Becca's 29th Birthday

On January, 4th, I turned 29 (just 29, not 29 and holding). Eric made it a wonderful birthday for me. When I arrived home from work, I smelled a freshly baked birthday cake. He gave me my gift of a beautiful Movado watch. It is very fancy, so I plan to save it for special occasions. Eric surprised me with plans he had made for the evening. Even though I was just starting to get over Bronchitis, and he had just got it, he took me out to a wonderful dinner. We got dressed up a little, and drove downtown to Skies. Skies is a restaurant located on the top floor of Hyatt-Regency. The atmosphere is amazing. The dining room is circled around the top of the building. The floor of the dining room actually turns a full 360 degrees in about a hour. We were able to see the whole city while we ate. We enjoyed good food, wine, and conversation (although with an occasional cough). After dinner we walked over to Crown Center to watch the fountains and people ice skate. We thought about skating, but we decided against it since neither of us felt that well. Eric had made plans for us to stay downtown, but our babysitter fell through, so he had to cancel our hotel reservation. It was one of my favorite birthdays, if not the favorite.

Updates coming!

I've started working on an update for Ireland, but because work has been pretty crazy this week and I haven't felt like doing much when I get home at night, I haven't completed it. I'm hoping to have it finished sometime within the next day or two.

Ouch!!

Last Saturday we had a little excitement. After I arrived home from work I started to clean the house up because we had plans to have some friends come over for dinner. While cleaning the main bathroom, I decide I was tired of the glass bowl with potpourri on the counter. I carefully washed it, because I knew it was very fragile. I first was going to let it air-dry, but grew impatient. I got a towel out to dry it and while holding the thin glass bowl in my left had...it shattered! Luckily I was right by the sink so I immediately put my hand under cold running water to control the blood. I had a few choice four-letter words to scream out. Eric hollered from the office to see if I was fine. Part of my response was, "I may need stiches." I thought I was joking. Eric doctored me up with some butterfly tape. He insisted I go to the doctor, so we headed to urgent care. After paying our co-pay and getting checked in, a nurse came out to take a quick look. She looked at my thumb and said we should go to the ER. She was afraid I might have damaged a tendon. So back to the counter for a refund for our co-pay. After that, Eric drove me to Olathe Med to the ER. After much waiting I got checked in to my first room and received my tetnus shot. We waited more after that and got bumped to a different room. Eventually my doctor came in and took care of my hand. I ended up with seven stiches under my thumb. He glued the big gash on the top of my middle finger because the shots they would give to numb my finger were going to be pretty painful. I also had several small cuts on my other fingers and on my wrist. The whole ordeal lasted about four hours. We had to cancel our plans with our friends.

My hand is looking much better. I should be able to get my stiches out in a few more days. I took the picture of my hand yesterday (one week after the injury). The other picture is of a bowl much like the one that wrecked my hand.

First Post

Several years ago I registered a domain name for the purpose of starting a home-grown blog and publishing a photo album. The idea was to keep all of the family up to date on what Becca and I had been doing. We were going to post photos, write about what we were up to, and allow for a bit more communication than the occasional email.

I setup Gallery, and imported a bunch of pictures (mostly from our then recent trip to Ireland). We put captions on quite a few, but we sent very few people the URL, and there were some authentication problems. Eventually, we kind of forgot about doing updates. I never bothered to script any code for a custom blog system either.

Sometime in 2006 I decided to start a blog with Blogger (and I think I did, though I can't find the original). Here it is now, January of 2008, and I'm making my first post! Quintessential Eric procrastination right there! Perhaps it will be another two years before I send anyone the URL. =)

Now that I'm done with my pathetic explanation, let me explain what our new intentions are. Both Becca and I are planning to make frequent posts to this blog. We're going to be posting on two different things:

1) We're going to make a post for every trip that we take. I'm going to describe the trip from my point of view, and include pictures or videos that I like the most. Becca is going to write about the trip from her perspective, and post the pictures or videos that she likes the most. Odds are, I'm going to try to embarrass her at some point. I'm sure she's going to do the same to me.

2) We're going to have abstract postings; perhaps posts about our hobbies, or pictures of our house's basement since we've finished it... That kind of stuff. Please feel free to comment and add to what we hope will become a compendium of shenanigans!

--Eric