Accomplishments & Decisions

My pretty little girl has been doing so much lately. In just the past week she has:

• Walked for the first time
• Run for the first time
• Said her first phrase ("Hey, baby!")
• Eaten her first "real" meal (salmon with veggies)
• Knocked on a door for the first time
• Gone to her first church service

Being a mommy is great. The little lady was excellent in church until some chick came in over half an hour late with HER kid. Then, my little lady, excited to see another one of the little people, screamed "BABY!" It was pretty funny, especially considering the "baby" was several months her senior.

The princess brings me to some of the things I've been pondering lately.

1. Should I buy my daughter this lovely pink piano or is it representative of too much social conditioning?



2. Should I return to my Mac-loving ways? Or should I rough it for two more years with a nonMac computer? At least I can buy a POS Dell, now, in yellow. A Dell with all the goodies I want (including a TV tuner) would cost the same as a low-level MacBook.



3. If I shame my ancestors by going the Dell route, should I perpetuate my hippietechnological tendencies with a rejection of non-open source software? I've been a Mozilla girl from jump; I have been cool with OpenOffice for a while, now and am a fan of Nvu. Or would this be a denial of my Business major/law student roots? I am a lady of so much ostensible contradiction.