Well, I guess there’s no more beating around the bush about this. I’ve thought long and hard on a creative way to say this, and I came up with a whole lot of nothing. So here you go:
Yep. You are interpreting that photo correctly: I am knocked up.
To answer the inevitable questions [...]
Man, I have been in the foulest of moods the past couple of days. Why? Several reasons.
Normally it doesn’t bother me that the majority of my coworkers are male, but sometimes it just feels like I work at a damn sausage fest. It’s like we’re having a party where everyone is grilling [...]
I’ve been up to my eyeballs in sewing projects lately. They’re all for other people, and I’m to the point where I don’t think I can accept any more work from anyone. I like sewing, but I also like doing other things. Like lying on the couch on my lazy bum watching [...]
In big news around here, my car hit 100,000 miles yesterday:
It took 10 years, but I finally made it. She’s a good little car. To quote Star Wars, “She may not look like much, but she’s got it where it counts, kid.” She could totally make the Kessel run in less than [...]
I have to tell you about my new favorite place on the Interwebs: reddit.com. People post links, interesting stories, questions, etc., and you can comment on all of the above. You accrue “karma” based on links and comments you post. It sounds silly, but it keeps me amused when my workload is [...]
Dude, I totally took a picture of the stars! Specifically, the Orion constellation. I just had to share it because I’m really proud of it:
Go, go, gadget camera!
Man, I have been having great fun with my new camera lately. Josh did good at coordinating with his family for Christmas this year–I got a bunch of accessories to go with the camera, too:
A camera bag
A 6GB memory card
A lens hood
A smart card reader
A car charger for the camera battery
With a gift card, [...]
I’ve done this meme the last few years, and it’s time to do it again. I originally got it from Sundry, my favorite blogger. Now I’m passing it on to you. Again.
1. What did you do in 2009 that you’d never done before?
Learned how to sew. Shot a rifle for the [...]
Merry Christmas, dudes! Hope everyone’s holidays are going well. Christmas has been great for Josh and me this year. We had my entire family over for Christmas day. It was our first time doing all the cooking, etc. for a family holiday, so that was challenging. But we pulled it [...]
We got our Christmas tree this weekend. We went to a Christmas tree farm with my family, picked out a tree, and decorated it. At the farm, we discovered a couple of things, the main point being that Zoë is OBSESSED with goats. And she’s also not too good at taking photos.
First, [...]
I was cleaning out my camera tonight, and I found this picture. I have no idea exactly what was happening in this picture. I have no idea exactly what it is that Gaby is doing with her back legs. Observe:
If only that candle weren’t in the way.
I’ve been seriously bitten by the [...]
So one of the things I find difficult about being in my late 20s is meeting people. I’m not in school anymore, so I don’t have classmates around (and the friends I had in school have almost all moved away). I am not really involved in any activities, either. So how does [...]
Aside from making decisions about what path my career should take, I haven’t been doing a whole lot of anything. But there are a couple of things I’ve been up to.
Remember that Halloween dog walk I told you about? Well Zoë and I went–in the pouring rain, mind you–and had a pretty good [...]
I’ve been waiting to write about this for a little while now, but I had to wait until some things were finalized before I did (which happened today). So I had a job interview at Georgia Tech about a month or so ago. The position was an entry level network support specialist–basically doing [...]
I started a store on Etsy.com, so if you want to buy a bag, that’s the way to go. Right now, I don’t have anything posted because I only have like one bag ready to be sold, but I will take custom orders. So if you’ve seen a bag on here you like, [...]
Haven’t written in awhile due to lack of riveting content. One thing I have been doing is making delicious pumpkin seeds. I found this Martha Stewart recipe, which makes me feel as though I have truly descended to the depths of domesticity. But dude, they are ever so tasty. I also [...]
Had a maintenance window this morning (2am! Did you know there’s a 2am? There is. It comes right after Way The Heck Early O’clock), so here I am, killing some time until Atlanta Bread Company opens. They don’t open until 7am. Seriously! Some of us need fresh coffee and [...]
If you’re serious about wanting a bag from me, email me. If you don’t have my email address, you can use the handy “Contact Me” button on the top bar up there. I’m serious about making them, so bring it on. If you’re looking for ideas on fabric, one of my favorite [...]
Happy Labor Day to all of you, even though it’s not technically Labor Day yet. I’m counting the entire weekend as a holiday, just because. This weekend’s plans have included a lot of yard work, bumping into my parents at restaurants, book fairs, and meeting famous authors. More on the famous author [...]
Sorry for the site breakage if you tried to browse here over the weekend. Our webserver went down for some unexplained reason, but happily it was cured by a simple reboot.
I finished my third quilt this weekend:
Yep, frogs. I learned a few things in the process of making this quilt: (1) I don’t [...]
So my high school reunion is coming up this weekend. This is causing a slight amount of trepidation for the cliche reason that I’ve gained about 20 pounds since high school. I’m not overweight by any means, but I definitely have some body image concerns. What girl doesn’t? So I’ve been [...]
Changed my mind about the Plinky thing, if you caught that post before I deep-sixed it. Turns out it was a silly idea. I don’t have much to write about at the moment, so please enjoy these pictures of my dog:
Zoë after we took her swimming for the very first time (please ignore [...]
One year ago on August 2, we brought Zoë home to live with us. There were some ups and downs over the past year, but I’m glad to say we have successfully raised one sweet, stubborn, fluffy polar bear.
Dude, she was tiny back then. That picture was from the day we first met [...]
I fear this may one day happen to me:
nataliedee.com
In other news, work has been a big pile of doodoo this week. One of my coworkers–the one who knows more than the rest of us combined–is in the hospital. One of my other coworkers has either been on vacation or working odd hours. [...]
Man, one thing about getting older and having a steady job is that every day is exactly. The. Same. The weeks just fly by because there’s nothing to mark them as different or interesting. Does anyone else ever get this feeling? Like you’re living Groundhog Day? Maybe it’s just [...]
Gosh, I feel like I need to follow up those last two posts with something a little more lighthearted. Let’s see.
A goofy picture of my dog always lightens things up.
In other news, I’ve been tinkering with my blahg a bit. You can now send me an email if you so choose by clicking [...]
Since I seem to be doing a lot of thinking lately (I know, I should stay away from that kind of thing), I figure I’ll write about something else that’s been on my mind. Why not? It’s the internet, I can talk about whatever I want. This is one of those going-out-on-a-limb [...]
So I’ve been thinking a lot lately about friendships. Specifically old friendships with people I don’t see or talk to much–or at all–anymore. I’ve lost touch with a lot of my old friends, and next thing I know they’re having babies, moved away, etc. I think this is probably a natural part [...]
I’m still playing around with some blog templates, so forgive the mess while I try a few new themes on. I am leaning towards the current theme because I like the camels–I think they’re delightfully quirky. I also think the layout of this theme is clean, straight-forward, and easy to navigate. With [...]
Some random thoughts:
Decided to give the old blahg a makeover. Let me know how you like this. I was too lazy to come up with my own theme this time around. Who knows, maybe I’ll go back to the old one–I was kind of attached to it.
These? Are fantastic. Especially [...]
Continuing my top-notch journalism about our trip to San Francisco…
Pictures are here, by the way:
San Francisco 2009
Thursday: Josh and I spent the morning drinking coffee at La Boulange (are you noticing a theme here? The trip practically revolved around coffee). I think we spent the afternoon browsing the fancy shops in Union Square. [...]
Josh and I made it back from San Francisco in one piece. A chronicle of events, if you will:
Monday: Jetted to San Fran and met up with Josh’s coworkers. Dinner was at an Irish pub, where Josh managed to embarrass a waitress by making a sad trombone noise at an ill opportune moment [...]
Finished quilt #2, a small wall-hanging quilt. Its construction is chronicled here:
Rail Fence Wallhanging Quilt
In other news, there’s not much news. I just finished reading the most awesome book ever: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. No, really. Someone took Pride and Prejudice and re-wrote it with zombies in it. It [...]
Time to dust off the old blahg for an update, I suppose.
Let’s see. First, the cloak I wrote about in my last entry was a hit at the Renaissance Fair. Tracey wore hers, too, and together we dorked out at the festival. Despite the pouring rain, it was all fun and games [...]
Felt bad for being depressing earlier, so on a lighter note, please enjoy this dorky photo of the cloak I made myself:
Mine is tan and blue, whereas Tracey’s was brown and green. Also I made a reversible bag for Mom for Mother’s Day:
Despite the cloak-making and flower-planting going on around here lately, the past couple of months haven’t been the best. I have avoided writing about any of it because I didn’t want to be depressing, but I just kind of need an outlet, you know?
A couple of weeks ago, my dad was diagnosed with colon [...]
Check it out, I FINALLY got around to making our front flower beds look halfway decent:
I planted gerbera daisies:
Zinnias (not pictured), “Joeys” (a.k.a. pink mulla mullas, also not pictured, apparently I am incapable of remembering where I stashed my pictures), and portulacas:
Oh, and also a butterfly bush that should have dark-purple-almost-black flowers:
And also cool: bees [...]
No new and interesting news to report here these days, hence the gaps between posts. I got tired of the Twitter digest posts, so if you want to keep up with my microblogging life, you’ll just have to click on the Twitter widget on the sidebar over there. Or maybe get your own [...]
Dude, you guys. It’s totally snowing outside.
From Zoe in the Snow
Zoë is completely exhausted from too much frolicking in the snow today. She has stayed true to her Great Pyrenees lineage–turns out she LOVES snow. Also? She’s pretty good at catching snowballs:
I love the victory lap she does after catching a [...]
I entered Zoë in Atlanta Magazine’s Cutest Pet Contest. It’s totally goofy, I know, but vote for her (please)! Dunno if it has any bearing on the results or not, but it’s entertaining.
Zoë’s entry
It’s like America’s Next Top Model for pets, minus that insufferable Tyra Banks.
Since I don’t much have the time/desire these days to write full posts, I’ve set up my “blahg” to post daily digests of my Twitter feed. If you’re not hip like some of us, Twitter is a microblogging tool. For those of us who have tiny, pea-sized attention spans, Twitter is a nice [...]
I’ve kinda lost my taste for writing here lately, largely in part due to a month-long bad mood. Too much drama at work makes me not want to pick up my computer when I get home. Plus my mood tends to affect what I write, and no one wants to read a month’s [...]
So Christmas was pretty good at our house. I got a sewing machine (I plan to take up quilting), Josh got a drill press and other Manly Items. We gave Gaby a new hidey hole (more on that later, it requires its own post), and Zoë got a new collar.
When we adopted Zoë, [...]
It’s that time of year again. I did this quiz thingy last year and the year before that. I got it from Sundry who got it from someone else who got it from someone else, etc.
Here goes…
1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before?
Bought a house! And adopted [...]
Behold! Sock #1 is complete!
Zoë would like you all to know that she helped. And by “helped” I mean “drooled on the sock at regular intervals.”
It’s kind of been a crap week around here. Our friend and realtor who helped us find our house passed away suddenly last week. My dad [...]
So! Christmas is upon us. I am going to hop on the blogging bandwagon at Rayd and write about how the Christmas season is going for me lately. The series of Christmas-related events thus far:
Josh’s grandmother comes to visit, and one of the first things she says is “I hear your mom [...]
Oh, hi, remember me? I’ve sort of neglected to write lately, and I blame it on four things:
(1) I had the mother of all sinus infections, which is STILL clinging to me a little. I was too busy blowing my nose to open up my laptop.
(2) I got back into knitting:
(3) This always [...]
Josh, Zoë and I went camping this weekend with Robb and George – a father-son duo that Josh works with. They brought their dog Quizz, Zoë’s boyfriend. We went down to Providence Canyon in west Georgia. I’ve been wanting to check out this park for a long time, and it was definitely [...]
Greetings from Suburban Halloween Central!
We are currently surviving the onslaught of “Halloweeners” (as one of my coworkers was referring to them today) with beer and TV. We are watching “What Not To Wear” right now, and I gotta say it’s hitting WAY too close to home. The subject of this episode is a [...]
We did quite a bit of geocaching this weekend. I introduced my friend Tracey to the sport (is it really a sport? I’m not actually sure). That means I’ve converted 3 people now: Josh, Robb, and Tracey. Someone give me a cookie or something.
I swear, some days it’s like my coworkers go looking for my buttons, and then when they find them, they insist upon pushing them over and over and over. And then my day goes from being okay to an exercise in restraint. By the time I get home, I’m exhausted by the sheer [...]
I have a startling confession to make: I will be throwing a Tupperware party.
It doesn’t get more suburban than that, I’m afraid. It all started when Anita hosted a Tupperware party last week. Josh had forbidden me from buying anything, but I reeeeaaally wanted some Tupperware. The allure of the smooth plastic, [...]
I won’t bore you with the details of our recent vacation. Bullet points are quicker:
Weather in SC was chilly, overcast, and rainy. Not good beach weather.
There was one good beach day, and Josh ignored my suggestion to put on sunscreen. He spent the majority of the week looking like a lobster.
Charleston is [...]
I have been drawing network diagrams all day, and my brain is pretty close to mush. Since I possess the unfortunate character flaw of “attention to detail,” I got drafted into drawing network diagrams of 5 of our datacenters’ internal networks. And then after I draw the diagrams, I have to write a [...]
Yesterday was one of those days that was so bad and crappy and soul-crushing that I don’t even want to talk about it. I still have my job, which is good. I am still suspicious that should the company decide to lay anyone off, my boss will make me be the first to [...]
She’s not perverted, it’s just that Josh has a pocket full of treats.
Soon vengeance shall be yours.
I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this before or not, but puppies are exasperating.
We conquered the whining problem after a few days of having Zoë. What we did not expect (ok, what I did not expect) was the run-around-like-a-maniac-biting-everything problem. I know puppies have energy and all, but really. I could really [...]
Envy: It has fur and sits in a window.
[Edit: If you clicked on my site earlier, you may have been greeted by one of those "Hey, we saved this domain for gnomograms.com!" pages. Um, yeah...that was me breaking my site. Not only did my Wordpress upgrade go awry, but I also transferred my DNS records to GoDaddy.com. For the record, [...]
You may have read on Josh’s blog that we picked up our new puppy Zoë on Saturday. I am pleased to report that she’s a healthy, goofy, butterball of a dog.
Zoë is 9 weeks old yesterday, and she’s already about 15 pounds. Her fur feels like cotton candy (but definitely doesn’t smell like [...]
I would like to begin this post by professing my undying love and devotion to Cesar Millan. Check out how he got to the States (click the link). Pretty crazy. Also recently added to my list of Subjects of Undying Love and Devotion: Gary Oldman. I saw The Dark Knight this [...]
Some thoughts:
The AJC posted this article today. I’m inclined to shake my fist with the other angry biologists in the article. Is it really a good idea to put giant aquatic creatures in a tank when we know so little about their behavior/biology/physiology? My other beef with the GA Aquarium is that [...]
Josh found this picture somewhere out on the internet, and it makes me so stupidly happy for some reason. I have to share it. This is the very definition of joy–forgive my anthropomorphism, but this is definitely a gleeful turtle.
This picture now graces my desktop, simply because it makes me smile.
Hoo boy, work has been ridiculous lately. Too much work and not enough of us to do it. Now that my group is down to two people, I’m getting really annoyed at being on call every other week. On average I get called once a day, but last time there was one [...]
Two things we did this past weekend:
Painted our dining room.
I’ve been wanting to paint our dining room RED! for awhile. Not just a little red, but RED!. So we scrounged up some free time this weekend, bought the paint, and started painted. I wish I had a before picture, but I forgot [...]
It’s kind of been an eventful week since I last wrote. Where to start?
I spent most of last Friday in San Francisco–my last full day of my trip. We got out of class at noon, so I headed up to San Fran to check it out. I went first to Fisherman’s Wharf, [...]
So it’s gotten pretty smoky here in San Jose from the wildfires up north. According to the FAA, this is causing delays of 1.5 hours at the San Jose airport. So keep your fingers crossed that everything clears up by Saturday at noon, because otherwise I’m going to have a really sucky day [...]
Before I left Atlanta, I made several goals for this trip:
Learn stuff.
Eat Vietnamese food.
Visit our Santa Clara datacenter (turns out this won’t happen because our Santa Clara datacenter flooded on Monday).
Eat good sushi.
Stick my toes in the Pacific Ocean.
Go to a coffee shop in San Francisco.
Drive on the Pacific Coast highway.
Relax and not think about [...]
Greetings from the nerdiest city in the US!
Ok, so I haven’t been everywhere so I guess I can’t really claim that San Jose is the nerdiest city. However, the fact that there are posters of network devices in the San Jose airport leads me to believe that San Jose’s inhabitants are on the whole [...]
Had planned to review the two movies I’ve seen in the past week (The Happening and Get Smart), but Josh and I got back from Six Flags a little while ago and I’m pooped. The Internet paid for everyone to go–they even paid for parking and food. I’ve decided this is pretty much [...]
So I managed to import all of my old blog entries from my Blogspot blog. I’m in the process of recategorizing all of them so that you could click and essentially read through my old blog (not that anyone has that much free time or hates themselves enough to read through all that drivel). [...]
People who say “vee-hickle” really bother me.
Going to California alone will be very boring, now that my boss has quit.
The MIA song “Paper Planes” makes me sad for some reason.
I’m not sure what I expected about being grown up, but so far this is not it.
150cc on the new Mariokart is hard. And playing [...]
Thanks to Tracey for pointing me here. I hung this up in our breakroom yesterday:
So far it’s not working very well. I’m still finding empty coffee pots that people are not refilling. Motherflippin’ TIGERS, people. FEAR THEM.
I use the personalized Google page as my browser homepage. One of my widgets is a National Geographic picture of the day. One day last week, I opened Firefox to see this (click to enlarge):
My picture of the day was of the legs of Aquarius, where I did a lot of diving back [...]
So you may have noticed that I’ve really broken my streak in the past week. There is one simple reason for it. It’s called Mariokart for the Nintendo Wii. Josh picked it up for me last week, and I’ve been glued to it since. Here’s a rundown on what I haven’t [...]
So I’m a big fan of blood donation. I try to donate whenever I can, but thanks to the occasional bad iron count it doesn’t always end up being that frequent. So tonight when I got to the gym today and saw the blood drive bus out front, I was excited.
Now, I have [...]
I came in to work on Friday morning, and my poor little desk plant looked like someone had bounced a basketball off it. I’d never seen it wilt so bad. So I gave it some water, and took the following pictures over the next hour:
(Taken at 8:07am.)
(Taken at 8:31am.)
(Taken at 8:52am.)
(Taken at 11:16am [...]
So it looks like I may be back in job-hunting mode soon. My entire group is on the verge of imploding, and frankly, I don’t know if I want to be the last one standing when the dust clears. I dunno, man. I was just starting to think I actually liked my [...]
Wearing a skirt to work only to have it turn unseasonably cold outside.
Spending all day doing work for one customer.
Gaining ~7lbs despite a three-times-a-week workout (and without eating more).
Checkpoint firewalls.
Forgetting to pay your car tag registration.
Having your boss volunteer you to make other people do their jobs.
Coming home to find a giant pile of cat [...]
Today is my 27th birthday. Supposedly that makes it my “golden” birthday because I’m 27 on the 27th. Wikipedia says it, so it must be true, right? According to Wikipedia, I should be drinking champagne tonight, too. Instead I ate a gigantor slice of cookie cake. And then had a [...]
My little Gaby cat ran away. Josh let her out last night, and she hasn’t come back yet. She’s not used to going out, and she has a tendency to get herself stuck places when she gets scared. I am worried because she hasn’t had her yearly shots yet, plus she’s not [...]
So I have a thing for animal-shaped tchotchkes. I have a variety around the house but not enough to be overwhelming. In our living room I’ve got ducks, elephants, fish, a baby turtle, a puffin, and corals (because they are animals, too, you know). I’m always looking for more. Josh doesn’t [...]
So Tuesday night I was channel surfing, and I came across this documentary. It was just rolling the opening credits as I surfed to it, so I figured I’d watch it. I’d read about it on cnn.com when it came out, and I was interested in seeing it because I was raised sort [...]
As promised, before and after pictures of our sunroom. We used some of our economic stimulus check to buy some furniture from Target. I love our sunroom, so I’m excited that we can actually hang out in it now.
Before:
It was pretty bare out there. We had the one incident of leakage from [...]
Finally finished the blanket I’ve been working on for the last few months. It’s a baby blanket for Josh’s new brother Liam. I did get a picture of us and the blanket and Liam, but I forgot to get Josh’s mom to copy it for me before we left for Augusta. Here [...]
[Dangit, already broke my streak. But in my defense, I did start this entry yesterday. I just fell asleep before I finished it.]
I forgot to include a bullet point on my catch up entry a few posts back: Josh and I joined a gym. That’s right, a gym. As in a [...]
In an effort to jumpstart my desire to write here, I vow to write something everyday for as long as I can. Hopefully it’ll last more than a day. I can’t promise to always be witty and thought-provoking, but since my daily readership has dwindled to an average of 5 people [...]
First, check out our very splendiferous azalea. This picture doesn’t do the colors justice:
If flowers are all about plant sex, then this is the most promiscuous plant in the yard.
Hi. What have you been up to lately? I have been doing the following: (1) working, (2) raking the 6 inch deep layer [...]
So I mentioned a couple of posts back that I’ve got a major case of blogger’s block. I feel uninspired to write, and when I do post on here it feels mostly like an obligation. That’s a bad sign. I want to want to write instead of it feeling like a chore. [...]
So I’ve been having a major case of blogger’s block lately. Can’t find much to write about. Josh has covered the whole house stuff pretty well, and other than that there’s not much going on. So today: limericks. I asked Josh for the first topic he could think of (not knowing [...]
A conversation overheard yesterday at The Internet regarding “push presents:”
Sales Rep #1: My wife’s friend got one of those “push presents” when she had a baby.
Sales Rep #2: Yeah, my wife wanted one of those when we had our kid. Getting to have my baby should be gift enough.
A conversation between Josh and myself [...]
Taking a moment to write to escape work.
We have this one customer who wanted this really crazy VPN set up on his managed firewall about a month ago. But then after I started working on the ticket, he decided he didn’t want us to managed his firewall anymore. He took over the managing, [...]
So the move to the new house has thrown our cat Gaby for a loop. She freaked out on Friday when I first brought her to the house (lots of yowling and gnashing of teeth). She’s gradually mellowed out and is almost completely acclimated. She is enjoying exploring the new place. [...]
I am using the new Blackberry that work gave me for a quick news flash: Josh and I are now homeowners!
That is all. For now.
So how about the lack of posting lately on this here blog? Sorry. I used to do all my blogging at work, but since I moved into my new position, I am terrified of getting in trouble/breaking something/getting someone on my back. So no more blogging at work until I am certain [...]
Happy Leap Day! I am trying to get Josh to buy me this as a Leap Day present.
He’s not going for it, though. But I am determined to wear him down. Oh yes, I will get my emu baby IF IT’S THE LAST THING I DO.
Introducing…my latest betta fish!
He’s prettier in person. Gaby has been trying to eat him all afternoon. I set him down on our coffee table and went off to the bedroom to sort laundry. When I came back, the fish was in his cup…on the floor. Gaby had somehow knocked him off, [...]
Gonna beat Josh to the punch on this one: we found a new The One House, My preciousssss. And we put an offer on it.
And after some haggling, the offer has been accepted!
So we are one step closer to owning our own house. It has its own website, but I don’t want to [...]
You may not know this about me, but The Highlander is my favorite pub on earth. It’s delightfully dark and biker-esque, with the best cheesy tots in town. My friend Tracey and I visited the place on Friday (as we often do, guess that makes us regulars). When we showed up, they [...]
