Well, here I am!

I'm still trying to work out exactly what to do here. I wanted to generate my own styles, so I could embed this in my page, but they don't seem to use the defaults I'm used to. Must look at documentation, I suppose.

Mood thingie, eh?

Yep, still working out the kinks.

How odd.

Was just leafing through my little sister's entries. It occurs to me there's a lot I don't know about my siblings, even though I think we're closer than most sibs are. It looks like she and Eryk are very close, but it was a lot like that when we were kids, too. Robyn and Eryk played together much more than I played alone with either one of them. I think it was probably because I was put in the Guardian role when our mom went back to work -- we were "latchkey" kids then, and I was the one who was supposed to be responsible for stuff like putting dinner in the oven and making sure no one died. So I think in a lot of ways I lost out on play. But then, both of them have always been more creative than me, so their games often were more imaginative than I could manage. Even now, they can both just make up stories out of thin air to tell, where I just draw a blank. Makes me jealous :)

And now that I've got kids, there's that, too. I can't just run off and join them on an adventure (though once the wee ones are older, I bet that would be fun). And since my husband and firstborn are very allergic to cats, I can't usually go with them to visit our parents (who both have lots of cats), so I miss out on that bonding, too. Even though we all live within 15 miles of each other -- Robyn and I within 3.3 miles of each other -- we only see each other maybe twice a month. Sure, it's more than our mother sees her siblings, or our father sees his, or even David sees his, but they were never terribly close anyway. Sometimes I wish I had the freedom to just jump in the car and go like they do, but of course I love my children (it still feels strange to type that!), even if they make things a little more restrictive.

But anyway, I hope this medium can draw us all together, even more than we are now.