My garden is covered in aphids and/or mites. :( I placed an order for ladybugs and they should be here soon. Maude knows that the eating is good--plenty of delicious garden pests for everyone!

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Only one week 'til Carl leaves Oracle for good and we become self-employed. We are soooo ready. Well, paperwork-wise we're not quite, but we're ( Read more... )

...is apparently a moniker that at least two other people have taken, but both of them are on Myspace, so who cares. :) Heh.

My close friend Georgianna is getting MARRIED! I'm so happy for her. Fiancee Martin is a wonderful guy.

And I get to be maid of honor! She's not the type to be a bridezilla, so I'm not worried. I think it will be awesome.

Proposed wedding date will be around August 2008, in Kansas City. Yay!

Yesterday I got a huge break from home life and went to the Pitchfork Music Festival with
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Add to the post below that Owen seems to be having some trouble...not sure if it's teething or sinus or what...  Alls I know is that he has not slept well in 2 nights now, which means neither have I.

Okay, yes, I'm feeling a little depressed.  :(  I need some cheering up.

What I really want to be doing is gardening or working on Owen's monkey

Elliot is having one of his rough periods.  He spends 80% of his energy doing naughty and/or destructive things to get our attention.  We know he's trying to tell us something, like that he's frustrated, angry, bored, or sad, but it's hard to tell because most of his talk is reciting scripts of TV shows and lines from books ( Read more... )

Wow.  Nothing like a meeting with special ed services people to get the blood pressure up.  We just got back and I feel like I've had six cups of coffee ( Read more... )

I'm in one of those moods where I can't even muster the energy to do anything I want  to do, let alone all the shit I probably should do.

I wish that a massage therapist would just magically arrive at my door, give me a one-hour massage and then (because this massage therapist also happens to be a professional chef) cook a really delicious and ( Read more... )

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It's been a real breakout couple of weeks around here.  Owen took his first steps, Elliot did his first poop on the potty, and both of them seem to be discovering each other.  Tonight, Elliot was obviously trying to get Owen to laugh, and when Owen did laugh, it made Elliot so excited.  He also played a kind of peek-a-boo with Owen.  It was the ( Read more... )