Holiday question to ponder

Why does it only take about 12 minutes to return the empty holiday boxes to the basement, when it took over 30 minutes to get them from the basement into my office during Michael's nap? I can't believe that not putting the tree back in the absement took that muych more time.

Oh well, the tree is up. My front door is officially blocked until the tree comes down. Nobody better ring the broken doorbell. Most of the decorations are up. The cards are pretty much written, addressed and stamped. I just need to verify they have enough postage to mail. I know the European ones do not. I think the only thing left to do, is dig out the holiday music, bake the goodies and wrap the presents. Yes, the presents have been purchased.

I started early this year since everything takes a bit longer when you only have acouple hours when you know who is sleeping/napping to get things done without help. I'm not sure if I'll keep the baby-gate up in front of the alcove where the tree is. It kind of ruins the effect and Michael does wander downstairs when it's not at the top of the stairs. I tend to like to have him on the smae floor as me. We'll see.

In Service Day & 23 Things

Well, More Things on a Stick are coming supposedly in January of 09. Yikes, I do not remember all those passwords and accounts. A few I kept using using, so I changed the passwords etc. to things I'd remember better. Some I haven't gone back and looked at since I signed up for the account. Hopefully they purged me after I did not come back so I can sign up for new accounts if I need to. I won an address book to put all those passwords into. Oh joy. Now if I could just remember them to begin with.

Online photo site for Michael's pictures

Well, I finally put an online album up. I had played around with Adobe's site, but was not comfortable with the fact it creates an url that someone could stumble accross and get access to my pictures. I used Flickr for 23 things and it was ok, but I wasn't impressed with the albums. I glanced at Picasa, but really didn't another prgram on my computer.

I went with Canon. I had purchased my camera from them and they offered me a trial. I can put photos up for an album. I can chose whether or not to password protect it, I also can chose whether others can easily print/download the photos. etc. It's easier to use and access than Adobe, with less chance of someone stumbling across it due to the password possibility.

So if you are interested in seeing photos of my son Michael, send me an email with your name and how I know you and I'll consider sending you the url and password. I figure most of the people looking at it will be relatives...