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Yes that’s me. In my Snuggie.

A few of my friends (and a few new visitors - hi there!!! left comments saying they wanted to see me actually WEARING the Snuggie. So please disregard the horribleness that is this photo and enjoy a laugh at my expense.

I’ll add that it took Nick and I about 10 minutes after pulling it out of the box to decide the only thing that would make this gag better would be recreating the ridiculous photos on the box.

You know, in which paid actors (those poor souls) are wearing the Snuggie to read in. To knit in. To surf the Web. TO CHEER ON THEIR KIDS AT A FOOTBALL GAME.

At the Werner house, I had to draw the line when Nick started hauling in all the other props from the garage he wanted me to pose with while wearing the Snuggie. (This included a barbell, a fishing rod and — no joke — an axe.)

“What, am I going to be chopping wood in the Snuggie?” I asked him.

“Now Gail,” he said, all serious. “You never know when this thing could come in handy.”

My husband just might need a Magic Bullet for his birthday. We’ll call it payback — by infomercial gluttony.

Things have been busy at Gail Werner Photography, but it’s all been behind-the-scenes busy.

I have a lot to look forward to in 2009 — working with new clients, creating albums (I can’t wait to show you guys my sample!), and I’ve signed up for a workshop in May in Phoenix with the fabulous wedding photographer, Melissa Jill. I’m hopeful this workshop will give me a lot of inspiration for my business and where I want to take it — and I can’t wait to meet and network with other photographers there.

So while I know things have been quiet around here on the blog, I promise there’ll be plenty in store by way of updates soon.

For now, I’ve been enjoying this pocket of down time (and prepping for a meeting with my accountant coming up - d’oh!). And because I know Nick and I’s schedules will get crazy on the weekends all too soon, I relish nights with him like the one we shared last night. We spent our Valentine’s Day having a delicious meal at a downtown restaurant (chocolate gelato for dessert? YES PLEASE), followed by an evening of music by one of my favorite artists, Griffin House. Nick was so sweet to share his V-Day with a wife who managed to get all googly-eyed over a musician — sticking in his seat by my side even as I sung aloud to all of Griffin’s songs.

The fact we could joke on the car ride home about my obsession with this guy (”You looove him,” he teased me; “Shuutt uppp” was my response) that makes me love — and appreciate — my husband even more.

And because a post just isn’t a post without a photo, here’s Griffin sharing his talent with the Muncie crowd at The Living Room last night.