>When Dave was building his trailer, I said it reminded me of this awesome bike I had seen online. And when I was on the website, I saw that if I link to them, I could win one of their bikes!

Wish me luck!

>Happy 4th of July Everyone! I hope you are all out at barbeques, Bay Days, Red White and Boom, or what have you, and not in your basement, restoring a database. (Especially if you already worked 12 hours on your holiday yesterday!)

>Posting here has been light lately, but not for any of the usual reasons: work, laziness, kids not being funny enough, addiction to new TV series, etc. I have been working on another blog, the purpose of which is to raise money to cover some of the leukemia treatment costs for William, the cute little boy above.

http://williamkaplan.blogspot.com/

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I got 10 inches of hair cut off yesterday to donate to Locks of Love. My hair looked really, really cute yesterday. Today it looks pretty cute, but a little mashed down from sleeping on it. Tomorrow… well, we’ll see how it looks tomorrow.

No offense to Dave’s phone, but the phone camera is not as good as my old camera that fell in the sand and was never the same again. But here is the after picture:

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>We were happy to see January go, so I feel weird saying the same thing about March. We actually had some pretty good times this month, but we have also had a lot of sniffles, coughing, sneezing, fevers and headaches. I have this idea that tomorrow, when it’s April, we will all be magically cured!

From March

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1.) If you ever thought, “Wow, MetaMegan really has her act together. How does she do it?” Well, if yesterday’s post did not dispel that myth then I have one more thing to share:
I noticed a pair of pants were missing from my closet a few weeks ago and I finally went to the dry cleaner to pick them up this weekend. They had been dropped off on June 18, 2008.

2.) Luke asked if he could put grapes in his taco today. I said, “As long as it’s nutritious, I don’t care what you put in your taco.” He said, “Well, it’s my taco and you should care what is in it. And I think grapes would be delicious.” And I said, “Go for it.” And he did. And then he said, “Eeeeewwww.” And then he ate the whole thing.

Photo Credit

>As a January birthday girl, I have always felt a begrudging sense of loyalty to that sometimes miserable month. But let’s see, what have I accomplished this month?

1.) 4 snowboarding days – OK – that’s pretty good
2.) Biked to work once – was passed going up hill by a recumbent tricyclist
3.) Worked out 4 times – I may be rounding up
4.) Wrote 12 blog posts – lame
5.) Finished 0 books – really lame
6.) Watched many hours of TV
7.) Whined about month long sinus infection

But it’s February! I have been outside every day this month. And aside from the gale force winds that I had to pedal into on my way home from work, I would say things are looking up!

Don’t let Punxsutawney Phil get you down, according to one of Luke’s teachers, “groundhog day is just silly.”

>In case it isn’t clear, this is my new niece, Hope. 7 lbs, 14 oz of cuteness.
(from http://obamiconme.pastemagazine.com/)

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Megan without a G is mean. As in, “Megan doesn’t have her G today!” a common lament heard throughout my childhood. OK, so I am mean. I considered making a new years resolution to be nicer but immediately dismissed the idea. I think some of my humor comes from a tiny mean streak that I have, and I don’t want to lose my sense of humor. Exercising and eating right seem like more attainable resolutions anyway. I only had four cookies today so I am off to a great start.

If you know me, and you don’t think I am mean, I am sorry to say that you just haven’t known me long enough. One day, you’ll think, “Hmm, yeah, I see it now.”

Or maybe you won’t have to wait that long. Just read on, and see what I mean.

We went to the Aquarium for my birthday and I was sitting with both kids on my lap, posing for a picture in front of the shark tank. It was the area of the aquarium that was the most wide open, with the fewest people and the largest, widest tank you could imagine. I mean, sharks live in there. It was big and spacious. Plenty of room for everyone.

So we were posing, and I had children on my lap and Dave was playing with his phone to get it to take a good picture. And I slowly started to notice a buzzing in my ear. It got louder and louder until I noticed that the source of the buzz was a little child saying, “Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me.” Once I could tell that Dave had taken the picture I turned to the child. He said, “Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me.” I think he was trying to walk along the edge of the tank from one side to the other. And I was blocking it by sitting there with two children on my lap. On my birthday. I thought about moving, but then I thought, I don’t feel like moving this instant. What if the picture didn’t take. That kid can just go around. So to his, “Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me.” I replied, “Oh? Do you need me to move?”

And just then the mom swooped in and scooped him up. To me she said, “Well you didn’t have to be so mean to him!”

I said, “Wa? Uh? Wah?”

So if I know that I am mean, but I don’t realize that being sarcastic with a 2 year old warrants a tongue lashing from a stranger, apparently its much worse than I thought.