So we're in Hawaii and having an awesome time thus far, in spite of a few snafus which included my little netbook dying the blue screen of death upon our arrival. :( We had to go to Best Buy and pick up another netbook. Luckily they seem to be cheaper here than at home (which is so very odd! We would have expected it to be the other way around ( Read more... )

In preparation for our honeymoon in a few months, Shasta got me this pretty white gold plumeria pendant for Valentine’s Day. ♥


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Yesterday, friends, was CD1 of my first full cycle in 2011. *gringrin* Welcome to the blog of an entirely-too-type-A-pregnancy planner ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving was probably one of the better ones we've had in the last four years with Shasta's folks ... mostly due to the fact that this year I got us a little motel room to stay in instead of staying at her parents' house. Having clean, private bathroom facilities and a quiet room to sleep in made the entire stay much, much more pleasant! Like ( Read more... )

I just bought our honeymoon tickets. Six nights in Waikiki, YAY!!!!! We're staying at the Waikiki Marina Resort, which is a little condo high rise, so we'll have a kitchenette to make some of our meals ( Read more... )

Shasta and I watched Julie & Julia last night. This movie managed to simultaneously stir up A) rich & fatty food cravings, B) a desire to cook something ridiculously complicated and expensive, C) a sense of inadequacy when it comes to my own blogging habits (and in fact, commitment to any long-lived project) and D) renewed worship of the powerhouse ( Read more... )

A quick glimpse of our Christmas tree, because I haven't posted it yet & I just love my tree...


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We had a really nice holiday weekend. On Saturday we drove down to the Springs and picked up my five boxes of Michael Jackson memorabilia from my dad's storage trailer. I'm going to be (slowly) getting things up on Ebay, in the hopes that they will find homes with people who will actually actively enjoy them -- and in the hopes that perhaps I can ( Read more... )