Yes, day number three, IN WHICH I CHEAT AND WRITE ABOUT WHAT I WANT TO WRITE ABOUT.

My husband and youngest son both have a cough right now, by which I mean to say they are both coughing RIGHT NOW, at a quarter past midnight, boy howdy. They've both been medicated, in case you were going to ask.

The coughing has been going on for days and days now, because not only was my husband sick first, but then I got sick, and then I left for Austin and SXSW, and then everyone got sick while I was gone - the other kids minus the youngest boy, because he was staying with his Dad while I was gone - and they still weren't better by the time I got home NINE DAYS LATER.

Stupid stupid winter colds.

So my husband still has his dandy stupid horrible hacking cough, and now youngest son also has it because he's very susceptible to being sick since he shuttles back and forth between two households, one of which is not usually very clean (I AM NOT REFERRING TO MY OWN HOUSE).

AUUUUUUUUGH.

Maybe I need to put cotton in my ears.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how to bypass your own blogging plans and be a selfish whiner who complains about sick people.

For today, I am apparently supposed to post a picture of the person I've been closest with the longest, and honestly, it's a toss-up between my Mom and my oldest daughter. So I'm going to do both!

This is a picture of my mom and me, in Mexico.

 It's extra-hilarious because we're wearing matching Coca-Cola shirts, and these guys were selling Pepsi outside a grocery store in Nogales.

HEEHEE!

If it looks to you like Mom is the more serious one, you'd be right. I'm the emotional-slash-logical hot mess, and she's the logical slightly-less-emotional not-mess. But we still like each other. Win!

Plus, you know. We've known each other since I was born, and I'm THIRTY-TWO, so I think she wins at knowing me the longest.

This is a picture of my oldest daughter and me, before I married my second (ex) husband.

I love this picture, even though it's almost seven years old, because we were both dressed up so pretty. She had a sparkly beautiful dress on, and so did I.

My daughter is gorgeous, quiet, hilarious, whip-smart, and the apple of my eye. She's eleven years old and it tugs at my heart to think how it's been that long already. And I'm totally jealous of her curls.

So there you go. Second day done!

I am shamelessly copying my friend Carrie, who's already two days into this meme thingamajiggy.

Day One: post a picture of yourself with ten facts.

1) I take pictures of myself in bathrooms because I can't seem to get the angle right when I point the camera AT myself rather than AWAY from myself.

2) My favorite color is black. My favorite color is also brown. Some days, my favorite color(s) is(are) green, red, and orange.

3) My driver's license says I am five feet two inches, but it's lying. I'm five feet one and one-quarter inches.

4) I buy socks in multiple pairs of the same color now, because inevitably I lose at least one to the Sock Monster.

5) My favorite food used to be Doritos, but now I don't eat them any more because MSG will kill me.

6) Well, it will kill me EVENTUALLY. It gives me a massive headache, though, which is just as bad as dying if you ask me.

7) The idea of living as far north as Alaska gives me panicky feelings.

8) The idea of living as far south as Texas gives me panicky feelings.

9) Clearly I have geography-related location issues.

10) My dimples are 100% real.

Hooray, I'm done! Until tomorrow. Hahaha.