So Anna asked me if I had gotten my baby book yet, so I can use it to have people sign in at my shower.  I had not even thought of that!  I am a failure in the scrapbooking department.  I never finished my wedding album.  I harbored a ton of guilt about that, but after I was married, I just couldn’t bring myself to really care about all that cutesy crap.  It didn’t help that I spent the first 9 months of my marriage, (and the last 3 before it), working at a hellish place that kept me so exhausted that when I got home, all I could do was lay on the couch and watch tv.  Good times, good times.  Several years ago, when I was unemployed for about 2 and a half months, I decided i was going to tackle that book.  This was, mind you, 2.5 years after I got married.  Unfortunately, I decided to tackle it the day before I was offered a new job, which I started 2 days later.  So I hid the book very well in order to keep myself from the guilt that I was wracked with everytime I saw it.  I currently don’t know where it is, but I think it’s somewhere in the same office closet that houses 2 years worth of pictures and 10 years worth of scrapbook stuff (tickets, programs, etc), that I never got around to putting in an album.  I was going to do that before the baby’s born, but considering the fact that that is just 2 months away, I doubt it will happen.  My sister-in-law made Tim and I each the cutest little scrapbooks for pictures.  I’m really going to try to fill it up, but I’ve gotten even worse at that since the advent of digital pictures, when even more effort is required to print pictures.  You have to find the pictures you want, load them onto a memory card, then go to Walgreens, choose the pictures, then drop it off and pick it back up.  THEN you have to put them in an album.  This is just way too many steps for me.  I lose interest around step 1.  I sincerely hope that when the baby is born I will be better.  I won’t be working, after all, and I don’t want my child to later look back and see an empty baby book and think this somehow tied to my love for them.  Then they use that as their defense at their trial for the string of liquor store hold-ups they’ve committed across central texas.  And the jury lets them off and blames me.

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Comments

Tim

2006-01-18T00:19:14.000Z

You can actually just upload the pictures to the Walgreens website and then go pick them up at the store. But putting the pictures on the memory card is probably not the time consuming step.

kelli

2006-01-18T17:20:03.000Z

Julie, my wedding album isn’t done either and our ten year anniversary is this year.  I’ve reconciled myself to the fact that it isn’t going to happen, and not only that, my hobby is not scrapbooking.  My hobby is collecting expensive supplies and feeling guilty.  I find that a blog with cute stories about the kid and a website where people can look at pictures is just as good.  You can print the stories later and put them in a book if that assuages your guilt.

Kate

2006-01-18T18:26:04.000Z

Kelli’s right— a blog is just as nice.  In fact, you’ll probably write more.  And then annoying aunties will harrass you less about pictures and stories about the baby monkey.  :)  But no pressure, really.  I just think it’s a good idea.

We haven’t even printed our wedding photos.  Grandmother apparently is all twisted off about it like we’re not giving her any.  Yeah, we did it (or didn’t do it) to hurt you.  And we’ve given everyone else photos.