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This week at the Daily Short Stack...

noreply@blogger.com (Your Daily Short Stack) — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:07:00 +0000

Got to enjoy some quality time with Mr. Short and Munchkin Short.
Encouraged Munchkin Short to 'dance' A LOT. She does this 'dance' where she stands in one spot and stomps her foot repeatedly, it cracks me and Mr. Short up every time.
Took Munchkin Short to the doctor for what should be her 1 year Well Child appointment, but is closer to her 15 month Well Child. Learned that she is almost 26 lbs., hitting all her milestones just fine and then she got her last Polio shot. We are still debating the other shots. She won't be getting the Chickenpox vaccine unless she doesn't get Chickenpox by the age of 12, then we will have to seriously consider giving her the vaccine. The two that we are left to ponder are the MMR and the season flu. Now, the MMR leaves me hesistant for a couple reasons, one being that it seems unnecessary because all three illness are usually mild and she has a very small chance of actually contracting, the second being that it is a live virus vaccine that can on very rare occasions actually cause the illnesses they are designed to prevent. I am just not the type to inject her with unnecessary anything to protect others, that logic isn't all that logical in my mind. The seasonal flu vaccine just plain bothers both me and Mr. Short. Chances are she won't be getting either.
Did a fair amount of crafting, compared to how much I usually get to do in a week. I made 5 cards and several hair bows. I am really trying to build up a stockpile of crafted items to place in my Etsy shop that I will be opening soon. I am working with my brother's girlfriend on a fundraiser for an organization she is a part of. She is going to be gathering orders for me to make handmade cards. This opportunity will get my name and Etsy store out there, which really excites me. I love crafting of all different sorts and the idea of crafting for a living is a dream, a real dream.
Did Mr. Short's taxes finally. I say finally because we have been waiting for his W-2 since the first of the year. The company that he works for posts their W-2 on a website so they can easily access them incase they lose the one that comes in the mail or it doesn't show up for whatever reason. Last year his tax return was quite large, so we were like kids trying to sleep on Christmas Eve waiting to do his taxes this year. This year's refund I think is slightly larger than last years. We are just excited to use the money to take care of some things and to purchase some items that we have been wanting. You know, those larger purchases that you put off until a large sum of money falls into your lap? I am most excited to get a digital SLR camera. I have wanted such a camera since before last year's refund and I almost got one last year with the refund but decided to wait a little longer and do some research so that I knew what I wanted. Well, this is the year. We need a camera with better picture quality than a point-and-shoot for these blogs as well as for my Etsy shop. I think we will also be getting some external hard drives to store videos and pictures on so our computers don't get bogged down. We still have to sit down and nail down a list of things that we will be doing with the refund money, but no matter what we do, we are excited.
Went to the Secretary of State to renew the registration and my license. I know that doesn't sound exciting, but whenever something like that is finally taken care of I feel a huge weight off my shoulders and I feel like such an adult. So, we are insured, registered and I am licensed, it feels good. Yea, I'm lame.

I think that just about sums up our uber-exciting week. I know, it was thrilling. Ha ha!

I have been posted to the movie and music category blogs, granted the posts were a little late, but hey, I am just trying to get used to this posting routine. Anyhoo, check those out by clicking the navigation buttons at the top of this blog.

Until next week,
Mrs. Short

So, this is how it is going to go down...

noreply@blogger.com (Your Daily Short Stack) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:11:00 +0000

Well, it is time to get this show on the road. It is time to get this group of blogs up and running. I wanted to take this opportunity to all you out there in internet world what our schedule is going to look like for an average week and such.

First, there are 6 blogs in our group of blogs, each blog designed for blogging about a specific category, and then we have a YouTube channel as well, where we will post anything and everything that our little hearts desire to post. The YouTube channel will probably be mostly vlog style videos, although we do have some ideas for some skits, but with a one year old in the house (our daughter, little Munchkin Short) coordinating skits could be difficult. We will see what it turns into.

So, for the blogging schedule:
Sunday: Style
Monday: Books
Tuesday: Gossip
Wednesday: Movies
Thursday: Music
Friday: Our lives or miscellaneous stuff posted here, on the hub
Saturday: YouTube

The collection of blogs has been set up so that each category has its own unique blogging address so that you can subscribe to whatever categories you are interested in without getting notifications for categories that you aren't. The same navigation bar appears across the top of all the blogs, allowing you to easily jump from one to another.

For the next week or two the pictures, if any are posted, will be taken with a point-and-shoot camera. I will do my best to edit them to look better than they would without it, but don't worry, we are upgrading our camera soon so that we can give you better quality pictures.

What else?

Oh yea, you might not know us. So, about us.

There are three of us, Mr. Short, Mrs. Short (that is me) and Munchkin Short (our 1 year old daughter).
Mr. Short works in retail, Mrs. Short works from home as a freelance writer and full-time mother and Munchkin Short earns her keep by doing a lot of ridiculously cute things.
Mr. Short is into all aspects of music production and a little bit of drawing. Mrs. Short loves all things craft, Mr. Short sometimes refers to her as the next Martha Stewart. Munchkin Short loves Pooh Bear, Disney movies and food.
Mr. Short is 30, Mrs. Short is 25; Mr. Shorts birthday is exactly 5 years and 1 week before mine. (That is just the beginning of the freaky overlapping of our lives, more on that later.)
I don't know if Mr. Short will appreciate me sharing this, but I just have to, we will be trying for another Munchkin Short starting in the fall of 2010, and I can't wait! I love being pregnant, labor and, of course, having a new little sweet smelling baby.
We hope that these blogs and our YouTube channel will turn into a community. We want to share our lives with you and have you share your lives with us. We love comments on blog posts, comments on videos, video responses, and anything else community. The internet can seem so big and cold, so we want to create a warm little corner to hang out in with all of you wonderfuls.

Well, I think that is about it for now. Normal schedule postings will begin tonight on Your Daily Movie Stack, so keep your eyes peeled. We look forward to getting to know anyone and everyone who is interested in getting to know us.

Mrs. Short

noreply@blogger.com (Your Daily Short Stack) — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:28:00 +0000