Three months plus since we last posted here. We’re still here, still living our little lives. Still struggling, loving, fighting, and having fun. Mostly have moved a lot of commentary onto Facebook. I’d still like to keep this site viable. Stay tuned, maybe I’ll get back into the swing of things soon…
Life has been so busy. That is probably very obvious by how little we get to blog. But when funny, irritating, or weird stuff happens, I feel it necessary to update you all.
EcoReno is awesome. I love doing it and I love making a difference. I have also become very receptive to free publicity. You want a news story on green cleaners? You got it! Anything to get the word out.
I got a call from KOLO a few weeks ago wanting to do a story on green cleaning products. A very nice reporter called and asked if she could shoot footage and then come back to shoot live for their morning show. Yep, the morning show that airs from 5am to 7am. What time should I be here Monday? 4:15am. Again, free publicity.
We shot the some footage on Friday morning – a reasonable time of 10am. We confirmed for Monday morning at 4:15. (Let me remind you that even though there is a Starbucks across the lot, they don’t even open that early!) She said the only thing that would keep them is breaking news. I think she said something about WWIII.
I had been having problems with the cell phone, but never gave it a second thought. I drug my butt out of bed at 3:45 after a restless night. I kept thinking that I would over sleep. I got dressed, made myself presentable, and took off into the dark morning. There weren’t many people out, a few early morning people heading to work and passed a few guys probably heading home from a bar. Oh, and I got a full moon. Who does that? Okay, besides Kelly Ricciardi? Seriously, a big, white ugly butt thrown in my face. Ewwwwww! Got into the store, locking myself in quickly, and disabled the alarm.
BEEP. BEEP. Ah, a message on the phone. BREAKING NEWS!! Not WWIII, but a body found near Caughlin Ranch. No live shoot for me. There had a been a message left on my cell phone and she hoped that I had gotten it before I left the house. NOPE, because my cell phone is acting up and I didn’t do anything to try and fix it. It was a simple fix too – turn off and back on. I headed back home to bed. When I got into the bedroom, Marc asked if I had even left, that is how little time had passed.
The story did air. They used the previously shot footage and I am also happy to say that it aired again during the evening news. I heard it while cooking dinner. So, worth it, but I can tell you that I will be sure that cell phone is working before I head out for a 4:15am shoot!
Other updates: Dad was just here and we had a great visit including the Sacramento Zoo. The kids are great – both getting so big! Sid’s sitter, Michelle, is telling us that he is very interested in the potty. Trained before his second birthday? You never know.
And just like that, a month has passed since my last post. Sigh. I could just repeat what I said last time, that things are just too damn busy, but that will get old because if I had to guess, that will be the refrain around here for a while.
Nana came to visit and has gone back home, kids have been sick (double pew-hawk tonight, in fact, but just due to too much running around->hacking cough->gagging->pewhawk) but are now getting back to their old self, EcoReno is expanding products, networking, and trying to flourish, the library budget is going down in flames, and Brian and Sonya are engaged to be married!
I just don’t know where the time goes – a typical day goes like this – up, morning routine, off to work and Morgan delivers kids and heads to the store; after work, one of us picks up kids while the other closes the store, meet at home 6ish, dinner, TV, bed. Vary slightly on weekends. Except Sundays when we’re both off. For now. I can claim to have read a book, The World Without Us, which I really enjoyed and found thoroughly fascinating, and we were able to go see Oscar winner Slumdog Millionaire, but leisure time is pretty slim.
I basically have no more news right now. Hang in there, loyal readers, the dam is bound to burst someday and regular cheztiar programming will resume.
Geez, this has been a long time coming. I actually had to make a list of all the “stuff” that needs to be blogged about here and updated for you, my loyal readers. And for the ages. It’s getting late, I multitasked my way through updating photos while watching The Office, so I’m going to try to keep it sort of concise and just get it all out there.
This blog started as a sort of extension and continuation of a paper journal that Morgan and I started trying to keep up with after Lola was born. We’d write in it occasionally with updates on her growth and what was going on in our lives. After a while, we got lazy about keeping it up, and since I was trying to keep up with photos on the website anyway, I figured this could be our own virtual journal to look back upon someday and see what our life was like “back then”. So, in that spirit, some of this is just recording events for the sake of recording them, more than actually putting it out for you crowds (that’s a joke, feel free to laugh) of readers in the here and now.
So, since last I really wrote….
My 37th birthday has come and gone. Fairly uneventful, not really a landmark. We went out for killer sushi at a new place on 5th St., “Sushi Lover”. Overindulged and enjoyed all of it. Thanks to Turi, David, Bart, Max, Maggie, Rayna, Kelly, Carol, and Paige for sharing the evening. Two words: Renee Chips. If you were there, you know what I’m talking about.
EcoReno is clipping along. Never having opened or run a new business, we don’t really have any basis of comparison, but we seem to be doing OK; customers every day, some days more than others, plenty of people interested and giving positive feedback even if they don’t actually buy, advertising seems to be working, and perhaps our most visible mention in the press appeared today. It’s all really happening. During the good times, it feels like this could really be the start of something successful and good; other times, I think “What’s the worst that can happen? It doesn’t work out, we have some debt, life goes on.” So there you go. It certainly has made our lives much busier in a lot of ways, and trying to keep all our schedules and commitments and goings-on straight is probably the worst of it. So that’s not bad.
Halloween. Lola was a ladybug, Sidney was a pirate. We hit Raley’s for trick or treating one night, did some real neighborhood trick or treating another, and I busted a punk spray-painting a fence. Pretty standard fare, little fanfare, and the candy continues to haunt our household with its sugary evil.
Grandpa Dave came for a really nice visit, providing a good excuse for a few days off for me and plenty of eating, drinking, and being merry (usually in the form of board games). Perhaps the only real major outing was a drive over to Nevada City, allegedly to see fall colors, of which there were few. A nice little day trip regardless. And it’s just nice to hang out and enjoy family time, even if you’re not doing anything touristy or special, just doing everyday errands and lounging is made more enjoyable by the presence of visiting Grandpa. Maybe he begs to differ.
And last, perhaps most recordable for posterity, we had a little election this week. This is almost certainly the election I’ve had the most strong feelings about in my lifetime so far. I have felt the most amazing feelings of hope and cautious optimism the last few days. I didn’t realize how….glum? grey? cloudy?…the last 8 years have felt until it lifted. I sincerely hope we haven’t put too much of a burden for the future on the shoulders of our next leader. It truly feels like he has become our leader in the true sense of the word, not just “president” (from ‘preside’ which doesn’t really have much meaning to us in our everyday lives. We need to be led, not presided over.) I really, really, really have such hope for the future yet mixed with fear that we’ve just put too much faith in this man. He is still just a man, and despite being arguably the most powerful man in the world, his power does have limits and he is not able to turn lead to gold. I think I am caught up in his election coinciding with Lola’s birthday, the dawning of a new regime colored blue, feeling like we’re close to the bottom and we’ve nowhere to go but up, and wanting this king among men to lead us to a better future. Please oh please, let it come true. I won’t blame him if miracles don’t happen, but I hope optimism has some power to help make the change that needs to happen. (On a less philosophical, more tangible note, I am glad to see how many officials I wanted to see win, did indeed win. Some lost, some questions failed, but overall, on both a local and national level, Tuesday, November 4, 2008, may someday prove to be the day that things got better. Cross your fingers with me.) I sort of rambled my way through this topic because I’ve had a lot of strong feelings the last few days and they’ve been hard to put down in clear words. Today I read a very good post by a friend that hit the nail on the head in a lot of ways. Read it now.
OK, now that you’ve made it this far, you are rewarded with more than words. Picture updates!
Nothing else of note – nothing read, watched, or listened to worth mentioning right now. Supper Club ate, joint Princess birthday party coming up, next update when it happens. And I’m out.
I am not a McCain fan. He’s old, he’s a repeat of what we have already had for the past eight years, and I think his company says a lot about him. Cindy McCain looks like she is going to need rehab again soon, and if she didn’t fit in when he was first a senator when she chose to move back to AZ, she surely is not gonna make it as First Lady.
When McCain picked Palin as his running mate, he picked the stupidest person possible. Let’s be honest and to the point. Why? Who in their right mind could think that this woman is even close to qualified for ANY political position? I think this is one of the best clips of things that she has said that only proves my theory….stupidest person……
Really? Never heard of Time or perhaps Newsweek? The News-Miner perhaps? This is just one of MANY stupid answers she has given.
And just to reinforce the fact, McCain is old. He has had melanoma – you can still see it in his face. He could fall over dead VERY soon and that would make Palin your president. I say yours because I am moving to Canada if this happens.
Just a few cool things to link to that I felt compelled to share.
Wow, this blog is getting all political and stuff. Can’t help it.
It’s hard to avoid political commentary on both sides these days, and my ire keeps rising with the right. Witness the hypocrisy here and here. And while everyone’s gushing about Sarah Palin, read this.
UPDATE: even better description of Sarah Palin plus she tried to ban books at the library. Scary.
Did that work? Found this cool new site with lots of neato documentaries. Thought I’d try sharing some here from time to time. Not that I’ve watched them, just that they seem like good ones I’d like to watch some day. So that’s the first one, about a heavy metal band in Iraq.
Aside from that, catch up on the week’s news with Harper’s Weekly roundup.
Heard a story on NPR today, full of international intrigue, fine dining, and mystery. Quite the story, had to share. Depending on how it eventually turns out, might make a good book and/or movie. Read about the missing gourmet.
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