Granddaughter Amber came to visit New Year's Eve and spent the night. She brought her Wii, in case anybody wanted to play with it. New Year's Day I fixed a double-batch of Pioneer Woman's chicken spaghetti, except I guess it was really turkey spaghetti, since I used the last of the holiday turkey from the freezer. It must have been OK, because there was only about one serving left when all was said and done. And I had that for supper. Now Cliff and I are going to make a genuine attempt to get back on track with our eating (no, that is NOT a New Year's resolution).
The Wii was tremendous fun; Cliff and his sister both got in on the action. I had a good time watching everybody else; I've humiliated myself enough in my life with sports to try anything like this in front of an audience. I'm pretty sure we're going to be buying a Wii of our own before long.
My favorite entertainment of the day was my great-granddaughter, Kameron. She just turned one and is very near walking, but she still enjoys sitting on a lap; I worked for years in the Church nursery, and I know most toddlers prefer to be on the floor getting into things. So it's a pleasure to have a little lap rat in the house. She's happy to come to me, but as soon as I get her, she starts reaching toward the kitchen, wanting me to carry her in there. She's figured out I am the person most likely to slip her a bite of squash bread or pie, or dole out handfuls of Cheerios, or feed her a banana.
Rachel, my daughter, was joining in the Wii fun while holding her granddaughter, and Kammie dozed off, unfazed by all the laughter in the room.
I may be the last person in the world to have found these sites, but I'll pass them along just in case somebody else hasn't discovered them. Deb, a blogger friend, mentioned them on Facebook; I think I may be using them quite a bit to watch full-length movies and TV episodes on your computer. Hulu and Fancast. There's another one, TVPC, which doesn't work unless you have Windows, which I don't. Check those out; they might save you some money spent on renting DVD's. I wish there were a way to watch them on TV. That wouldn't help Cliff, though; he has to have captions to enjoy any sort of programming.
But then I took this picture and the flash woke her up.
Isn't that the cutest case of bed-head you've ever seen? She'd had an hour-long lap-nap, so she was ready to entertain us again once she was fully awake.
I may be the last person in the world to have found these sites, but I'll pass them along just in case somebody else hasn't discovered them. Deb, a blogger friend, mentioned them on Facebook; I think I may be using them quite a bit to watch full-length movies and TV episodes on your computer. Hulu and Fancast. There's another one, TVPC, which doesn't work unless you have Windows, which I don't. Check those out; they might save you some money spent on renting DVD's. I wish there were a way to watch them on TV. That wouldn't help Cliff, though; he has to have captions to enjoy any sort of programming.
It's three below zero here with a wind chill of minus fifteen. Brrr.
