Entries Tagged as 'Life in General'

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

a longer update

Okay, where to start? There’s been a lot going on in the past few months. I guess I should start by going back to October or so. I posted then that I was looking for a job. Things were tight, and we have already been living a bare-bones, no luxury budget for a couple of [...]

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

a very merry Christmas

We had a great day yesterday! We stayed in San Francisco and our friend Kim (and her puppy Fipo) came down from Seattle for the holiday.
I’ll let the photos speak for themselves.

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

a typical evening with our spirited child

We ordered Indian food for dinner tonight, which Elanor ate with relish. As we were cleaning up, Brett put on the new Jay-Z song and we started taking things into the kitchen. The next thing we knew, Elanor was on top of the table, dancing away. So we did what any responsible good…er, uh…parents would [...]

Sunday, December 6th, 2009

my first tattoo

Sometimes, I surprise myself, which I did the other night, when I did something that I didn’t think I’d ever do.
I got a tattoo.
I know, right? Me? A tattoo???
Believe it or not, the evidence is below.
Our friends Graham and Emily are friends with a guy named Chuck, who is a traveling tattoo artist and long-time [...]

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

thankful, v.2009

Sorry I disappeared and failed again on the NaBloPoMo thing. There’s been a lot going on this week; I may be able to share some potentially exciting developments here tomorrow, if things pan out. I hope.
Anyway, since it’s Thanksgiving as I’ve done in years past, I’m going to talk about a few things I’m thankful [...]

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Settlers of Catan

Oh, no! I almost missed posting today. I’m making it in just under the wire here.
Tonight, we played Settlers of Catan with some friends. It’s been a recent obsession for Brett and me; I’d played it a few years ago with our friends Katie and Jon but Brett had never played it until a few [...]

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

cold remedies

Well, Annie, your plea worked. I’m going to try to finish out the month, posting every day. It will be a good exercise for me in posting more regularly, I hope.
Today, since we are victims of a cold at our house (even our houseguest Nate has caught it…I feel awful about that), I’m asking for [...]

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

NaBloPoMo FAIL

Sigh. I failed. Miserably.
Here’s my defense: first, my keyboard stopped working, just before NaBloPoMo started. And if that wasn’t enough, then my computer charger died and the battery on my computer was so low that it died, too. Then, I tried posting from Brett’s iPhone but Wordpress did NOT like the iPhone so typing a [...]

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

thoughts

I have a lot of things I’m thinking about lately, so I think I’ll just do a bullet-style post; it’s just easier than writing a ton of transitions.

Writing: A post manifesto piece about our child rearing ideas. It’s gotten really, really long. It may wind up being a series of posts, actually, but, then, that [...]

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

uh, hi.

Well, I did it again. I went on another unintended blogging hiatus. *sigh* I know, I know. But, like I mentioned in this post, it’s hard for me to blog when I’m preoccupied with something else. And lately, that’s been a really rough Elanor phase. Y’all, it’s been brutal. This parenting thing just keeps getting [...]