Today Bronwen Burr is 8 months old. Can you believe it? I still can’t believe that we had a baby in the first place. As an 8 month birthday present let me list 8 things about her that are cute and wonderful.
1. She always smiles when Dan walks in the room. I do the same thing!
2. When getting her diaper changed she grabs her feet and wiggles her butt.
3. Sometimes in the morning I walk into the nursery she is sitting upright smiling.
4. She eats all food; she is not picky at all.
5. She loves taking baths but she hates having her face washed.
6. She loves when Dan and/or I play the guitar and sing to her.
7. She laughs constantly at Piper; she thinks her sister is the greatest!
8. To her, Fay and Onyx are the most interesting toys in the house.
There are many more than 8 things that are cute and wonderful about her, but it will have to wait until she is nine months old. Feel free to add your own!
Thursday, April 5, 2007
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
My Life at Work
I sit at a desk all day. Sometimes I am productive, most of the time I am trying to force myself to be productive. This means I spend a lot of time writing lists of what I should be doing, giving myself hourly deadlines and even providing myself with prizes if I accomplish my goals.
“Ellie, you can write one personal email if you finish writing this checklist by lunch.”
Most of the time I let myself do whatever I want to anyway, and the work gets done in the last moments before it is due.
Sometimes I just sit at my desk and go blank. I don’t think about anything, or do anything. I just can’t make myself do work. I just have to wait until it passes. Today I was staring blankly at my computer screen when I realized that it had just gotten darker outside.
Now this was a very strange realization as there are no windows within sight of my desk. I sit in cube land, a cube across the aisle, three cubes in front and one behind, and a door leading out to a windowless hallway. There are windows down the aisle in an office, so it is possible the tiniest bit of natural light reaches me every once in awhile. Well, today it did. I felt that the world had darkened. It was such a bizarre feeling that I had to get up and go peek out of the office window. Indeed, what had been a sunny day when I came into the office this morning had turned overcast. It is nice to know that even in cube land I can still have some sort of connection to the outside world.
“Ellie, you can write one personal email if you finish writing this checklist by lunch.”
Most of the time I let myself do whatever I want to anyway, and the work gets done in the last moments before it is due.
Sometimes I just sit at my desk and go blank. I don’t think about anything, or do anything. I just can’t make myself do work. I just have to wait until it passes. Today I was staring blankly at my computer screen when I realized that it had just gotten darker outside.
Now this was a very strange realization as there are no windows within sight of my desk. I sit in cube land, a cube across the aisle, three cubes in front and one behind, and a door leading out to a windowless hallway. There are windows down the aisle in an office, so it is possible the tiniest bit of natural light reaches me every once in awhile. Well, today it did. I felt that the world had darkened. It was such a bizarre feeling that I had to get up and go peek out of the office window. Indeed, what had been a sunny day when I came into the office this morning had turned overcast. It is nice to know that even in cube land I can still have some sort of connection to the outside world.
Monday, April 2, 2007
A night to recover from
Saturday was a great day. Dan and I woke up around 10am with Bronwen. (Dan had fed her around 6:30am and she went back to sleep.) We got up, dressed and went straight outside to enjoy the sunshine. Bronwen played in her play-pen as Dan cleared more junk from the inside of the garage and I finished cutting up the tree in the backyard and moving the pieces to behind the garage. It was a lot of work. But very satisfying as we now have an additional 20 or so feet of yard where there was none before. I mowed the vines and moved some plants. There is still more to do, but we have made quite a dent in just two weekends.
Eventually, we started to get hungry, so we packed up the stroller and walked down to Fishbones. (It was rumored that Cynthia was back from Puerto Rico and we wanted to see her too!). Chris met us there. Dan ordered a turkey sandwich with pepper jack cheese and roasted red peppers. It looked delicious. I had the house salad, which I had never had and it was delicious (and only $3.95!). We also ordered a few pints. Cynthia was there and she hung out with us on the patio telling us all her stories of Puerto Rico. (I was mentally planning my move there after only one story from her. I love the island mentality. I need to go live by the beach for a few years.)
After a few hours we decided to head home to "settle" Catan on the picnic table. Chris and Matt joined us there. Matt showed up with a case of Yuengling and two 12 packs of ice cream sandwiches. My hero!
We played a vicious game of Knights and Cities (we all agree it is more fun than the original version) and Chris one by 4 points. We have only played this expansion twice and both times Chris has won.
Matt drank 8 beers in 2 hours and ate about 10 ice cream sandwiches. When we finished the game we moved on to a new take on an old game: fire stump. Yes, it is exactly what it sounds like. We lit the stump on fire and tried to pound each others nails in as it burned. Surprisingly, no one was injured, and I think Dan won all three games (yes, the stump was on fire for three games). Matt friends picked him up and I went inside to make dinner while Dan and Chris played cards. I made skewers with andouille sausage, and shrimp wrapped in bacon covered in a mustard, soy sauce, maple syrup glaze. They were delicious.
Then Phil showed up and we sat around the fire pit and ate s'mores until 4:30 in the morning. Dan and I played guitar. Not a bad life.
Eventually, we started to get hungry, so we packed up the stroller and walked down to Fishbones. (It was rumored that Cynthia was back from Puerto Rico and we wanted to see her too!). Chris met us there. Dan ordered a turkey sandwich with pepper jack cheese and roasted red peppers. It looked delicious. I had the house salad, which I had never had and it was delicious (and only $3.95!). We also ordered a few pints. Cynthia was there and she hung out with us on the patio telling us all her stories of Puerto Rico. (I was mentally planning my move there after only one story from her. I love the island mentality. I need to go live by the beach for a few years.)
After a few hours we decided to head home to "settle" Catan on the picnic table. Chris and Matt joined us there. Matt showed up with a case of Yuengling and two 12 packs of ice cream sandwiches. My hero!
We played a vicious game of Knights and Cities (we all agree it is more fun than the original version) and Chris one by 4 points. We have only played this expansion twice and both times Chris has won.
Matt drank 8 beers in 2 hours and ate about 10 ice cream sandwiches. When we finished the game we moved on to a new take on an old game: fire stump. Yes, it is exactly what it sounds like. We lit the stump on fire and tried to pound each others nails in as it burned. Surprisingly, no one was injured, and I think Dan won all three games (yes, the stump was on fire for three games). Matt friends picked him up and I went inside to make dinner while Dan and Chris played cards. I made skewers with andouille sausage, and shrimp wrapped in bacon covered in a mustard, soy sauce, maple syrup glaze. They were delicious.
Then Phil showed up and we sat around the fire pit and ate s'mores until 4:30 in the morning. Dan and I played guitar. Not a bad life.
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