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Awake.

Bored.

Grrrr.

Jilli! How are you?

Unemployed, but busy with the holidays and trying to keep Pete from going crazy on his current deadline. I'm going to try and be around here more often again, because I miss you people.

Wally Report! I plan to invite TM!Girl over for dinner on Sunday night. After all, I've seen her apartment, it's only fair that she sees mine. Apartment. That is. But she has no email! Fortunate, then, that she gave me phone numbers.

Off to clean stuff. But not too much stuff. I don't want her to feel out of place.

I have a mom question for the hivemind: While we were in Germany, Mal started doing this headshake thing, like he was trying to shake his bangs out of his eyes. We thought it might be an inner-ear reaction to the altitude, but he's kept it up. Now he does it voluntarily: when we shake our heads at him, he shakes his back. So we're pretty sure it's mimicking, but it's still odd. Should I mention it at his checkup? Has anyone else seen their kid do this?

He's at the right age for this extreme form of what's technically called Gooberism to be exhibiting itself. There is no cure, nor is there any treatment. Ben used to get down on all fours like he was going to crawl, and instead, he would shake his head back and forth, back and forth, back and forth...etc. I was sure it was a manifestation of some horrible, horrible problem. Apparently, Gooberism isn't seen as a problem. Who knew?

Seriously, it sounds completely normal, and I wouldn't worry about it for one second, but I would mention it, and anything that seems unusual to you at his check-up, because that's what check-ups are for. I also recommend you take a video of it, and save it for prom night, and mock him for being a huge Goober!Baby. I'm giving fifty-to-one odds the pediatrician tells you he's at an age where children do all these little rhythmic things, pretty much because they can.

Evidentally, I am six. I just went to Amazon and looked at what had been purchased from my wish list.

I did this too. Apparently this is the adult version of unwrapping and rewrapping gifts under the tree.

It's great being the auntie who can buy all the noisy toys and not have to hear them being played with all day every day.

sj, I took a very different approach to toy-buying for the young nephews: Remembering that anything I gave my sister's kids, might one day come back to mine as hand-me-downs, so I bought conservatively, and occationally asked her approval on items. Of course, right in the middle of me explaning to them that the pogo stick was meant to be used only in the basement or outside, sis was using the damn thing in the kitchen.

I slept for almost 12 hours and am still exhausted. I hate this being stressed stuff.

I killed it! Come back! Come back!

Hey vw, I'm here for a hot second.

Y'all make me wanna check my Amazon wishlist, except I've got next to nothing on it, if I recall, and I haven't shared it with my family, so.....would be pointless. Though, now I'm curious about what I do have on my list...hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.