Baby day(s)

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So last Friday Sara had her first day back to work, which means I worked from home and took care of Evie.  Everything went pretty well, I managed to give her all her bottles and put her to sleep for all her naps.  It was nice to spend the day with her, but it is hard to get any work done!  I probably only worked 3 hours during the day.  In the future I think I will try to get some done Thursday night so I don’t have to do it over the weekend.  It was fine this weekend, but we are busy a lot of weekends.

This week I took vacation to push back Evie having to start at day care for one more week.  So I will have her today, tomorrow and Friday.  It is a little easier though when I’m not trying to work.  Well it is really easy today because so far she has only slept!  Sara is pretty sad about having to leave Evie at daycare.  We went to visit yesterday and there were a few babies crying the whole time.  We don’t want Evie to be crying the whole time! 😦

Also, Evie finally got too big for her bassinet.  We weren’t quite ready to banish her from our bedroom, so we moved her crib into our room.  This meant disassembling it because it couldn’t fit out the door.  Now our room is very crowded!!  You kind of have to squeeze everywhere or crawl over the end of the bed to get in!

Okay, this thing is crazy.  Do you see the lady spinning clockwise or counter-clockwise?

It seems like a stupid question, right?  Well if you see her turning clockwise, then you are right brained (creative, emotional, etc.) and if you see her turning counter-clockwise, you are left brained (logic, order, etc).  It seems crazy because how can someone see her turning a different way, but Sara and I each saw her turning a different way!!  So I guess it works.  If I concentrate I can see her turning either way, but naturally I see her turning counter-clockwise.  Sara can’t see her turning any way except clockwise.

I just thought that was interesting!

Dart Throwing Monkeys

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I’m sure lots of exciting stuff happened since the last time I posted but I’m too tired to think about it.  Halloween was pretty uneventful since we got no trick or treaters and Evie was a little too young to appreciate the holiday.  I’ll put some spooky ghost pictures up on myspace sometime.

I haven’t posted any games on here in a long time.  You know I like Tower Defense games because I post them all the time, so here is the latest take on that.  It is called Bloons and instead of the standard Warcraft/Starcraft ripoff this one involves dart throwing monkeys that pop balloons.  I appreciate the new take on the old concept.  Also I like how you always know how much “power” something has by the color of the balloon.  Anyway, I think I actually like Bloons 2 a little better.  I haven’t beaten any of them yet, but I can get into the 40s.

So, enjoy!

Animal Abuse or why I shouldn’t have kids

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I was playing with the cat on Saturday night and all of a sudden she sort of ran away a little bit and started freaking out.  She was pawing at her face and going crazy.  So we went over to see what was up and we saw blood flying out of her mouth!  So we started panicking and I grabbed her and I could see that she was licking her tooth and it was wiggling all over.  This was like one of the two major fangs in her mouth!  And when she closed her mouth I could see that tooth was hanging lower than the other one.  So I freaked out and I ran upstairs to get the vet’s number and in the meantime Sara was watching Nala and saw her tooth fall out.  Oh man, I felt so bad!  I don’t really remember hitting her head but we were sort of rough housing.  I called the vet’s emergency number and he said to watch her and see if she was okay and bring her in on Monday.  Well, she didn’t seem to be in pain at all, she let us pet her and she even wanted to keep playing!  I gave her food and she dug into it with her usual gusto.  But I still felt really bad.

So yesterday I took her to the vet and they came up with something that I didn’t even think of…what if that tooth broke off and the root is still in there!  So we have to have some surgery on Friday. 😦  Her doctor said that it was probably just a rotten tooth, but I still feel responsible.  So now I have to pet her all the time and give her whatever she wants.  Also, I have the fun of giving her antibiotic pills twice a day!

This is neither here nor there, but my brother called me tonight to tell me that he’s on his way to a bar in Madison that serves bacon on Tuesdays.  I’ve had popcorn and hotdogs, but never bacon!  Brilliant idea, but kind of strange.  Only in Wisconsin kids.  Only in Wisconsin.

I did my first Sudoku puzzle today.  Am I the last one on earth?

Marie Digby

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So last Sunday morning Evie woke up with her first cold.  I felt sooo bad for her!  Imagine that you’ve never been sick before in your entire life, you just wouldn’t know what to think.  Why did my nose stop working?  What’s all this crap leaking out of my face?  She was pretty miserable.  In retrospect we were probably pushing it a little too much to hit up Wisconsin, Michigan and then Indiana 3 weekends in a row.  This also means that Evie wasn’t in a very good mood for our big magazine photo shoot Monday night.  More details on that in the future I’m sure.  So now I don’t know if I caught what Evie had or if I got it at the same time as she did but it took longer to get its hooks in me since I’m so much bigger than her.  But I’m pretty much a wreck at this point.

Okay, now for the title of this post.  So I’ve been hearing on the radio this version of Umbrella that was not by Rihanna, but instead was by someone named Marie (pronounced mar-ee-ay) Digby, whoever that was.  I kind of liked the version better than the original but I was kind of annoyed by it because I was like, “Isn’t there more than one song in the world?  Why would multiple people record exactly the same song?”  Well I happened across it today on YouTube.  Apparently this is a YouTube sensation, so if you spend more time on YouTube than I do, you’ve probably already heard of her.  It turns out she just has a bunch of videos uploaded that are just her singing and/or playing guitar/piano.  She has an awesome voice (and it doesn’t hurt that she is drop dead gorgeous) and there is a good mix of original songs and covers.  Anyway, it appears that her popularity on YouTube turned into radio air time, a guest shot on Last Call with Carson Daly and I think even resulted in her cover of Umbrella being played on The Hills.  There is something very appealing about how simple the videos are and it is an awesome story of just filming yourself in your living room and through the power of the Internet you get discovered.

She really is amazing and I recommend you check her out.  Here’s the original video:

Google Street View

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Today Google went live with Street View for Chicago.  It is really cool!  I don’t know if you played around with it when they first put NYC, Las Vegas and San Fransisco, but if you haven’t you should definitely go check it out!  Maybe it won’t be that interesting unless you live in Chicago (I certainly wasn’t interested until it came to Chicago) but at least give it a try.  I already checked, we’re not dancing in our underwear in the windows or anything.  They also added Philadelphia at some point.  They didn’t go far enough out for me to check out my apartment or job, but I did sit and gaze at Jim’s Steaks.  No, I really did.

And as long as you are checking things out, you might want to take a look at Read a Book by D’Mite.  Best song ever!  Sometimes when you want to teach important lessons, you have to speak to someone in their language (think Lil’ John) which in this case includes some foul language.  Be forewarned!  But I think the message is more important than the way it is conveyed…lessons such as personal hygiene, your body’s need for water and the importance of investing your money in land.

That is all.