Addicted to lolcats.
I’m addicted to lolcats, and now I’ve hooked Lou too. We check ICanHasCheezburger? daily. I just made these, which I suspect means either the beginning of a new level of obsession, or the start of me getting over it.
Bonus Bazmo photo!
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Oliver turns one!
Wow, that was quick. It doesn’t seem too long ago that Ollie was born, yet today he turns one year old! The first four months were pretty difficult but things settled down after that and the rest of the year has gone by in a blur. He took his first unassisted steps this afternoon - impeccable timing!
We had a birthday party for him at playgroup (easier to clean up!), and I’ve put a few photos online here - a handful really, as I’ve had to exclude all those which included people whose faces I wouldn’t be comfortable putting on the internet without their permission. As for me, I’ve almost given up any hope of privacy online - an idea which I’m currently embracing rather than fighting (although I’ve seesawed on that one before and may do again).
In other news, I managed to get to about lunchtime on July 21st before caving in and buying the new Harry Potter book. We don’t own any of the others and I’d been planning to borrow it (as I intend to buy a box set once it (inevitably) comes out), but I decided the risk of having the ending spoilt was just too great. I read it pretty much every chance I got over the weekend, and finished it at 1AM on Monday morning. Do you think anybody spoke a word about Harry Potter to me on Monday at work?? Of course they didn’t. Lou started it at breakfast on Tuesday and had finished it comfortably before bedtime - still a much faster reader than I am!
It was good: I’ve really enjoyed the series and I think it’ll survive as a classic of children’s/teenage fiction, if nothing else. I’d like to see more of the world of the novels explored, so my hope is that if/when Rowlings revisits it she might choose to do so from the perspective of another character (preferably someone new, or at least not a primary character from the HP novels).
Well, that about covers it for now, I think.