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December 20, 2005
streetlights, santa, up and down the boulevard
I don't have much in me right now, but here's a heartfelt warning and then a small story.
HEARTFELT WARNING
If you're like me and you take a billion pictures and movie clips and then keep them all in one place i.e. your computer and your husband tells you almost as an after-thought that hey! he is going to upgrade your operating system tonight, by all means ENSURE THAT YOUR PHOTOS AND MOVIES ARE BACKED UP ELSEWHERE before said "upgrade" takes place. Because that way when your ashen-faced husband comes and tells you he's 90% sure he just deleted your entire hard drive, you won't have to sob into a towel in the bathroom for twenty minutes trying to be quiet so that your two-year old, whose precious moments thus far on Earth have all just (90% potentially) been erased, won't hear you and come in and pat you and ask "Sad, Mommy?" and then start crying himself.
Turns out they weren't erased. But backing up our digital photos rocketed from somewhere on our To Do for 2006 list to Done. Fini. You need a copy?
SMALL STORY
Festivus activity number I've-lost-track-at-this-point was to donate a toy to charity. The Bean had ten dollars that he got in the mail from his Grandpa, so on Saturday we made a great show of putting the money in his own pocket and going to the toy store to pick out a toy. There happened to be a toy drive going on in the parking lot, so we picked out the toy, had Bean pay for it himself, then walked over to give it to the toy drive.
Who was out there waving to the traffic but good old S. Claus himself! We've yet to do the whole Santa-in-a-mall thing, so seizing the chance to score a free Santa picture, I thrust the camera into my mortified husband's hand and basically accosted Santa where he stood. Alas, the Bean got so shy he tried to crawl into my scarf.
So this is the picture of me, my scarf, Santa and my shy, well-documented child.
Posted by Max at December 20, 2005 09:34 PM
Comments
I'm so glad everything wasn't lost! GAH - I can't even imagine.
I still haven't taken my son to see Santa. I'm doing it tomorrow. Hopefully.
Posted by: Jenny at December 21, 2005 04:27 PM