As I am typing this I am sitting on my bed. Beside the bed stands Isaac, who is clawing the sheets, whining, stamping his feet and generally doing his 17-month-old best to convey the message that me ever writing another sentence in this world is down pretty low on his personal priority list and I should give it up. This is a pretty good word picture for what happened to this blog and any other writing I was doing. But having reached into the bedside table to hand Isaac a baby monitor charging cord, I have momentarily distracted him and so in spite of the very real possibility that he will use it to harm himself or someone else, I will seize the five seconds of quiet to tell you some very boring things. I will not overthink them and they will not be deep and whenever Isaac comes back I will hit "publish" and thus will have ended my two month long dry spell.

Random thing No. 1: The shower in our master bathroom has been broken for going on four months. It looks a little better than this right now, but this was the view a few weeks ago:

If my blog were anonymous, I would write the entire absurd story in detail with much commentary on the worthlessness of various supposed professionals, but since I am readily available on Google, I will just give you this advice: If a crack ever opens up in the floor of your shower, you should get out, dry off, walk out of the house, lock the door and never come back again. (You should probably also get dressed before that part about leaving the house.) You will have to find a new place to live and get all new stuff but believe me, that will be way less annoying and expensive than trying to fix the shower. Just walk away. Thank goodness we are renting.

Random thing No. 2: Kate recently turned four and as her big gift from Dan and I she got this outrageous dress made by the Disney Marketing Mothership that is a wedding dress modeled on the one in Cinderella.

It is pretty fabulous and she loves it, which is great. What is not great is what I discovered moments after she unwrapped it and put it on, which is that this dress has approximately 50 pounds of glitter embedded in the fabric and the decorations, such that her ever move results in a sprinkling of glitter drifting to the floor like magic fairy dust from the wand of a fairy godmother. Maybe this is part of the charm, but my OCD can't handle it. Now if I had to list my hobbies the first one would have to be "Researching the best ways to clean up glitter off every surface of my life."

Random thing No. 3: The only thing Kate is more interested in than her Cinderella Wedding Dress right now is the movie Tangled. That is part of the reason why in the picture with the Cinderella wedding dress, she is wearing a blonde dollar store headband/hair extension piece. It's her long Rapunzel hair. I will write an entire post about this soon, using my newly-discovered method of making time for writing via ignoring my children and not editing anything.

Random thing No. 4: Last weekend Dan and I left the kids with my in-laws and went on our first overnight trip together since Isaac was born. We went to a day of the Austin City Limits music festival and then stayed in historic Gruene, which is very charming in a flea market kind of way. We had a great time, we saw some great musical artists and the people-watching was incredible. Maybe I don't get out enough anymore, but that was almost my favorite part. However, it did remind me of my number one concert attendance peeve, and I thought I would share it here. At a festival the size of ACL, obviously you are going to be exposed to some artists who are not your all-time favorite. But here's the thing -- that artist probably is someone's all-time favorite, so it would be the height of rudeness for you to talk through that artist's entire set without interruption. Please shut it.

And now it's time to make dinner. If I ever pull this off again, I can post some pictures of Kate's birthday party. Don't get too excited, though. I think we all know I am about as reliable as the people who have been fixing the shower for four months.