Urchin
Saturday, September 4 2004
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This is one of my sister's twin three-year-old sons. I don't know which one he is. Let's just call him Twin.
- Oh noes! Here her goes again!
Thursday, 25 September 2008 - Thoughts I had before 7 AM
Wednesday, 24 September 2008 - Text message conversation with Carol last evening
Tuesday, 23 September 2008 - Two brief anecdotes
Monday, 22 September 2008 - For now her name is Puppy
Friday, 19 September 2008
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38. maxigumee said:
Hello, Twin!
37. Kat said:
You can tell how often he must go outside, his hair is so blonde.
36. Miss FitsandStarts said:
I've got a fever... and the only prescription is MORE COWBELL!
You are truly amazing.... Thank you for sharing all of your self and your life.
And funny as hell.
34. jen said:
Nice redesign - ace - and GREAT to see you home, Heather! :D Lovely photo too. Good digital cameras kick ass!
35. owen said:
It's going to get annoying to add that grey border around the image everytime you add a new one. In my expert opinion I would suggest you use a css border:10px gray border. and as Mase said welcome back.
33. dooce said:
owen: it's already a gray border added by the CSS.
thanks for the well wishes! this is all so crazy!
32. DeAnn said:
I LOVE the new look.
And I'm totally laughing that you can't tell your twin nephews apart. So, evidently they're both that cute?
30. sabrina said:
I am loving the new look! Glad to have you back home and sharing your life with us!
31. taryn said:
Twin, you are lookin' good with the redesign!
29. Shelly said:
Simply loving it!
28. Heather said:
Love the re-design!! I'm so glad that you're doing better!!
27. Tim said:
Hello, Twin! Why have you been relegated to stand out back by the refuse bins?
26. Angie said:
I'm a doocaholic, so I'm well chuffed to see not only the Dooce herself, but the website too looking better than ever!
Fab photo; 'twin' looks positively Dickensian in his urchinness.
I 'heart' dooce (includng dog-dooce, man-dooce and mini-dooce) xxx
25. jeff said:
Welcome back, love the new website. Love the cowbell!
24. Sarah said:
Better than I could have dreamed. Welcome back.
23. diana said:
I've got a fever... and the only cure is MORE COWBELL.
Nice redesign! Looks clean and sharp. Kudos to you and Jon for the layout and coding. I'm looking forward to seeing more of your photos, too!
21. Kitta said:
Looking good. Loving the added cowbells.
22. Michelle said:
More cowbell! It's good to see you really exploring the space. :) By the way, I have to tell you that I'm hopelessly smitten with your entire adorable family.
20. eco2geek said:
I liked the red background (and the red/pink theme) a lot better than the grey one. But...
I love the way that, when you go to another page within the site, it doesn't seem to reload the whole thing, it just loads the new content.
Glad you're out of the hospital, too.
19. wixlet said:
i have an itchy, uncomfortable case of camera envy.
17. Very Mom said:
Welcome back Dooce! The website looks amazing - and I'm with Wixlet, the case of camera envy has me putting pennies in a jar - I want the D70!
18. leigh said:
Cowbells! Just when I thought it couldn't get better! Love your redesign, and a gorgeous pic of Twin ...
Glad you're back home, hope you continue to feel better.
16. Sarcastic Journalist said:
I'd like a cowbell. As for camera envy, I prefer mine where you have to stand on your head, squint, sing the national anthem and turn on all lights within 100 miles to get a picture.
Yea! for Dooce!
15. eco2geek said:
The links that are on the righthand side of the page with "real" browsers like Mozilla are at the bottom of the page in Internet Explorer 5.5 (which is all I can use at work.) It's truly a POS.
HTML tag test
14. Rachel said:
A new website, complete with a Saturday Night Live reference? I'm in heaven.
Glad you're back Dooce, we missed you.
13. The Former Inmate said:
Well...I'm getting used to the new design. It's neat. It's clean. It's actually almost understated.
But I must say: I thought that thing was a purse with a cell phone inside....the Cowbell idea took a while to click. I do great on Rorschachs, by the way.
Welcome back. Glad you're feeling better. Oh, deep water IS pretty damned scary.
12. maxigumee said:
If the right column goes to the bottom, you probably have to take a pixel away from each column's width.
11. maxigumee said:
Also, the columns go into the page background in Internet Explorer for Mac OS X..... and I know that anybody who uses it is "being a pussy and not downloading a better browser" but...... you know..... I'm just telling you. :P
10. Kelly said:
LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT!!!!!
9. Carrie said:
Absolutely fabulous new design. You can always use more cowbell...
And looking forward to the daily photos...Twin is a cutie. Being a twin myself, I can honestly say that I answer to "twin", my sister's name, and also just hey you. So Twin is a perfectly acceptable nickname.
8. Rachel said:
I love, love, love the new site design. I have to say my favorite part is the Google ad that says: Cowbell for less.
7. The Mighty Jimbo said:
if there is one thing i want to learn from the years of my life i am wasting by obsessively clicking on your website, it's how to take really cool pictures like that.
and make good poop jokes.
6. trucmuche said:
Congrats, doOce! I also like the new design: simple yet lively. Looking forward to reading/seeing more of your doOcery :-)
5. brandon said:
He sorta looks like those kids from the movie Village of the Damned.
4. carrie said:
Adorable!
Dooce 5.0 looks excellent and it is so wonderful to have you back. I'm not sure if telling you congratulations is appropriate but I think it might well be in order. You rock.
3. Gia said:
Yeay! Love to have more cowbell!
:)
Thrilled to have you back.
2. amy said:
sweet!
1. carly said:
Lovely redesign, definitely more cowbell - bring the cowbell on, more blue oyster cult! mmm, okay, that was wrong... just wrong. so wrong that it's right? i have to try to find that moby video where christopher walken dances now... keep up the great work dooce and blurb:)
64. Barbara said:
Sharing time:
1) I love the new design!!
2) I hate it when someone calls me twin, please name those kiddos correctly.
65. Charla said:
Ooooh...definitely more cowbell here. Looking good!
63. Dawn said:
Welcome home, Heather! Everything looks great. Sleep, nap and stay well. Look forward to more from you. Lots of love and gratitude.
62. Mari said:
I think you rock the socks off of the blog world. I think you rock the socks off the world in general.
Twin is cute, and I love the new site. Glad to see ya back new and improved.
61. Jill said:
Love the new site! Who doesn't need more cowbell, I ask??? I gotta have more cowbell. Thanks for making me laugh today.
60. Kari said:
I can't believe I entertained for one minute the idea that y'all were spending a few well earned days hanging out and relaxing.
Love the new look. Nice job.
59. Kari said:
PS
Thanks for another great photo
57. Nicole said:
LOVING the new design! Welcome back Heather, we missed the hell out of you. Can't wait for more posts on the new page. Thank you SO SO much for being my daily dose of reality and laughter. My days would be boring without your blog.
58. jenny said:
i love, i love!
56. Siobhan said:
The new website looks fantastic!
Great to see you back at home as well!
54. Twinmama said:
I love the redesign too! Nice and clean.
Don't feel bad; even my husband has trouble telling our twins apart. Like, all the time.
55. Liz said:
That you're feeling better makes the world better. Hurray!
good luck with the new site, I like it, though I'll miss the "Noble Dog with Pink Towel" motif
Nice work boys and girls
53. heathabee said:
Adorable Twin. Can you imagine having two beautiful babies at once? Not often do you see two good looking twins.. usually they're just average or ugly... but those nephews of yours are gorgeous!
PS. I love the new design
PPS. I love that we can comment! wahoo!
52. midwifegoddessannie said:
I don't get the cowbell thing.... is that because I am Australian? Somebody please enlighten my ignorant ass?
51. kim said:
midwifegoddessannie - it is a reference to a will ferrell saturday night live skit. see
http://www.geekspeakweekly.com/cowbell
50. A N N A said:
welcome back, heather. you are the bravest, best mommy ever for getting the help you need-- and being so generous as to tell the world about it. i think you are a rock star-badass-hero for doing so. go you! :)
p.s. the fact that you can't tell urchin 1 from urchin 2 just makes you cooler. i can't tell twins apart either. great pic. :D
p.p.s. i thought the cowbell was a purse too, and i LOVED that snl skit. sigh.
48. Sarah said:
The world is truly a better place for having you in it. I love that you share your life with all of us! You are a superstar! Love the new site!
49. Sasha said:
I was hoping the redesign would finally allow all of us who haven't been able to see any of the pictures or graphics for MONTHS to see them again. I really had been looking forward to that - but no Leta, Chuck or cowbells (they are mentioned in the comments, so there must be some, right?) for me... :-( sooo sad. I'll read you anyway. Glad you are feeling better!
47. kim from overseas (just so you don't get confused) said:
uh uh uh - i get to be one of the first 100 commenters! JAY! never thought that would happen. but now i can tell you "in person" and don't have to bug jon about how AWESOME YOU ARE! i have been thinking about you guys a lot and i'm sooo glad you're better. you are better, aren't you? you sound better.. anyway - i love the new design and "hi twin".
46. lynne said:
Hi Heather and Family,
The redesign is really funky but most importantly I'm glad that you feel your on the road to recovery. Your strength and sense of humour really comes across in your writing and I've learnt a lot about the Mormon faith since finding your website ;) Take care of yourself.
45. lizardek said:
Dear Dooce & Jon the SuperCoder,
Love the new design, but I hope you're not getting permanently rid of the "Currently" columns because they made me so very very happy every time I read them.
Hurray for the return of Dooce! :)
44. laura said:
Nice new design. You picked cowbells to see what the google ads would do with it, didn't you? ;>
43. leandra said:
love the search categories and daily nuggets. and of course, the cowbell... don't fear the reaper! :)
42. Eddo said:
I need MORE COWBELL!!!! I love that SNL skit and my friends and I were just talking about that after going to a football game and watching this chubby band kid bang away on a cowbell- so glad I am not a high school kid anymore.
Also glad that you are back- sleeping, and writing- what would I do without my Dooce fix!!! God I love you guys...
41. Jazzy said:
Absolutely adorable. Love the new site.
40. Molly said:
Great picture! :)
Great site! Renovations are lovely!
39. Sean said:
The new site looks great! Congrats and well done. :)
67. lara said:
ooh, mama, the site is looking dooce-e-ful. love love love the redesign. i missed the "currently" categories at first, but after reading the dj blurb breakdown geekery, i totally get your reasoning. it works. thanks once again for sharing yourself and your family so honestly and humourously and sadly and happily and all that stuff. very inspiring.
ps- oh, hello twin.
66. JuJuBee said:
He has the same crazy hair as my son...Howdy Twin Boy.