It's only January and I found out I have a Vitamin D deficiency, again. It appears, it's getting worse. Last time I only needed to take Vitamin D pills for maybe 5-6 weeks. This time it's 20 weeks. That's a long time! In doing some research it turns out Oscars sun therapy ritual is actually beneficial to him. I'm thinking I need to give it a try. Many years ago I used to be a sun worshipper, but after finding out I was high-risk for cancer, with a possible elevation of skin cancer risk, I've stayed out of the sun. Last year I almost caved and layed out. I regained my senses and didn't do it. But, now, I'm strongly considering making a visit to the sun gods once again, but reasonably this time. No more laying out on blacktop with a bottle of baby oil and aluminum foil!

iSo happy because I got one! Yep, the iPhone. I LOVE it. So happy with it, it's crazy. Been saving my pennies and got close enough that dh was fine with going and getting it. Super easy to set-up and operate. It has a lot of features that will save me time and effort in trying to receive or send information. Plus, it saves room in my purse because I use it as my photo album, ipod, phone and appointment book. I love that I can listen to music with or without the headphones and it saves me money. Not sure how this happened but I am now paying $30 a month LESS for this dataplan then I was for my blackberry and I now have text messaging. I really liked my blackberry but I already LOVE my iPhone. I need to come up with a name for it. Any suggestions?

iAlso so happy because my youngest son had a successful sleepover with 3 of his friends last night. iGot some sleep, and so did they. They were all very respectful and full of fun. Goodtimes. Darn it, why didn't I take any pictures?

My other iSon and iDH are at the Blues game for the day, enjoying quality time with each other and the Blues. They love that.

iHave the fireplace on, getting some scooby snacks out and getting ready to attempt to transfer some old video tapes of the boys to DVDs. No pressure on myself to get it all done - or even done perfect, just going to give it a whirl.

ToniGht, going to see about having some neighbors over for a game of cards or something else. No pressure, just come casual and a bag of chips - or not.

iSo happy today. Hope you are too.

I was up late last night doing some work and had the TV on. A show came on after all the talk shows, showing a video clip count down for the year. I was half watching, giggling a bit as I continued to work. But then the following video was shown. For some reason this struck a cord with me and I laughed so hard no sound came out. The kind of laugh where your stomach hurts bad and you really can't breathe. So, I decided I really needed to try to find this on YouTube and share this with you. But first, I wanted to see if I still thought it was as funny as last night, or was it just lack of sleep? ... Nope, just as funny. Now, before you watch just remember, I'm quite sure someone was hurt in the making of this video. I feel bad for this guy, but man is it funny:

Ok, before this gets crazy out of hand I want to state for the record that our family is way into the Robbie Seay Band, with our favorite song Song of Hope (Heaven Come Down). This is the song playing on the website. I picked up their CD several weeks ago at Church because our family loved one of the songs performed that day. Every since then our entire family has been singing and listening to the CD. Then the other day, I heard Song of Hope on the radio - while on our way to church. Then, an American Idol commercial was on and I was stopped in my tracks because I thought I recognized Robbie Seay Band as the music playing. Surely not... I must just have them on the brain. Then Chad told me he heard it and saw Robbie Seay Band on the screen. Then, I went to their website and it confirmed it! So, before they become so totally popular I wanted to state we loved them way before (a whole month before)!

... the mouse will continue status quo.

DH is out of town and I had grand plans of getting a lot accomplished while he is gone, but that hasn't been the case. I've spent two days building a coffee table base for our clawfoot antique table. I had planned for this to take me a couple of hours, not a couple of days! I carefully removed the original base (storing that in the basement) and built a new lower base. I attempted this yesterday but used too short of nails and it didn't hold together. Zoe (our cat) jumped up on the table and the whole thing fell apart.

Take 2... today I got the proper nails, and that along with some gorilla glue it appears we are good to go. Still need to do some final work (setting a few nail heads and staining) but it's useable now. As a matter of fact, I'm using it now for as a foot stool. I'm going to wait until next weekend to finish it. I want to make sure it stays together. Oh good, Zoe just jumped on it and it's still together. That's a good sign!

Was supposed to go to the doctor today for yearly screening and get some work work done but neither of those occurred afterall (sorry Tammy!). Rescheduled both. Tomorrow Chad and I are taking time out to go the Movies. Not sure what we are going to see but we will have fun. Love snuggling in the movie theatre with those I love and a bucket of popcorn. Alex is not joining us, he is going paintballing tomorrow with his friends. Afterwards some picking up of the house (namely cleaning up my mess from my latest projects) and then picking up DH and his father from the airport tomorrow evening. The time has flown by and can't say I got any rest but that's ok. I'm happy with our table!

This is a great short clip and something our family will begin to do immediately. It doesn't matter your position on the war, it's about so much more. It's so simple and powerful: http://www.gratitudecampaign.org/shortmovie.php