the nerve to one-up me & is wearing her nicest pair of Consignment Shop jeans. I decided to let her have computer privileges back after 3 weeks of restriction.

Don't ask. You know she did something stupid, got caught and needed a time-out to think about the errors of her ways.

No, I can't remember exactly what she did, but I sure hope she learned her lesson.

Whatever it was.

Maybe, just maybe, she even made a lofty & inspiring New Year's Resolution promising to never do it again.