midnight scatterbrained mania

Stupid thing #1 : blogging at 1am. I should have been asleep hours ago. I will pay for this tomorrow.
Stupid thing #2 : deciding carelessly at 4:30pm to have a coffee, when your body is no longer accustomed to caffeine cycling in it. Nice. Thus facilitating stupid thing #1.

But since I'm up...
Yeah for inspiration! I have been musically dormant for a number of months, unable to find my mojo. Partly because I found I wasn't hearing anything that inspired me. I heard some today, yeah! Chris and I went to a ceilidh in Judique today with Mairi Rankin rockin out and Jackie Dunn-MacIsaac on piano. MAN Mairi is playing great, and it so got me all wound up, and looking to play again. Which is good, cause I was not happy in my stumped lethargy.

Otherwise, I am featured in an article in the November issue of Celtic Heritage magazine. This is their website, but it hasn't been updated for the current issue, and I don't see anywhere where a person can just buy one issue, I only see subscription options. Stinky. I am going to phone them, so if I learn anything more on that subject, for any interested parties, I will post the info. I wish I had seen the article, to know if I wanted anybody else to see it first!! Oh well! I'm being bold.
http://www.celticheritage.ns.ca/index.htm

So Anna and I went to church this morning. At one point, apparently, Anna found that the minister was a little long-winded in his prayer, and she piped up in a strong voice, "We thank You God for ALL these things, in Jesus' name, AMEN."

At which point, of course, myself and the people next to me nearly split themselves laughing. It was a beautiful moment. She is too much.

Then later in the nursery, I was with her, watching the kids, and she is just so grown up, it was hilarious watching her interact with the other kids. There was a kid 6 mo. older than her who kept kinda crying and pouting, and she kept going over to him, saying, "Awww, Sweety... it's ok," while petting his arm. Then she would come over to me to report, "He doesn't yike it. He's cwying." Then there was another one a couple months younger who was really shy and wouldn't go play wth the toys. So Anna took it upon herself to look after her too, so she kept delivering toys to her, trying to engage her and draw her out. SOO funny to me, esp. in the face of so many people's fears and comments that she would be socially inept because she spends 'too much time just at home with only her mother, and doesn't learn how to interact with other people.' I wish those people could have seen her this morning. If anything, she is more gregarious than any other kid she's had a chance to play with so far.

I'll take this opportunity for a complaint.
I am so homesick. Blech. Oh well. I have had a couple moments recently, even today, where I felt this suffocating sense of not being able to be me. It made me want to scream, jump around like a monkey and be really in-your-face sassy, as if to say, "and you thought THAT was annoying!" Of course, I did nothing, but stand and maybe look distant for a second, while I imagined myself with people who better received me... then continued on.

I am excited about Anna's Christmas presents. We ordered online all Irish stuff for her. 2 cartoon videos in Irish, 2 music cds and 2 books, of a series she already likes, so that's cool. Actually, one of the dvds is of Dora the Explorer overdubbed in Irish! Isn't that hilarious??!?? I cracked up when I saw it, and could not pass it up. These resources will be SO helpful for BOth of us. She needs to hear it from someone else other than me. I recently realized, she has never heard a conversation in Irish! She only hears one side of a conversation, ME. No wonder she doesn't understand how to respond to me usually, even though she knows the words, and understands whatever I say. So the videos esp. will be good for her. And for me too, to be hearing it more.

My morning sickness is now sticking to mornings, just a couple hours. Much more do-able. Now I'm starting to get excited about the prospect of what this little person will be like. So much potential, excitement, anticipation, and it's only beginning!

hmm... I guess that's about it.