thats kind of a downer title... its actually not how i feel. its Give Me A Sign by Breaking Benjamin. ( i love BB!! )
listening to: BB radio on lastfm.com
feeling: tired but good
so its been forever since i wrote. i just havent felt like it. day to day stuff is only interesting once in awhile!
since Christmas we've been fairly low key at the Russell house. Matt's parents left right away to head south. they are snow birds.. and they aren't even 50 yet! Ethans been missing them, and we are down one set of babysitters! but they are having a good time, as always. matts dad has already requested matt to go dig him out numerous baseball cards to send to him. he goes to spring trainings and get his cards signed. his hobby is autographs!
Ethan's almost down to 100% on his potty training! its so wonderful! we still have to remind him to go once in awhile, but for the most part he just goes on his own. most of his naps are taken without a pull-up. nighttime is the only time he still needs one, and sometimes hes still dry in the mornings! sometimes hes soaked through his jammies.... theres no middle ground there! we're quite happy only having to buy 1 package of pull-ups a month now! however,... since we're trying for a baby we'll have to dive right back into diapers and wipes once a week again!
its okay, i'm ready for it... matt might not be though... he'll get there!
and yes, we are trying to get pregnant. its been slow going, we're going on about 7 months right now. which is annoying to me, but i'm trying not to be anxious about it, it'll happen when its supposed to! maybe i'll make my boss happy and have a winter baby(so its not busy season again like last time!)
Matt is full blown into tax season. hes working hard and getting himself caught up before he gets behind. most of his clients drop off their stuff so he's been staying on top of things so far! its only January though! i can tell he enjoys it. of course its late hours and long days, but it ends soon enough. hes a little more upbeat this year, i can tell. i'm not entirely sure why, but its okay with me! as long as he has his Call of Duty to play at the end of the day we'll be good. its his stress reliever!
as for me., its slow season! which i do enjoy! except for the fact that i'm totally behind on wedding albums! i just have no creativity to get me though them. its sad but true! i did work on one basically all day yesterday and got it totally done! done enough to put online for the bride to preview at least. jeff said he'd retouch, so i'm going to let--MAKE--him! i'm going to finish up another one today, its my goal! but i still have 4 more waiting in line.... ugh!
Convention is coming up-in 8 days. eek! i'm looking forward to it, i think. jeff and i are in charge of Hospitality again (like at Fall Seminar) so we've been working on getting our time table set up for the weekend. getting food and beer and whatnot all together at the right time is hard. especially since we are NOT organized people. but this is our last one, thank goodness! next year he'll be in charge of something else, something less time consuming(hopefully)
he sent off our competition prints yesterday. i worked harder on mine than he did on his this year.... but neither of us worked as hard as we should have. if i get just 1 merit out of the 4 prints i'll be happy!
the weather is crappy.... its this time of year that makes me wish i was strong enough to move away--far away where its warm all year round! however, i'm not that strong. unless we had a true set in stone reason to go, i couldnt. i'm too close to my parents and my friends. my job and my boss can't be duplicated anywhere! so we're here in Iowa.... pry forever. the one thing i said i'd never do was to live in Knoxville forever... and look at me now. things never work out like you plan them to. such is life!
well, better get to work on that album......
have a good one!
