In which I do things it's generally hard to do with a new baby!

Guess what I got to do this afternoon! Plant my vegetables!

I don't know if I'm technically ALLOWED to do anything of that nature yet, but I feel fine-- quite refreshed actually, since I got to spend the afternoon digging in the dirt on a beautiful day-- and my dad had done all the heavy work for me already, working the ground and all (which I should have him do every year-- he did a much better job than I do even when NOT pregnantand/orpostpartum). I just had to plant them. My parents bought plants for me, and they got me 4 or 5 different kinds of tomatoes, which is kind of cool because I would just tend to get a pack of nine same ones-- this way I can compare and use them for different things and so forth. They got me two sweet peppers, but I have horrible trouble actually getting sweet peppers to, well, turn into actual sweet peppers; and I had started a WHOLE bunch of hot peppers from seed. For some reason, my hot peppers grow great, just not the sweet peppers.

Also my parents got me some herbs, but the herb garden still needs weeded, so they're not planted yet.

Another thing I got to do today-- go to the library! I went to our little library because I had Sam and Maddie with me and time, and a book that was due, and so everybody there could get to see the baby. Which means I got books! I was afraid I'd never be able to get out of the house and get new books again! I got, for fun for me, Jellicoe Road, that Printz Award winner that I managed to hear next to nothing about until it won the Printz; and the second Mysterious Benedict Society book. I also got a few books on potty training, both parent reference and picture book introductions. Sam is showing interest, but, you know, this is a pretty upheavalled (isn't that a nice word? we should all use it and make it respectable)time around here, so mostly I just want advice on how to ease into it.

So, my two favorite things to do that I haven't gotten to do in what seems like forever.

Now, I've been getting less computer time lately, go figure, so I have to prioritize, and things like obsessively following Fuse#8's Top 100 Picture Books Poll Countdown (with fair certainty that I can guess the last two books and they were both ones on my votes list, and that my #1 vote also made the top 10 and every other book I voted for, even the ones I was sure no one else even KNEW, made the list, either this means I have very good taste or no creativity when it comes to picture books) have to take precedence over filling out surveys and quizzes on lj and Facebook. BUT when vovat posted this particular Check-if-you've-seen-it Movie Survey the other day, I couldn't pass it up, because, you see, it is the Animated Movies list.

See, for those of you new to reading about me and my family, my brother is obsessed with cartoons. By "obsessed" I mean "can't understand why other people don't find the debut of obscure new series on the off-hours of Cartoon Network as vitally interesting as he does," and is now actually going to college for computer animation, even though otherwise he's not much interested in art at all. Just cartoons.

So not only have I seen a lot of these movies of my own volition, over the course of his life I've seen quite a lot of these movies through Danny. Sometimes, he gets a new movie and insists that you want to sit and watch the whole thing when you originally planned to get together with your family and, you know, TALK or something. So, in honor of my brother, I present to you--

The Animated Movie List:

( Danny wants you to see ALL of these! )

'K then, that's that. Have a nice day.