This is no longer news for many of you, but for those who haven't heard: I have a new nephew! His name is Owen, he was born on July 24, and I can't wait to meet him ( Read more... )

I'm going to blatantly steal from DadHacker and open this post with "Yeah, yeah, M-X standard-blog-apology." And now on to content in the form of a random list of stuff I am bothering to report on:

( what's up in my life )

You know when your life is really hectic, and you keep thinking, "Okay, as soon as X happens, then everything is going to calm down, and I'll have time to do those other things," but you're completely deluding yourself, because life never really does become less hectic, because that's just how life is when you're a grownup? Possibly I'm currently ( Read more... )

Has it really been more than two months since I've posted here? Insert usual round of excuses, apologies, and what-have-you.

I've been spending all my time on a rewrite of my 2007 NaNo novel, The Extent of the Damage. It's going wonderfully, and as mentioned, taking up all my time. For approximately two months now, I've been intending to write ( Read more... )

Michigan: swimming, ladderball, cornhole, backyard fireworks, Crystal Mountain, alpine slide (with boo-boos), ice cream, water playground, sunset over Lake Michigan, euchre, giant sand dunes, more ice cream, cherry festival, (drunken) euchre tournament, Guitar Hero World Tour, internet afternoon, another sunset, yet more ice cream and euchre, and ( Read more... )

Photo time! Two weekends ago we went to Sausalito and stayed in a floating house. I've finally uploaded photos from that trip, just in time for us to leave for another trip.

Over the past month or so, we had our yard and patio completely redone and beautified. Louise documented the process with daily photos. And now it's all finished, just in ( Read more... )

Today I celebrated my birthday on Martha's Vineyard. Despite growing up in Massachusetts, this is my first trip to the island. It's lovely here, quaint and peaceful and sunny and not too cold.

My birthday included:
- chocolate pancakes
- alpacas!
- houses like candy-colored gingerbread
- a clam roll
- ice cream
- a lighthouse- drinkies ( Read more... )

In 2008, I ( continued my tradition of doing things. )

We just returned from a family trip to Point Reyes Station, near the coast north of San Francisco, where I:

* Sprained my foot on the first night. Doh! There was a power outage, and I was attempting to go outside to admire the stars in complete darkness during a brief period of cloudlessness, but I was foiled by a wet front step. As a result, I ( Read more... )

I grow weary of my uncompleted travel notes. Herewith, the rest of the now-long-ago trip, in a desultory fashion ( Read more... )