this is the only reason i’ve been able to shower the past 2 weeks, except for weekends and the few days when my mom came over. the silver lining there is that i’ve vacuumed the house quite a bit lately. the nurses told us that we’d think…

last time i blogged, i had a hunch that the doctor did something right and put my body in motion to go into labor. and it turns out she did, because the night after i wrote that, at 1:22 AM, i started having contractions. brett and i had…

only kind of evil. she was trying to help, but i really wish she had given me some kind of warning. i went to the doctor yesterday morning. brett came with me this time since it was my due date and he wanted to hear the “plan” for getting…

the company i work for had their very first hackathon last year, and has since decided to make it an annual event . a bunch of teams of 1-3 people draw random ideas for an application to develop, and they spend a 10-hour day building the…

a couple months ago, i had to start getting my plans figured out for how i was going to schedule my maternity leave from work. after talking to other working moms and moms-to-be, i decided to work the last couple weeks until my due date…

since i was little, i can remember my dad doing his planning in spreadsheets. budgets, loans, everything. i never really considered it much until i actually had things to keep track of. once i was out of college and entirely on my own, i…

seriously, dude. there are some crazy ones in google play. and as the number of apps i have available increases, so does my number of wacky emails. some guy actually wrote me an email just to tell me that i was stupid. this weekend, an…

i hadn’t realized it until recently, but for the last 2 months or so, i’ve driven in almost pure silence. to work, from work, even when i drove to north carolina. that was 4 and a half hours of straight silence. i can’t think of the last…

over the last several weeks, my rib pain has turned into… skin pain? i guess? i’ve googled it dozens of times and asked my doctor, and she assures me it’s normal. and that nothing can be done until the baby comes out. which seems to be the…

despite all the bad luck i’ve been having lately, i can surely say that brett and i are unbelievably lucky to have such amazing friends and family. this baby is going to be spoiled rotten. my stepmom and my dad hosted our baby shower last…

not too many weeks ago, my monitor died. last week, my memory went bad. the brand new memory i had just bought. also last week, the adapter on external hard drive #1 died. it turned out not to be the actual drive (thank god), but the stand…

i just want this week to be over. i took loki to the vet on monday to get her next set of pills and to get bloodwork done. it had only been 3 weeks so it was too soon to tell if her new meds were working, but she was due for the second…

i leave for raleigh tomorrow afternoon to go to my next red hat certification course/exam. something i really need to be more mentally prepared for than i feel like i am. so i am blaming my state of unpreparedness all on the events of this…

the last 3 weeks have been so busy that i have almost completely avoided being on my personal laptop at home, which doesn’t happen often. on the drive home from work, i had all these things that i wanted to get out of my head and into…

i don’t expect anyone to agree with me on anything i’m about to say, so if you are super opinionated about pregnancy and all the crap that comes with it, i don’t really care to hear it. because chances are, i’ve heard it by now (from my…

i am so pissed. we spent all of last weekend in boone with so many of my favorite people, and after all that, i took 2 pictures. one of cheap donuts. the other of beer. beer that i couldn’t even drink. this pregnancy is hijacking my brain.…

loki had her second dose of palladia today. still no side effects! hooray! all she’s done is bug me to play with her, tackle the cat, and beg for steak, so all is well with the world. :) i’ll be bringing her to work with me tomorrow. in…

i spent about 15 minutes today reading articles/blogs online from other pet owners who have had to give their dogs palladia, and let me just say… that was a huge mistake. my stomach was in knots before we gave loki her first pill today.…

i got home from work yesterday and rubbed the area where loki’s cancer had previously been removed. it was swollen. the vet had told me to come in should it swell up again, so i immediately drove loki over to their office. they aspirated…

first things first! we’re having a baby girl. we found out last week that there is, for sure, a little girl in there. after about a day of thinking on it, we decided we’re naming her Caylin Corinne. Caylin because we think it’s pretty.…

because when i lived there, all of these people were always an hour or less away. we finally went back to NC this weekend to see our families, and we picked up the other half of our wedding gifts and guest books while we were there. the…

i feel like the clouds have lifted. after 2 years of being horribly self-conscious of my smile, things are finally going to turn around. i’ve been to like 5 different dentists in NC and SC since i started this adventure. i didn’t like any…

last week at work, we were all given a worksheet to fill out with our goals on it to go over with our team leads. family goals, lifestyle goals, work goals, technical goals–pretty much anything. and then it dawned on me. for the first time…

i don’t even know where to start here. the list of reasons for this title is never-ending, it seems. this past week was SPARC’s second mobile hackathon. the first one was a 1-day hackathon with dozens of teams, sponsors, prizes, food… it…

first, loki got her tumor back in november. that was bad. it’s still not over, but she only has 2 more chemo treatments to go, and she’s doing awesome. so that’s been our fun thursday activity for some time now. thanksgiving and christmas…