Oh I have so many things to be thankful for this year! I was walking out to check the mail, with baby girl in tow when a passing neighbor said as she ran by "Looks like you have a lot to be thankful for". That was all she said, and she kept on running. It's funny the random things people say to you in passing. Honestly life has been such a world wind or rather so very focused on this very finite thing I hadn't yet stepped back to look and realize, I do have a lot to be thankful for. It was just another holiday going to pass me by, all I had been thinking about was how my husband was going to attempt to cook his first turkey, and do we have all the supplies we need because stores are CLOSED on thursday. Baster, check, canned yams, check, meat thermometer, check, turkey, check.

I was so excited this week, I did the OS update on my mac, one of those monthly type thins that sometimes shows up in my updates window. It added two very cool features. Spell check, in EVERYTHING. Just the other day in some passing blog/flickr comments Marnie mentioned to me how Firefox had the spellcheck plugin and I was thinking, wow yeah I need that. Just like magic the next day my OS gets an update that puts spellcheck into any form field, regardless of the application! No plugin needed, WAHOO! They also updated the page search/find functionality and it's very "pretty" and makes it super easy to find the item on the page your search for. I often ctrl-f when I want to find a word on a long page of content. So wow, hopefully now my blog posts will have less spelling errors, the ones it can find anyway hah.

Tonight is like a Friday night. The husbeast is working from home tomorrow, and then has the next two days off after that. I am so excited for a long weekend with him, it means I can convince him to leave the house more! Seeing as how we finally have our taxes done, and my husband pretty much ate my return because of his complex contractor taxes crap, we agreed I could get a present for myself as I WOULD have gotten a nice chunk of change back, but instead it went into what he owed for last year. So anyway, back to a little treat for myself, as I am a technophile and I never got an iPhone (I'm still boycotting them so no rush there). Something very cool... I am so very excited to get to use this, from a Usability perspective in particular. The Amazon Kindle.

It' really funny that it has 400 reviews and it's not even OUT YET, I am only trusting the reviews from beta testers... the rest are people complaining it doesn't have color graphics which I think is funny, and another guy saying he wanted to use it for work and to read business documents so complaining about that which also amuses me as thats obviously not what its for though from what I read it's not that hard to convert PDFs if your technically inclined. I just hope Amazon learned a lesson from Apple and doesn't go cutting the price 2 months from now. They are actually sold out so I have no idea when I will get mine.

Here is Sydney doing her best Britney Spears impersonation, damn paparazzi.

Its okay though, she's hired a new bodyguard to protect her.

GOBBLE GOBBLE YALL!! Wish us luck on our first turkey cooking adventure! Oh and I finished that danm sleeve!!! Now I have to cast off and start the left front, but all I can think about this week is SPINNING, maybe this weekend I'll get some time to!