A week ago Monday I went to the orthodontist and picked up my Invisalign trays. I'd gotten evaluated for them a while ago and was finally able to get fitted for them right before the winter holidays.


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Today is a work from home day. Here is my to do list for today:

• Get kiddo up and to daycare - This is proved more difficult than normal. Second attempt of waking him up did not work, but he finally got up on his own. Got him out the door quickly and was not too late to daycare.
• Finish work project that has been dragging on too long. - DONE ( ( Read more... )

Since they mentioned at Little Prince’s Parent-Teacher’s Night that we could come in and read to the kiddos right before their lunch time, I wanted to do it. So as soon as they put up the sign-up sheet, I signed up for the very first slot.


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We'd known for a few months now that it was pretty likely that the business lordaerith has been working for for the past seven years was going to go under/get sold. He'd started looking around at other places and throwing out a few applications, but places either didn't have open positions or the openings they had were not for his skills/salary requirements ( Read more... )

Last summer there was a Kickstarter for InvaderCon III: Final Doom. I had been following the InvaderCons since they were a concept on Facebook back in 2009 or 2010, but hadn't been able to go to either of the other ones because of reasons. This one was going to be in Austin, so of course we backed it. And it funded. And then we found out that it ( Read more... )

Yesterday Little Prince had a very busy day.

It started around 7:30 with Little Prince not wanting to wake up.


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On May 28, my Little Prince turned 3 years old!


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The other day Little Prince was playing outside with our neighbor’s son, E, who is almost four and probably a head and shoulders taller than LP. E had a beach ball and the two boys were throwing it back and forth and up in the air. At some point the game became grab the ball on the ground, but really it turned into wrestling a bit. E’s mom starts ( Read more... )

Last week lordaerith and I (mostly Aerith) installed our new microwave. It is pretty and shiny and matches our stove. It also is a convection oven, which is strange but cool.


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Yesterday was my five year anniversary at Convio/Blackbaud. I can't believe I've been here five years. Before this, the longest I'd ever worked somewhere that wasn't a college/grad school job was almost 2 years and the first 6 months of that job were part-time ( Read more... )