Okay, every week the site that I love to buy cloth diapers off of has a photo contest.  And most weeks, the contest involves a specific diaper.  Since I only have a handful of diapers, it’s pretty rare that I have the diaper in question.  This week?  I DO!  The idea here is to take a picture of your child with or in the diaper being featured and submit it.  That following week, submitted photos are featured on the different pages of the site.  The winning photo is featured on the front page and the winner recieves a FREE DIAPER.

Now, I never really expect to actually win the contest as my photography skillz are mediocre at best.  BUT I would like to be featured on the site someday.

This week, the diaper is called “1981“, since it’s cheery little rainbows evoke images of the early 80’s.  It’s a pretty diaper and Evie rocks it.  I took a monster amount of pictures of her with and in the diaper this afternoon but now I can’t pick which one to submit to the contest.  I have until 12:00am MST tonight to submit.

So in the meantime, I need ya’ll to help me pick.  Which one is your favorite?  Leave a comment below and you’ll have my eternal gratitude!

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I’m sure taking my merry, old, sweet time posting today, aren’t I?  Meh.

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I may be giving the impression that I’m one step away from sucking on a tail pipe over here.  I’m not, I assure you.  Yes, things are reaching comic levels of suck but it’s not the end of the world.  We’ll deal.  We always deal.  We’ve had it a lot worse in the past.

But on the other hand, this blog is my venting platform and if I’m feeling frustrated, it makes me feel better to come here and let it all out.  I’m then able to return to my life with a lighter heart.  So fear not.  It is not all doom and gloom and here at the old Slacker House.  There are some tidings of joy seeping in around the corners.

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Presents are wrapped!  This doesn’t include the gifts from the Jolly Old Fellow, but those don’t get wrapped anyhow, just assembled.  I’m pretty sure everything, as it stands now, is wrapped.  Presents to me, to Kile, to the kids, to Kile’s parents… WRAPPED.  Hallelujah.

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I have a great 2008 wrap-up/”best of” list coming up but I’m saving it for after Christmas because I think those things feel best and work better in the last week of the year.  Am I right?  Or am I hopelessly out of the loop and no one will be on the internet at all that week?  Whoops.  Anyhow, that’s what’s coming and I’m actually kinda psyched about it because as much as this year sucked?  This year also rocked.  It’s a complex fabric, it is.

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Scarves are a pain in the ass to knit.  I’m convinced about this.  They are boring.  They are long.  They take FOREVER.  I can knit and knit and knit on this damned thing and it doesn’t seem to get any closer to being completed.  I just want to finish it already so I can move on with other projects.  YAWN.  Maybe I’ll go ahead and start a hat for Liam just to break up the monotony because DEAR LORD.  (And $10 says this precious scarf is just going to end up on the floor, getting stepped on every day.  This IS Harry we’re talking about here, remember?)

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Watching Chris Rock’s “Kill the Messenger” on HBO OnDemand right now and it is HYSTERICAL.  Lovin’ it.

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I’m so beyond happy that it’s the weekend that I can hardly stand it.  I wish it was the weekend FOREVER.  If there was a way to have a weekend FOREVER and get paid for it?  I’d be ALL OVER THAT.  I’m not looking forward to Monday and Tuesday as I think those days are going to be enormously difficult.  If I can make it to Tuesday afternoon, I figure I’m “home free”.  Sorta.  It’s complicated.  I’ll get back to you next week.

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Meh.