There is no way I can catch up so I'm just starting here.

I wanted to do a big retrospective New Years post talking about goals for the year etc. I wanted to do a post about the blog awards and all the super cool blogs I'm now addicted to. I wanted to do a funny post about the kids visit complete with pics. But I can't. Too much time has gone by and I'm just too wiped-out and OVER the last few weeks, and ready to move on.

Here are the highlights:

-Heads-up everyone! It's 2009! (Yeah, but by week 3 everyone is pretty much done examining their lives and just getting on with them.)

-I look at tons of cool blogs every day. Most of them are listed on my blogroll (bottom right of actual blog). There are hilarious ones (fuck you penguin, fail blog, bloggess, cake wrecks) odd ones (beard revue, failed bands of oklahoma, cake wrecks) one that's just cute (cute overload), and lots by other writers, artists & agents -- one of whom recently hit the road by herself for a two month solo seat of her pants road trip (jamie's giant shop hop). If you are going to waste time on the internet anyway, (and who are you kidding? You KNOW you are.) you may as well waste it wisely. Check them out!

-Kid trip high points--
Megan- "*&%$@#!"
Sis- "That's not how little princesses talk! You know better than that!"
Jaden- "Yeah, that's how mommies talk."
Me and the girl had a few good talks. I taught her "crap-o-la", and lectured her about talking like a snotty teenager already. (She's only seven. Save some tude for when you'll need it kid.) Me and the boy -- still not a fan of all his spoiled brattiness. He is only 4. He'll either grow out of it or become a giant, spoiled, man baby. Jury still out. Me and sis-- as seen in the power pants episode, hilarity ensued.

In other Sue news-- well, there really isn't any because I've had a giant cold (thanks toddler boogers) and been totally sucked down the family hole lately to the point where I haven't really been connected to my own life since before Christmas. I love them and all, and love seeing them, but my folks have been having some health stuff and there's just been a lot going on.

For some reason when I'm around them I just become whoever I am in relation to all of them-- a daughter, a sister, an aunt, etc, and that is so far from how I self-identify I start to feel like I'm disappearing (especially when things prevent me from running etc and I'm without any release valve). I know-- touchy, pain-in-the-ass, creative type whining-- but there it is.

Today will be spent doing the waist-high pile of laundry in my room, grocery shopping, and otherwise reestablishing "normal" around here. There needs to also be massive jamming out. It's been WAY too long since anything has been shaken, despite the gold pants episode. Tomorrow I get back in the writing & art saddle and I CAN'T WAIT!