New Feature
I would like to draw your attention to the status update section I have recently added to the top of my sidebar. As you can see, these are little announcements as to what I'm doing, or what messes I'm making, or what I'm thinking about at the moment. The goal being for me to update it at least once a day.

Vocal Chord Update
I am happy to report that my throat feels infinitely better and there seems to be no lasting damage to my vocal chords. I shall now endeavor not to treat those chords so badly in the future.

I'm not actually very good at stealth operations
Alright, so yesterday I was sneaking down the hall during naptime. I was feeling like a spy because so far I was getting by without being heard...I could hear Philip singing to himself

...and on that farm he had a pig, E-I-E-I-O
with a moo moo here and a moo moo there...

Then, alas. Ninja fail. I made a semi loud noise and the E-I-E-I-O's stopped. Philip called out very carefully -- "who is der?" His counterpart in crime, also not sleeping, called back from across the hall "don't you know! that noise is you!" This confused him and I thought my ninja identity would be saved. "it was me?"

"yes! it was your crib. it makes that squeaky noise."
"oh. dat's okay. it was my crib make dat noise."

Kind of like Marlin from Finding Nemo convincing the forgetful Dory that he was the voice of her conscience....ha.


Counting Down the Days
Perhaps you are not so aware as I am myself, but it is
50 days till choir tour
65 days till prom
79 days till graduation

The prom obsessing has already began. People are already making limo and dinner reservations...I'm not saying I don't already have the dress and I'm not going to deny occasionally thinking about it, but it still seems like such a long time till prom to be making such a fuss about it. :-)