failure is always an option - day 13

We spent the day with family today - brunch with mine, dinner with his.

I'm tired now!

It was a very good day.

Ellie and I went to watch the Russian figure skaters yesterday at our local arena... none of my pics turned out at all, but we had a great time watching four of the singles skaters practicing their routines.

Ellie was very pleased to find out that one of the girls is named Alena!





And YAY!!! I finally managed to do something I've been attempting for the past week... I've installed a new comment system on the blog! I've always been frustrated and unsure of what was the "proper" way to respond to comments. I generally send an email to the commenter, but then other people can't see that I've done so. I know that I *could* respond in my own comment form, but sometimes people don't come back to see if I've done so (I know I never do...). It all felt very inadequate. Soooo, all that to say... when I heard about disqus, I was super excited! Of course, it didn't work the first time... and so I had to change my blog template... and then figure out which settings were getting messed up... but it's here now.

So leave me a comment already, so I can see if it's really working ;)