15.05.08

Hi. Thought I drop in and try to help Mike with the updates. It’s been a crazy few months.

If you care to venture out of your rss readers you’ll note the change in template. Wordpress has been upgraded. I subsequently spent most of Tuesday night trying to master the widget feature…my twitter and shared items are available for view, as are the headings for Mike’s most recent post to his campaign blog, and the headings for my most recent posts on my library blog and brand spankin’ new yoga blog which is pretty much nothing but inspiring quotes, since I don’t really have time for anything else.

I will also soon be starting another blog that will chronicle my effort to teach my son Norwegian. This is going to be quite the task given that I am not actually fluent in the language myself. Who knows, he may end up speaking Dutch by the time I’m done with him at which point I’ll just send him down to live with Ellen and her family at their “compound” in steamy hot Texas land.

Work has been fun but busy these past months. We’re into the second month of our My Favorite Book Display. I also hosted a poetry night which was a total blast. I was also recently asked to help build a bookshelf out of books, a project meant to be a kind of collaborative out-reach thingy with the Price Tower Arts Center (they’re doing an exhibit on upcycling in August). So, I have about two months to figure out how to do this. Any ideas? (Please?) Step-by-step instructions will be very much appreciated.

Other than that, I am dazzled every day by my son who continues to suprise me with his curious and always adorable personality. Mike and I have been keeping note of his milestones on our wall calendar. Will post them at some point. Sigh. I have a few vacation days coming up at the end of May. Can’t freakin’ wait!

Ok, since I have no time to actually write out an entire post about all this stuff (and also, I doubt most of this stuff is worthy of an entire post anyway) here’s a quick update:

• We bought a Wii a few weeks ago. It’s sweet. I rock at tennis and golf, and I’m a fair shot at Bowling, suck at everything else. I also downloaded Super Mario 3 - nostalgia. Looking forward to getting Resident Evil 4 and killing me some Zombies!
• Liam is potty training! I’ve got him to go on the potty twice now (with lots of dry runs in between). He does really well and is very patient, he’s a good student, I like that.
• We’re almost finished with the 3rd season of Lost. There is no explanation convoluted enough to actually conclude this show with any amount of sense. ‘Nuff said.
• Watched Cloverfield last night - it’s chock-full of awesome! One hell of a monster movie. Night Vision + creepy alien + subway tunnels = some rockin’ scare scenes.

That’s it for this weeks update. Come back next week when Mike half-asses another blog post!