My daughter the drama queen

This morning, Chris took Ryan and Kaitlyn with him to our friends Stacy and Ross’ house for a day of Magic: The Gathering and other card games. It’s been snowing for four days, with some melting in between, so our driveway has a few slippery spots that are hard to see since they are covered up with a dusting of new snow.

The three of them are headed to our van when Ryan slips on an icy patch and falls (he’s okay), bumping into Kaitlyn and knocking her down (she’s okay too). She gets up and starts doing this fake sniffling cry, from the way Chris told it, she was just trying to elicit some sympathy.

So Chris reminds her that when the three of them (Ryan, Nathan and Kaitlyn) rough-house, which they do practically every day, she gets knocked down much harder than that (which is true, that little girl has taken some lumps in her day playing with her brothers). And Kaitlyn sniffs, and says:

“They really don’t pay much attention to me at all.”

what what WHAT??? That little faker! If those boys paid any more attention to her than they already do, they would BECOME HER. She is such a drama queen!

Don’t let her petite size and sweet face fool you, this little girl is TOUGH.

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Subway-Putting the “Christ” in Xmas

Subway Employee #1- “I need to put up the sign with our hours for Christmas Day.”

Subway Employee #2-”Are you going to spell it ‘Christmas’, or ‘Xmas’?

Subway Employee #1-”Um…both?”

Awesome.

seen outside Subway at Waverly and West Saginaw in Lansing

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And Now, A Word From My Computer

Elizabeth recently gave herself a four year evaluation, and as her near-constant companion, I thought I’d add my thoughts on her progress. When Elizabeth started blogging, she was familiar with the Internet but knew nothing about code, like most beginning bloggers. She used the Blogspot publishing platform to create her blog posts, but I’ll let you in on a secret- it took her MONTHS to figure out how to put links in her posts. The day she finally understand how to make an image link to a DIFFERENT LOCATION made her feel like she’d conquered the world.

As she continued to improve and moved to a self-hosted blog, Elizabeth also learned how to take better care of her computer. I’m not her first laptop, but I am definitely reaping the benefits of her experience. See, Elizabeth likes to click links. And sometimes those links are for junky sites that take up a ton of space and slow down my overall processing speed. Over the years, those of us who have sat on Elizabeth’s lap have had to be rebuilt more than once due to excessive junk clogging us up. But, she’s learning.

Now, Elizabeth’s husband, who is the resident “computer guy”, he likes a certain brand of computer that rhymes with “Fell”. I myself am a “Fell” laptop and I’ll happily assist Elizabeth in the creation of her blogs and everything else she does online for as long as she needs me. This particular blog post, however, is sponsored by HP, who I’m sure also makes fine computers and laptops.

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