We hosted our first White Elephant gift exchange at our house last night. I dare say it was a rousing success!
I've had many different experiences with white elephant gift exchanges over the years ... it seems that often times my first experiences end up being bad/traumatic ones, so let's get the first story out of the way.
At my first white elephant gift exchange, I received a bag of pencil shavings. I still remember the girl who brought the present. At my first non-school white elephant party, I had to leave early, but instead of keeping the gift I had at the time (some DVD that looked mildly interesting) they kept trading and my husband ended up coming home with the gift he brought to the exchange, and DVD of a truly HORRIBLE 1943 film. I think I was mostly disappointed my husband came home with his own gift and didn't say anything.
Then it was followed by a few hilarious and awesome White Elephant/Ugly Sweater parties, and it restored my faith in white elephant exchanges. Yes, Virginia, there CAN be hilarious white elephant gift exchanges that don't end in bitterness and tears!
When Carmen was a baby, some friends hosted a white elephant gift exchange and we brought a HUGE 2 gallon jar of pickled jalapenos. We brought home a Barbie, and one of the most interesting gifts there was some warming massage lotion from the dollar store. Hmmm ... highly suspect ... we would all know what happened when, late some night, our neighbor busts out the front door screaming, "IT BURNS, IT BURNS! OH MY ... BACK!! MY LEGS!"
So we wanted to host a party where, generally, everyone could go home with something they didn't hate. I'm sure it helped that our friends were more familiar with what kinds of things were appropriate white elephant gifts (ie. NOT pencil shavings) ... and we invited kids, who I think can be excited about ANYTHING if you say it's a gift. ;)
I decided we should pack some extra presents so that either people could go home with a gift if they didn't bring one, or they could take home an un-lame present along with a lame one, or whatever.
So we packed a present I've been wanting to do for YEARS - a goofy autographed self-portrait. I had an 8x10 photo I printed of Mark earlier this year. There is a long backstory behind this ... in short, I have a friend whose little brother went on a mission, so they made this huge blanket of his face and had the blanket with them when they took family photos of major events while he was gone. Imagine something like, there's a wedding, and one of the wedding photos would have his face in it, or he's at a baby blessing, or whatever. I thought it was hilarious so I copied it. Mark was unable to come to a family reunion because he had very little vacation time from work. I ended up never using his photograph in a real picture, but hey! It was a funny thought!!
~~~AAAAAAANNNNYYYWAAAAAYYYYY. I had Mark autograph the photo and wrapped it up. My friend Kirsten opened it and was a very good sport and jealously hugged the photo all night long. She was even upset when her stepson stole the picture from her, and after they brought it home she told me her husband wanted to display it in the bathroom. That is probably the BEST place to display Mark's photo.
We figured if whoever took it didn't like it, they could always take out the photo and have a nice black picture frame!! Mark would never know. ;)
Carmen also has way too many bottles of nail polish. So I took a handful of the brightest neon-colored nail polishes and put them in a bag. SOME little girl would LOVE to have bright neon nail polish, right?
Last Christmas, we got TWO copies of the movie "17 Miracles". So the unopened one got wrapped up in pretty paper.
Several years ago, we went to DI and bought a whole bunch of Living Scriptures movies on VHS. We still don't have a VHS player, and ordered DVD sets of the Living Scriptures. As much as Mark makes fun of the movies, I LOOOOOOOOOVED the Living Scriptures movies as a kid!!! They made me the smartest kid in my Primary class because I knew all the stories!!!
When I was in high school, I had a weird obsession with scented candles. I have a ton of half-used scented candles stored in Carmen's closet ... so when I was at the dollar store, I saw a Skittles Cherry-scented candle and thought, "I HAVE to get one of these! Because I always think scented candles are nice, then I take them home and go WHAT WAS I THINKING?!" And since it was only a few dollars, I decided I had to include some kind of crazy fruity candy with it, so I found one of those fruit-flavored Twizzlers licorice things that is that nasty bright yellow color.
So that was our 5 weird presents we contributed to the gift exchange. Here are some of the things that got passed around:
~A metal combat helmet that looked like it was from WWII.
~A 4000 piece puzzle. It measures 98 cm x 138 cm. It probably weighs 5 pounds.
~A multi-purpose grater (it grates cheese and stuff). There were 5 or 6 of them all together in the bag. LOL!!!
~A set of 4 pretty sake glasses
~An abacus
~A corkscrew
~A set of pink measuring cups/spoons
~A Winnie-The-Pooh puzzle
~A checkers board
We ended up with a puzzle, the checkers board, and the Skittles candle/Twizzlers. Carmen wanted the candle and candy SO BADLY that she hid them under a pillow on the couch and sat on them. When one of the little boys came over and tried to steal it from her, she started crying until he decided to change his mind and take something else. ... Oh, three-year-olds, you are so funny ... At the end of the night, we traded the abacus for a 500-piece Kodak puzzle, because he would probably make better use of the abacus RIGHT NOW than we would.
I figured it would be fun to teach Carmen how to play Checkers. And the Checkers board is perfect - all of the pieces are plastic and cheap and the board will probably disintegrate in a year or two because it looks like it just laminated card board. Whoever brought that gift is a genius. Actually, ALL of the gifts at the exchange were genius! I'm so thankful for all of my friends who made this party AWESOME!!!!
Another great memory from last night is that we invited our next-door neighbors and they were gracious enough to come. When it came time for Richard to open his present, he opened the "17 Miracles" DVD and it was kind of hilarious to watch him read the back of the DVD, which proclaimed, "THE BEST FILM YET FROM MORMON CINEMA!"
"Oh, great," our friend Jonathan chimed in, "We are setting the bar pretty low here!!"
Ultimately, some Mormon who didn't own the movie went home with it. Phew. Glad it's found a new home!!
And our friend Tyler opened up the nail polish. He painted one of his nails neon green. His girlfriend, Gretchen, took home the measuring cups. Everyone was such good sports. I AM SO HAPPY. HAVE I TOLD YOU ENOUGH TIMES THAT I AM SO HAPPY OUR PARTY DIDN'T SUCK?!
But today I have a cold. I am staying home and hoping to rest and drink enough water that I can get better soon. Mark's sitting in with my Primary class (the other teacher is teaching today!) and I'm at home with the baby. Mace always cries during church because he usually takes a long nap after breakfast and wakes up around 10. (This year, church is from 8:30 to 11:30. It was good until Mace developed a sleeping schedule that involved a nap from 9ish to 10ish.) He just woke up from his nap and is happily playing on the floor, so I'm feeling pretty good despite my hot, scratchy throat and general exhausted-feeling-ness.
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Making your own baby food
I'm a cheap frugal person. If I can (easily) do something for way cheaper, I will do it. Since my whole adult life I've either been a student or a stay-at-home parent, so after studying and chores are done, finding ways to produce stuff for less is a good economic use of my time. I'm not a couponer or anything, but I generally cook my own food and shop sales.
That's part of the reason why I nurse (it's so much healthier, and formula makes poop smell gross, and formula costs money, and bottles are equipment I'll have to wash, and I'm just lazy like that!) and that's why I don't buy baby food.
I was at the grocery store the other day, and I happened to walk by the baby food aisle. Now that Mace is eating solids (and boy, is he eating!!) I buy rice cereal to mix in with stuff, but that's it. I figure a couple dollars for a big box of ... powdered rice/oats (whatever!) ... is an okay thing to spend money on. I can't make it myself. But then I look at the baby food, and think, "75 cents for a baby's-fist's-sized jar of ... peas? I can buy a whole POUND of frozen peas for a buck!!" How hard is it to boil some peas and stick 'em in a blender?
I guess then the question is, "If you make your own baby food ... do you have to make it in small batches or something so it doesn't go bad before your baby gets around to eating it? Jars of baby food are preserved." Simple solution: Freeze it! When Carmen was a baby, I read that you can put your homemade baby food into ice cube trays and freeze them. Then when it's time to eat, you just thaw the food cubes in the microwave and feed them to your baby. Voila! I fill ice cube trays with pureed food, then when they're frozen I transfer them into a big plastic Ziploc bag so I can make another batch of baby food. Easy peasy.
This is the website I use as my guide for feeding my baby. I love it, and it gives me ideas of the new foods I can introduce to my baby and when.
Mace started eating food at the beginning of November (he was about 6.5 months old). We started with rice cereal mixed with milk, then introduced applesauce and bananas and zucchini and whatnot. Applesauce is easy because you can buy it in BIG jars. Just be sure to buy applesauce that's just apples and not sugar.
Sometimes Mace wasn't a big fan of the new food I'd introduce to him. So I'd put the new food into a bowl of applesauce-rice and feed him mostly applesauce and a little bit of the new food, then increase the amount of the new food in each spoonful until he was eating the new food without complaint. Other times, I'll take one thawed cube of food (carrots, zucchini, sweet potato, whatever) and mix it into a big bowl of applesauce. I figure the flavors are mild enough that he won't notice the difference, and most of his nutrition comes from milk anyway. Supposedly. That kid eats so much it makes me wonder how he packs it all down (but he refuses to nurse more ... he wants food and squawks for it!). :p
I love how communicative Mace is about food. When he wakes up in the morning, I nurse him, and about 20 minutes later we all have breakfast together. Usually Mark makes bacon and eggs (sometimes I do) and I put Mace in his high chair. He bounces around and kicks his legs and smiles and grunts at us, and when I *finally* have his food ready, he LUNGES at the spoon and gobbles up whatever I'm feeding him. And when he's still hungry, he grunts at me and cries. If we're out somewhere and he's hungry and he sees us eating, he cries and reaches towards the food and growls "Rawwwrr, aaarrrgggghhhh!!! Um-um-um-um!!" until I let him have a little taste of whatever I'm eating that is OK for him to eat (if I'm eating out, I always try to order something that contains something Mace-friendly, or I stick a banana and a spoon in my diaper bag.) and then he lets out this really cute content noise, like, "Aaaahhh, mmmm-nom."
And it kind of makes my heart burst with love for him.
One of my favorite foods to feed him is banana, because we cut the banana in half and scoop the fruit out with a spoon. It's very self-contained and easy to do. Some people like giving their babies solid foods in little pieces to play with in their hands and feed themselves ... but I think that's very messy, so I'd rather be a clean control freak and spoon-feed them myself. When Mace gets teeth, I'll give him little bits of food he can chew on (like red bell peppers) that won't get all mushy and messy and gross.
Our schedule goes something like this:
Morning - nurse, breakfast
Then I try to go to the gym after he takes a brief nap
Noonish - nurse, lunch
Afternoon nurse
He takes a short nap at some point in the afternoon, either before or after the afternoon nursing, depending on when he gets cranky
Evening - nurse, dinner, bed.
Most of the time, the food is some kind of combination of vegetable cube mixed with applesauce, and half a banana. Mace eats 1-2 bananas a day. O.o And yet he still poops (bananas and applesauce can constipate.)
Random fact of the day: applesauce constipates (you lose a lot of the fiber when you peel apples) but apple juice helps loosen things up (because of the liquids and sugar). Both are made of apples, but have different effects. But if you REALLY need to help your kid empty their bowels, PRUNE JUICE. You can either give it to them in a bottle, or mix it with baby cereal. Rice cereal will also contribute to constipation, so you might want to switch to oat cereal.
Okay, enough about poop.
My kid sleeps from 7 to 7. Sometimes even later. HOW DID I GET SO LUCKY?! And he started sleeping through the night in September, after we moved into our house and gave him his own room (instead of, you know, our closet.)
I used to wake Mace up to nurse him around 10 or 11 before I went to bed (you know how cows love to be milked in the morning and feel uncomfortable? I HAVE SO MUCH EMPATHY FOR COWS. YOU MEN HAVE NO IDEA.) but then there were a few nights where Mace was not interested in nursing and seemed cranky that I would wake him up in the middle of the night. Your body adjusts to your nursing times, so now I no longer get SO uncomfortable at night right before I get to bed.
I love having a 7-month-old. They are so much fun, and expressive, and playful, and AWESOME. Sometimes I wish he wasn't so clingy, but the nice thing is that since he has an older sister and two cats, there are bunch of other people around to entertain him. I just can't leave him in the same room as Carmen for a long time, because eventually she leaves and he gets lonely and upset. He can craw, but he hasn't yet figured out how to switch ROOMS. He'll just beeline towards a toy and stuff it in his mouth.
Well, it's either a toy or it's cat food. NOM NOM NOM.
That's part of the reason why I nurse (it's so much healthier, and formula makes poop smell gross, and formula costs money, and bottles are equipment I'll have to wash, and I'm just lazy like that!) and that's why I don't buy baby food.
I was at the grocery store the other day, and I happened to walk by the baby food aisle. Now that Mace is eating solids (and boy, is he eating!!) I buy rice cereal to mix in with stuff, but that's it. I figure a couple dollars for a big box of ... powdered rice/oats (whatever!) ... is an okay thing to spend money on. I can't make it myself. But then I look at the baby food, and think, "75 cents for a baby's-fist's-sized jar of ... peas? I can buy a whole POUND of frozen peas for a buck!!" How hard is it to boil some peas and stick 'em in a blender?
I guess then the question is, "If you make your own baby food ... do you have to make it in small batches or something so it doesn't go bad before your baby gets around to eating it? Jars of baby food are preserved." Simple solution: Freeze it! When Carmen was a baby, I read that you can put your homemade baby food into ice cube trays and freeze them. Then when it's time to eat, you just thaw the food cubes in the microwave and feed them to your baby. Voila! I fill ice cube trays with pureed food, then when they're frozen I transfer them into a big plastic Ziploc bag so I can make another batch of baby food. Easy peasy.
This is the website I use as my guide for feeding my baby. I love it, and it gives me ideas of the new foods I can introduce to my baby and when.
Mace started eating food at the beginning of November (he was about 6.5 months old). We started with rice cereal mixed with milk, then introduced applesauce and bananas and zucchini and whatnot. Applesauce is easy because you can buy it in BIG jars. Just be sure to buy applesauce that's just apples and not sugar.
Sometimes Mace wasn't a big fan of the new food I'd introduce to him. So I'd put the new food into a bowl of applesauce-rice and feed him mostly applesauce and a little bit of the new food, then increase the amount of the new food in each spoonful until he was eating the new food without complaint. Other times, I'll take one thawed cube of food (carrots, zucchini, sweet potato, whatever) and mix it into a big bowl of applesauce. I figure the flavors are mild enough that he won't notice the difference, and most of his nutrition comes from milk anyway. Supposedly. That kid eats so much it makes me wonder how he packs it all down (but he refuses to nurse more ... he wants food and squawks for it!). :p
I love how communicative Mace is about food. When he wakes up in the morning, I nurse him, and about 20 minutes later we all have breakfast together. Usually Mark makes bacon and eggs (sometimes I do) and I put Mace in his high chair. He bounces around and kicks his legs and smiles and grunts at us, and when I *finally* have his food ready, he LUNGES at the spoon and gobbles up whatever I'm feeding him. And when he's still hungry, he grunts at me and cries. If we're out somewhere and he's hungry and he sees us eating, he cries and reaches towards the food and growls "Rawwwrr, aaarrrgggghhhh!!! Um-um-um-um!!" until I let him have a little taste of whatever I'm eating that is OK for him to eat (if I'm eating out, I always try to order something that contains something Mace-friendly, or I stick a banana and a spoon in my diaper bag.) and then he lets out this really cute content noise, like, "Aaaahhh, mmmm-nom."
And it kind of makes my heart burst with love for him.
One of my favorite foods to feed him is banana, because we cut the banana in half and scoop the fruit out with a spoon. It's very self-contained and easy to do. Some people like giving their babies solid foods in little pieces to play with in their hands and feed themselves ... but I think that's very messy, so I'd rather be a clean control freak and spoon-feed them myself. When Mace gets teeth, I'll give him little bits of food he can chew on (like red bell peppers) that won't get all mushy and messy and gross.
Our schedule goes something like this:
Morning - nurse, breakfast
Then I try to go to the gym after he takes a brief nap
Noonish - nurse, lunch
Afternoon nurse
He takes a short nap at some point in the afternoon, either before or after the afternoon nursing, depending on when he gets cranky
Evening - nurse, dinner, bed.
Most of the time, the food is some kind of combination of vegetable cube mixed with applesauce, and half a banana. Mace eats 1-2 bananas a day. O.o And yet he still poops (bananas and applesauce can constipate.)
Random fact of the day: applesauce constipates (you lose a lot of the fiber when you peel apples) but apple juice helps loosen things up (because of the liquids and sugar). Both are made of apples, but have different effects. But if you REALLY need to help your kid empty their bowels, PRUNE JUICE. You can either give it to them in a bottle, or mix it with baby cereal. Rice cereal will also contribute to constipation, so you might want to switch to oat cereal.
Okay, enough about poop.
My kid sleeps from 7 to 7. Sometimes even later. HOW DID I GET SO LUCKY?! And he started sleeping through the night in September, after we moved into our house and gave him his own room (instead of, you know, our closet.)
I used to wake Mace up to nurse him around 10 or 11 before I went to bed (you know how cows love to be milked in the morning and feel uncomfortable? I HAVE SO MUCH EMPATHY FOR COWS. YOU MEN HAVE NO IDEA.) but then there were a few nights where Mace was not interested in nursing and seemed cranky that I would wake him up in the middle of the night. Your body adjusts to your nursing times, so now I no longer get SO uncomfortable at night right before I get to bed.
I love having a 7-month-old. They are so much fun, and expressive, and playful, and AWESOME. Sometimes I wish he wasn't so clingy, but the nice thing is that since he has an older sister and two cats, there are bunch of other people around to entertain him. I just can't leave him in the same room as Carmen for a long time, because eventually she leaves and he gets lonely and upset. He can craw, but he hasn't yet figured out how to switch ROOMS. He'll just beeline towards a toy and stuff it in his mouth.
Well, it's either a toy or it's cat food. NOM NOM NOM.
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Summing up the year, part 1
Summary of the year:
January - March: Spent most of the time being pregnant. Funny how that takes over your life - you spend a lot of time just trying to keep everything together and it's exhausting! I tried to keep myself busy with crafting, play group, book club, going to the Children's Museum with Carmen, etc.
April - Mace was born! The first few months after having a baby are a blur - you're up feeding every 3 hours and hormones are a wreck. Also, Mace was tongue-tied: that's where the frenulum, the thing under your tongue that holds it down, is connected all the way to the tip and you can't stick your tongue out. It makes nursing really hard and painful until the doctor clips it.
May - Carmen's birthday, Mark's birthday, Big Carmen's wedding, Jocelyn and Andrew's wedding.
"Big Carmen" is the girl whom my Carmen is named after. We became friends in 6th grade, and she ... well, I can't really put into words how special she is and how much she means to me.
Unfortunately, both Carmen and Mace were miserable throughout the whole ceremony so I ended up being the only one to attend while Mark went out in the hall and drove the kids around. O.o; But it was lovely, the cake was delicious, and I thought it was incredibly sweet Carmen's mom remembers I don't drink and let me drink sparkling white grape juice with the little kids while everyone else toasted with champagne. LOL. I LOVE BEING MORMON SO MUCH.
Also, a few weeks ago, she texted me and told me she's pregnant! She's so excited!! I'm excited, too! And I'm sure you're NOT wondering, but I doubt she'll name her kid "Kamis" to reciprocate my naming a child after her. ;)
A few days after returning from Carmen's wedding in Dallas, my friend Jocelyn married Andrew. Jocelyn's daughter, Zoe, is friends with Carmen. We met Jocelyn when we first moved here, and it was about the same time she and Andrew started dating.
The ceremony was lovely, and my favorite part was when Andrew read the vows he wrote for Zoe.
He gave her a necklace with a ring on it.
And since I'm talking about babies ... Jocelyn is expecting a little girl any day now. (Gosh, now it's going to be embarrassing if I find out she had her baby over Thanksgiving and I never found out about it. If it's not on Facebook, it didn't happen, right??!)
May was the time when Mark started looking for a new job in earnest, because two things happened: there was a meeting with the higher-ups where he presented his ideas and they said it sounded interesting, then his immediate supervisors came to him after they left and were basically like, "By the way, so you know, it totally ain't happenin'. Go back to your cubicle and give up your dreams." and then he got his annual review where they essentially said, "We have no idea what he's actually doing, but other people say he's good at it, so we think he's doing okay." No matter how much you love your office manager and a few of your coworkers, when your job gives you such miserable feedback and makes you so depressed, it is time to look for a new job if you can.
(Carmen with Diane, the office manager, at the work BBQ. I miss that lady!)
At the end of the summer, Mark's work had a BBQ (this was before he found this other job). Of course, it was the ONE weekend it rained all summer and the activity was outdoors. Luckily it stopped raining for a little while and we had a lovely time. :) Also, we played Bingo and I won the final prize - an iPod nano! ... if anyone wants an iPod nano, let me know. We have a bajillion iPods and need to get rid of them.
Story: Once upon a time, I wanted an iPod. I asked for one for YEARS, and finally after 6 years, my dad gave me one for my birthday! (By this point, I had given up on the iPod thing.) So I put music on it and at Thanksgiving, I somehow managed to lose it at the Coast house (where we go almost every summer with Mark's family - Mark's dad's siblings got together and bought a house on the Oregon coast). Mark got an iPod Touch for Christmas one year, and we thought we lost it driving home so we bought another one. The day after the new iPod Touch arrived, I found it between the front seats of the car (I swear it was invisible before!! It had been almost a MONTH since it disappeared!) ... A year or so later, I got a phone call from Mark's aunt, saying they were at the Coast house and found a lump in the recliner and discovered my iPod. WHAT. SERIOUSLY. .... So then we had two iPod touches and my old iPod back. Then I won an iPod nano. And then this summer I needed to get a new phone (it was about 3 years old and if it shook too hard the battery would disconnect and turn off my phone ... so my phone would be off for hours at a time and I wouldn't notice.) so I upgraded to a free smart phone. So now I REALLY don't need my iPod touch, much less 3 other iPods. O.o;
Er, anyway. So yes. iPod. Want one? Everyone's already got one. Sigh!
January - March: Spent most of the time being pregnant. Funny how that takes over your life - you spend a lot of time just trying to keep everything together and it's exhausting! I tried to keep myself busy with crafting, play group, book club, going to the Children's Museum with Carmen, etc.
April - Mace was born! The first few months after having a baby are a blur - you're up feeding every 3 hours and hormones are a wreck. Also, Mace was tongue-tied: that's where the frenulum, the thing under your tongue that holds it down, is connected all the way to the tip and you can't stick your tongue out. It makes nursing really hard and painful until the doctor clips it.
May - Carmen's birthday, Mark's birthday, Big Carmen's wedding, Jocelyn and Andrew's wedding.
"Big Carmen" is the girl whom my Carmen is named after. We became friends in 6th grade, and she ... well, I can't really put into words how special she is and how much she means to me.
Also, a few weeks ago, she texted me and told me she's pregnant! She's so excited!! I'm excited, too! And I'm sure you're NOT wondering, but I doubt she'll name her kid "Kamis" to reciprocate my naming a child after her. ;)
A few days after returning from Carmen's wedding in Dallas, my friend Jocelyn married Andrew. Jocelyn's daughter, Zoe, is friends with Carmen. We met Jocelyn when we first moved here, and it was about the same time she and Andrew started dating.
The ceremony was lovely, and my favorite part was when Andrew read the vows he wrote for Zoe.
He gave her a necklace with a ring on it.
And since I'm talking about babies ... Jocelyn is expecting a little girl any day now. (Gosh, now it's going to be embarrassing if I find out she had her baby over Thanksgiving and I never found out about it. If it's not on Facebook, it didn't happen, right??!)
May was the time when Mark started looking for a new job in earnest, because two things happened: there was a meeting with the higher-ups where he presented his ideas and they said it sounded interesting, then his immediate supervisors came to him after they left and were basically like, "By the way, so you know, it totally ain't happenin'. Go back to your cubicle and give up your dreams." and then he got his annual review where they essentially said, "We have no idea what he's actually doing, but other people say he's good at it, so we think he's doing okay." No matter how much you love your office manager and a few of your coworkers, when your job gives you such miserable feedback and makes you so depressed, it is time to look for a new job if you can.
At the end of the summer, Mark's work had a BBQ (this was before he found this other job). Of course, it was the ONE weekend it rained all summer and the activity was outdoors. Luckily it stopped raining for a little while and we had a lovely time. :) Also, we played Bingo and I won the final prize - an iPod nano! ... if anyone wants an iPod nano, let me know. We have a bajillion iPods and need to get rid of them.
Story: Once upon a time, I wanted an iPod. I asked for one for YEARS, and finally after 6 years, my dad gave me one for my birthday! (By this point, I had given up on the iPod thing.) So I put music on it and at Thanksgiving, I somehow managed to lose it at the Coast house (where we go almost every summer with Mark's family - Mark's dad's siblings got together and bought a house on the Oregon coast). Mark got an iPod Touch for Christmas one year, and we thought we lost it driving home so we bought another one. The day after the new iPod Touch arrived, I found it between the front seats of the car (I swear it was invisible before!! It had been almost a MONTH since it disappeared!) ... A year or so later, I got a phone call from Mark's aunt, saying they were at the Coast house and found a lump in the recliner and discovered my iPod. WHAT. SERIOUSLY. .... So then we had two iPod touches and my old iPod back. Then I won an iPod nano. And then this summer I needed to get a new phone (it was about 3 years old and if it shook too hard the battery would disconnect and turn off my phone ... so my phone would be off for hours at a time and I wouldn't notice.) so I upgraded to a free smart phone. So now I REALLY don't need my iPod touch, much less 3 other iPods. O.o;
Er, anyway. So yes. iPod. Want one? Everyone's already got one. Sigh!
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