Well, I finally closed on the house on Friday. Once again, I'm only responsible for paying for one house. What a relief! I will confess to a slight tinge of sadness while I was signing the papers. My kids, especially Katy, grew up in that house. There are a lot of memories there. I hope I can keep them with me over the years to come ( Read more... )

This will be my last post from Knoxville for 3 days. I really enjoy working from home and I wish I could do it more, but you just can't totally eliminate that face-to-face time. We get a lot of stuff designed and accomplished while standing in each other's cubicles ( Read more... )

My day started off very stressfully. I was awoken by Mary who flew into my room telling me to get up because Katy was having a seizure and Mom needed my help. I jumped up and ran downstairs to find Katy on the couch, the contents of her cereal bowl all over her lap and the couch, with a washcloth on her forehead looking as white as a sheet. ( Read more... )

Below is a poorly scanned image of the drawing Katy made for me for Father's Day. The scan really doesn't do it justice at all. Unfortunately, our scanner is pretty old. She has volunteered to take the scan and re-create the whole thing as a digital file as well. Until that is done, I wanted to go ahead and post the scan of the original. I'm THAT ( Read more... )

This will be a quick Father's Day recap. We did the church thing in the morning. It was tough to get up, though, because we'd only had a few hours sleep. We had gone to a festival at the local winery on Saturday night and didn't get home until a little after 2:00 AM and didn't get to sleep until after 3:00. *wink, wink, nudge nudge* So anyway, ( Read more... )

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And so another week flies by with nary a word written in my LJ. It's been a busy week so I'll just hit the highlights ( Read more... )

*SWOOOOOSHHHH* What was that? The sound of another week going by without me making a journal entry. How does the time go by so quickly without me noticing it ( Read more... )

I was going to post photos of my newly redecorated aquarium, but the camera is nowhere to be found. I'm sure it will turn up and then I'll post one or two. I had a near catastrophe occur while changing out the aquarium decorations. Our prize catfish, Joe, apparently swam into the house I was removing when I wasn't looking. I was trying to get the ( Read more... )

It's been eerily quiet at work today. Many people have either left early or just taken the whole day off to get a 4 day weekend. Not only that, but I'm actually caught up on all my major projects. This has been a very pleasant work day, so far ( Read more... )