In a few days, on Sunday to be exact, I will celebrate my first annual 39th birthday. This is a big milestone, no? Well, maybe it isn't since I plan to celebrate the same birthday every year from here on out.

So I'd like to entertain a little reversal here, and have a little contest. No answering questions, no donations to charities, just leave a comment telling me about a favorite birthday present you've received. I'll pick one at random on Sunday, November 4th and put together a little surprise package for the winner. See, as much as I love receiving surprises.. I adore putting together surprises for others. If the winner is a knitter or spinner, perhaps you'll get a nice fibery surprise in the mail. If you're not, maybe an Amazon or iTunes gift certificate... I have lots of ideas!

And here, I'll get you started. What is my favorite birthday present? Cassidy! She was born just a few months shy of my 30th birthday, and I had always wanted a baby before I turned 30 (weird.. I know!) But besides all of that, Richard and I were both surprised, since we had always thought our path to parenthood would be a difficult one. We were looking at facing lengthy and heartbreaking fertility cycles.. then there it was.. a positive pregnancy test, all on our own. And after a rocky first trimester, when we were expecting the worst to happen every day, despite bed rest and progesterone supplements, we were truly blessed... just in time to fulfill my 30th birthday wish.

Now, go, and tell me all about your favorite birthday present! As you can tell, it doesn't have to be a "thing", it can be "the perfect day", a great meal... anything.

P.S. Scorpios Rule!

A day late, and a dollar short (aint that the truth!)

But anyway, yesterday was my three year blogiversary. I intended to post to celebrate, but the day got away from me (A girl scouts outing, a sick kid, a cooking marathon in the kitchen including baba ganouj, chocolate chip pumpkin bars, and Carole's chicken tomato stroganoff. I know - weird combos, but I had some cravings)

Anyway, its been three years.

Heres to many more!

What a week (in more ways than one!)

I have plenty to post about this past week, a rant, some knitting, holiday happenings.. but I wanted to get this out right away.

See, chances are you tried to come here all week.. and got a server not found error? And the rest of you came here and wondered where the hell I was all week, right? Well, a router went wonky from what I'm told, and half of the country couldn't resolve the dns or ip, or something or other. Many days went by with one company saying "its not us" and the other company saying "nope not us either". But finally... YAY... we're working again!

Saturday Sky: October 21, 2006.

Picture A, is the Syracuse skyline coming into the city from Brighton Ave, on my way north to the Syracuse Regional Market.

Picture B, is entering the Market. It was a very sunny blue sky sort of day, but jeez was it cold! It was the first day of the season, where I actually wore a coat!

Gray, dreary and cold. I had plans to head to the Regional Market today, but a headache that wouldn't go away changed my plans. Its a good day to cuddle up with a blanket, sip tea and watch mindless television. Homemade chili for dinner. Yum.

Talked to Roger a little bit ago and Kris is opening her eyes! They took her off the heavier sedative yesterday, but it will take several days for it to fully leave her system. This is very good news!

Hi y'all.

I found out tonight that my hosting service is moving to a new server over the next few days. And because the asshole who initially registered my domain 5 years ago (the company I originaly hosted with, not my current host) is an official reseller for names4ever.com, I have been unable to get into change my nameserver settings (registry number and password lost in the PC's hard drive death)
Well screw him, AND names4ever (for not helping me get in and insisting I try to contact the reseller who never answers emails).. I went ahead and transferred my .com domain. In addition I bought mylittletribe.net AND mylittletribe.org. So the transferring domain (.com) will very likely have some downtime. But since .net and .org should be resolving by the end of the weekend, you can expect those to have less downtime (maybe just a day as I switch nameservers and reinstall wordpress and all backups)

Wish me luck!

Saturday sky from my back yard. Wave hello to the remnants of Ernesto!

The wind howled at times, though nothing damaging. And the rain.. it lasted all day. Cold cold rain. I even dug a sweater out of the closet. Blech.