Blogging - Why?

I must say, I was happy to see that Alyssa tagged me, 'cause I kinda felt left out. Poor me :( Hardly anyone's reading my blog anymore.

Actually, it was Zig and Alyssa who got me started on blogging. We were hanging out one night, and somehow got to talking about their blogs. I went online to check them out and decided I would start blogging. At first, it was easy - summer is more eventful than winter, I guess. Plus, I've just been feeling so crappy lately that I'm finding I really can't think of anything to write about. Through their blogs I happenstanced on Logziella , Reggie , and Guru among many others. Then, I realized my SIL Ali was blogging and my other SIL started after I did (to help us feel more connected to her family since they're so far away now). So, there you go. Here's one of my favourite posts from my first blogging days:

September 22, 2006

I know most of you are wondering "What or who the heck is jlippi?" So, here's the story of jlippi (whose name does not deserve capital letters).

This past July, my husband, sister-in-law, her husband and I, all piled into our tiny little Chevy Aveo 5 and drove 32 hours down to visit my other sister-in-law, her husband and 3 children in North Carolina. Some of you may not be able to imagine the things that happen on a trip so long in such a small space with 4 crazy relatives. I'm here to give you some advice. "DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS, UNLESS IN DIRE CIRCUMSTANCES (dire - definition: extremely serious or urgent)!" Well, okay, it wasn't that bad. Besides the wrong turns, marital disputes, annoying accents, lack of sleep, cramped legs, disgusting gas station bathrooms, almost getting killed by a semi on the freeway, smelly breath, bad food (that gives you gas), roadkill and general crankiness, all in all it was a really fun time :p

jlippi. We named our car jlippi after the trip. jlippi, with a silent 'j'. How do I start?

There's this game we play, called SOLO, it's very much like UNO, just a little more fast paced with a few twists and turns. So, we're sitting and waiting for Claire (the mother of 3) to come and play SOLO. We're waiting... and waiting...... and waiting......... So, I get up to get a snack, BOL is sitting quiet and patiently, hubby is hollering for oldest sis, the 7 year old is getting very impatient, along with Auntie (the 21 year old). So Auntie decides to start drawing. It begins innocently (even though she's not a drawing artist but rather a painter, as you'll see later). The Russian accent comes out (see: annoying accents) and she begins to form jlippi. The duck with lips (is it really a duck? I'm not sure). Maybe it's a cross between a duck and a pigeon?!? You tell me.

I also have a video on our camera with jlippi, in jlippi, but I can't figure out how to load it to the computer, and then I'd also have to know how to link it here. I may be computer literate, but I definitely can't do that much.

So, a few weeks ago, auntie and her husband (BOL) were over at our house helping with painting the basement. Auntie didn't feel too great about her "house painting" abilities. So, she took it upon herself to do some artwork on our faux fireplace. The problem now is, I can still see it through the first layer of paint. Does anyone have a solution? I think I'm gonna try a light sanding, maybe that will get rid of the profanity :o I thought you might need to see the original to be able to give some advice:



jlippi LIVES ON!!!

Hope y'all enjoyed that one - that is, those of you who are still my faithful blog readers :p BTW - we pretty much got rid of the POOP by sanding a bit and doing a second layer of paint.

I'm tagging SIL Ali, Peaches and Bowering - hope you guys are up for it :)