So many times today I've made a mental note of something I want to write. And then promptly forgotten two minutes later what it was. Its hard to wax philosophical when one's brain is like a sieve!

I got the planting done today. My herb garden is in, as are the rest of my vegetables. We're going to try to grow okra. *chuckles* Never grown it, but there were seedlings at Hewitts so we bought them. The garden looks good. The herb garden looks really good. I'm going to enjoy this!

We're watching Harry Potter. Many thanks to Julia for pointingout in her blog that the widescreen and pan and scan are two separate DVDs so we didn't end up buying the wrong one by accident! This is my first time getting to see the movie, although of course I know the story well enough, having read it. Its still fun. *smiles*

I still haven't managed to do al the work I was suppose to do today. So I've got some time ahead of me tonight. *groans* Either that or tomorrow sometime. Not like I can avoid working on it -- it has to be done by 9:30 am on Monday.

Gestalt has begun!

The Tivo has left the building.

*sad sighs*

The other night, Kevin discovered that the last time the Tivo downloaded the schedule was Friday morning at 4:45am. *groans* The modem's not seeing a dial tone. So Kevin's off to Circuit City to take it in for repair. We'll see what happens and how long we are without it. Gotta admit, I'll miss it. Its been so nice to get to see just the things I wanna see and not be bound by the TV schedule.

Today I get to do the planting. Whee! I picked up a whole ton of herbs and stuff at Hewitts and I'm really looking forward to putting them in. But work first. I've gone and downloaded everything I need to do, so I can get my project list and everything done.

Argh! And already the day begins not as planned. *grumble* Last night, on my desktop computer, I downloaded an email message with Klez. Now, this actually shouldn't have been a big deal that I was sent it. Everything had worked beautifully in the past. Y'see, I downloaded mail to my laptop and deleted from the server. BUt now, I'm not deleting it from the server so I can keep logs on multiple places and use my BlackBerry effectively. So I only delete what I don't want kept on the server. So it stayed out there, instead of being downloaded to my laptop and KILLED in transit.

So it was a surprise when it downloaded to my desktop. And stupid me saw an email I didn't remember reviewing yesterday prior to that, so I clicked on it. And of course, there was nothing there. Then I panicked and shut down for the night to deal with it when I was awake in the morning.

So this morning I've gotten McAffee installed and am transferring to Eudora which I know McAffee hooks directly into (and its already killed two emails with Klez in them!). What fun, what fun. But hopefully it won't take me all THAT long to get resetup.

Oh, the quote from yesterday that I loved from Microsoft.

"Critical Update Notification will no longer offer critical updates."

There is a reason behind this, of course -- they've replaced the program with one with a new name. But that statement was just laughable!!

I need to go catch a shower. And get ready for the day. And get things DONE. Eep!

Its very strange how blogger works sometimes, and also frustrating. Twice now I've done a post to my diet blog and twice its disappeared as if it never existed. *grumbles* Both times I've had to rewrite it. Its really really annoying.

On the cool side of thing, Ryan continues working towards crawling. He's pretty good at backwards, although it still ticks him off to see things getting further away from him instead of closer. He can go forward, but its harder, and he doesn't believe it, so he won't do it when we're watching. But I walked back into the living room at one point to see him diving forward to get the cables for my laptop (he LOVES cables *sighs*). So he can do it. He just doesn't do it all the time yet. Soon, though, he'll be utterly unstoppable, I think. Time to get the baby gates back out!

Dani went swimming today after school, with Kevin. She had a great time. She really loves the water, although I think she's more of a self-made fish than a natural fish. She still doesn't like to put her face in the water. And soon gymnastics lessons start. She's REALLY looking forward to that. Although I should probably remember to call and confirm that she and Rachel are all set in their class!

I'll be starting a new team blog soon. Well, actually, its started, and planned, but hasn't been linked in yet. The name is Gestalt, and its a collective writing exercise. I'm really looking forward to it. Between that and gaming and ATW, I'm hoping to get some of my creativity back. And I'm really looking forward to playing with writing with other people. Sort of like a controlled V-Party from the old days of the Vampyres mailing list.

Since it turns out I have to work all bloody weekend, I probably won't be babbling as much. And in fact, I'd better go and get my game moves done for the night and get all settled out so I can be sure I get them done at least once in the next 24 hours. I'll want to grab game time as much as humanly possible, I'm sure, because I'll need the break. But I've got to be ready for our first really big meetnig with the new CTO on Monday, and I've got a way to go, despite that I was working on prepping things all afternoon, and parts of the previous days, when I could escape from help tickets. I still really wish we could hire a "junior grunt" - someone who could do both junior admin and junior development, which would mean help tickets, id creation, stuff like that. It'd certainly save some of us a lot of time if we didn't have to spend all that time on tickets! *wry smile*

Okay, babbling now. Which *is* the point, but I think I'd better take myself off to do other things. Later!

Tonight has been blissfully peaceful. And oh gods, did I ever need it.

I was pleasantly surprised when I got home tonight -- Kevin was here. It was about 6:30 when we pulled in, after me and the kids stopped off at the store and spent even more money on the weekly groceries. Having to keep buying formula will do that. But only six months more to go on that, thankfully. And he's starting to drink less and less of it as he gets more into real food.

So since Kevin was here, the evening did go a bit more smoothly. He'd originally been going to be at a function, and home much later, but since it was so cold and wet and rainy he only made it through 15 holes of golf.

So we managed to get both kids into bed. Woohoo! He was tired, so he headed upstairs to watch the hockey game and fall asleep, and left me to decompress on my own.

Peaceful. *happy little sighs*

I've spent the evening trying to catch up on some of my game moves which have gotten horribly behind the past few days. And now I think I'm going to head upstairs and search for fiction again to put under the Voices section. My mind is so meandering, and so exhausted (still not enough sleep -- we're over a week now!), that I can't even ramble along and find a good topic to write on for the evening. I know there are things in there, stuffed into the corners of my mind, but I'm not finding them at the moment.

Although if I'm true to form, I'll never manage to get to bed yet, and maybe one of those weird topics will show up and be incoherently posted around midnight.

*laughs*

Okay, maybe not. I really really do need that sleep!!

Some mornings are particularly frustrating. I just added a new blog (Confessions of an Overweight Mom) to track my re-entry into the dieting scene. I did a nice long post for the morning, published it, and poof. Its not in my listing under that blog, its not on the site... its just gone. All my babbling, gone. *heavy sighs* I hate it when these things happen.

Book Review

Diplomatic Immunity is the latest in the Miles Vorkosigan saga by Bujold. I picked up the book, interrupting my reading of Perdido Street Station, and started to just inhale it. True to her usual form, the book was a wonderfully engaging and easy read, about characters I've really come to care about.

I don't want to say too much about it, lest I give the plot away. But I will say that it was a joy to see Bel, the Betan hermaphrodite, returning in this book. I hope to see more of it again in later books because I think there's still a lot of stuff left not totally settled. Ekaterin continues to be the perfect woman for Miles. And Miles? Well, if you've read any of the other books, you already know Miles. *laughs* He may be 32, but he is still the same Miles we know and love.

Although eerily enough, as memories of Cetaganda were invoked, I realized that he has, indeed, matured since that book which took place ten years in his past. Its just a question of how MUCH he has matured.

I don't think Diplomatic Immunity is my favorite of the Vorkosigan books. I'm not sure which one is, exactly -- they are all so very different at times! Although I think one of the tops is definitely A Civil Campaign.

If you haven't read the Vorkosigan books, I highly recommend them. They are fun, light, and extremely well written. There is a good reason why Lois has won a Hugo twice for her novels. And even though there are a lot of them, they won't stretch out interminably in front of you in your to-read pile. In fact, if it is anything like my own experience, you will find that you have no sooner begun them than you are turning the last page of the most recent novel and wondering when the next will be out and hoping for soon!

So I'm practicing unsafe blogging tonight. *laughs* There was a serious line of thunderstorms which just ripped through this area. I think they are mostly past, although I will still very much turn off the computer for the night once I am done. But there are still rumblings. Which is why the laptop isn't on, and why A Twisted Weave isn't getting updated tonight.

Its hot as hell up here tonight. We still need to put all the air conditioners in, although the new one we bought from Jamie is already in the bedroom. So we should at least be able to sleep tonight. The rain has come down just rain now, and is no longer sounding like its trying desperately to beat its way in through the walls and slip into the house. Thank the gods.

Ryan has been fussy today. Actually, he's been fussy, on and off, for a week or so now. Teeth? Growing? Who knows... most of the time he's an utterly happy boy, so we know there isn't anything major going on. But he's been having a tough time sleeping lately. It could also be the heat, I guess.

Of course, his tough time sleeping, and my own personal sleep habits, mean that I'm operating on an average of 4 hours of sleep a night, split into two too small shifts. *groans* Yes, yes, I could try to go to bed earlier, but that isn't going to happen. Because while I could go lay in my bed, I'd be bored out of my skull and all wound up. At least this way I get to decompress and get sleepy.

Yes, I'm serious. No matter how exhausted I am during the day, and no matter how much trouble I have (literally!) staying upright during the day, sometime around 10pm a switch is thrown in my brain and whee! I am AWAKE. Its lasts until at least 11pm. So yeah, since I know I'm burnt out, I'll try to get to bed soon.

I think I've managed to stop panicking over the thunderstorms.

Actually, it isn't the storms themselves -- its the tornado watches and warnings that go along with them. Eek! I came as close as I wanted to to a tornado four years ago and have no desire to get any closer. That was scary enough, and no, I wasn't close enough to see it.

But as Ryan settles down, and as my headache from the shift in pressure intensifies, I begin to think about sleep, and start realizing that my typing is filled with typos. So I suspect that it is time for bed. Soon, anyway.

Why did the turkey cross the road?

This morning, after dropping Ryan off at daycare, I saw a really big bird racing across the grass to the right of the car. I slowed down so it could race across the road and disappear behind a house. Excitedly, I pointed it out to Danielle. "Did you see that bird? Do you know what it was?"

"I saw it. What was it, mommy?" she asked me curiously.

All in a hurry to educate, and fascinated because its only the second time I've ever seen one (although Audrey assures me there are huge flocks of them in this area), I said, "Its a wild turkey."

Immediately my daughter erupted into laughter. "Its just like the joke, mommy!"

I started laughing along with her, asking, "Why did the turkey cross the road?"

"To get to the other side!" she chortled. And the whole way to school she just kept telling me what a silly, silly turkey that was.

Once upon a time, while I was packing up things at my mom's house, I started a novel titled "The Memory Box". It began around the concept of a box of things from high school -- a box full of bits of memory.

Tonight, while looking for old stories I wrote for the Vampyres list long ago, I ended up at The Lady in Black's page, and re-read some things she and Eric and Josh and I all wrote together (as The Lady, Jester, Jaye, and Laurie & Bridget). I found myself being sucked back into the person I was 7 years ago, and the person I oftentime miss still. The things the Voices said to me inside my mind, and the things the Voices were in my life.

And an hour or two later I looked up and remembered I was supposed to be doing something else. Like posting game moves. Or sleeping.

I did not trip down memory lane tonight.

I was sucked into the memory vortex.

At least the gods apologized.

It was a hell of a day. I was hammered all bloody day by help desk tickets. My own fault, in part. I didn't mind sending Charlie to class while Ethan was on vacation, even though that left me as the only Notes Admin at the office originally. I figured no big, I lose a couple of days to help tickets. I'd survive. But I wasn't expecting quite the proliferation of help tickets we've had. Nor was I expecting the changing of the guard, and the huge impact *that* has had as well.

So I was working furiously all day. Then stayed late and finished up some of the issues once it was quiet and peaceful. Hoping to do the same tomorrow night.

And finally, when I left, I went off to Price Chopper to get the food shopping done. Called Kevin on the way to let him know I was running later than I'd expected, then I called him again after I finally wrote my list up to warn him I wasn't buying diapers. Then with the list done, I set it down on the seat, grabbed my stuff, and climbed out of the van, locked the door and closed it. I walked around to the other side of the van and tried to open the door.

Locked.

I looked at my hand, noting that I held only my pen and my phone. And there, on the seat of the van, were my keys. Idiot!!

I called Kevin back, and when he answered, I said simply, "I'm you."

"Huh?"

"I am standing outside of the car with only a phone in my hands and I am calling you. Can you guess why I'm you?" I asked.

"You locked your keys in the car, didn't you."

Y'see, in the first few years we were together, in fact in the first YEAR we lived together, Kevin locked his keys in the car three times. Twice while parked in the same exact parking spot at the bank in downtown Troy. Most recently, he actually *lost* his keys while golfing last summer, when I was just coming off of bed rest while pregnant.

So yeah, I was him today. Just managed to not realize they weren't in my hands when I closed the door.

By the time Kevin packed the kids in the car and came to rescue me, about 35 minutes had passed, and since I couldn't do the shopping (the money was in the car too), I was pretty fed up. So I decided to scrap the shopping until tomorrow night, and I went to Subway to pick up dinner for Kev and I while he took the kids home again.

And then the gods said sorry. Yeah, its silly, but getting enough little Subway stamps to fill up both of my partially filled cards, thus resulting in two really cheap lunches at work some day, was a nice little apology. Hey, at least *something* went right today!

Four year olds feel things deeply. They care about things far more differently than we do. More, perhaps.

The other day while I was weeding I found a little tree in my garden. Unlike all the other weeds, and the multitude of maple trees, this one had an acorn attached. A little baby oak tree. Now like I said, there are a ton of baby maples around, but I'm not sure I've ever seen an acorn survive to sprout.

So I tucked it into a pot and gave it to Dani, and we put the pot by the side of the house.

She's been watering it, and been so excited about it. We told her she can keep it and cultivate it, and if it grows well, we'll put it in a bigger pot and she can plant it when we move to another house where there's a place for it. If we can keep it alive for the next five years or so.

This morning I looked at the pot, and it was empty. Completely, and utterly, empty. I pointed it out to Kevin, and he mentioned seeing a chipmunk by the side of the house.

I didn't tell Dani this morning. But this afternoon, as we drove home, I heard her in the back saying, "Mommy, when we get home can I look at my oak tree?"

I sighed heavily. "Honey, I've got some bad news. When I looked at the oak tree this morning... well... what do oak trees come from?"

"Acorns."

"Well, chipmunks think that acorns are food. I think a chipmunk saw the oak tree and thought it was dinner, and didn't know it was a tree."

I thought she was taking it okay at first, and then I realized, she was snuffling... then bawling. She was so upset, and crying horribly, over the loss of her little oak tree (and we'd only planted it over the weekend). It took a while to console her.

When we got home, we looked at the garden, and the flowers. And as we walked down the front yard, I found two more baby oak trees, almost invisible against the retaining wall. Dani asked me to dig them up, and I told her we could bring them inside. So tonight, once she was tucked into bed, I put the two of them into a pot, and we have them upstairs. Safely inside away from squirrels and chipmunks, and also away from a curious cat. She can water them whenever she wants, and watch them grow. And with any luck, we'll cultivate them, and transplant them, and someday she can plant a pair of oak trees she's raised from "babies". Maybe one for her and one for Ryan eventually, if we split them into separate pots.

If the little trees live, it'll be pretty cool. What a story to talk about after twenty years, hm?

This is attempt number two.

I've already written this part of tonight's blog once and erased it. I'm breaking my rule and talking about work. In general, I'd rather avoid it. This is, after all, a public forum, and who knows who might read it and find it utterly inappropriate.

But tonight, I'm breaking that rule. And probably will, on and off, for the next few months.

Because everything changed between Friday and today. My boss, who has been my boss and my friend as well for the past six years, is no longer my boss. He has been let go as CIO and a new CTO has been brought in, beginning today.

It was a long, weird day as the changing of the guard happened. It was so sad to see Sal go. It is still hard to believe that in the morning I won't be seeing him in his office, talking to him and finding out the day's emergencies as I'm trying to get my breakfast. Going over code or infrastructure layouts. We've worked together so long that we worked really well together. Life at work is going to be completely different.

On the other hand, there is a piece of me that is hopeful. Is this new guy the one that can really make a change for IT? Is he the one the business will listen to? What's going to happen? How will he change things? How will I have to change my own management style? Is this for the good or for the bad?

Like I said, everything's different. My mind is in a whirl, trying to sort all of it out.

Its just another corporate rollercoaster ride. I should be good at these by now, but y'know what. I really, really don't like rollercoasters. *sighs* But I'm getting pretty good at surviving the rides.

So, my camera's broken. Well, the lens anyway. It was sitting on Kevin's deskchair (which is just a folding metal chair) in the living room. Which wasn't a great place for it to be, but not all that dangerous. Then Dani was vacuuming (gotta love being 4 when to vacuum is actually *exciting*) and Kevin was helping her out by moving things out of the way. He picked up the chair, camera and all... and the chair folded in his hands. The camera tumbled to the floor, and the lens went one way and the camera the other.

At least, since its meant to have the lens changed on the fly, the film's okay. I'm *assuming* the rest of the camera's okay. Nothing broken I can see anyway. But the lens... well, it won't go back on because a part of the fastening part is broken off. *sighs* So the film's trapped in the camera, and the camera can't be tested (and there are these wonderful pics of the kids on this roll, too!). And I can't get a new lens yet -- it'll be a couple of months before I'm caught up from buying the garden stuff and can afford it.

Its frustrating. Moreso because it could've just been moved. But well, there's nothing I can do about it now, right?

I can't sleep. I'm tired. But I can't settle down enough to sleep. Tomorrow's going to be... strange. I've made most of my lunch and set out about half my clothes. The decisions are made anyway. And I'm looking forward to lunch cuz I made this lunch box sorta thing. I took the leftover wild rice, which has a really great texture and nutty flavor, and mixed in the leftover roasted veggies, as well as some fresh veggie salsa we made earlier in the week (peppers, vidalias, tomato). So that became a wild rice salad. Then I laid out strips of rare steak over the top of it in a pretty pattern. We usually eat leftover steak cold anyway, so we don't have to cook it while heating it in the microwave, since we both like it really really rare.

The whole setup looks like a lunchbox type of thing, so I figured I'd make an Asian style salad to go with it, and pull out the chopsticks tomorrow.

Okay, so I've got one thing to look forward to tomorrow. *smiles*

I got a decent amount done on the website tonight, which made me happy. I did some game moves, although I should still do more, definitely. I'll try and crank through a couple of those now. Something to help me wind down a little, although I may yet just go read some of the Bujold. Make sure Ryan's sleeping well, and that Dani's asleep again. She was completely out, then we decide to come upstairs and she wakes up and freaks out. *sighs* We've never done the family bed, but all of a sudden Dani's decided she wants to sleep with us at night, which is just a no go. I can't sleep with her there because she wiggles and I'm worried we'll crush her. Which just makes for me getting no sleep, so I'm all crank, and its a bad scene.

Which is why I should make sure I get sleep tonight. Soon, soon. Hopefully the kids won't be up at 4am!

A recipe:

1/2 yellow pepper, thinly sliced
1/2 orange pepper, thinly sliced
1 vidalia onion, thinly sliced
4-8 cloves garlic, peeled and halved

Spray a piece of foil with cooking spray. Pile vegetables on foil. Sprinkle with balsamic vinegar, then rice vinegar, then a small dash (1 tsp or so) of sesame oil.

Make into a package, then double wrap it with a second piece of foil so the seam is wrapped too from the other side.

Put on the grill for 30-40 minutes, turning halfway.

The veggies come out wonderfully sweet and perfectly cooked with almost no oil. Yum!!!

Whee!! Updated the design of Between the Lines tonight. I've still got a long way to go on content, though. I'll get there as I'm going through the histories so I can restart everything. Some of the content is more important than others, really.

Watching the final episode of The X-Files finally... its almost over, and its interesting watching how they are bringing every possible thread back together here. Which is cool. I've been enjoying the last few episodes, watching it wind up. I guess its added something to it that's been missing these past few years.

Just updated the "Voices" link to link to a new section of the website. I'm redesigning that section of the site, which is all of my roleplaying and fiction stuff (ie, The Voices in my Head, or as Laurie would say, "Just us."). I'll be ripping apart that whole section as the days go on, and as I prepare to restart Between the Lines as a PBEM and as I try to get a site together finally for A Common Disaster which has been running on and off for um... 6 years now? Eek!

Damara got a battlefield promotion! Woohoo!! I am SO riding high on this character right now!

Ryan doesn't like Linkin Park. Every time it comes up in the shuffle he looks up all startled and stares at the stereo.

Of course, the funny thing is that he blames the stereo, despite the fact that the music isn't coming from it... the speakers are next to it or above it, but not at it. Hm... smart boy, eh?

But now there's something peaceful on -- don't know what disk cuz I'm not familiar with all of these yet (Linkin Park's just WAY distinctive) and Ryan's staring at the stereo and smiling. He loves music... he can be screaming his head off and if I start singing, anything at all, he'll quiet down and smile at me. I think I've got musical theater boy here.

And Dani... yeah, her too. She spent the morning watching Oklahoma! on DVD. She loves musicals, and loves to sing and dance. I can see a seven or eight year stretch of attending high school plays ahead in my future. *fond smiles*

Sometimes being productive around the house can really bring a sense of peace. And watching the baby learning new things brings joy. And Dani, being so eager to help... wow. I figure today I should actually be really stressed, because I'm worried about tomorrow and trying to get a lot of things done, and not really getting to do the writing I'd like to do, but honestly... I'm actually kinda happy.

Right now Dani's napping,and Ryan's rolling around on the floor trying to get to things and working on crawling. Hm... if he keeps up what he's doing at this moment, he's going to bring the diaper bag (and box of wipes) over on his head. Maybe I should rescue him.

Heh. Moved the wipes so at least he can't get hurt, placed toys all around him, and the cord on the front of the diaper bag is still the most enteraining thing he sees. Babies!

Dani and I planted most of the last of the garden today, putting in 4 types of heirloom tomato seedlings, two types of heirloom zucchini seedlings, and some mixed types of bell peppers (everything but green). The zucchini's surprised me -- they were already starting to produce flowers while still in the little tiny seedling planters! Wow! I'm hoping this means we might have zucchinis really soon. YUM!! Okay, so I love gardening. The snap peas are doing wonderfully. I lost the seedlings for the beans and heirloom cucumbers a week ago when it snowed (yes, really!) and we had a frost overnight. Came back from TBR and they were all dead. So I planted a few more seeds, and it puts us behind schedule, but at least later this summer we should have some. I'll also buy some cucumber seedlings and plant some normal ones too -- I've got just a little bit of room left.

So all that's left to do in the garden, really, is the herb garden. This is a new part this year -- between the two vegetable gardens. I need to plant all the annuals, and a few more perennials to come up next year as well. I'm rimming the second layer in rosemary, and need to find a way to girdle some thyme so I can put it in without it taking over completely (because it WILL). Need lots of basil, and all different types. Next year I want to grow basil seedlings indoors, but I didn't get that far this year. I need to set up some kind of tray table thingy upstairs for my planting so I can do lots of flats of seedlings.

I did learn one thing this year -- I really like doing my own seedlings. I like the better control over what I get to plant, and I'm really looking forward to taking care of the heirloom vegetables this year, and preserving seeds for next year and beyond. Plus heirloom veggies are SO cool. I'm going to have pink, green, and black tomatoes, round zucchini and black zucchini. Isn't that cool?

The laundry's almost completely done, and its so windy (even if cool) that hanging it outside is getting it dry really quickly, which is nice. I'm being good and folding it right away so for once I might get caught up. Yeah right, but I can hope! Laundry and dishes are like the bane of my existence. Okay, so maybe housework in general. But laundry and dishes are winning as most frustrating with a baby in the house. Between bottles and blorpage, we go through a lot of dishes and clothes!

Yup, there goes the diaper bag over on his head. Now he wants to fit it all in his mouth. I should probably go get the camera. *laughs*

After Dani gets up from her nap we're going to back some cookies. We froze dough last weekend in logs of sugar cookies, and only baked one log then. So today we are going to bake a log we defrosted yesterday. Pink ones, I think they are. I suppose I'll remember when I open the fridge. Its nice, because I cut the cookies and she lays them out on the tray. We worked together to make the logs, although I had to do the food coloring part myself. I didn't want my daughter to be green and pink from head to toe! *laughs*

I wonder if he'll crawl *into* the diaper bag if I let him play with it long enough? Nah... I'll stop him before then. That could actually start to get dangerous.

Kevin's working on the shelves upstairs in the hallway, at the head of the stairs. We need more places to put books. Okay, so we need a LOT more places to put books. When we bought the house, we had a computer room, a family room (which used to be the master bedroom before we moved in), our room, the "blue room" which can't be used for much of anything, and downstairs there was the "eventuality" room (otherwise known as Dani's room now) and the library.

Then we had a second child.

So.. now the library will be Dani's new room, and her old room will be Ryan's room. And Ryan is currently in the nook in the blue room, but that won't last much longer so we have to get cracking on redoing the library. In the meantime, all the books have been put in boxes in a five by five by five cube of paperbacks in the blue room because its really the only place left to put shelves. And the hardcovers, which go mostly in the living room in the built-in shelves around the window, are sort of overflowing in a serious way.

So Kevin is building some shelves at the top of the stairs. He's doing them in a really cool way so that they'll be built-in but also adjustable, so we can use them for hardcovers or paperbacks. I like that. Floor to ceiling so we'll have lots of space. And if the design works, we'll use a similar one to put in shelves in the blue room. Which would make an excellent library except for the fact that its under the eaves so we sorta lose a lot of wall space. *sighs*

I think its time to do a little more baby cuddling, check on a sleeping 4 year old, and then do some site design and gaming. Woohoo! Its been a productive, but oddly relaxing, Sunday. Which is really good. I need it before this week hits. Cuz its gonna be insane.