The Leen

Sigh. I failed. Miserably.

Here’s my defense: first, my keyboard stopped working, just before NaBloPoMo started. And if that wasn’t enough, then my computer charger died and the battery on my computer was so low that it died, too. Then, I tried posting from Brett’s iPhone but Wordpress did NOT like the iPhone so typing a one-sentence post took forever. Then I finally took my computer in to be fixed, but the lovely folks at Apple kept it for four days, so…I just gave up.

I guess there’s next year.

Not having a computer to use for about a week was strange. I would check my email occasionally on my phone and on Brett’s phone, but for the most part, I was cut off from Internet-land. It was kind of nice, albeit really, really weird. I missed Facebook and the message boards I’m on a lot less than I thought I would. I actually got a ton done around the house — it was soooo clean! — and I even had time to read a book.

My forced Internet sabbatical made me realize I’m online far too much on a daily basis. I don’t want to get sucked back in so completely, so I’m going to try to limit my Facebook/message board time to some extent from here on out.

Anyway, now that my computer’s fixed, I hope to be able to do some more of the writing I mentioned a while back, so I can share it here. I have made almost no progress since my keyboard wasn’t working, but that’s okay.

Let’s see, what else can I tell you?

We are having quite a group here for Thanksgiving. It’s a very diverse assortment of people from several different areas of our life, and it should be anything but dull. I’m excited to cook a big meal and have lots of friends here, for sure. My stepbrother Jason is coming from Reno for the whole weekend, which I’m looking forward to since we haven’t really hung out much with him in several years.

Our parade of out of town guests continues. I’ve realized we are probably going to have guests every month, pretty much, and that’s fine with me. We just hosted our friends Brendan and Arianna from Seattle, and now our friend Nate, who went to school with Brett in Maine, is here for a week or so. It’s been nice to see our friends from Seattle and elsewhere, for sure.

Elanor is amazing these days. I really need to write an update all about her, especially since I’ve slacked on the past few monthly letters. She’s just so funny and intense and wonderful; I feel all bursty sometimes when I think about her or see her doing something awesome, or when she hugs me and kisses me. Here’s a recent picture I took earlier this week with Brett’s phone. We were in his studio in the garage, and he had set up his medium-format camera to take a photograph of something that was just at Elanor’s height. She walked up to the camera and knew exactly what it was for, and loved the fact that it was right at her level.

Okay, I think that’s the update. I’m going to take advantage of the rest of today’s nap time to get some more writing done. Although I’ve failed miserably at NaBloPoMo, I’m going to try to post more frequently at least through the end of the month. We’ll see if that works out…I have my doubts but I’m going to at least make an effort!