Woo hoo! Marc got some photos posted in a timely manner! We hit San Diego for a few days recently, the zoo, a few beach visits (not hot enough to bask or swim, just play), and a couple breweries for Dada were among the highlights. As per my previous post, no captions anymore, so if there’ s something you’re curious about, just ask! You’ll find pictures in a new album in the gallery.
Next big adventure chez Tiar…the chickens are in the coop.
It’s obvious I can’t keep up with the Sid and Lola pages on this site. So for now, some embedded Flash video for your viewing enjoyment. Please, take a stroll through the last YEAR of inactivity in the video department with this brief sampling of fun…
Lola sings Jingle Bells, December 2008
Sidney gets fit on the Wii, January 2009
Sid dances, January 2009
Road trip with Paigey and Grandpa, not sure where we were going…March 2009
Ring around the rosie, August 2009
Lola sings “sticky”, August 2009
Sid rolls in on his Spiderman scooter, August 2009
Sid bonds with Tasty, October 2009
I guess the latest thing on Facebook is this yearbookyourself.com thing where you can make fun photos of yourself. I don’t do Facebook, but it’s kind of quiet at the store today and I couldn’t resist. Marc through the decades:
1968
1978
1986
1990
2000
I guess one post per month is about the most I can eke out these days. The time flies past without even realizing. No excuses, other than the same ones you’ve seen before, just too darn busy. And Twitter has become my big timesuck.
The main reason I logged in today was, I did want to share this article about the health care system in Canada vs. the US.
Aside from that, mainly business as usual. Kids are OK, business is OK (but never as good as we’d like it to be!) at the store, and we long for leisure time and activities. We are going to break free and do something fun this weekend for the 4th of July, looking like a two-night stay at the lake, so that should be GREAT!
Brian and Sonya’s wedding consumed a lot of last weekend, a great time was had by all – Cosmo and Maureen visiting, me camping with the men bachelor party style in Black Rock country, the Pub and Sub dinner the night before the wedding, the wedding at beautiful Galena Creek park featuring homebrewed hefeweizen by Marc Tiar, and the reception at Brian and Sonya’s house afterwards, celebratory as you might expect. It was truly a fun-filled span of days.
Tasty is now an outdoor cat, venturing out most of the time, overnight even on some occasions, and is no worse for the wear. Hopefully the time spent outdoors will cut down on cat dander in the house, a potential help for Lola’s allergies. She goes in for her sinus CT scan tomorrow, then back to the ENT a week or so later for assessment. Hoping for the best.
Also since last post, Morgan and I went to see Mamma Mia, her birthday gift redeemed finally, and we had great time. I’m not too macho to say I enjoy a good musical. Sushi dinner before the show didn’t hurt.
Well, I suppose that’s all I have interesting enough to post for now. I know I never got those videos posted. Someday when I have some free time. Until then, see you next month (easy to say since June ends in about 6 hours!)
Finally got to clear off the memory card and upload some pictures.
After plowing through so many, it seems like I posted so few. I probably only put about 10% on here, the rest just aren’t cream of the crop enough to post publicly. But I’ve got a hard drive full of memories if you ever want to kill some time…
My next big goal here is movie clips – time to load some new ones. Not sure when, but stay tuned…
Sheesh, over two weeks since last I wrote here. Between holidays and the usual busy-ness of life with two kids and running a business, blogging has taken a back seat, clearly.
We had a nice Christmas, snow and all, and a visit from Aunt Patty to round things out. Lola has hardly had any time on her trampoline that Santa brought, between cold, snow, and punishment for some pretty bad naughty times we’ve seen in recent weeks, she hasn’t had more than a dozen bounces on it, poor thing. We’re all enjoying the Wii Fit we got, and myself, I’ve used my Skeletool and new headlamp multiple times, but hardly touched the two books I got that I’m very excited about. I was truly rewarded with some great stuff.
Weather-wise, irony abounds – our friend in Portland barely made it out of there they had so much snow last month, and today, 2nd week of January, it was almost 60 degrees here. I saw a guy in shorts and short-sleeve shirt outside today! (Oh, and reports from southern France, normally balmy on the Mediterranean coast, are of COLD nasty weather there too!) Weird winter, to say the least.
At EcoReno, business was pretty good leading up to the holidays, but has certainly slowed now. That’s not unexpected in retail, particularly in the economic climate we find ourselves in. We’re starting our monthly EcoChats, little environmental lectures/seminars, this Saturday, expanding our product selection all the time, building lots of great word of mouth and buzz in the community, and getting publicity more and more. We got a mention on the radio and a TV spot – if you check the EcoReno blog (and if you don’t, you really should, we do post stuff there that’s worth seeing, and if you like us enough to read this site, you should definitely read that one too), you’ve already seen this, but it’s worth including here too. May I present, a small portion of my 15 minutes of fame:
And lastly, I’m happy to say I’ve updated photos in Lola’s album, Sid’s album, and added photos from Lola’s (sort of broken second-hand) new digital camera she got for Christmas.
We’re nine days away from a new President. Happy 2009 to all.
These are guaranteed to make you smile and/or laugh. Two new videos on Sids page and one new one on Lola’s page. Good stuff.
Wow, keeping up some semblance of a regular schedule of posting amusing anecdotes here is getting harder and harder. Between family, the store, and now the holidays descending upon us, blogging keeps getting pushed further and further down the priority list.
I’m here to tell you about what happens when a four-year-old cumulatively loses about 4 hours sleep in a weekend. We had people over on Friday and Lola was up late being the life of the party. Then Saturday, we went to dinner at friends and she stayed up late with her DG who was babysitting. So last night, the trifecta was completed and Rayna and Kelly came over for dinner. We were determined to put Lola down and hour early, at 8pm, because she didn’t even get a good nap. We started at 8. Over the course of the next hour, we bargained, scolded, spanked (yes, we spank, but it’s pretty rare and really just for these most hellish occasions), coerced, and generally fought with our daughter. She wants Dada, she wants Mama, she wants milk, she’s cold, she’s hot, her head hurts. One thing after another, the games get played. And Dada gets more and more frustrated and pissed off. The screaming reaches a crescendo and another round of spanking. Eventually, Lola got so upset she threw up in her bed. And then on her floor while we were stripping the bed. Great. We took away her little Christmas tree. Finally, after what felt like hours of battle, she settled in and went to sleep. Let us never schedule a weekend like this again.
In other family news, we’re gearing up for the holidaze, the (real) tree is up, stockings are hung, and “we’ll tell Santa if you’re naughty” threats are tossed around casually. I can only think of two things that might comprise my list, so I should really be thankful for all I have and don’t lack. EcoReno is joining in – Morgan’s building a trash Christmas tree to show off during the CalAve merchants‘ annual Holiday Stroll (in which we are participating). Winter is a mere two weeks away according to the calendar, but we have yet to see any real snow, and people are still riding bikes outside.
Library work is its typical self, but we’re circling our wagons for yet another cut to the budget. People are now getting concerned about layoffs, but they are still telling us that’s the last possible option. I’m feeling pretty solid and lucky to be able to feel that way – we’re seeing more and more people we know, or one degree of separation away, that are impacted negatively by the state of the economy. If someone could please turn things around, now would be a good time to do it.
Been drinking some interesting beers lately. Between two friends, I secured three bottles of The Abyss this year, as well as some Hallertau, and one precious bottle of Palo Santo. As long as we’re talking festive, Morgan and I got a chance to go out to a movie recently, saw the new James Bond movie. A little disappointing as a Bond movie, acceptable as a movie, and enjoyable as an opportunity to go out for an evening.
Not much else to report really, so I’ll sign off here. I’ve got some EcoReno blogging to do too, so take a look there if you’d like. We did just buy a new camera since the old one started failing, so I’ll have a whole slew of new photos of kids and holidays and stuff to post soon, but for now, check out this cool website.
As Turi describes in his post, we had a joint birthday party for Lola and Sofia last weekend. The theme was Fancy Nancy, and everyone turned out in all their fanciness. And thus, a new album is born.
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