Our winter wonderland

What is it about us that we can avoid laundry, dishes, bills, and work like the plague, but lose ourselves for hours trying to master a new technology?

That was me this weekend, attempting to figure out how to use iMovie for the first time.  I started small, making a short 60 second video for my mom in honor of her 60th birthday, using only still shots.  A very good place to begin, let me tell you.

Then I spent an hour and a half the next day putting together this video of our week of snow, which here in the Pacific Northwest, is a once a year event, if that.

Note: I don’t know if YouTube will let you see this one, because they are mad at me for using my own music.  If enough of you tell me you can’t view it, I’ll revert back to the free Muzak they’ll let me use.  Blech.  So if that’s what you see, you just have to give me the benefit of the doubt that my original version with Let it Snow and Walkin’ in a Winter Wonderland was SO much better.  Also, you could hear what the boys are saying in the videos, like the gleeful, “My turn!  It’s my turn to go sledding with Daddy!”  Sigh.  It’s moments like that that make it worth the half hour it took to bundle them up like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Men.

I’m posting them here because I obviously spent too much time on them to get around to blogging this weekend, and I need things to do double-duty in my life, or I will never accomplish anything.  And if I don’t cross things off my list, I don’t get to have dessert at the end of the day, and I simply can’t have that.

So I hope you can enjoy the videos, while I enjoy this piece of chocolate.  Mmm.