Here's the pattern lately: I start to write a post, I get all the way done, I reread it, think it's crappy and boring, and don't publish it. Rinse. Repeat.

I don't want to be one of those people that pops on to blog about not blogging, but I'm not quite ready to call the blogging quits yet, just in case Santa brings me some blogging mojo for Christmas.

However, since I haven't blogged in a while I have a few things to report.

First I turned 30 on Monday. That's right I've seen 3 decades people. Three decades of bad fashion choices to look back on, life-changing events, and possibly most importantly - television. From Sesame Street to Project Runway, you've been there for me television. You are my rock.

Baby Lug is crawling. That means makeshift barriers have gone up in front of our television, and he is now Captain Destructo - out to injure himself in creative ways!

Mr. Lug and I have recently become addicted to crossword puzzles. This may have to do with us seeing the documentary Wordplay. WIll Shortz, you're my hero.

Mr. Lug has a new job that somehow has enabled us to get discount cable (you figure it out). So we have watched crappy movie after crappy movie on the premium channels (and some good ones too). Bad movies that are so bad they're good: Police Academy 1, Sixteen Candles, Uncle Buck...Bad movies that were just bad: Down to You, She's the Man, Little Man. Actually decent movies: The Family Stone; You, Me, and Dupree; Something New.

I have been knitting, but progress is slow. Soon, I may finish a project that I started over a year ago.

I started to do the couch-to-5K program. So far, I did day one. That was on Sunday. If I'm lucky I'll get to run again before next Sunday. I totally suck at running. I may have rolled my ankle within the first 2 minutes of my first day. I kept going. Eye of the tiger! I was that kid in gym class who would be last during the presidential fitness run. F you presidential fitness. I alway hated you! Ahem, anyway...

For the past few years instead of exchanging gifts with our friends we give to a charity instead around the holidays. Every year it seems like someone else decides to do the same thing in our group. I think it's great and encourage you to do the same with your friends. Here's the benefits: you help people - which is duh, like the whole point to the Charlie Brown Christmas cartoon - which I use as my moral compass. Secondly, you don't have to figure out what the heck to get your friend who has everything they could possibly ever want (do they really need another bottle of liquor? Don't they already have that Rabbit wine bottle opener? Oh I think they already have that DVD box set...)

Project Runway is on. I have to go. Here's a picture of the Lug family on Thanksgiving...

Posted by jen at 09:57 PM |Comments (1)

One Stitch Short Sarah tagged me for this sometime last month!

Rules:
Once tagged, you must link to the person who tagged you. Then post the rules before your list, and list 8 random things about yourself. At the end of the post, you must tag and link to 8 other people, visit their sites, and leave a comment letting them know they've been tagged.

Here goes!
1. I am on a "diet" to try to fit back in my pre-pregnancy sweaters so I don't have to buy a whole new winter wardrobe.

2. I have been on weight watchers two or three times in my life. Yay Points System.

3. I waver between wanting to take down this blog and wanting to post all the time so people read it more.

4. Every night I usually have a short burst of energy before I go to bed and spend 15 minutes to half an hour doing something completely random like folding laundry, balancing the checkbook, doing dishes, etc.

5. I'm a morning person

6. I was in plays and musicals in high school and two plays in college. I considered being a theater major.

7. I think I have what would be the opposite of claustrophobia. I sometimes like very tight spaces. I used to squeeze into my linen closet as a little kid and hide. And I like the feeling of getting in a hot car on a hot day when I've been in the air conditioning all day.

8. I can't make pie crust from scratch to save my life.

I only tag one person - since I've seen this make the rounds. And that's JT. Sucker! HAHA!

Posted by jen at 01:25 PM |Comments (3)

I was going to write about how I have nothing to write about, can't blog because I'm too busy, blah blah blah. But instead I thought I'd write a little belated list about random Halloween facts.

• Baby Lug was a gorilla for Halloween. He wore the costume for exactly 5 minutes. If I had known that he'd hate wearing a costume so much I would've put him in the free costume we got from our next-door neighbor.
• When I was in elementary school my mom dressed up like a little kid for Halloween and I dressed up like a business lady. I wore one of her suits and high heels and carried a briefcase. I wear suits to work sometimes and I still feel like I'm playing dress up, and I don't get any candy for it!
• A few years ago Mr. Lug dressed up like an alien with a human coming out of it's stomach. Get it? Yeah, neither did anyone else! It was too clever for our own good.
• My favorite Halloween candy this year was Milky Way Bars. (Note that I am now on a diet.)
• Do you remember the razorblade-candy scare in the 80's? It gave me a terrible fear of unwrapped candy, and anything that didn't look store-bought. Home-made popcorn ball? No thank you.
• Both Mr. Lug and I had cafeteria workers on our trick-or-treat route that gave out cartons of chocolate milk instead of candy (obviously five-finger discounted from the school caf.)
• I think the main reason I love Halloween is because it leads to Thanksgiving - which is my real favorite holiday and will probably be the next time I post!

Posted by jen at 08:24 PM |Comments (9)