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Loving those After Hours

Today, as every other Tuesday (and Wednesday, and Saturday) I go to the YMCA for a spinning class--which I love, and need, if it's just to get out for an hour. After a 15 minute warm-up, and 10 minutes into the actual class, a nursery worker came and gave me 'the wave'. Uh-oh, baby is sick. Fairly high fever. Hmm...so that's why he didn't finish his oatmeal this morning. We've been taking it easy today, and Lukka took not one...but two naps, and even though one was only about 35 minutes, it was SO nice for him to take one during the day. If you've been following his blog, you would know he has been skimping out on these for the past week and a half, and it hasn't been pretty (seriously, don't know how you moms with more than 1 do it!). The second was about 2 1/2 hours. This was such a great thing for me, who has been going 12-12 1/2 hours every day! I was ready for a coffee break for goodness' sake...or, since I don't drink coffee--a Sour Apple Martini break!

Recipe: 1 shot of Sour Apple Pucker and about 3 shots of Sprite = lovely after-hours drink. If you order these at bar or resturant, they are usually WAY stronger, I don't like to taste the overbearing 'paint -peeling' quality in mine, though. (Sorry moms that are pregnant, gotta wait awhile!)


In other news, I am half way through my book, They Like Jesus but Not the Church, and to be quite honest, I find the author extremely annoying. He has great points, but three paragraphs to explain his interviewees' opinions at the beginning of every chapter is really irriating to me. Why not just write a disclaimer? Oh wait, he did that, too. Oh well, 100 pages left and I can move onto better things.

A Few Questions for my readers:

1) How do I put videos onto the blog without putting them on Youtube? Is this possible?
2) How do I put a song (that I own already on iTunes) onto the blog? Don't worry, it will be HCJr.-esque.
3) What is your favorite cocktail?

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