Seven Favorite Movie Quotes.

Rebecca tagged me on this a couple of weeks ago, but that's right before things got nuts around here. I'm going to do all of them from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, just because.

1. "Run Away, Run Away!"

2. "There are some who call me...Tim?" (I've always loved how he sounds like he's not quite sure about it.)

3. "It's only a flesh wound."

4. "How do you know he is a king?"
"Because he hasn't got **** all over him."

5. "Then shalt thou lobbest the Holy Hand Grenade at thy foe, who being not in my sight, shall snuff it."

6. This isn't a line per se, but I get a huge kick out of the bit in the Knights of the Round Table dance number, where they cut to the dungeon, and the guy hanging in chains is clapping to the beat.

7. "What, you mean behind the rabbit?"

In which our new camera ROCKS!

It is truly awesome. We need to take more pics of the older kids, but Ivy and Mags are cuting the heck out of us all day. Now we need to remember to make sure everyone IS wearing pants and NOT wearing snot crusts before we take more pictures. Hmm. I need to warn Liv not to make that face ever again. She thinks she has to strut her attitude in each snapshot. All of them look something like this. Also notice the fifty pound potato sack next to her chair. That's where it stays, 'cause we're fancy with storage around here.

The car situation is over and done with, and I must say, American Family was darn decent to deal with. They gave us a fair price for our totaled Volvo, paid for a rental car, replaced the girls' car seats, and Toby and I each got a check for pain and inconvenience that made up for the week of work we missed running about. Not bad, considering we've never had insurance cover an accident before now.

We used our loot to buy a 1995 Ford Van. Yeah, the big one. It seats eight right now, but if we get the rear seat for it, it'll seat twelve. Anybody need a ride? We were wondering if Barrett and Emma could park the Rabbit in it if we took the seats out. It'll be great for hauling bodices around.

Also, we went to visit my midwife for the first time, and the baby's ticking like it should, so everything there seems fine, too. That's a relief.

Not Again.

Olivia turned nine yesterday, and Ivy two today. I'm trying to remember to make a big deal out of it, at least for Liv. But I'm a little distracted by the fact that someone rear-ended our nice Volvo station wagon and mashed it into the car in front of us. We've had it maybe six months. It was a nice car, too. Sigh.

This situation is all too familiar. We've been through so many cars it's not even funny, and been involved in no less than five wrecks since we started having kids. None were our fault, and two drivers and one deer lacked insurance. It looks like the young guy that hit us has insurance, so if he does. bless his heart. We've been tentatively looking at full-size vans, not because we NEED one just yet, unless you count hauling a load of bodices and kids around the country. I'm just feeling like bigger is better, and vans are cheap these days.

I'll wait and see. In the meantime, I'm going to wrap the girls' presents and make sure everyone has decent clothes to wear to the school Christmas program this evening.