I'm an aunt!!

My step-sister just gave birth a few moments ago to my nephew. Happy and healthy all around. I don’t have the actual measurements or any pictures but wanted to share. A great way to end the year. Here's to 2010!!

Just got an update from Nick and, not to be completely sexist, I discovered why it's best to get updates from women. Or maybe people (gender neutral) who have more attention to detail then Nick on this matter. He did give me the fact that my little nephew weighed in at 8 lbs. 14 oz. which is pretty good size for a good old fashioned birth. But beyond that, not much more. Here's a little bit of our conversation (slightly edited because I don't have a photographic memory):

Nick: I've got more information.

Me: Wonderful!

Nick: He weighed in at 8 lbs. 14 oz. Don't know the length though.

Me: Wow, that's big! Did you get to visit yet?

Nick: Yeah, he's doing well.

Me: That's good to hear. Does he have a full head of hair? What color?

Nick: Umm, well, I don't know. I don't remember.

Me: How's Karin doing?

Nick: She's doing well. Although tired.

Me: What did they end up with for the final name? (there was some question of the middle name before).

Nick: xxxx (first name).

Me: I know that, what's his full name.

Nick: Oh. I don't know.




Of course, all this can be discovered later. The important thing is that they are happy and healthy. Nothing to be concerned with. And that I still enjoy to rag on my little bro.

I was in the middle of writing this below, but it pales in comparison to this news.



Ok, so this is my last post for the year (if I go according to plan). Tonight I’m heading home via the supermarket (almost forgot about that, good thing I wrote it down, now I’m more likely to get off at the right bus stop) and making a chocolate cheesecake for the new years eve party tomorrow night. I’m excited as it’s going to be a low key event with close friends, dinner party style. It looks like a good mix of great friends (who are childless at this time). Half of them are musicians which I’m excited about too. More to report on that in the new year.



So, I was going to wait until tomorrow, new years eve, for the last post of the year. No particular reason why, other than I already posted today. Two posts in one day – unheard of on this blog! But at lunch I was adding to my “list”. I did away with lists a few years back because… well because they just overwhelmed me. Which defeats the purpose. If it was important enough I’d remember. I had enough lists at work to manage. I didn’t need to have more in my own life reminding me to do laundry and the such. Well, there are those things that I remember and do because they need doing, like laundry. And then I have the mental list of things that would be good for me to do. Like collect all my old pictures together and get them into photo albums. Or repair sweaters. Or scrub down the fridge. Or hang more paintings on some of my naked walls.



Well, for some reason, I have it in my head that I’ll have a good chunk of time to get all these non-important things done. It’s really just three days. Just a long weekend. I realize as I write this that it’s because, although I’ve been getting a week off for Thanksgiving and a week off for Christmas, I had no “me” time. This is the first time for a long time that I actually have a weekend all to myself – no plans. Absolutely no plans. Granted I should spend half of the time watching Lost, but honestly, I’m off TV lately. It’s really strange as I didn’t think this would ever happen to me. I love TV. That’s why I didn’t ever have cable until this year. If I only knew that having cable would cure me. Although I don’t think that’s why I’m over TV. Not sure of the source yet. Although I’m considering canceling my cable in the new year. I find that most of what I want to watch I can see on Netflix and Hulu. Why pay more? Once I find that cable that connects the laptop to the TV, I think I’ll give the cable company a call.



Again, I’ve gone off topic. Lists. The list for this weekend. All good stuff. It’ll be nice to get a few of the items off the list. I was just adding to it at lunch and reading over what I had put down while commuting earlier in the week. And there it is “Buy lamp shades”. What does that mean?!? I don’t have any lamps that need lamp shades. Right? In my head, I’ve been going through my whole apartment trying to think, is there some naked lamp that I don’t know about. But no, I’m 99.9999999% sure there are none in my place. So what do I mean? Do I mean lamps? But why put shades in the mix. Maybe I meant to write something else like window shades. Which I kind of do need and am adding to the list right now. But am pretty sure I hadn’t thought about until now so that couldn’t be it. It even has an asterisk next to it. (Note: I didn’t realize it was spelled “asterisk”. I’ve been saying “asterick” this whole time. I’ve been dropping the “s” - opps).



I’m thinking, “what the ^&*#?”. Isn’t this typical. You take notes and then can’t decipher your notes which then is almost worse that just loosing track of what you were taking notes on to try to remember. Here’s to 2010 and being able to decipher cryptic messages.



Added later: And here's to hunting for a picture of a lampshade and realizing, this is what I meant. I do have some naked bulbs hanging from my ceiling. I've grown so accustom to them though I forgot. Plus I don't think of them as lamps. I should have written "bulb shades."