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Randoms:

Merry Christmas everyone.  Don’t take it personally … I didn’t send a single Christmas card this year.  Not a one.  Not because I took a moral stance on the environment.  Or the envelope glue.  Or the sometimes nauseating sweetness of the Christmas sentiment.  Or the heinous price of cards … definitely can’t use that excuse since over the past 5 years I have bought heinously expensive cards at a January 10th heinously reduced sale.  Nope, not because of that.  And not because I’m lazy either.  But just because.  Because I was doing other things and it never ended up making it to the top of the list.  And this year, I decided that was oh-kay.

 As you can see, we are looking older and more matt-ooh-er.

2009 was full of awesomeness.  I got robbed and got to buy scads of new things.  I fell in love with Mr. Mac (the apple kind … not the human kind) … although I did have some super fun dates.  I got an up close seat to watch a good friend and boss retire … he even left me in charge for a bit.  S-C-A-R-Y fun.  Z’s super human powers continued to develop.  He reads at blazing speed and devours pages like they are laced in chocolate, peanut butter, and lucky charms all at the same time.  He runs super fast and is now a super-scoring hockey machine.  He also has the super human ability to outgrow clothes faster than I can replace them, and has learned the magic of wink-wink-nudge-nudge so effectively that I’ve been conned into letting him do fewer chores for more allowance.  Clearly he’s winning.  And that’s oh-kay.  Last spring we took a wee trip to Australia, which means every trip hereafter will be deemed the super-lame-not-Australia-why-are-you-wasting-my-time-Mom.  I started law school full-time after three years part-time.  I was a major, now I’m a captain.  Woe is me.  I won an award.  And then I won another award.  Both for being a super creative law student.  Yay me.  Z won an award for embodying the virtue of justice.  Yay Z.  His two front chicklits pushed together (that’s the mandatory teeth comment).  

Let’s hope 2010 brings grand adventures.

On ice …

On another note … Mmmmm.  Foxtrot fish cakes are yummy.  One can of tuna, half an avocado, about two-inches of cucumber all chopped up, four turns of the coarse salt, same for pepper, an egg, and just the right amount of breadcrumbs … maybe a cup?, some hot olive oil and some homemade salsa.  Five minutes prep.  Five minutes of frying.  1 minute of eating.  

Yum.

Never forget … you are as unique as this.

Yup.

You are …

as unique.