Eureka! A Nikon D40

Posted on December 30, 2007

Lookie what Santa left under the tree!! 

After care­ful con­sid­er­a­tion and much much much hand wring­ing.  I finally decided on the Nikon D40.  Decid­ing to pur­chase this cam­era was a very tough deci­sion espe­cially for some­one who is usu­ally pretty darn deci­sive.  I fought long and hard against my nat­ural ten­dency to go for a cam­era w/ more megapix­els.  I chose this one because all of the reviews said it was a great easy to use cam­era.  I toyed w/the D40x but again every review said it was a waste of money, not worth $$ for the extra megapix­als.  I think I made the right deci­sion.  I’ve used it loads and it’s a really great cam­era.  I’ve only ever used it on auto as I don’t have a han­dle on how it works and have been too busy tak­ing care of Squidge to prop­erly read the manual. 

Squidge is still  not 100% but is show­ing signs of improve­ment.  She’s very pale and tires easily.  We’re strug­gling try­ing to decide what is wrong with her.  We think she’s teething.  We think she still has a bit of a cold.  We think that she has been hav­ing ter­ri­ble headaches.  We don’t know what to think.   We went to Eureka today and she had a fantab­u­lous time.

You can see  more pho­tos here

Then she got home and had a melt down.  She had a bath but did not enjoy it.  Now if you had ever seen Squidge in a tub you’d know that is a sure sign to worry.  The girl loves her bath.  Tonight she was ten­ta­tive, whiny, cry­ing and wanted lots of hugs.  I’ve been giv­ing her Calpofen but I don’t think it really does much.  I have a lit­tle bit of baby Motrin from the US I’ve been hoard­ing and I gave her some tonight– like a magic elixir!  She was back to her­self 10 min­utes after tak­ing it.   





The Christmas that never was

Posted on December 29, 2007

Well we’re on the mend, at least some of us are on the mend.  Squidge is still not feel­ing too well.  She has a hor­ri­ble hack­ing cough, is whiny and is run­ning a low grade fever.  So a recap of this past week.

On Mon­day I went to Victoria’s for a Nor­we­gian break­fast.  I was sneez­ing and a runny nose but noth­ing that was con­cern­ing me.  By 4 I wanted to die.  If I had known I was that sick I would never have gone to Victoria’s, I hope I didn’t infect any­one there.  So I had a messy house, none of the gifts were wrapped and death would have been wel­comed.  In my delu­sional belief that Christ­mas was still going to hap­pen I cleaned the house and wrapped the gifts.  When I was done I finally dragged my sad sick behind to bed.

Tues­day morn­ing Wal was a sweetie and took Squidge down­stairs around 8 and let me sleep in a bit.  I thought he’d know not to let her open the pressies with­out me.  I thought he’d know enough to at least take pic­tures if he did let her open the presents.  I’m sure you’ve guessed what hap­pened.  My dar­ling lit­tle Squidge turned into a whirling dervish.   Before Wal had a chance to take it all in it was over.  All that was left were the empty boxes and torn wrap­ping paper.  When I dragged myself down an hour later it was to a wrecked liv­ing room and no pho­tographs.  I did think about reen­act­ing open­ing the presents but couldn’t be both­ered.  After her lit­tle burst of energy she just moped around the house cough­ing and sneez­ing.  The last cou­ple of days are a blur and I don’t really know what we did.  It involved sneez­ing, cough­ing, med­i­cine, sleep­ing, a Christ­mas din­ner a day late (cooked but not eaten), and lots of feel­ing sorry for ourselves.


I did feed her some fruit– hey it’s sup­posed to be good for you when you’re sick.  Isn’t it?!??!!

Today Wal and I were feel­ing a bit bet­ter and decided to finally get out of the house.  I thought a trip to the Lowry was a great idea.

We had a good time except that Squidge still isn’t feel­ing 100% so she was a bit whiny.  I can hear her now upstairs in bed cough­ing and cry­ing to herself.

We also went to the Impe­r­ial War Museum.

I didn’t get to see much of it because Squidge had a bit of a melt­down, Wal enjoyed it.  So if you’re in Man­ches­ter head over to Sal­ford and visit the Lowry and the Impe­r­ial War Museum, it’s a great way to spend an after­noon. Both of the muse­ums are free and the Lowry is next to the Lowry out­let mall so you can do some shop­ping too!

As you can see after a cou­ple of pots of petit filous she was feel­ing a bit bet­ter and ready to roam.





On the first day of Christmas

Posted on December 27, 2007

my true love gave to me… the flu.

This is how we three have spent the last few days. 





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