Happy Holidays

For those who aren't Alaskan or live under a glacier, yesterday was the first direct deposit for the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend. That's right folks, we get paid to live here! It's fabulous, fantastic, and is probably one of the greatest reasons to never move.

I consider yesterday a holiday. Just like Christmas, we wait in anticipation of the glorious gifts we receive and give. Like groceries, bills, and new winter coats. (can you tell where mine went?) So Merry PFD Day!

What I didn't get and wished I had was a sense of renewal. A recharging of spirit and freedom to shop. After being broke for so long I expected to feel relief and instead I was all freaked out to be spending money that looked so pretty in the bank account. Don't get me wrong, paying bills felt great! No more nasty notices, but spending almost $300 at Costco and over $300 at REI was not as enjoyable as I had hoped.

I'm a total whiner. I'm realizing as I write this that I am a spoiled whiny brat. You were probably all thinking that already. Great. I'm complaining that the State of Alaska just gave me 1106.96 times 3 to use as WE please. I'm pathetic.

At least that put me in a less grumpy state. Because besides that I have a really fun thing to deal with: BV. It's a TMI, so I won't expand. Just know that life is lacking in the fun department with you put sleep deprivation on top of that and you've eaten your favorite food and it's caused your child to fart for two days and projectile vomit.

I'm a big ball of sunshine this morning. Bask in my rays.

My Little Star

My boy has a famous rump!

Ramblings...

Not much of incredible interest has occurred lately, but I must keep my adoring fans updated now and again. I know how you all worship me.

Hubby returned to work full time yesterday. He still has a ton of leave left though so he's planning on taking some more time off over the next six months, which will be nice for so many reasons.

Reason #1 - I will have an in house Booger-sitter.
Reason #2 - I can go shopping by myself.
Reason #3 - I can go ANYWHERE by myself.
Reason #4 - I kind of like the guy.
Reason #5 - Midweek trips to Anchor Point will become a more frequent occurence.

Since O&O and his troop survived the trek to Anchorage there has been much planning and talk of future visits. Both to Anchor Point and to Anchorage. They're scheming - about what I can't share yet...but sometime in the future I hope to be selling their brilliant and talented scheme! (insert evil laugh here) It's also really nice to know a normal family that we click with and who has kids that Booger can get crazy with. Cause she definetely is crazy!

Right now Junior and Booger are asleep which means I'm not doing what they all tell me to do. Nap when they nap. Oops. I'm just so excited to pay bills and get some much needed family necessities with the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend. I may even do a little Christmas shopping...heh heh. Or me shopping (sshhhhh). Really just paying bills will make me so so happy.

We have a star in the family! I made Junior a diaper out of a tshirt of a local radio talk show host. So I put Junior in the diaper (before he outgrew it - which would have been 5 minutes later) and took a picture. Hubby emailed the picture to the host directly, who not only talked about it on his radio show, but said he's going to post the picture on his website. When it finally gets posted I will put a link up.

AND when I say that Junior is big, I really really mean it! He's more than doubled his weight in the first 6 weeks of life. He's a tank. It's incredible. I keep having people ask me if he's about 4 months old. LOL! He can't even hold his head up yet (just cause it's so darn FAT!).