of my birthday. Today I turned 31. Thirty-one! God, I’m almost dead.
Presents from my family include this, and this. And the husband? Word has it he is bringing home 1GB of Corsair memory from Fry’s for that new computer system I’ve been trying to build forever. 0% chance of irritating bladders and 100% [...]

So you might be thinking, “How DOES one get into $50,000 worth of debt?” So glad you asked…it’s quite simple actually. Here’s the recipe:
1) One part fleet of junker cars that need constant repairs
2) One small part school loans
3) One part twins (does anything more need to be said here?)
4) One small part medical expenses [...]

Sorry for the silence…I got a bladder infection last week, so I am behind in everything. If you’re lucky enough to have never had one, let me just say: they’re hellllllll. I don’t know how my mother and sister deal with it, because there were moments I wanted to hack my bladder out with a [...]

If you had just 12 to 24 hours notice of a coming disaster and you were forced to evacuate, what would you take with you? I’ve been thinking about this, and will post my own list later.
Update - My list
We’ll take the husband and kids as a given
Sylvia
Backup hard drive
Photo CD binder
Early photo albums
Baby [...]

Taken a few months ago in the Santa Barbara Botanical Gardens. I love that place.
Hallelujah. No more barfing, and it looks like Saige and I may have actually escaped the bug altogether. One word, people: Airborne.
Toddlertown update: Our garbage disposal remains the most well-fed member of the family, though it seems like the girls [...]

One of Bruce’s friends calls site redesigns “the annual ritual of pain.” I think that’s about right. Every time I thought I was close to finishing it, a new problem would crop up…MT seizures, MT-Blacklist failing, DNS problems, and then in the middle of all this my host switched me to a different server. But [...]