By popular demand!

Well, after some not so subtle badgering from Mara (Sarah's sister) I am updating with some photos.... first off, the above picture is Sarah's ring! I'll have to have Sarah make an entry and tell you all about it, but she loves it!









And the following pictures are from our flooring adventure. We used the Tundra laminate flooring from Ikea and it was really easy to install! We had a few minor hiccups, but mostly it went down pretty easily. I even had super fun teaching Sarah how to use some of the power tools! She and I enjoyed this project togther.

Sad days in Who-ville

I am sad to report that a couple of weeks ago Sarah miscarried. It totally sucks donkey gnards. But there is nothing you can do about it really. She is doing well physically, and mentally we're both dealing with it as well as possible. A REALLY big thank you to all my family, friends and co-workers for the heartfelt condolences. Its amazing to hear all these other women tell their own stories about this crummy thing.... sort of makes you feel a little less alone.






Now on the PLUS side..... we're ENGAGED!!! Pictures of the ring to follow!!!! We sort of figured that if we could get through the past few months, it was meant to be! Sarah is SO the girl for me! It will be in May of next year out here in California.... GOLD COUNTRY! Ok, the blog will be updated a little more frequently now. We've put in a floor, we're going to Maine.... finally getting the house into some semblance of order, and I'm still pissed at the world! So STAY TUNED!!!

Yoga, flooring and a few days grace

Okay, so we're at week #8 now! Our little Beanie is about the size of a pinto bean and has flipper like feet and is developing eye lids. The atria and ventricles are now clearly defined. Sarah is still looking svelte! Also the past couple of days she's felt a bit better, which has been a nice change! (mostly for her, but me too!) I am still really impressed with how she's handling the constant feeling of nausea and exhaustion though, she's a tough cookie!

Her mom came up this week and we took a nice jaunt to Ikea, a totally new experience for me! I had no idea what those crazy Swedes had been up to, but now I know. While a lot of the furniture seems like it should inhabit apartments of men who go by Lars of Hans, some of it is pretty cool. The baby furniture selection is actually really good, and they have a lot of whole room design stuff that is affordable and attractive. I am pretty sure Sarah has already picked out a theme for the baby's room!

Come to find out, Ikea sells REALLY affordable laminate flooring too. Sarah and I did some reasearch on-line today, and while not being the BEST option, its a reasonable middle ground. At 1.29/sqft, its about a third as expensive as the other stores, comes with a 15 year guarantee (about 13 years longer than I think we'll need) and has a totally easy to follow installation video on-line. We're going to start out on the guest room first and see how it goes, but I suspect we'll be able to finish most of the downstairs out in it. The cost of doing the guest room should come in somewhat less than $350.00, and I estimate it will cost about another $800.00 or so to finish the rest of the area downstairs. This is in contrast to the 5k I figured. So the final word on IKEA : blodig skitbra! (Swedish for Bloody Good!)

Oh yeah, we're going to take Yoga together. Her for the back pain, me cause I need to do something healthy. They totally have yoga for big fat pregnant chicks which we'll do later!

A Day Late and a Cool Idea Short

Please don't think I am so lame as to think I'm being super original, cool, or creative with the photo of the week thing... I know its soooooo passe, but a good idea is a good idea. Edisons light bulb was certainly not trendy after the first couple billionaires got them in their brownstone mansions, but see where that went!

At any rate this is Sarah at seven weeks. No sign of the beanie as of yet. Well if you discount the nausea, exhaustion and other calamaties. I've finally begun cleaning out my old computer room, getting rid of a bunch of crap, throwing more away and getting the Salvation Army guys to come get the rest. With four days off a week I have no real excuses NOT to get this done.

Cheers!