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Published by dee on May 17, 2007

So it appears that the majority of you who voted think that I need a new design.  Great, more work for me!  Oh come on, you know I don’t mind.  I love it when my geeky side gets to come out.  Now I just need to find a little inspiration and some time to put it all in place.

It has been a pretty mellow week around here.  The combination of my allergies flaring up yet again and the boy not sleeping well is starting to drag me down a bit and it always shows in my blog posting.

Since I discovered this last week, I can’t stop listening to Chris Cornell.  The man is just amazing.  I really don’t know why it took me so long to get into his music.  I like Soundgarden.  I love Temple of the Dog.  I love Audioslave.  But for some strange reason I never really listened to his solo stuff.  Um, I like it.  A lot.

A while back I won a $40 gift certificate to Amazon.com in a contest.  I was really excited to win, but I still haven’t used it because I can’t decide what to purchase with it.  I debated whether to buy something special for myself or whether to save it and spend it on Zach.  I finally decided that I would use it for myself to reward myself for my hard work but now I can’t decide what to get with it.  There are some knitting books that I really want, but then there is this.  It is so little and pretty (and cheap!) and I would love it very, very, much.  It is something that I would not normally buy for myself.  But I already have an mp3 player and don’t really need another one (although it would be nice to put some Chris Cornell on, no?).  Plus, I would actually learn something from the books that I could use later.  It is such a tough decision.  It is becoming painful to even think about.

And finally, a little shameless self promotion.  I signed up at TopMomma.com a while back and got notified the other day that I am finally a contender.  If you have a minute to spare could you just click over and give me a hit or two?  It’s all in fun, but I would hate to get kicked off right away.

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Help Me Decide

Published by dee on May 15, 2007

I did get the formatting problem fixed.  Those darn div tags sure are easy to screw up.  One didn’t get closed and the whole site went bonkers.

So while I was tinkering around with the site, I started wondering if it might be time for a brand new look.  I’m in the process of converting over to WordPress, but was going to keep the same basic layout.  Now I’m not so sure.  Maybe it is time for something new.  Since I can’t decide, I want you to decide for me.  Click below to tell me whether you think it is time to change things up or if I should leave it the same.

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AAAHHHHH!

Published by dee on May 15, 2007

I changed some ad code today and somehow managed to jack up my layout.  I’ll try to get things fixed tonight but please excuse the mess in the meantime.

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Take Your Nephew To Work Day

Published by dee on April 26, 2007
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This post has absolutely nothing to do with the picture above but I wanted to share a little baby cuteness anyway. What I really want to tell you about is that baby Brayden’s big brother Dylan blogged for me today over at Tot TV Watch.  Today is “Take Your Daughters/Sons To Work Day” so I adopted Dylan for the day and let him take over my blog to see what it’s all about.  He didn’t get to skip out of school for the day, but I would love to be able to show him lots of nice comments when I go up to visit tonight.  Please go check it out.

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Foam Pits, Weekend Musings, Babies, and Linky Love

Published by dee on April 23, 2007
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The weekends just never seem to be long enough for me these days.  We are always running here and there, doing this and that, and never just staying home.  We tried to do a little more of that staying home thing this weekend, but I still feel like we were just so incredibly busy.

Saturday afternoon Zach was invited to a birthday party.  The party was held at a gymnastics place and boy was it fun!  Zach and his cousins really enjoyed playing in the foam pit, jumping on the trampolines and running around.  What I didn’t bargain for was having to join them in the foam pit to keep the little guys from getting buried by the big kids.  It was one of the best workouts I’ve had in a long time.  Just after getting out from my second round in the pit, I had a little panic attack.  I had just lifted Zach up and out of the pit and while I was getting myself out he apparently had jumped back in.  I was looking all over the place for him and was starting to freak out when I finally saw his orange shorts peeking out of the foam. He was happy as could be.  I was just relieved that he hadn’t run off somewhere.  Fortunately he was close enough that I could pull him out without having to go back in myself.

After the party we headed over to a friend’s house to hang out.  I was both happy and sad to see him running off with the eight-year-old girls to play.  He is finally to the age where I can let him go play with them without hovering over him, but at the same time it is hard for me to just let him go.  I still want to protect him and make sure he isn’t putting odd things into his mouth or getting into things he shouldn’t.  He thinks it is really cool though.  He no longer has to sit around listening to me gab with my friends and instead gets to go play and have fun.

We ended up staying pretty late watching a movie and Zach was wide awake the whole time.  I put him on my lap and snuggled up with him hoping he would fall asleep, but it didn’t work until about the last two minutes of the movie.  I, of course, fell asleep and missed quite a bit of the show, but Zach watched the whole movie, including some language that he really shouldn’t have been hearing.  It wasn’t exactly my best parenting decision ever.  I just really wanted him to settle down and go to sleep.  I’m just hoping he doesn’t start quoting Jack Black until he is at least in his teens.  The way his little mind is soaking things up here lately it wouldn’t surprise me if he picked up a few new terms.

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I won’t be around much tomorrow, because my newest nephew will arrive in the morning via a scheduled c-section.  I’ll be spending the day at the hospital with my sister and taking LOTS of pictures.  I should have some posted Tuesday night on my Flickr account, but if you are really anxious to take a peek at the boy I’ll try to get a snap with my camera phone earlier in the day.  Kids in my family just have to get used to the flash in their faces early on.

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Two of my favorite bloggers are now writing over at 451 Press and you should really go check them out.  NSP will be writing all about the city of Houston and Cagey will be tackling the topic of breastfeeding.  These ladies are both great writers and I really look forward to reading the new blogs.

It also appears that I will not be writing the KC blog over there.  There was a little bit of a mix-up and some miscommunication.  I was a little bummed out at first but now I’m ok with it.  As my Hubby will attest to, I really don’t need to be taking on any more projects right now anyway.

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Odds and Ends

Published by dee on April 19, 2007

I’ve been quite busy over the last few days working on new projects and tidying up a few other things.  Here’s a list of some of the things I’ve been up to:

  • I have finally updated my blogroll.  There are so many incredible writers out there that it is really hard for me to keep up these days.  I’m going to be paring down the blogs in my feed reader so I wanted to make sure that I had the links somewhere else so I don’t lose track of anybody.  I’ll still be reading, but maybe just not every day.
  • I still have a little bit of tweaking to do, but I have officially launched my new knitting site, www.noviceknitting.com.  It is basically a place for me to track my knitting projects, patterns I like, and talk about my new hobby.  I’m hoping that it will eventually become a resource for other novice knitters.  Even if you aren’t into knitting, please stop by and say hi.
  • 451 Press is starting up a set of city blogs and they are going to allow me the pleasure of writing for the Kansas City blog.  I don’t have the link for the site yet, but you can rest assured that I’ll be sharing it as soon as I get it.  I’m also looking for a couple of local KC bloggers to help me out with the site.  If you think you might be interested, let me know.  I basically want to focus on local current events (not political!) and things to do around town, although I’m open to suggestions.
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