It may seem strange that I haven’t posted anything about our son Gabriel on here since his birth! The reason is that all those updates/posts are being made to a private group on Posterous. I wanted the majority of Gabe’s information to remain private until he’s old enough to decide for himself what he wants online. That said, it’s nearly impossible to stop people posting photos of him on Facebook, and he’s so handsome that I love showing him off too, so you can find photos of him both on Facebook (Amme’s and mine) and my flickr account. If you’re a friend of mine and aren’t part of the Posterous group page but would like to be, please email me! I’m trying to post updates regularly there about our beautiful little boy’s progress.
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One Month from Birth and PAX East Planning
Our son Gabriel will be here in just over 4 weeks! We’re so excited… and also nervous. I think we’ve prepared all we can, but I can’t help wanting to do more.
Matt, Jesse, and I have been planning our trip to PAX East this year. I’m really excited for it, but it’s going to be hard leaving Amme and Gabriel at home. I wish they could come.
Amme is making sushi tonight. I made some yummy ramen but I may have to steal a piece!
Jesse and I have been playing a lot of minecraft again. We started a new map to try out the latest biome features. We haven’t made any mega-structures yet but I think we will after we save up enough resources and think of something really good.
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With the start of a new year I’ve decided to update my theme yet again. This isn’t surprising to my old dorm buddy and close friend Jesse, who would leave our room for class and come home to it completely rearranged–roughly twice a month.
I’m in an “ease of use”/”minimalism with a splash of color” sort of mood, especially with a flood of baby updates, photos, and videos on the way, which leads me to our current theme: P2. This is a wordpress theme I’ve admired, and had installed but not enabled, for quite a while.
I’m hoping it pushes the content to the forefront, and that it’s ease of posting will mean I update it more frequently (a constant battle for me).
The absolute best way to start newyears day: DBZ and breakfast in bed.
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Sunday Afternoon Shopping
This Sunday we had some last-minute Xmas shopping to do. We went to Bagel Central for a delicious lunch, then to Burlington Coat Factory where I wanted to get a jacket I’d seen on sale. They didn’t have it but we ended up finding one I liked even better. Doody probably felt a twinge of jealousy for seemingly no reason as I bought it (he’s sort of an addict when it comes to jackets).
After that we went on an epic “winter boots” quest for Amme. It is almost impossible to find decent-looking, affordable winter boots for women (sure L.L. Bean has fantastic boots, but out of our price range). All the boots we found were either too expensive, or weren’t really made for trudging through snow and slush (there were plenty of useless, very fashionable ones ). We finally managed to find some at Target, and Amme managed to talk them into giving her 20% off because they had some scuff marks on the uppers.
We braved the mall to get some presents and pretzels at the newly re-opened pretzel shop. Amme had been super bummed when they closed down last winter because she loves the little pretzel bites. I decided to forgo the caramel macchiato I usually get in the mall, then regretted it later. If you want a seriously amazing caramel macchiato that puts Starbucks to shame, get it at the Bangor Mall—I’m not even kidding.
We stopped at the grocery store before heading home, and I made steak, blanched broccoli, and Welsh Rarebit for supper. All in all, it was a tiring but very nice little Sunday.
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Doody
Woot, I just realized I got a mention here. No jealousy at all, I will enjoy the fresh smell and feel of the new jacket along with you. Because yeah, I loves me them jackets.
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lrn2blag
Wow I have incredible writer’s block. I must have zero readers by now (thats “ling” in Cantonese) I could write about whats going on in my life, but that’s just as tough. I’ll try though.
Lately I’ve just been working and finishing up classes. The mall on campus (long stretch of grass, not shopping mall) is once again the constant home of one of the many slacklines owned by those of us that love the discipline. I love having a break between classes and going out there to find that there is always a line set up. Sometimes one of us will put one up, go to class, and come back later, knowing that our friends will make sure nobody steals it while we’re gone. I’ve made some really cool friends through slacklining over the last few years. Amme hasn’t had a chance to do it since the beginning of the summer, but she’s gotten really good.
I’ve also started climbing again at the rock gym here on campus. Its free for students which is awesome, and I still fit my shoes so that’s a bonus. I can’t climb at the level I used to, but I still know how to move and not overexert myself. I’m making progress slowly. (More …)
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Doody
Good to hear from you in the update. Glad to hear that things are going as smoothly as they can at this point. Good luck with your teeth, you are one of “the uninsured” that you keep hearing about on TV. How does it feel to be a talking point?
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Wow… This thing’s like, a journal!
Yeah this entry is way overdue, I put it off then my domain was suspended for a week while I waited to get paid. But its back so for historical purposes, this entry was supposed to go up around June 25th.
“English System MOTHER-[beep]: Do you speak it?”
What a great few days this has been. This past Friday I went up to Caribou for my nephew’s 1 year birthday. For the next 12 months he will be “1 year and N months”. When he is 1 year, 6 months, it shall not be said he is “18 months old”, or I will start punching people in the teeth. Why? Because one of my pet peeves is people counting a child’s age in months after they’ve reached the next higher increment (YEARS). I am not 1120 16ths of an inch tall, I’m 5 feet 10 inches. Your car doesn’t hold 192 cups of gasoline, it holds 12 gallons, etc. He’s 1 year old. He’s also 12 months old but you don’t say that out loud. Wow, rant. Where was I? (More …)
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Doody
Awesomely good to see this post up. It was great to see you and I am glad that your vacation that week was good.
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New Skateboard
WEUT! My new skateboard came in today!
I just finished assembling it and took it out for a little ride. Its smooooooth and has a ton of pop.
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Doody
Thats awesome! I need to get a new deck myself. I didn’t know that you were thinking about getting one. Thats so awesome, we have to go out and ride sometime soon hopefully.
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euicho
Yeah, I have been needing one, my blank deck is a few years old and the grind king trucks are ancient and worn out, as are the wheels and bearings… so yeah its a mess. The deck is actually the most pristine part of it.
At any rate, I got some money for my birthday to buy myself a gift and this was one of my big wants so I got it! So far I’m totally digging it. It has amazing pop and is the lightest setup I’ve even ridden. I could have made it even lighter with lighter trucks, but I didn’t care too much about lightness. I mostly wanted a rugged deck that was hi-tech instead of the usual maple-7 decks I’ve always ridden.
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B
sexy sexy
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Life Update: 5.17.2007
Hello! I haven’t dropped off the face of the Earth, despite my lack of blog postings and twitter postings. I’ve studying for finals, taking finals, celebrating Amme’s B-day, and getting reacquainted with my current favorite video games, in mostly that order. I didn’t post a happy b-day to Amme because I just plain forgot I had a blog, so HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANGEL! heheh.
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Dude, its Visitors!
It’s the times I look back on how many seasons the shows I grew up with have that make me feel old. The title reference for example.
At any rate, B and Kelly came up this weekend to see family and stayed with us! Amme and I aren’t the most exciting people right now, so we may or may not have kept them entertained, but we had a good time at least. They went to a flower show with Matt’s family and got us a little bamboo plant! I’d seen them before in Chinatown but never got one because we were so far from home. Its really cute and is sitting on a little shelf in the living room. They came up Saturday and got done visiting family around 6, so we decided to go find a restaurant with vegan options for them around Bangor. Little Lads Bakery shut down, very disappointing, so we went to a Pakistani restaurant that was very good. Some dishes were similar to Indian food, so Amme and I ordered samosas, lamb curry and rice, and naan. It was all really good, and the mood of the place was really neat. It even had some catchy native music playing.
After that we went home and watched some TV shows until we were too tired to keep our eyes open, and crashed for the night. The next day we relaxed for a while then went for a stroll in the woods but there was still a lot of snow on the trails so we ended up cutting it short. Not having gained very much energy despite sleeping in, we just lazed around the house until B and Kelly had to head home. After that Amme worked on her paper that was due and I worked on wikipedia and my TiddlyWiki for a while.
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Nyrath the nearly wise
“Makes me feel old” he sez. Hah. ;)
I remember when both your mother and I were in diapers. Along with that big irate black Persian cat. And the TV was black and white. And we had to walk twenty miles uphill to school, uphill both ways.But the important part is to remember all your memories of your childhood, it helps you stay young. As Terry Pratchett said: inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.
Remember that pen and blank book I gave you one xmas?
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euicho
Hahaha very true. At least I know I’ll never feel *too* old. I’ll never tire of playing with toys, and will never be above having fun.
Do you mean the thick black one with a couple of alphabets and drawings in it? Yes I still have that at home. I drew a lot in it and wrote poetry in it as well. I also have the Titanic Tommy drawing you did for me! Its still fun to look at all the gadgets on it.
When I was younger I thought journals were for just for girls (that had cooties of course) but nowadays I wish I had written in one every night.
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Euicho.com Updates
I’ve implemented a couple of small updates to the site today. I had always assumed WordPress had a printing style it defaulted to if you tried to print a post, however if it did/does, it was lost when I converted my old theme to the new version. I got an email from a reader who was disappointed that he couldn’t print my tiddlywiki article. I was actually shocked to see how horribly his browser rendered the page for printing. The sidebar was running over the text and it was just illegible.
A quick google search yielded a painless plugin to palliate my printing problem (sorry I couldn’t resist the alliteration). The WordPress Plugin Repository offered up the WP-Print plugin, which is available at lesterchan.net.
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300 Wikipedian Friends of Cat Trees
I though I’d post a little update on what I’ve been up to lately, so here goes.
I’ve been pretty busy with work and school as usual, but for the past two weeks I’ve been on break. The first week Amme and I went up North and visited with the family and friends. I hung out with Evan a few times, but didn’t get to see Jalbey hardly at all… bummer. Hopefully I’ll get to spend more time with them soon.
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damn wiki vandals!
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Good to hear that your break went well, and sorry that its already over. As far as Wikipedia is concerned I am sort of for the idea of having editors log in, but I still think that the beauty of the Wikipedia world is that it can be edited by anyone who chooses. I actually think that by actually almost forcing people to use their critical thinking skills is a good thing. Someone who is able to note a clear bias or factual issue has proven that they know how to research something correctly and then can change the entry based on further work.
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Finally Some Snow!
Crazy snow storm here last night. I love it! I actually wish we’d gotten more snow though, instead of the freezing rain that came half way through the storm. The roads were pretty bad last night. Snow removal is attrocious here; I’m used to Caribou where they plow all night. MDI is like that too. They plow non stop until it stops snowing and all the roads are cleared.
Amme and I went down town to go to a restaurant but there was nowhere to park so we went to UNOs instead. On the way out of Old Bangor we almost got stuck, crawling up a steep hill at about 0.5mph. At one intersection there were cars stuck at either end of a light and nobody was moving. We were glad to be heading perpendicular to all that. UNOs was good. In the past I’ve had an aversion to it, I’m not sure why, but their food is really good and the prices are fair. There was a really strange girl in the booth next to us talking to her boyfriend like you’d talk to a kitty going “broccoliiiiii… Eat it broccoliiiiii! brooooooooooooocoliiii!” it was bizzare to say the least.
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Dissent
We need to get our poor troops out of this war. Luckily, things are coming to a boiling point. See below.
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i know the congress isn’t supposed to be considering impeaching bush but it sure would be a good thing. atleast that way we’d gain some popularity with the rest of the world
course it’s hard to have people like you when you go around bombing them or their neighbors all the time
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Doody
Yay! For the government!
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Jesse
I dunno B, my neighbors were complaining about how loud my stereo was so I firebombed their car. Now that they are home from the hosptial and their skin grafts took they couldn’t be more agreeable.
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Birthday Fun
I hate to put myself down… but I will anyway. I’m horrible at the blog thing. I almost never update. No wonder my readership has waned.
I could blame my hectic life, however that’s my own fault, so instead I’ll tell you what I’ve been up to lately.
Tax Day, April 15th, was my birthday. I don’t like to make a big deal when it’s my b-day it so I don’t go around telling the world so. I did, however, have a great day/week. Amme May and I went up North for Easter dinner with my family so we found ourselves in a desolate town with nothing to do, and as a bonus it rained all weekend. While that doesn’t sound like much fun, we ended up curled up on a big leather couch reading great books all day while cuddling with my dalimation McKenna and our attention starved cats Tessie and Jake. It may seem tame but thats all I wanted.
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90s Saturday Morning Line-up
Remember getting up early on Saturday morning because you actually wanted to? Many of us did this as kids for one simple reason… Television!
I remember waking up early to catch all of my favorite shows, but didn’t actually remember the titles of many of them. At least not until I stumbled onto this little gem:
Saturday Morning TV Schedules of the 90s.This site has a lineup of Saturday Moring Shows for NBC, CBS, ABC, and FOX, grouped by year (Spring/Fall), and it’s sure to bring back memories. I think I started watching TV around 1988, so if you’re older than I am, be sure to check out 80s Saturdays and 70s Saturdays.
Just because this is my blog, here are my top 5 favorite Saturday morning shows:
- Jim Henson’s Muppet Babies
- Scooby Doo
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Garfield and Friends
- Reboot (first completely computer animated TV series, and well done at that!)
I personally believe things started going south around 1995, for Saturday Morning shows anyway, and I not gett all my cartoonage on Cartoon Network and Adult Swim. What were you’re favorites?
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WOOO!
Reboot!
fuckin alright!
I miss that.“I Come From the Net,
through Systems, Peoples and cities…
to this place, MAINFRAME,
My format, Guardian,
to mend and defend,
to protect my new found friends,
their hopes and dreams,
to defend them from…
Their enemies” -
Doody
Definitely agree with you on:
Garfield and Friends
Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesBut another one that I really liked was Beekman’s World
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Beekman’s world! Awesome, I am not alone, I also loved Bill Nye, great shows. I watched some CBC stuff as well like Mr. Dressup.
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Doody
Hey man sorry I missed your B-Day!!! Happy B-Day Tommy!
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Jesse
“back to work”…BOOM….
“SPOOOOON!”That one with the two cats that flew the jet fighters, that show kicked ass too.
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Bob
Speaking of Saturday morning cartoons… if anybody remembers “Bobby’s World”…remember Howie Mandel? The guy with the poofy hair? He now does a game show called “Deal or No Deal”…the transformation in apperance is somewhat disturbing.
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Yeah, at first I was like, “That name sounds familiar”. Then the second time I watched Deal or no Deal it hit me, “Damn, Thats the guy from bobby’s world!” Heh
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A Grandson’s stance on Soldiers and Veterans
In the past, the American public has misunderstood and mistreated their soldiers, and now those soldiers misunderstand many Americans in return. We should be fighting alongside each other, not against one another. Please read this, Veterans and civilians, Bush supporters and Bush haters. It is one humble man’s feelings on those who fight for America:
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Thomas.
This is very powerful and well written. I could not agree with you more. (and I am a registered Republican ) Thanks for sharing your thoughts on a very sensitive and opinionated subject. I applaud you for taking the time to write this.Dad
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Doody
I totally here you. I have been saying that from the beginning. Too many times I have heard people say that because I disagree with the war then I can’t support the troops. That logic makes no sense. I don’t support the war, but those guys are over there giving what they’ve got so that I can sit here at my computer at 2AM. I wish them nothing but the best.
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Nyrath the nearly wise
Bravo! Exceedingly cogent and well-articulated.
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Mom
Wow, Tom, that was passionate and I am very moved by your convictions. I think all that read it will be more enlightened to your position. Wonderful!
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euicho
Thats all I can hope for. :)
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John Evans
And mistreatedvets.com
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Bush Admits Flawed Intelligence
Today brought something I never thought I’d see: Bush not only admitting that the intelligence about Iraq was faulty, but also taking responsability for… well, for anything!
On the eve of Iraq’s historic election, President Bush took responsibility Wednesday for “wrong” intelligence that led to the war, but he said removing Saddam Hussein was still necessary.He still states that he was justified and it was the right thing to do, which is bull, but I can’t exactly expect miracles here. The article goes on to state that his aproval rating is at 42%, up 4% from November, which I don’t understand, but I also don’t understand how ID has gotten as far as it has, so logic doesn’t exactly enter into it.
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Bush: “Bad Intelligence”
Intelligence: ” I’m sorry.”
Bush: “And what the hell are biomalogical weapons?” -
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But as far as Atlas Shrugged goes, one should always keep in mind Bob the Angry Flower.
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euicho
True, true. As they say …to every coin.
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Dispelling the Myths of Absinthe
Even the ocassional imbiber should have heard of Absinthe. Sometimes called the “green fairy”, it is a 140-proof green liqueur made from fennel, anise, and wormwood leaves. Absinthe dates back to 1792, but has been banned in the US and many other countries for almost 100 years.
Known for its alleged ability to induce a unique state of mind, appart from a regular alcoholic intoxication, absinthe has been consumed by such writers and artists as Baudelaire, Picasso Rimbaud, Toulouse-Lautrec, Oscar Wilde, and Van Gogh.
The main reason for banning absinthe was the fact that it contains an ingredient called thujon, which is poisionous. The irony of this is, drumroll please… all alcohol is a poison!!! However, that is not the point. The point is that it has never been proven that there is enough thujon in absinthe to hurt you at all, despite the terrible accusations that have plagued it for so long…
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Doody
Haha, thats funny because one of my professors is originally from either Poland or Germany (I can’t remember which off the top of my head). He is a big connoisseur of alcohols. He was talking to us one day about Absinthe in Europe. Aparently they keep huge stocks of that stuff in stores over there because American tourists go nuts for that stuff because its 140 proof.
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Wow, if they just want high-proof, they have a couple US-legal options:
Bacardi 151 (151 proof)
Everclear [190 proof (can't buy in Maine)]
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yeah here’s the thing about absinthe, weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. and yeah the trip is better than the alcoholic intoxication. if you drink absinthe to get hammered you’ll be sorry. if instead you rip a shot or 3 and wait like 10 minutes or 1. in between shots you’ll be tripping “sack” in no time. peace out all my straight edge homies who read this, hope the edge is treating you well. oh and if you aren’t straight edge, smoke pot.
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Remember The Milk
When it comes to managing my life and all the random thoughts and tasks I have that fill it, I have many ways I have tried and new ones I am currently trying.
For example, in the past I have…
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ah replace those sticky notes with the hipster pda! Its just notecards held together with a ring or butterfly clip. I use mine constantly to write down notes and stuff. I have a “To Do” card, a “To Get” card, and some reference cards with useful info, plus about 15 other blank cards in the back. When i fill up a To Do card, and cross everything off as done, I throw it away and start a new one. I call mine a hipster pda micro because I use these tiny cards:
from MindBinders. They are only about a third the size of regular notecards and have a small footprint in my pocket. For a pen I have this amazing lil puppy: http://www.zebrapen.com/ball-tele.htmlread all about the hipster PDA idea from its source at 43Folders.com
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Doody
Wow what a good idea. I am gonna sign up for that as soon as I have the time.
I fall into one of the same categories as you do and write notes for myself that I then put in my pocket and then never look at again until it comes out all over my clothes in the laundry a week later.
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Kristin, 
Doody, 
B, 
B are discussing. 
Jesse, 
B are discussing. 
Bob, 
Jesse and 3 others are discussing. 
Mom and 3 others are discussing. 
Jesse are discussing. 
evan, 
Paul Dube 1:54 pm on 1/5/2011 Permalink
I’m a huge fan of how the site looks on a mobile device. Nice job!
euicho 1:56 pm on 1/5/2011 Permalink
Thanks Paul! That was a big “must” for me, with my little iAddiction and all, heh.
B 2:11 pm on 1/5/2011 Permalink
woot i dig the new theme
euicho 3:42 pm on 1/5/2011 Permalink
One thing I especially like is that if I’m logged in, I can post right from the front page, without going to the admin section or
/wp-admin. It copies a lot from tumblr, but in a good way.Doody 1:26 am on 1/6/2011 Permalink
Also a huge fan of the new layout, but you know my feelings of minimalism and web design so my bias may be showing a bit. Probably should cover that up.
Kristin 7:43 pm on 1/6/2011 Permalink
Breakfast in bed? You should teach Jesse that trick! I also like to rearrange things but Jesse doesn’t fuss to much. I guess you broke him in for me :)