Finally, A Finale

Today is the last day of NaBloPoMo, and I, for one, am most relieved. So much so that I may delay PoMoOftMo until January, just so I can take a break. In fact, now that I think about it, that's not a bad idea at all.

Today will be the first Pandora Friday here at the ol' blog. It's like an iTunes Friday, except that I'll be using Pandora instead. It's an internet radio thing, wherein you request a song or group, and it plays it, then plays something similar, and then something similar to that, and so on. If you like the songs it picks for you, you can give it a thumbs-up, and it will continue along the line of reasoning that got you to the song. If you don't like it, you can give it a thumbs-down, which will stop the trend and make it play something different. Or you can just let it play without doing anything, which I guess is like a thumbs-up, only less emphatic.

So I'll have the list of songs that play at the bottom of this post, with thumbs-up and thumbs-down noted, when applicable.

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PrettyGirl was taking a hiatus from clapping this week, but she started doing it again this morning. She thinks it's so cool that she can make her hands do that. For a while, M and I were making a big deal of it when she clapped, to encourage her to keep doing it because it's so cute, but it looks like the clapping itself is reward enough for PG. So that's less effort for us to keep getting the Clapping PG Show!

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I'm probably jinxing things by mentioning it, but PG has started sleeping through the night again. Such a good girl!

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I may be jinxing this too, but it looks like I'm about to get my first paying freelance gig. M's friend's boyfriend is running for judge, and I've been asked to design some campaign materials. No details have been worked out yet. I'll keep y'all posted!

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We took our Christmas card picture this evening. It turned out pretty well, though there's an outside chance there will be reshoots tomorrow. Hope we don't forget anybody when we send the cards out!

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M went up to the attic this evening, before I got home, to bring down some Christmas stuff so she could decorate around the area where the aforementioned pictures were to be taken. While up there, she saw the damage that the local squirrels have been wreaking up there lately. Parts of our insulation have been stripped down to the bare wood floor. There are probably a few well insulated squirrel nests in the area this winter. It would appear that one of those nests might actually be right there in the attic. A pile of ripped up insulation was moving suspiciously while M was up there. PG was napping, so she refrained from screaming. That's the kind of sacrifice she makes for her daughter, and I, for one, appreciate it.

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Here comes the Pandora playlist, compiled while I was at work today. The starting point is The Rolling Stones - no specific song from them. Let's see what happens!

1. "One Hit" - The Rolling Stones
2. "About A Girl" - Nirvana (Thumbs up)
3. "Rock You Like A Hurricane" - The Scorpions
4. "Refugee" - Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers (Thumbs up)
5. "Enter Sandman" - Tommy Victor, Nuno Bettencourt, Joey Vera & Scott Travis (lousy cover of the Metallica song - Thumbs down)
6. "Shades of Grey" - Billy Joel (Thumbs down)
7. "Something Better Beginning" - The Kinks
8. "Let's Spend The Night Together" - The Rolling Stones
9. "Wait" - The Beatles
10. "Deliver Me" - Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
11. "Jet Airliner" - Steve Miller Band (Thumbs up)
12. "Time Is On My Side" - The Rolling Stones (Thumbs up)
13. "Sweet Jane" - Lou Reed (Thumbs down)
14. "Bad Case of Lovin' You" - Robert Palmer (Thumbs up)
15. "Wild Thing" - The Troggs
16. "Needles and Pins" - Searchers
17. "She Loves You" - The Beatles (Thumbs up)
18. "Spirit In The Sky" - Norman Greenbaum
19. "Rebel Rebel" - David Bowie (Thumbs up)
20. "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" - U2 (Thumbs up)
21. "You Really Got Me" - Van Halen (Thumbs up)
22. "If I Needed Someone" - The Beatles (Thumbs up)
23. "Daily Records" - The Who
24. "Such A Shame" - The Kinks
25. "Gonna Get Ya" - Pete Townshend (Thumbs down)
26. "Listen To Her Heart" - Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
27. "Funk #49" - Joe Walsh
28. "Please" - The Zakary Thaks
29. "Go Your Own Way" - Fleetwood Mac (Thumbs up)
30. "The Same Old You" - Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
31. "Woodstock" - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young