Back From the Mama-Fog

Time's been slipping by, oily and smooth like a bite of pudding. Mr. Baby continues to get fatter and cuter and more interactive every day. I have no idea why I've been so...not compelled to blog. I'm actually getting decent amounts of sleep most nights, and my days are not totally one-handed anymore, but blogging just hasn't been priority lately. Weird. I might as well start it up again though, because strangely enough the more you write, the more you want to write, and the less you write, the less you want to write. Funny, that.

Anyway! I have wasted so much time surfing around on the 'net tonight that I have just a couple little things to put down here before bedtime.

1) Yes, I have seen Revenge of the Sith already. Twice. I will do a review in a separate entry, there's much to say and I have no patience for it now. In a nutshell though: I liked it best of the most recent three, but I was disappointed in some of it. Totally worth seeing though. And R2-D2 rocks the free world.

2) My old friend the Attorney Wrangler now has a blog. She's such an excellent writer, and I've been nagging her for the longest time to start her own blog. She's always sent out little observations and stories to a mailing list of her friends, so she's pretty much already been doing a blog, but keeping it private. We cornered her the other night when she was over for dinner and got her set up on our server so that she had nothing left to stop her. You should all go read her site and welcome her to the blogosphere.

3) Recent books read:
-Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond (ok, well, I'm about 3 chapters from the end of this actually, but even though I'm having a hard time finishing it, I thought it was a tremendously great book, illuminating and nicely written)
-My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki (excellent book--quirky, original topic, beautifully written, great characters...I really liked this book)
-The Girl Who Played Go by Shan Sa (a little gem of a book, which although artfully written, was just not my style and therefore I didn't enjoy it as much as others I know who've read it did)

4) The baby was sick again last weekend (just another cold, thanks for asking) but has been improving all week. Yesterday, however, I finally caught the damn cold and now I'm feeling sorry for myself. At least it's a mild one (so far, knock on wood and all that).

5) I've been getting comments on my novel from Critters, and they're making me want to just fiddle with what I've already written rather than keep going and write new stuff. This is potentially dangerous. I feel like the whole thing is so...stopped. On hold. Which it is, I guess. Someday the muse will come back. Maybe I need to indulge in some sort of ritual sacrifice or something.

That'll have to do. I once again have stayed up too late. So much for that "mmm, bath" idea.