have been putting off writing about our trip to the zoo because I really hate to have to talk so much about my son A. Well, I actually love to talk about him, but know that the last thing the world needs is another weblog in which the writer thinks people should care about their mundane life. I try to make this site about interesting things, and things I just want to keep track of online. Even that doesn’t work most days as things are once again piling up in my bookmarks instead of in a much more organized place like this blog. Anyway, I have so many things I have been needing to post, that I just don’t have the time too. I hope to catch up soon, although this month will be a busy one with finishing projects, updating websites, building a new simple business (I will talk about this later), and keeping track of a busy two year old.

I suppose I have delayed enough, so far in one whole paragraph and I haven’t really said anything about the zoo. We had a great time. At first, we were weary (wow isn’t that redundant) about our trip. A hadn’t gotten his nap (days without naps can be pure evil) and things didn’t start out too well. We somehow managed to park our car in a lot near the zoo, but we never did find the correct parking place.

We did manage to get A inside the zoo where he was very excited upon seeing the first attraction, the flamingos. I don’t remember what came next but we quickly made our way to the children’s area to get some of his energy used up. I really don’t like him playing on jungle gyms. He is so much younger than the other kids usually that it’s hard to make sure he is safe. He can climb the ladders and net things there so incredibly well, 5 year olds were being careful but he just goes up with ease. A isn’t around other kids much so when he is he just gets excited and wants to play with everyone. He went to spin some thing in the play area while a much older (6 years old at least) was playing with it. The other boy said “No, I am playing with this” and pushed A out of the way, almost making him fall backwards off of the second story of the play house. I never know what to do in those cases, sure I personally think that kid was a jerk but they may have never played with smaller kids, and not known to be gentle with them. I wanted to say something like “Please don’t push him, he’s much younger than you and just wants to play” but would the other child even listen? Anyway, I still get a little mad just thinking about it.

After that we rented a zoo stroller and bought a huge bag of stale popcorn (See photos in the sidebar) and A was happy. He sat most of the rest of the time just eating popcorn. It was nice. We did take him out to see the gorillas and the reptile house, which he loved. He doesn’t speak a whole lot but pointed at every snake/turtle/lizard and said “that”. It was cute.

Well, that’s pretty much our day. We did make sure to stop in the gift shop where we bought overpriced toys that are already broken. Ah yes, and A peed through his diaper soaking his pants, so we had to get back to the car without pants on him (he did get a clean diaper though, just didn’t have that spare pair of pants when I needed them). Here is a movie of baby A eating crap popcorn and saying “Hi” and “Daddy” although his voice does sound eerily low, sorry the quality sux too.

Enjoy!

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eally cool grim reaper art at DrawerGeeks! If you have never been there before you should definitely check it out. The site is made up of a bunch of artists who make themed illustrations every Friday just for fun. This is my personal favorite grim reaper by Chris Lensch.

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ow, I am not one to really talk about my dreams, or write about them on the web but this one was just too cool.

My husband and I were driving somewhere when we noticed huge explosions over the water. Wherever we were, it was a large city next to the ocean. In the ocean were tons of navy boats. We concluded that there must have been some kind of military land and sea show going on.

As things continued we were on the street of the city watching (you know how you magically change locations in dreams). The streets were filled with people just like us watching the show. A aircraft carrier suddenly shot off lots of explosives, from within the clouds of fire and smoke hot air balloons rose into the sky. Each explosion produced 6 hot air balloons, with people riding inside of them. When they got over the city they started throwing things down to the people. One right above us dropped a bowl of money.

At this point I think it was a bit of a lucid dream because sadly I knew I would never just be handed a bowl of money. Anyway, inside the bowl were bills, bits of paper, checks etc. Someone in the crowd suggested that I share the bowl with everyone so I took a few things then passed it on. I looked at what I had, two $1 bills, and a check. I looked closer at the check, the name of the account holder was cut off, the memo line said “Account balance $63,868.00″ and the amount line was blank.

I was astonished. A blank check. We could be holding 63 thousand dollars. My first thought was of course to fill it out for the exact account amount. It’s funny because if someone gave us that much cash, we would definitely use it all without question. The idea of a blank check really give you a choice. I didn’t know if we should use it at all, or give it to charity, or use a portion. I thought of all the great and useful things we could do with that money. I also thought of how many people could use it so much more than we could. What about the benefactor? What if that is his/her life savings? What about a billionaire who would hardly notice it was gone? In any case, I knew that it was going to be a long hard decision to make.

What would you do?

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y baby A is now officially 2 years old! I can’t believe it. We didn’t do much for his birthday yet, but are taking our very first trip to the zoo this weekend. I am really excited for that. At even 2 years old, he is all boy. He has an emotional attachment to his toy cars, he takes a few to bed with him every night even. He is all rough n’ tumble, getting dirty, 100% boy.

In other news, updates are now finished! They were actually done some time ago but it took a bit to get some other things done with this update. One of which is the groovy new “Share This Post” button. Try it out. I will be posting as much as possible this weekend, but should be back to the regular schedule on Monday.

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his site is currently being updated. Please check back soon. I apologize for any strange things here during the process. None of my extra pages are currently working. I am trying to find a solution asap. Update: My pages all work, just am missing a few things in my sidebar. Hopefully this gets fixed soon.

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