Nathan is not mad about taking baths. He does like it more every time though. He especially hates having his face cleaned… OK I I’m just going to admit this entry is merely an excuse for me to post a cute Nathan-in-the-bath-tub photo (view image).
On Friday Lisa and I had take-out Chinese food for dinner. It was ok. Tonight Lisa fried up the leftover noodles, but she added coconut milk and some new spices, including house cfavorite, Chunky Chat Masala. It was awesome, like 10 times better than the original.
Here’s an idea for a high concept restaurant: It’s right next door to a cheap linoleum counter Chinese storefront restaurant with big photos of the food over the counter (let’s call it the Golden Palace). The concept restaurant (we’ll call it Chateau d’Or) is very posh inside, but the waiter hands you a menu from the Chinese restaurant next door. Whatever you order they send someone over to get, but then they spice it up and make it delicious and serve it to you. At they end they charge you three times the original price.
I am giving away this idea for free for the well being of all people.
Connecticut is the place to be on Christmas - stone walls and red barns and the New Milford Green with the the candles in the paper bags. And the ever present spirit of Marhta. Nathan got to see it all this year.
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Here are some photos of my Mom and Dad holding newborn me that my Aunt Eileen scanned and sent to me.
There is growing evidence that Nathan is left handed. For example he is much more likely to grab a ring with his left hand (view image). That’s all the news for now. We’re driving to Connecticut tomorrow for Lisa’s birthday, and Nathan’s first Christmas.
I am obsessed with my iPod play count. iTunes keep track of how many time you listened to each song. After listening to the iPod all day, I synch it with the computer and it changes the play counts on the list of songs. This of course leads to knowing what the top 10 most played songs are at anytime. I love this. It’s unhealthy the pleasure i get from knowing which songs I listen to most.
When I choose a song to listen to, I think about how it will effect that songs ranking. When a random song comes up that I like I think “Oh good, this song deserves a higher ranking.” If I don’t like the song I’ll skip to the next song - because I don’t want it’s ranking to go up. I never listen to the list of the top 25 songs, because I don’t want them to have an unfair advantage. If my iPod runs out of battery it forgets the songs it played since the last synch. My iTunes record will be incomplete. This really upsets me.
Sometimes songs go up in ranking in ways that are out my control. For example ow that we live with a baby, I’m more likely to play the mellow mix, so mellow songs get more play, even though they are only 10% of my collection. My current top three songs are all on this list.
Here’s my current top 10 most listened to songs. Strangely it’s not my list of favorite songs…
In other iPod news I recently downloaded iPod2Go which I heard about from another blogger, James Jackson. It downloads the news and weather to my iPod when I synch. It’s pretty nifty.
OK, I admitted my embarassing top list (hooverphonic is my number one? I’m really that shallow?) So if you’ve got an iPod leave a comment and give your top ten list. If you are too embarassed about all the ABBA on the list, just give yourself a fake name!
Check out this movie I made by accident with my digital camera in Colombia. It reminds me of the magic photos in Harry Potter books which are sort of alive because the subjects move and smile. Lisa is shoo-ing away mosquitos on for ever in the photo.
Here it is my greatly anticipated top ten list! Of course these are the best ten movies of 2002 that I saw and there many more movies that I would like to see. No doubt I’ll be updating the list. I’ve seen 37 of the movies released in 2002 (so far). What you think the odds are I’ll see so many next year?
It was hard to build the list this year - the rankings are pretty arbitrary. I have twice been questioned on why “About A Boy” is so highly placed. I enjoyed it, I like the new selfish bastard Hugh Grant, and movies about dealing with demented hippie parents are very meaningful to me (just joking around mom and dad!). Here’s the list:
He slept through the night and slept for a little while in a crib at his Grandmother’s house. The quilt in this photo is by Lisa, of course.
Sleep is the biggest thing on my mind this week. Nathan is now waking 2-3 times during the night needing to be comforted (it’s not a diaper or hunger thing). He won’t sleep during the day unless someone is holding him. This wasn’t such a problem when I wasn’t working, but now it means Lisa holds him all day long, and I hold him from when I get home until I go to bed. I love holding him, but it’s hard not to feel trapped. That’s why there haven’t been many reports, by the way.
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