Blogolalia

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

There’s a new post at WC.

Did I mention the other day that parenting is hard? 

Monday, June 29, 2009

Billy Mays, too?

Movies: Blood Work was OK.

Books: Shadow of Power by Stever Martini was pretty good, although I figured out the major mystery about halfway through the first chapter.

Food: Judging from the Roasted Mango-Chipotle sauce we had on our chicken last night, Bronco Bob’s sauces are awesome. I have a sample jar of the Raspberry-Chipotle sauce as well that I’m saving for some salmon in our future.

I’m on worship team this weekend. Our church is only having services on Sunday morning since July 4th is on Saturday. That will make things easier for our family. I have mixed feelings about it since it will be my first time back since having Molly Ann and also since our worship leader left. That is a whole long story about which I still feel weird. His leaving was a surprise and under odd circumstances. I miss him a ton as a worshipper and I know that I’m going to miss him more as our team leader. I’m very curious about what kind of person will come in to replace him - it’s hard to imagine anyone else, really.

I’ve posted a bunch of new items at Ticklish Giggles recently and there’s a new theme as well.

Happy Monday.

Friday, June 19, 2009

The post at WC about the toy box has photos added now.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

There are two new posts at Whiny Complaints for your enjoyment.

“Poopy”

and

The Toy Box

Friday, June 12, 2009

This is the kind of civil process I see in my office all too often.

Late last month, a U.S. District Court judge dismissed a complaint filed by a woman who said she’d been buying Cap’n Crunch’s Crunch Berries cereal for four years under the assumption that crunchberries are a real berry. “The plaintiff, Janine Sugawara, alleged that she had only recently learned to her dismay that said ‘berries’ were in fact simply brightly-colored cereal balls.”

Idiot.

[via rude cactus]

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Molly Ann went to the doctor today. Don’t limit yourself to that post, there are other updates as well, for those who are interested.

Tuesday, May 05, 2009

I missed several weeks of Dave Barry’s 24 recaps, but remembered to check in this morning. The poll is great and I love the first comment posted to the poll page.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Ever wonder if you’re maximizing your Netflix DVD rentals? Now you can get a good idea of whether or not you’ve used your rental plan with Netflix wisely with the Netflix History Analyzer.

Here’s my assessment:

Your results

* You’ve rented 98 DVDs over 24 months from April 30, 2007 to April 14, 2009.
* Your plan costs $16.99/month so you’ve paid $407.76 total.
* Your average price per rental was approximately $4.16 each.
* Average rental costs elsewhere are $4.00 each (not including late fees).
* You’ve overpaid approximately $15.76 over that time period or $0.66 per month.

Here’s some more about your renting habits…

* You kept each rental for around 22 days on average.
* The longest you kept a single DVD was 102 days.
* You rented about 4 DVDs each month.
* You’re not taking full advantage of your current plan. You could be renting 19 DVDs each month.

I think I’ll have to reassess post-maternity leave. I think my rental habits in the next month or so will help our stats.

[via OTB]

[UPDATE 4/22]: I redid mine going back to 2004 when I first started using Netflix. Much better results.

Your results

* You’ve rented 268 DVDs over 59 months from May 24, 2004 to April 14, 2009.
* Your plan costs $16.99/month so you’ve paid $1002.41 total.
* Your average price per rental was approximately $3.74 each.
* Average rental costs elsewhere are $4.00 each (not including late fees).
* You’ve saved approximately $69.59 over that time period or $1.18 per month.

Here’s some more about your renting habits…

* You kept each rental for around 21 days on average.
* The longest you kept a single DVD was 173 days.
* You rented about 5 DVDs each month.
* You’re not taking full advantage of your current plan. You could be renting 19 DVDs each month.

Tuesday, April 07, 2009

There are a couple of new posts at Ticklish Giggles.

We have many pictures on the camera from her first week. I need to get Beau to download them so that I can post them - she’s super cute.

Friday, March 20, 2009

Amen, brutha.

[via Thinkling Bill]

[ADDED LATER]: Bonus clip that made me tear up I was laughing so hard:

Monday, March 09, 2009

There are a couple of new updates at TG, including a new, more feminine theme in keeping with the girl child whose blog that will become in 3 weeks.

Tuesday, March 03, 2009

The latest check up update is posted.

There is a new ultrasound scheduled for Friday as a result of the appointment. Looks like we’ll get to know the sex of the baby before birth after all.

Woo!

Thursday, February 26, 2009

1. I’ll post this at Ticklish Giggles later, too, but I wanted to get this out there. I had my appointment with my OB to discuss my diabetes this morning. He has put me on glyburide since I’m only four weeks away from delivery. He said it’s pointless to attempt insulin at this point because by the time we got the dosage regulated, the baby would already be out and the problem solved.

He’s put me on the lowest possible dose of the glyburide and I will take the pill once a day before breakfast. That’s easy! He said within a day or two we should see my fasting glucose numbers drop into the 80s, which is where he would like for them to be. The kicker is that one of the ingredients in the medicine is bactrum, to which I am allergic (I get hives). He thinks I should be OK since it’s a small amount in the medicine and he’s giving me the lowest dose, but that I’m to watch for hives over the weekend. If I get them, he’ll take me off the meds and we’ll figure out something else. I’m thinking that means that we’ll just have to live with my borderline numbers until birth. The good thing is I only have to take this drug for one month.

He checked the baby’s heartbeat for fun and got a kicked for good measure. What I love about this particular doctor is his pure enjoyment of the kicks when he examines the belly. He laughs out loud all the time in response.

Anyway, I go back on Monday for my regular check up and he expects we’ll know then whether or not the medicine is working.

2. I’m starting to feel slightly panicked at all that still needs to get done at work before I’m out for two months. My back up is doing great, but she still needs a lot of coaching on a few things. And I think I’ll be clocking in occasionally while on maternity leave for a few tasks that are too tedious to bother training her on since they only occur one time a month - it’ll be easy enough for me to just log on to do them from home.

3. I need to post about the bizarre nightmare that looped all night last night and then the final one-time dream right before I woke up this morning. I’ll have to post those tales later.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

1. This post was convicting. I shall cease and desist immediately. The truth is I really do love my job and I am grateful to have it, especially in this economy and given our family circumstances. God has blessed us and while there are certain aspects of my job that do drive me nuts, in the grand scheme they are relatively minor.

2. Related to item #1, I was struck by how the economy is impacting folks in ways that I wasn’t aware. Several in my small group expressed concerns - they are small business owners who aren’t being paid by clients despite having already received goods/services. What was surprising was whom the clients were - very large companies who should easily be able to pay.

3. I plan to skip the President’s speech tonight. I am not interested in hearing what he has to say. He’s said plenty already. If you ask me, the Dow should cover its ears, as well.

4. I’m on worship team for the final time this weekend. I won’t participate with that ministry again until well into the summer. I’m going to miss it.

5. In TV news, I have not seen an episode of the new season of The Amazing Race. Somehow I missed that it was starting a couple of weeks ago. I guess I’ll have to wait for the DVD. *lightbulb* Or maybe I should check for eps online that I missed and set the DVR to record the rest of the season. I can watch it while I’m on maternity leave.

Does anyone else think it’s odd that there’s way more traffic shown on 24 this season than when they were in LA? Not that DC doesn’t have horrendous traffic, but still.... Also, I have to quibble over the FBI mole dude swearing out warrants for Jack and Agent Walker - that would never happen. All law enforcement, be they local, state, or federal, must get a warrant from a judge. One last thing from last night’s ep: anyone else think that Agent Walker and Jack were going to kiss? I’m half relieved/half disappointed that they didn’t.

Monday, February 23, 2009

I have posted the latest on the gestational diabetes over at Ticklish Giggles. There are a few posts, scroll down for the latest updates.

I’m frustrated and slightly discouraged this afternoon after a phone call from my OB.