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My daughter Macy's birthday is coming up next month, and I got this bright idea to make her a dvd containing old family photos, her baby pictures, and shots of her younger siblings that she barely knows, set to what (I hope) is an evocative soundtrack. Due to my constant companion scope creep, it has now turned into this huge job of finding, choosing, scanning, cropping, enhancing, importing, editing transitions, illeg@lly downlo@ding...OMG this is a lot of work…for both Macy and Ashley. It is a slow process, mainly because I have to fight Jalen "Runescape" and Risa "hannahmontana.com" off the computer each and every time I want to do something.

Let me tell you it is KILLING ME to look at all their baby pictures! I resist the urge to drive down to Chicago and do something bad to my ex.  I mean like placing a flaming bag of poo on his porch. What did you think I meant?

This dvd is sort of a peace offering, since I was admittedly not exactly "generous" in making family photos available to my ex back in the day. He was busy STEALING MY DAUGHTERS AND MY MONEY, I'm sure you understand. Divorce is like that. My daughters probably have never seen most of these images, and it is important. Who they are, where they came from.

Despite the girls ignoring us so well and for so long, I have to believe that they have enough of me in them, they must care a little bit. Somewhere deep down. WAY deep. And I will admit that a dark little spot in my psyche sort of wants to show out, let them see that they have missed out on as much as I have.

Bear in mind that it is entirely possible my ex will shanghai the dvd before she sees it and not let Macy have it at all. So I picked out a fly little outfit to send her, including camo pants, patent-leather Converse sneakers, a cropped hoodie, tank top and a handknit-by-a-friend skullcap. I am pretty sure she will like all that, anyway. It is just what I would wear if I were 15 years old with a flat tummy.

And it has plenty of oversized pockets for me to hide the dvd in.

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