moments in between

Checking in here and keeping flickr updated is still taking a back burner to life lately. All is well, just busy. Work has been very busy, I recently spent a week in Seattle and I am off to LA today for a short trip. We also took a mini-vacation to Palm Springs for a weekend - I love it out there, the desert is just so relaxing. We got to hike and go swimming, drink milk shakes and go out for breakfast each day.

I am feeling 100% better and and now big enough that my center of gravity is definitley off! I think this babe has been cooking 17 weeks. We have an ultrasound scheduled in a few weeks and the waiting is killing me. Trust me, I am in no rush, however I already feel like I am fighting the urge to nest and even though I want to buy, or even bring, very little baby gear into this house, I am already eyeing things and wondering if that should be the one special purchase. I know, I know, too soon.

just a few month lost - with a pretty good excuse

It's been nothing but the sound of cricket around here, on flickr too. I have wandered before, but these last few months I have been downright silent. I doubt anyone is even out there.

It has been an odd year so far, I might as well spill the beans - I'm pregnant. It was a surprise, or as I prefer, a bonus. So needless to say I have been sick and tired the last few months. I thought it was getting better, but the last few days have been miserable. I hate food, have no desire to cook and less desire to eat anything but bland carbs. I am showing so much earlier than I did with Jackson, I know that is normal, but it surprised me nonetheless.

I have resolved to start making again, anything. It has been ages. I have gotten into this funk were I silently lurk on blogs reading about what other people are doing and just observing. I need to stop and do something productive. I will share if I do, hopefully I can get that creative muscle working again.

If anyone reads this, old friend or new, I hope you are doing well and sorry I have been so out of touch.

weekend recap

Hope everyone had a good weekend, we sure did. My Mom had Jackson over for a sleepover on Friday and Clay and I went on a date. We had a yummy dinner at one of our favorite restaurants and then met some friends for drinks. It was fun, we don't often go out and I think we should do it more.

On Saturday we actually slept in and then went up to the litho studio, picking some kombucha up on the way for our ever so slight hangovers. Is anyone else riding the kombucha train? I am totally hooked on the stuff.

At the studio Clay taught me how to grind a stone. Between our undergraduate and graduate studies I have spent plenty of time with Clay in litho studios, but I usually just hang out. Most recently I was always heading over to the book arts studio to use the guillotine. We played music and Clay taught me to grind stones and bevel the edges. Then he showed me more about the process with some stones he is working on. It was a fun compromise - Clay wanted to spend sometime in the studio, especially while the students are on break still, and he also wanted to spend time with me.


So, earlier this week I finally did something I have wanted to do forever. I joined the local CSA and I couldn't be happier with our first box we picked up this morning.

Wow... carrots, dill, lettuce, chard, kale, oranges, tangerines, avocados, apples, lemons, guave, and cherimoya which I have never even heard of. It looks like a chiseled avocado and is suppose to taste like banana. Living in a temporate location has advantages.

Lots of people at work have been sick and I think I am coming down with a it. I can't really tell if this is the beginning of something bad, or just an annoying sore throat.