I am feeling immensely sad today. It’s making it hard to concentrate on work. Ever have that sort of pervasive sense of down-in-the-dumps that sort of feels like it’s squashing your happy place? That’s where I am ( Read more... )

We had a really peaceful and much-needed weekend ( Read more... )

Over the weekend I took photos of Shasta for the sperm bank’s photo matching service; I’ll be sending them in just as soon as the bank confirms they’ve received our registration paperwork. As soon as we get the photo matching results we’ll be ordering our first batch of swimmers. *squee!!*

We also received our Preseed in the mail - and the ( Read more... )

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Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! Since it’s been so long since my last update I have a lot of photos to share.

We can start with our progress on the bathroom.

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I FOUND CASPER ( Read more... )

Casper is missing and I can't stop crying... He disappeared on Friday night -- I think he must have snuck out of the house. I went around this morning and put flyers on every house and street corner in the neighborhood... I posted notices on Craigslist, ebay and every other online place I could find; I paid for a membership to his microchipping ( Read more... )

My grandmother's memorial's been set for May 6th, a Saturday... so I spent most of the morning on the phone with my dad, my brother, and Shasta coordinating how we're going to get there. My brother Christian and I finally decided we're taking a red-eye flight on Saturday morning, renting a car for the day to get to the service, and then taking ( Read more... )

... I present to you a glimpse of a typical Saturday morning in our household. Shasta was sneaky enough to snap this awesome, albeit blurry, pic of just how our three kitties like to treat any late-sleepers on the weekends...


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Christmas yesterday was a roaring success -- I spent all morning cooking, my family showed up around noonish, we did presents and then ate. Everybody loved the menu, too, and our ham turned out yummy, and we had scalloped potatoes, yams, apricot-honey carrots, bacon-vinegar green beans, cranberry relish, rolls, two pies, and a roast just for ( Read more... )