The past four days have seemingly passed by in a blur of baby, movies, shopping, and general straightening of my house, as I have had a few people over and my parents are coming this weekend. I have felt uncommonly stressed out; worried that nothing is ever good enough in terms of the cleanliness of this house but also in terms of my presents.

You see, Ash is the best gift-giver I have ever known. It’s as if he knows exactly what you want that you didn’t even know you wanted. Me, I just get what you asked for. I wish I had his innate talent to “know” people and just get great ideas.  I know this is a rather stupid thing to feel down about but when the world’s worst gift-giver is married to the world’s best, I can’t help it! I should give myself some credit because I’ve come up with a few things to get my parents that are pretty unsuspected but still… it’s never good enough.

And there’s no good transition from that except to say that I am going to watch last night’s Kid Nation episode now and maybe get off my ass at some point to eat or exercise or, you know, something productive like that.