i have read so many different articles about when you’re supposed to tell people you’re pregnant. 8 weeks? 12 weeks? if you can’t stand it just tell them when you find out? screw all the articles. i’m (an estimated) 7 weeks pregnant.…

and on my wedding day, i’ll be wearing this: the last week and a half have been a mad rush to make a september wedding happen in january, and it has all been worth it. i am so blessed with unbelievably supportive family and friends and i…

i have probably made buffalo chicken pizza at least a dozen times in the last few months. so much so that brett got sick of eating it and i had the whole thing to myself. i was totally okay with that. if you like wings or buffalo chicken…

we got home from our thanksgiving break yesterday afternoon and within an hour i had everything unpacked and the tree up and decorated. there are like 6 ornaments on that tree that have brett’s name on them, and i don’t have a single one.…

i get this feeling every year around thanksgiving and christmas. i begin to think of all the traveling i’m about to do. it’s a bit daunting. either tuesday night or wednesday morning, brett and i will be driving to mooresville. i may or…

today feels like the longest day of my life. i have not stopped working since i got up this morning. i think brett could feel how crappy it was because when i got home, he had bought me a purple joose and put it in the fridge for me.…

the last couple weeks have been ridiculous. nothing exciting has really happened. just… a lot has been going on. i feel like i haven’t even stopped to take a breath. the loki news first. she got her stitches taken out this evening. i found…

between my face breaking out, my eating habits going to shit, and my level of exhaustion (partially my fault for overworking myself in order to keep myself from worrying even more), this whole tumor thing has officially kicked my ass. and…

i haven’t heard back from the doctor about her biopsy, so i don’t have much news to share other than loki is doing better every day. she has been playing with her toys today and got excited about steak, so she can’t be in too much pain at…

i went and picked up loki yesterday on my lunch break, and was hugely surprised by the super huge size of the incision. i know the doctors wanted to stay on the safe side and make sure they removed the whole tumor, and that’s all i could…

i didn’t know what to expect when i started my new job back in august, but i certainly didn’t expect to feel like family with SO many people in such a short amount of time. i was away from my desk for a few minutes this afternoon and…

you guys are awesome. seriously. i have to thank you guys for all the nice things you said about loki. last week i found a lump on her neck. i took her to the vet to get it checked out, and got the results back monday. the results were not…

i realize i haven’t posted in well over a month. i’m not sure why, other than the fact that i’ve been too busy enjoying everything else at the moment. 2 of our very good friends got married. brett and i went to our first appalachian game…

brett and i were laying in bed last night watching a movie. out of the corner of my eye, i saw something scurrying along the foot-board of the bed. something dark and tiny, but big enough to make a shadow. bugs should not be big enough to…

i was a little nervous about starting my new job today. maybe because it’s an entirely different atmosphere in about 8 thousand ways. a hundred new people to meet. not knowing really what to expect (besides the first 2 points). after the…

in no particular order :) all external links open in new window, images open in colorbox. making the best of the epic badge line with camelbaks o’ beer finally GETTING my defcon badge dan kaminsky’s talk sizzling apple pie at the rio’s all…

2 years out of college, still… no clue. my last day at my current job was yesterday, and i start on my new career adventure one week from today. it hardly feels like i’ve been at my current job for 6 months, and i’ve been here for 14. i…

rainbow cake jars. this will be so much fun. recipe & photo credit. update : it will have to be tomorrow’s project. i grabbed the wrong food coloring crap at the store and i am not going back to wal-mart. hate.

for years, my tonsils have been a problem. they are always inflamed. they have always had holes in them. and those holes bleed, like… every day. i know i’ve written about this before, so i’ll just leave it at that. anyway, i finally went…

i don’t know what made me think of this this morning, but 10 years ago tuesday (7/5) was the day my dad bought me short-stack.com for my birthday, which later turned into short-stack.net. TEN YEARS AGO. i was halfway in a coma, because the…

to say that i’ve been blessed is an understatement, and i realize it even more so after this weekend and my birthday. i was with brett. i got to see my mom AND my dad AND my stepmom. and even though my closest friends live between 3 and 5…

the beer and cookies and code have zero relevance to this post, other than the fact that the beer made me want to bake cookies, and the cookies reminded me that at this time last week, i was eating cheesecake in a king size bed. in a hotel…

i found all these images on theknot.com, looking for inspiration. and then after glancing at them this way, i realized that the way i imagine our wedding is not unlike the birthday party of bilbo baggins in the shire. i really like the…

since i got all excited about the defcon bike trip , it made me really want to get another bike. mostly for fun, but also because i wanted to see how much a 25 mile ride was gonna kick my ass come august. it’s pretty much gonna destroy me.…

last week, brett and i finally booked our flight/hotel for defcon 19 . this will be my 3rd year, his 2nd. definitely looking forward to this every summer now. i was looking at the speakers/contests for this year and, to my surprise, some…