While Pramas is off in British Columbia enjoying his guest status at Conquest BC Kate and I have had the weekend to ourselves, the hottest, brightest, sunniest weekend of the year ( Read more... )

For the first time in a long time we don't have much going on for the long holiday weekend. Chris has done some gaming, Kate and I did a little fantasy home renovation shopping trip, puttered around the house, played some computer games. Just basic lazing around time off. We thought about doing the Red, White, and Dead but Kate (in her words) didn' ( Read more... )

In honor of my brother's impending OHSU graduation my dad and step-mom have made the trip out to the coast. Luckily for me it was cheaper for them to fly into Seattle than to Portland, so I have had the pleasure of their company for the last couple of days. Neither of them are crazy about flying and that fact combined with my grandpa living in ( Read more... )

Though I've been active on Twitter and doing a little linking at Facebook, I realized I haven't yet blogged about what's been going on in the last few weeks. Time to rectify this ( Read more... )

Tomorrow may just be the day when I finally get the plumber into the house to install the heat exchanger and pressure gauge for our defective heating system. We got our settlement in October and have been talking with this plumber for weeks trying to schedule him to come in. I can't imagine how frustrated I'd be if we'd actually had to go with the ( Read more... )

The last couple of months have been pretty active for me and I haven't really written about anything overly personal in months. Figure it's about time to mend that ( Read more... )

Wow, I've definitely been AWOL on the blog front for the last several months but April has to be the worst blog month in my history of blogging ( Read more... )

My mother's called me several times in the last couple of weeks, usually to talk about things like what Kate wanted for her birthday or to check to make sure the package she sent arrived (she was permanently scarred after the UPS store sent my package with my grandmother's ring in it across town). After my grandma's health crisis I convinced her to ( Read more... )

Saturday I awoke feeling much more human, especially after getting myself up to normal Seattle-style caffeine levels for the first time in a week. Mmm, delicious coffee. I'm still not exactly a coffee snob but if I had to drink Applebees' coffee on a regular basis I would just quit and switch to tea ( Read more... )

Got home this afternoon and promptly fell into bed for a few hours. I just had to shut down and get some solid sleep. I'm sure my physical exhaustion is partly from the stress, the unpredictability, in addition to the driving, sleeping in the Yuma heat on an old pull-out sofa with my mom... just all of it packed together ( Read more... )