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Last night five friends and I went to see "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". It has Brad Pitt in it. Do I need to say more?

It was a really good movie. It's based on an F. Scott Fitzgerald book and now I really want to read the book. I may have to go to the library today after work. I would definitely recommend the movie to everyone.

New Shoes

We had a bit of a warm up today. I think the temperature got up to about 55 degrees. And in one day, we lost all of the snow that we had. There was probably a foot of snow in our yard and now it's almost all gone. That is very depressing to me.

I went running this morning and fully expected that I would be running in the road due to ignorant people that never bothered to clear their sidewalks after the last snow. Because the snow was melting, the stuff that was on the sidewalks had turned to ice. Solid ice. At one point I couldn't stop sliding. I thought for sure I was going to seriously hurt myself. At that point I said "F it" and went into the street.

Needless-to-say, I did not get my Yak Trax that I asked for. (I will be ordering them this week) When I got back home from my run I told Mr. Jeep I needed new shoes. He came up with a brilliant idea that never occurred to me...trail running shoes for winter! Genius! So we made a trip to the store today and I bought a new pair of running shoes. I'm very excited to wear them tomorrow.

Merry Belated Christmas

Wow! I didn't realize that it has been almost a month since I've posted anything. How horrible of me! I think the Christmas preparations have been keeping me busy. Christmas this year was a blast with LC. This is the first year that she actually understood what was going on and got the whole Santa thing. It was so much fun. She wanted two things from Santa: a doll/baby and a princess bear. A princess bear?? What?? That's what I said when she told me that's what she wanted. Being the good, I mean great, mom that I am, I googled "princess bear". And do you know how many flippin' princess bear hits came up? More than I could have imagined! I clicked on the Toys R Us link and they sell teddy bears dressed in Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Belle dresses. They were only $14.99 so I thought that wasn't too bad. What was too bad was that because I'm cheap I didn't want to pay the shipping, so Mr. Jeep and I went to the actual store. Luckily we went on a Thursday evening two weeks before Christmas. It wasn't that busy, but still too busy for me. As far as I'm concerned, LC never needs to know that Toys R Us exists.

The doll that Santa brought LC was also a major hit. I bought her a Chou Chou doll. If you don't know what they are, they are about the size of a newborn. There are several different types of dolls. The one Santa brought is called an interactive one. When you put the bottle to her mouth she makes drinking sounds, put her teddy bear on her belly and she says a couple different things, put her bib on and she says something about being hungry and a couple other things. Plus she randomly says several other phrases. Here's a picture:

She's a pretty cute doll. She was also the least freaky looking doll that I came across. LC loves her and has been taking her everywhere. Santa scored big time on this one. The other cool thing is that newborn clothes fit her. So when Mom to Mom sales (may be known as simply a rummage sale in other areas) start up again, I'll be buying newborn clothes for LC's doll.

She got a ton of stuff, way more than she needs. She also got a camera for Christmas. By 2:00 p.m. Christmas day LC already had 90 pictures on the camera. She has quite a few of my butt. And it wasn't like the pictures were an accident, whe was deliberately walking up behind me and snapping the pictures. She would say, "Ha, ha momma! I'm taking a picture of your bottom!" Whatever makes her happy!