We'd known for a few months now that it was pretty likely that the business lordaerith has been working for for the past seven years was going to go under/get sold. He'd started looking around at other places and throwing out a few applications, but places either didn't have open positions or the openings they had were not for his skills/salary requirements ( Read more... )

Yesterday was my five year anniversary at Convio/Blackbaud. I can't believe I've been here five years. Before this, the longest I'd ever worked somewhere that wasn't a college/grad school job was almost 2 years and the first 6 months of that job were part-time ( Read more... )

This is what it’s like to have a sick toddler with two parents who work outside the home:

It started last night. Little Prince wasn’t interested in eating his dinner. He seemed a bit extra tired. He finally ate an apple. Being that that was all we could get in him and he’s a toddler, we figured any food was a win. Since he was so tired, we decided ( Read more... )

I have a goal to write more this year in either this journal or my blog that cross-posts here, but life gets in the way. I find myself posting more often to my Tumblr or my other Tumblr or Facebook or Twitter or Instagram than writing longer posts ( Read more... )

This morning when I woke up it had snowed (or something, well it had certainly weathered) overnight.


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I'm recording audio for a training video at work. I'm about to start recording a section when all of a sudden I let out a huge burp and then start laughing. I couldn't help but save it to listen to whenever I want. And then I decided, why not share it with anyone who might still be using LiveJournal too ( Read more... )

My little prince is 14 weeks old! He’s hit the three month mark. He continues to delight and amaze Darius and I.


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Lots has happened in the past three weeks.

The first week of August was National Breastfeeding Week. I was going to go to a Latch On, but LP was asleep when it was time to go and I didn’t want to awaken him.


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Today was my first day back in the office. I’d worked from home a bit last Thursday and Friday while my father took care of LP, but this was the first time I was away from him for work.

It was hard. I’m glad that the daycare we chose is really nice and let us sit in the classroom for 30-45 minutes twice last week, so everything wasn’t totally new ( Read more... )

Week two was really hard for me. My postpartum anemia was worse than we were all prepared to deal with or aware of. I think that if we’d known just how bad it was, my mother probably would have stayed an extra week. But we made it through the week. There were really rough times, like Tuesday afternoon and Thursday night, when I almost called my ( Read more... )