life
Work has been crazy the last few weeks. Lots of deadlines coming up to get courses prepped for the summer, and even instructors eager to get their fall courses lined up. Everyone wants to get everything done at the same time. Isn’t it always the way?
I still can’t wait for the warm weather to start – I am done with the snow and cold. I can’t wait to see how Lana reacts to being able to play outdoors! Feeding ducks and whatnot should be a blast.
All I can do right now is think warm thoughts!
I’ve been working on a new design for the site, which is fun but slow. I’m trying to completely code it myself, without cribbing off other themes, so that I really understand what each piece of the php code does in the theme. I have a pretty good image in my mind of what I want, but with the comments and the archives and search pages etc it’s a lot to think about. I’ve been playing a lot with php and javascript lately, so it’s neat (but occasionally confusing, as the two have some similar structures). It’s always exciting to be designing.
We had a lovely Valentine’s Day, going out to dinner with the family. Lana was awesome, sitting through a two-hour dinner at a decent restaurant with incredible good cheer. I ordered her a “meal” of her own (mac and cheese) which I fed her while eating my own meal, and she seemed to enjoy it.
First I heard that we were supposed to get a blizzard on Sunday or so, then I heard we were in the clear until Monday, so I’ll be interested to check the weather later this evening. The forecast is constantly in flux. I’m ready for spring.
We’re heading to a wedding this weekend, so I hope for good weather!
Well, it wound up being impressive after all. Sean went out with a yardstick earlier and measured 14 inches of snow out here (and it wasn’t quite done yet). It was entertaining watching it fall. It was good we had some nice neighbor boys to come up with their four-wheeler and plow our driveway for us, but it since the county hasn’t plowed the main road yet we’re still not going anywhere (they’ll plow it in time for Monday morning, I suspect).
Also amusing: I had called Comcast to do the self-help “resend the signal” routine since some of Mom’s cable channels were out and some were blocky (and some just fine, weird), just to see if it would help. I couldn’t get to that option, however – Comcast was refusing service related calls. (We’re lucky we have power much less cable, mind, so I wasn’t calling to complain or even speak to anyone, but it seems a bit of a poor customer service move to completely refuse to take service calls, eh?)
Lana standing in the bay window watching the guys plow the road was extremely cute.
Lana has a new game. She spins herself dizzy. It’s pretty deliberate: she goes in circles basically until she’s so wobbly she falls down. Except that she really is unsteady enough to potentially fall into things, it’s pretty funny (the times she almost falls into something it’s scary – I’ve held onto her a few times to keep her steady until the dizzy passes).
It’s been a very very long time since I’ve spun until I was dizzy, perhaps I should try it some time – though probably outdoors.
