Two Tuesdays ago, my (fairly) new laptop just stopped working and the folks over at the Apple store told me to basically kiss my hard drive goodbye. Even with the tenacious efforts of a techie friend (many thanks, Pete!), we were unable to restore all of my photos, videos, and documents. Luckily, I was able to piece together about half of those between this blog, Facebook, and Snapfish. Phew. So, the blog shall go on! I had to mourn for a while, though, it was a hard lesson to learn-- losing everything like that. I am now the proud owner of a 500 GB backup hard drive. As Lucy would say, "yay-hoo!"
It's been a while since I've blogged, and really not too much has happened. Thanksgiving came and went. We did the SOME Trot for Hunger again this year, and our friends the Bailey's joined us.
Ready to run!
Trotting away.
Lucy also got to meet some of her cousins (2nd cousins? 3rd cousins?) at an early Thanksgiving over at "Aunt Bunny's" house. She had a great time swinging with Kayla and Evelyn and playing legos and hide and seek in the basement with the Jill and the Jimmies. (That totally sounds like a band.)
Lucy and Kayla swinging
Lucy bending Evelyn's ear about something. Probably ballet.
Oh, yes... ballet. Sometime back in November I FINALLY signed Lucy up for a ballet class. But it starts in January. After explaining to her several (read: hundreds) of times that her ballet class will start AFTER Christmas, she has taken to sharing that information with everyone who will stand still long enough: friends, family, teachers, the checkout lady at Giant, and now 2nd cousins. Her obsession with tutus, ballerinas, and dancing has been going strong for over a year now (example below).
And if I don't get her into a ballet class soon, she might seriously flip out. Which might look like this:
Extreme duck-riding. Lol.
We have also been getting ready for Christmas-- we actually put up outdoor lights this year! I've always wanted to do that since I was a kid, and I felt particularly Griswald-ish while tacking them to the porch railing. And although we haven't gotten a big tree yet, we did drag out the little tree and do a little indoor decorating as well.
Merry Kwanzmasannukah!
1 comments:
I, for one, am *very* glad that this is NOT your last blog. Unfortunately, I can share your angst & heartbreak with a dead hard drive~ all my photos from Maine (friends & the great outdoors, etc) are lost as well on an old laptop with a dead hard drive. Very sad. If there aren't prints, they're gone...
I keep all my "stuff" backed up on Shutterfly~ it's easy since I make my photo books on their site. Serious piece of mind. Yay-hoo for back-up drives!! :o)
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