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Did you know Pandora has a monthly listening limit?
I did.
I just found out yesterday.


Apparently they only allow 40 free hours of listening per computer per month. What?!! ... The fact that I have already reached this limit and it's only St. Patty's day (aka the middle of the month) means, I do a lot of Pandora listening. A LOT. As in, it's on all the time. I like to have music on in the background as I go about my day, and I like the variety and new songs I hear from giving my thumbs up or down on Pandora. So now my dilemma is, do I want to pay the requisite $0.99 to be able to keep listening for the rest of the month? (It's only a dollar, but it's just the principle of the thing. Free stuff should stay free, ya know?!) Or do I want to go old-school and bust out some CD's to listen to during the day? But then I don't have the luxury of song shuffling (I got rid of my bulky college-era three disc changer long ago) or of hearing new artists based on ones I know I already like. I guess a compromise would be to start downloading all my CD's onto iTunes so it can shuffle them for me, but that just takes time! Well I guess it's worth a try, 'cause I can't suffer through 14 more days of all this silence!

It's raining, it's pouring

there's no old man snoring. Sara did go to bed (nap), let's hope she didn't bump her head, 'cause I'd like her to get up in the morning. Or in about an hour or two rather.

Snow Day

I've been waiting and waiting for some fresh snow so we could take Sara out in it to play. Well yesterday was the day! Sara's first snow day finally arrived!! For some reason we haven't taken her out in the snow before now, but I think she is the perfect age to actually enjoy it, so I'm glad we waited.

She wasn't so sure about all the white stuff on the ground at first (not to mention what we put her in so she could play in it!)



Her first reaction to the snow? To stand very hesitantly.




Then she got a little braver and started walking in it.





Then she got REALLY brave and let us take her sledding! There is a little hill between some of the buildings of our apartment complex, and it was perfect for a first time sledder!



I think she really enjoyed it. And it's a good thing we took her out in the snow in the morning, because it had all melted by the afternoon!

I need to stop answering the door

Or actually, I just need to start showering at a reasonable hour, 'cause when it's 4:00 in the afternoon and I'm still in my pajamas, it's really embarrassing to see somebody from church passing out flyers, or my neighbor who needs to use my phone, or the cops who show up in response to that neighbor's phone call. Really, really embarrassing.