>>>photo by Valerie Dryden<<<

If you just read my blog, you would think the only thing I have been doing is podcasting about television. Not true!

These past two months I have packed up and sent out an amazing amount of orders (maybe nearly 400!), helped put on a successful holiday show with the Craft Mutiny, started potty training my girls, spent a fun night in the emergency room to learn that Anya has a peanut allergy and last but not least, gained 10 pounds. Yep. 10 pounds. And I have to say that it is heavy. I can feel it everywhere, even in my fingers as I type. I am glad that this time is over. I am looking forward to my 30 points a day and going to the gym every night instead of packing up 12 orders a day. I am looking forward to spending the next few months concentrating on myself rather than others. I totally need this and am going to take it. I am accepting this as my own fault, of course, embracing it. It is the only way to walk past it and beat it and continue to smallen.

I will say, though, that on Xmas morning, I did think of all of the people opening presents that I made. I also often thought about the nearly 2500 people who would get zombie cards this holiday season. This is really rad. This makes me want to make and make and make. I have all of these new ideas swirling around in my head and can't wait to see them come to life. I just want to leave the stress and cookies of the holiday season behind!

This holiday season taught me that I need to be prepared. I need to not get stressed when I can't handle things. Because stress for me equals eating which equals staying fat. Poop on that!!!

Something else we have been doing in the past few months has been getting our picture taken. Lots. Valerie Dryden, a student at the Corcoran School of Art has been taking our picture for her senior thesis since August or so. She has taken over 800 or so photos. I am going to start posting some of them. The one on top of this post is the first. Moments after this was taken, Rachel had an asthma attack and I had to literally run her home to get give her meds (no inhaler yet for someone so small). This photo is totally what my life is like, one minute we are sliding and sunny, the next, racing home with an asthma attack. I am looking forward to this new year being more calm. Will it happen? Unlikely, but I am wishing.