All year long, we've been planning a get-together with Nicole's immediate family in California. Nicole's sister's baby is turning 1 this month and as Scarlett's only biological cousin, it was important to us to somehow get the new families together this year. And we did during a pretty epic week in mid-October! Sadly, the trip overlapped our ( Read more... )

We've reached the 20-week mark with Nicole's pregnancy! Halfway there! So far so good. Towards the end of October, we went in for the big milestone 20-week Anatomy Scan where a long list of body features and functions were checked during a rather long ultrasound appointment. To our modest bemusement, our daughter was quite active and not terribly ( Read more... )

Another four months have gone by since my last journal entry. I promise myself that I'll get better at this and return to updating every few weeks at the least but nowadays I just have to be in the mood to do this, ya know? This'll probably be another long entry as there's lots to cover but if I'm on track to only put out three journal entries this ( Read more... )

Yesterday was my 35th birthday! It's been a fast year. So this is my mid-30s. I'm closer to 40 than 30 as of yesterday. I've done a good job these last few days of reminding myself of how young I still am and that there's much left to do. I worry that as time goes on, that I'll resent how much time is gone. That's possible. Only time will tell. ( Read more... )

The Portland-area heat wave I mentioned in my last entry three weeks ago is still going on. We're now into our eighth week of above-90-degree temperatures nearly every single day. I can't believe it's September and we're still seeing newscasts predicting 100-degree days for the near future. It's absolutely draining and we're done. Winter or even ( Read more... )

Are you mine? Are you mine?
'Cause I stay here all the time
Watching telly, drinking wine
Who'd have known? Who'd have known?
When you flash up on my phone
I no longer feel alone, no longer feel aloneOkay, okay, I'm sorry for taking an entire month to write an entry. Life happens too easily! Let's do a little catching up ( Read more... )

I've been back from house sitting for a week and a half now and I'm relieved to have heard that the returning home owners approved greatly of the condition of the house and animals I was in charge of. Whenever I'm in charge of things that important for so long, I do get a little paranoid, so to hear everything is better than perfect is not only an ( Read more... )

Time for another 3 AM entry! It's Friday night / Saturday morning, so I'm trying to stay up as late as possible as the work-weekend begins Saturday night. My brother and I have another weekend ahead of us assembling 3D goggles for the theater viewing public. A cool aspect of this job is that we get cut a check every single week. It's nice to get ( Read more... )

The weather, just in the last couple weeks, has really turned soggy. Fall has arrived. It's always kind of sad to see Summer vanish so abruptly, but that's how it goes. It's that time of the year here in Oregon. We stop getting bright, sunny, 80-degree days and begin seeing damp, dark, 50-degree days more often than not. This morning, in particular ( Read more... )

Once again, my family and I scrubbed plans for a second weekend garage sale for this last weekend. With no one totally ready because of Blu's sudden illness, we've pushed it back now to not this coming weekend but the weekend of September 11th. Hopefully that's not too late in the summer season for a garage sale, but it'll really be one of our last ( Read more... )