Accomplishing something

Not feeling well and thought creating something might improve my mood. Had yarn handy so made.this Ravenclaw intarsia crochet thing (it's sideways in the picture unless I figure out how to rotate it on the phone). Pattern from Leaky. Thought I'd make a cell phone cozy out of it but it's a bit too big so no idea what I'll wind up doing with it. But I did something today, right?

Test mobile post

Blogger FINALLY responded to my mobile register attempts so this is a test post from my bberry. Not sure how it will show up as author, if it will mark these as mobile posts at all, but the predictive writing software on the bberry can make some amusing errors sometimes (as demonstrated on my twitter feed) and I'm usually splitting my attention so I don't always catch the errors to correct them - can't exactly touch type on this thing to watch what is showing up on the screen & often need to switch to kid monitoring mid-word so can't reread before sending to catch the errors.

These are sent via mms so I may post pictures tha way also. Hopefully it'll allow me to blog a little more regularly by freeing me from needing to be at a desk/computer to post (I spend a lot of time sitting in my van with D sleeping in the back seat while L is at school in the mornings, then they are energetic together in the afternoons and need closer supervision now that L doesn't nap most days, so I'm pretty zonked by the time G gets home and/or desperately want to be out of the house since I can't really manage both kids alone in unconfined areas with my physical limitations. I get really starved for adult conversation/interactions when D has napped several mornings in a row. When he stays awake I often hang out in one of the motorized carts at Target with him in a front carrier just to be out around adults, but he's getting too heavy for my back to tolerate carrying him and too curious to appreciate being restrained).

Not sure if there is a character count limit on mms messages like there is on txt messages so this is kinda testing that too I guess.

Yes, I'm still alive

OK, so it's been ages and ages since I've updated this thing. My hands have been rather full with the kids and other offline stuff (as well as other online distractions) and I haven't felt motivated to blog. I got a BlackBerry Flip a week and a half ago, which prompted me to finally sign up for a unlimited messaging plan (I've had a cell phone since 1999 but I can count on one hand how many txt messages I sent before 10 days ago). Since I tend to be out of the house with D while Liam's in Pre-K in the mornings (which is also why I've been too exhausted to blog - being out with a mobile toddler is a lot of stress for my back so I've been pretty zonked out when I get home, then tending both kids prevents much blogging). I've been using Twitter heavily since getting the BlackBerry, I much prefer typing on it to typing on a standard phone keyboard (my brain thinks in QWERTY not ABC1 DEF2 from being a very fast touch typist for more than half my life). I've just installed the widget on this blog (to your right on the screen) so that my Twitter updates will appear here, and you can follow me directly on there (as well as see the various things I've tweeted in the last 10 days - all 80+ things I've tweeted in the last 10 days *blush*). http://twitter.com/dragonmama (same username, convenient, eh?).

I've got a draft of a post for here that has details of what I've been up to for the last year, including pictures, but I'm getting significant glances from D right now so don't dare try to work on that. Tried to just snap a picture of D's significant look but he reaches for the camera (aka my bberry in this case) instead of giving me the same look again. Not as easy to be stealthy with the cell as it is with the regular camera for some reason.