Tie Clip ( Read more... )

It appears to be a girl, but we can't say for certain. If you want to get gifts, make them unisex. She's also still doing back-flips in Amika's stomach, and you can see it move from the outside ( Read more... )

Although many of you already know this, I haven't posted it here yet because we wanted to wait until we were in the "safe period". I don't know if that's what you call in it English, but it's the period in a pregnancy were the chances of a miscarriage drop significantly. Which is to say

WE'RE PREGNANT!

She is now in her 5th month (4th by American ( Read more... )

So, apparently there was a terrorist attack in Austin in February. Just now heard about it ( Read more... )

This is an issue that has come up several times here, and the reaction from most of the other Americans is usually "hitting a child for any reason every means you should be hauled away and never get to see your kids again ( Read more... )

So I'm at work, poking at a translation (to borrow a phrase from r0xtarninja) that doesn't need to be done anytime soon. I figure I have some free time so I'd write me up a journal ( Read more... )

Ugh, working on Christmas sucked. But, I had a nice delicious Christmas dinner waiting for me at home. Amika really worked her butt off on it, and also cleaned the house. We exchanged packages, both being satisfied with our takes ( Read more... )

I was just wondering, is this making the news at all in the states? Here they're like "the Japan US friendship is in serious trouble!" Leave a comment  3 

These are quotes taken from a University of Minnesota by a "race, culture, class and gender task force" who studies multiculturalism and is basically pushing cultural sensitivity training for teachers, which for the most part I think is a good idea. I don't really like these quotes though (which are all taken from other sources) or agree with the ( Read more... )

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/14/critics-say-atheist-nc-city-councilman- ( Read more... )