I wish I was five years-old again so I could’ve picked up a pack of these awesome crayons that I came across at Target today. I mean, it’s not like they were checking for a lack of ID at the checkout in order to be able to buy them or anything, but aside from “Oooh…
Mar 17, 2016: Pool Break!
Sometimes you just have to take a quick break from the daily grind to run around the pool and play with your noodle! *ahem* What’s funny is that almost this exact same scenario played out a couple of days earlier this week, instead resulting in Christopher unexpectedly falling headfirst into the pool and realizing firsthand why he hasn’t…
Mar 16, 2016: Hippo Removal
Some phrases you really have to hear more than once to ever believe that you even heard them in the first place… “Can you get the hippo out of his room while I get him ready for bed?” The hippo. The TOY hippo. You know, as if there was any possibility in my mind that…
Mar 15, 2016: Walk the Vote
My voting precinct changed recently, so now instead of going to some random church to vote I was able to just walk down the street and vote at the community center in my subdivision. It made me wish that we lived in an area that was a little more conducive to walking because I wouldn’t mind…
Mar 14, 2016: How’s Your Day?
I find that when people ask you this question, a fair number of them don’t necessarily want to hear the truth so much as it’s just small talk until their limited exchange with you is finally over. Case in point, earlier today after I’d already spent half an hour on the phone with customer service… “And how’s your…
Mar 13, 2016: Oops, I Forgot
I didn’t realize until about 2:30am last night that I’d forgotten to do a post for Sunday, so instead you’re getting two posts today and one of them involves this fine picture of my breakfast. I know that I’ve said it roughly a million times, but I’m trying to eat better and get my diet…
Mar 12, 2016: Dishes are Stupid
There are few things that I dislike worse than doing the dishes. Maybe shaving, and picking up dog poop, but dishes still easily rank within my top three because it seems like no matter how many loads I do, I’m just one night’s sleep away from returning to total chaos in the kitchen – like…
Mar 11, 2016: Big Brother
So that thing I wrote about last week? The thing that resulted in enormous stress over the last eight days??? …well… APPARENTLY IT WORKED!!!!! 😯 😯 😯 We ended up spending the day over at Epcot to help distract us from the anxiety, and then around 1:30pm the doctor’s office called to say that the…
Mar 10, 2016: Sriracha Shrimp
I like this meal because it’s super easy, and I think it’s pretty healthy, too. Throw a pound of shrimp in a frying pan with some olive oil, apply liberal doses of Garlic Sriracha Seasoning, and dump them over whatever rice or frozen veggies you can nuke while the shrimp are cooking. I’ve also done steamed…
Mar 9, 2016: Dad’s Root Beer
I’ve never really been a fan of traditional beer. I went through a phase in my early 20’s when I would drink the occasional Corona, but nowadays I don’t even much have the taste for that unless I’m specifically having seafood and there’s Jimmy Buffett music playing in the background. 😎 So that being said,…
Mar 8, 2016: Code Monkey
Today is one of those days when I pretty much spent the entire day going through code. My day job is kind of split between development and administrative work, so it goes back and forth what I spend my time on from one day to another. In addition to implementing some new functionality that we’re…
Mar 7, 2016: Swim Class
I ended up going with Sara to take Christopher to swim class this morning because she’s not supposed to do any lifting for the next week while we give the embryos a chance to take hold, and it never ceases to amaze me how much they’ve been able to teach him at such a young…
Mar 6, 2016: Recycling
I feel like recycling lately takes more effort than it ever has before, and yet I find myself spending the extra time anyways because ultimately I still think that it’s really, really important. I mean, seriously – have you ever visited your local landfill?! I have, and it’s kind of depressing … literally driving your car up a mountain of compacted garbage and…
Mar 5, 2016: Cousins!
I think there’s an unwritten rule that photos of kids become exponentially more challenging to take for each one in the picture. And this was with two of them being strapped down to the stroller and unable to escape! Maybe video is the trick … it would make sense that 30 fps would have a…
Mar 4, 2016: Fresh Air
Today is just too nice of a day to not spend at least a little bit of time outside. Spring and fall are my ideal times of year living in Florida – temperatures are in the ’70s, often coupled with a nice breeze on a sunny day, but without the gallons of sweat or torrential downpours that…
Mar 3, 2016: Frozen Babies
I think this is one of my favorite photo ops of all-time … because really, how many parents can boast pictures of their children when they were literally just a ball of rapidly dividing cells only a few days after conception?! 😯 Today is a rather important day in our latest IVF adventure, in which…
Mar 2, 2016: Seriously, Kid?
I guess this is what comeuppance looks like between dog and child. I honestly don’t even know who to side with anymore because she’ll steal food off his high chair, then he’ll jump on her back and try to ride her like a horse, then she’ll take one of his toys and tear it into…
Mar 1, 2016: Storage
If there’s one thing that I don’t like about the house that we currently own … aside from not having a yard for the dog and kid to run around … it’s the complete and utter lack of storage space. From what I’ve observed, it’s a pretty common problem here in Florida that I was absolutely spoiled…
Feb 29, 2016: Investing in the Future
So I just spent the last half hour signing forms to consolidate my stocks into a single brokerage account – what a way to start off the week! I don’t own a lot of stock, mind you. Only two different ones right now, actually… The first is stock in the energy company where my Grandpa worked for his…
Feb 28, 2016: Cheesy Crescent Dawgs
My food preferences tend to alternate between those of a five year-old and a college kid. Pizza, grilled cheese, microwave nachos … it’s almost hard to believe my doctor has her own personal heart attack whenever I go in for my yearly checkup and she asks about my diet! Tonight I made somewhat of a…
Feb 27, 2016: Electrical Contracting
I’ve always been kind of terrified working with electricity around the house, even when I can confirm that the breaker is off and there’s technically nothing flowing through the wires … to the point where Sara actually had to “do the wires” when we had to install a new ceiling fan when we bought our…
Feb 26, 2016: Blogging Like Daddy
Christopher loves banging on the keyboards of the computers in my office. If we happen to leave the hallway gate open and he notices, it’s pretty much guaranteed that you’ll find him peering up at my desktop as he merrily bangs away at the keyboard for what I figure is one of two reasons: He’s destined to…
Feb 25, 2016: DVC
My wife and I have been Disney Vacation Club members for going on two years now. We bought our membership with some money I received from my grandparents when my Grandpa passed away back in 2014. During that short time, we’ve already had some great trips – a Christmas overnight with my sister’s family, hosting…
Feb 24, 2016: 26 Terabytes
It’s been a little over a year since I started my little media server project and rebooted the idea of having a home server to store media, docs, and local backups on. To think, what began on an old, discarded laptop and then migrated to my desktop hardware when I replaced it with my MacBook…