December 7, 2006
Zozo is drinking from a straw!!! Yaaaaay! She’s still on the CapriSun, but I want to get her firmly rooted in drinking from the straw before trying something new, which will be chocolate milk. Figure we’ll have to wean her from the sweets. Thanks to Grandma Z for working with her yesterday. You have no idea how much we appreciate you and everything you do for Zoe.
December 6, 2006
Well, we went to Sippy Cup School last night and Zozo’s therapist determined that we should just bypass the entire sippy cup stage and move on to straws. I said, “I tried that, she doesn’t know to suck yet from a straw so it didn’t work.” Enter CapriSun. (Freakin’ huge kudos to Amy G. for calling that one weeks ago.) With the CapriSun pouches, you can squeeze the liquid up through the straw into her mouth. She latched on like there was no tomorrow and started drinking the juice like mad, even coming back for more.
December 5, 2006
Good news for Cardinal Nation: we’ve signed Carpenter for another five years! Yippeeeee!
December 4, 2006
I made some images of the ice-covered foliage around our house on Friday, but haven’t looked at them other than chimping on the tiny screen on the back of the D100. Thinking back, though, I’m pretty sure I boofed my aperture setting and didn’t get the depth of field I wanted. Grrrr. Hate it when I do that. I blame the extreme cold, which apparently froze my brain and made me forget a fundamental rule of photography.
December 3, 2006
We’re back home! I received a call this afternoon from my FIL informing me that we had power. Unfortunately, the situation is reversed from this past summer. If you recall, everyone around us had power restored and our loose neutral kept our house in the dark. For eight days. Well, this time we got our power back with everyone else, but my in-laws are still in the dark. A wire snapped between the poles in our back yard. Our power line comes in before the snap, hence we have power. Theirs doesn’t. It’s always sumthin’, ain’t it?
December 1, 2006
Howdy folks. Bad news….we have to indefinitely postpone The 2006 Grand Lighting Party. We’d love to still have it tomorrow, but it would be a huge bummer since, well, we have no power. Nada. Zip. Big goose egg. Kinda hard to light a zillion lights with no electricity. We briefly discussed having M rig up some sort of crank feature, where he’d run like a big hamster in a wheel to power it, but that wouldn’t work well because he’d probably just end up spilling his beer, which, as we all know, is a major party foul.
December 1, 2006
Usually, for the most part, I can look back at my past and be thankful and grateful for all of it, good times and bad, for it has made me who I am today, and generally I’m pleased with who I am today. I recognize my faults, though, and constantly work to improve myself through education, new experiences and surrounding myself with the best people possible.
November 30, 2006
But the spa is so delightful.
November 29, 2006
Got scoped this morning, and lemme tell ya…the stuff they shoot you up with before the procedure is magic. Magic! Don’t remember a damn thing about it. Before we got started I asked Dr. R. if he has e-mail, as there is a hilarious video about colorectal surgeons I want to forward to him (that I received from Stef, whose sense of timing is impeccable), and I was out as he was answering. I don’t think he has e-mail yet, but is going to get it. I don’t even know if I was able to tell him about the hilarious video.
November 29, 2006
Disclaimer: the timing of this post is all off, because I wrote it two nights ago but didn’t post until this morning. Why? Because I didn’t want to field a bunch of calls. Hopefully by the time you read this I’ll either be all scoped up, or post-scope and feelin’ fine. Anyway, I’ll post an update here as soon as I don’t feel loopy anymore and can ensure that my spelling and grammar won’t embarrass me, which, ironically, is more worrisome to me than what the doc might find. Must be all that training from The World’s Finest School of Journalism.