uh oh

so we ended our 9-day vacation at church sunday evening. they had the lifeteen praise band there. it was pretty good. then at the end the guitarist played this gratuitous hendrix-esque intro lick for 'the first noel'. left a weird taste in my mouth. seriously, at first i thought the guy was going to play the national anthem. then four measures before the start of the song he got into a cici deville-esque thirds fast finger action type thing. i told gary that i thought it took away from the praise & worship aspect, and made it more of a performing diva atmosphere. especially when the band applauded themselves after mass and continued to tell jokes on the mics long after people were leaving. but the burning question is this... how can the parish be okay with that, but not okay with the fact that lij (a.k.a. nacho) kept giggling towards the end of mass?

what a good break. i realized i haven't had a vacation since i started working after maternity leave, jan 30 2006. i guess we've just had really crammed weekends, and that's okay. i've had lots of luci (a.k.a esqueleto) time, and it's been wonderful. she had a hard time waking up to find me gone, so i hear. we're also starting our 5th day with panties (no diaper!). only 3 accidents in the house, one was genuine (in the bathroom).

lij's big breakthrough is saying "uh oh," which really sounds more gutteral. "uuughh nhhh!"