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Look who’s blogging too

August 25th, 2008 | Posted by Joe in blogging | Sarah - (0 Comments)

My blogging agenda was interrupted tonight, but I have no complaints with that. Why, you ask? Well, because my wife decided she wanted her own blogspot/blogger account. Any time Sarah shows an interest in technology or the internet, I get very excited. I offered to just add her as an author to my account. Kinda like a “guest poster” or something. See, we don’t really know how often she’ll be blogging, and it seemed easier to do it that way.

“But I want mine to be purple”, she replied.

*sigh*

So, I set up an account for her and spent the next few hours hacking away at the code to get it *just right*. The themes that come with blogspot/blogger are ok, I guess. And they do allow a certain level of easy color modifying. But there were some major code rewrites that I had to make in order to get it to how I liked it. Then, I had to add a bunch of variables so that Sarah can semi-easily go in and adjust the colors/borders, if she sees the need for it. She tends to like my choices, but it is her blog, afterall.

I present to you… Sarah’s blog, “Because I Said So“. I’ve also added it to my “Required Reading” on the right hand pane, under the most recent photos. Look to the right, and scroll around if you don’t see it.


Check it out… she’s not as awesome as I am, but she’s gosh-darned close ;)

Sarah dropped the baby!!!

August 5th, 2008 | Posted by Joe in dropping baby | Sarah | sleep | Tyler - (3 Comments)
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I think this is one of the cutest pictures of Tyler, to date.
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Well, not really, but that certainly got your attention, didn’t it. I know I’m going to catch hell when she sees that I’ve blogged about it, though.

Here’s the scenario. I was sitting on the couch at the foot end, playing on my laptop. I’m sure I was likely checking out the latest headlines on Digg or catching up on celebrity gossip at WWTDD (yes, I’m a sucker for that stuff). More than likely, I was reading all the blogs I’ve got bookmarked. I’ve found that to be a much better way to spend my time than just blankly look at google’s homepage, wondering what topic to search for next.

Sarah was lying on the couch, across 2 of the 3 cushions. I was sitting on the last. Tyler was lying on Sarah’s chest. The two of them were napping sleeping. Seemingly out of nowhere, Tyler decides he wants to reposition himself. He kinda just shifted his head off to one side, but he’s got a big, heavy head. The weight of his head, and his lack of toned core muscles caused his entire body to roll off of Sarah’s chest.

I think Sarah reacted first, but it was only by a single micro-second. Sarah swung over and snatched him before he had any real chance of falling completely off. All I could muster was a complete body-jerk reaction and an involuntary spewing of a colorful phrase that would be a synonym to “HOLY CRAP!”

I said that phrase 2 or 3 more times afterward. Sarah’s eyes were about bugged out of her head. And our little Tyler, well he slept through the entire thing.

I knew, at that moment, what I would be blogging about today. I don’t think Sarah will end my life right away though. She was gone all last week, and has fallen behind on reading my blog. She probably won’t read this until next week, and will, hopefully have a sense of humor about it.

If this blog isn’t updated within the next 3 or 4 days, please call the authorities.

The fix

July 31st, 2008 | Posted by Joe in pee | poison ivy | Sarah | Tyler - (2 Comments)

I got to see my wife and my baby today!! I went to South Bend, Indiana today to help out another service rep for the day. South Bend is only about a half hour from St. Joe, Michigan – which is where Sarah is. So, I capitalized on the situation and went up there.

Now that I’ve gotten that out, let’s back up just a bit. I don’t call Sarah when she’s doing her “girls week”. I let her call me when she has time. She’s up there to relax and hang with the girls, so I stay out of the way. Sarah calls me once in the morning to say hi, and once in the evening for goodnights. Now, if I end up going to bed before her, I do give her a ring and leave a voicemail saying goodnight.

Everytime we talk, I tell her to give TyTy kisses for me and to tell him I love him. Sarah tells me that she and Tyler miss me. Yesterday, she was holding Tyler when I told her to give him kisses. She did and I heard her say they were from me. She told me that Tyler started smiling. Awwwww…..

Ok, so I get there today and scoop Tyler up from his Aunt Jenny. In the two hours that I was there, Tyler peed through his dipe and onto me, and he spit-up – PAST the burp cloth – onto me… TWO TIMES. I’d love to say that he was happy to see me, but it wasn’t exactly a warm reception.

I got to see a couple really cute pictures also. I can’t wait to get the camera home, so I can check them all out and get them uploaded to show them off.

And I’m sure I’m just being crazy here. I mean, afterall, they’ve only been gone 5 days. I swear that he has doubled in size. He’s a beast. I really wish I could take Tyler from Sarah for a week so she can see the hell I’m going through.

Oh, and I’ve got friggin poison ivy on my upper right arm now. What the heck man? I was wearing a long sleeve shirt. I’ve GOT to get the rest of these bushes down so I can be done with it.