So I turn 33 today. Madeline has her first birthday tomorrow but we are all celebrating a hodge-podge of birthdays, anniversaries, harvest, pagan, and Indian holidays today. I’m surprised we aren’t getting Madeline dressed in her turtle Halloween costume. Maybe we should bring it? I am hoping this birthday isn’t like that 16 candles birthday. I watched part of that movie last weekend and continually thought how in retrospect Anthony Michael Hall deserved an Oscar for best actor for his performance. But maybe I’m just a little too ready to empathize with the ‘80s high school freshman geek who transcends geekdom by going after glory by betting his friends he can get Molly Ringwald’s underwear. But I do think it was under appreciated in its time. So for my birthday I bought myself an 800GB Seagate Barracuda internal drive. I don’t know how to install it but it can’t be as complex as putting a supercharger in a car. It will be a fun little project for me and can make space for video storage. I probably should have gotten a DVD burner along with it but I’ll get to that next year.

Madeline is wandering about in her birthday dress with yesterday’s salt and pepper grinders from our steak dinner and managed to find an old Ibuprofen pill on the floor of our bedroom. I took it away from her. It is quite hard to be fully baby proofed. In a few more years she will be able to open the bottle herself! But the real treat of the day was that Sarah told me that as I walked past Madeline in her high chair she said “DaDa”.