Hopefully my blog is now a little more pleasing to the eye. The black was getting to be obnoxious.

I just deleted my MySpace account within the last week. It was time. I really do miss blogging there, though. I had my general blog there and my pregnancy/baby blog here, so it helped to kind of distinguish the different aspects of my life from one another. When I quit getting on MySpace, my general stuff kind of went away. I miss having that blog, so I think I am going to turn this one into my everything blog.

Not a whole lot going on in the Liam world. He is starting to say some words. His first official word is "hot." A random one for sure, but the first one that we could see definitively that he has connected a word with its meaning. One night we were feeding him dinner, and I gave him a piece of something that was a little on the warm side. He spit it out, so I said "hot?" He said "dahhht." Now every time he picks something up that's too warm, he says "dahhht!!" He leaves the "d" off sometimes. I admit it - though I don't give him anything that would burn him, I do intentionally give him stuff that's a little warm so I can hear him say it. He also says "baby," "bye-bye," "uh-oh," and we're working on "hello." Hopefully they'll take back the "Speech-Delayed" honor that he received at his 15-month check-up ;)

I broke down and watched J&K+8 the other night. Here's my theory. A show premised on 6 screaming five-year-olds running around, chased around by a mom screaming louder than the 6 five-year-olds combined, can only stay up in the ratings so long. I think they decided that they needed to fabricate some emergency drama. If I'm not right, then they need to do whatever it is they need to do to cancel this show and work on their family. It's obviously tearing them apart, and it's obvious that Jon wants out of the show. It's a disaster, and there is no reason that it should continue going on when you have the well-being of eight children at stake.

Anyways. I am wondering where cockroaches come from. Every now and then we have a little mini cockroach infestation in the bathroom at work. Somehow 5 or 6 of them end up in there, belly-up on the floor. I refuse to use a stall with a cockroach in it just because they're incredibly creepy (especially with their limbs and their antennae wiggling around). So my concern at that point remains that I'm unsure as to whether they drop in from the ceiling or they somehow get in by waltzing in through the door. I just don't want one to drop in on my head. Sometimes I go to another floor to avoid them.

I am keeping up my New Year's resolution to be more frugal. I think I have done a good job. I'm not really a huge spender anyway, but I recognized some areas where I can cut back. I'm trying to be less of an impulsive grocery shopper, and I have definitely cut down on thinking of some "necessity" that I need from Target or the grocery store to cure my boredom. I definitely ask myself more "do I REALLY need this?" I just have better things to spend (or save) our money on.

I like that frugality is kind of "in" these days! I still love my life just as much as I did before my resolution. Imagine that, huh?

I can go store-brand on a lot of things, but I have decided that I will always need my Tide. Nothing else suds up quite like Tide. I'm giving Tide Total Care a whirl, but I just can't see using it on things like the white clothes that don't really need the color protection. So I bought a bottle of Total Care and a bottle of Publix brand for $3 to use on the whites and other things like that. I thought I was getting a sweet deal on a bulk bottle of Downy Total Care for $13 at BJ's one day, but the fact that Downy is not, in fact, detergent must have escaped me momentarily.

I am tired. I was feeling like I was walking that fine line where, if I overexerted myself, I might have become sick, but if I took it easy, it would probably blow over. I was hoping my first swim team practice would get canceled last night because of that. It didn't. I don't feel any more slightly-cruddy than I did yesterday, but it sure is tough to wind down between finishing practice at 9 and going to bed at 10...I didn't get to sleep till at least 11:30. I am off to enjoy some couch time!