Garden:
Lilacs:






Bridal Spirea (thanks to for the ID to yarrowkat)




Irises:




Baby:
My syadmin gave me this pacifier for her. :-D


And my father is a horrible influence-video games already! Well, video game button pushing...

Oh, spring...

Livejournal keeps going down. I'm guessing they are in some sort of political war. Perhaps this is what I get for continuing to use a product based in Russia. They have 20 million Russian users. I suppose someone must have annoyed someone else...

Yesterday was crazy. It was almost 90 Saturday, then almost as warm only CRAZY WINDY yesterday. Winds of 60 mph in Albuquerque, 70 in Socorro. For those of the uninitiated, that is ALMOST fast enough to be hurricane-worthy (hurricane level 1 starts at 74 mph). Today it is cold again and relatively calm. The power is out in Edgewood because it was crazy windy. Some idiots keep setting fires in the foothills. Drought+fire do not mix people, especially with crazy winds. Choppers dropped all sorts of water everywhere Saturday just to make sure that there weren't crazy fires in the crazy winds.

I've found people who LOVE LOVE LOVE making paper snowflakes who are often at my house. This is great because of my plans for snowflake curtains of various colors in the atrium. RAINBOWS EVERYWHERE. It took me MONTHS to make a green one. MONTHS. I still had 5 left. I think they might make themselves... :)

Slowly the garden is waking up. I have some serious work to do still, including replacing the head of one of the spigots outside the house. This house is incredible-there are FOUR spigots outside and one inside the atrium. I have a bed picked out for tomatoes and one for sunflowers. I've already planted the tomatoes in the atrium for transport later. Shortly I'll have some seeds from someone I admire for the sunflowers and hopefully be able to grow sunflowers for years to come. Edibles in the garden this year so far are plums, cherries, pears (2 types), strawberries, blackberries, grapes (2 types), tomatoes, sunflowers, and apples. I'm going to add some peppers too. I'm going to add pictures later.

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I spun fire poi this month. It was fun. I'm going to do this again. J and I have a deal-I drive more carefully, he gets over the fact that I might burn myself. Don't ask-it made sense to him.

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Little J is sleep crawling now. It kind of creeps me out. This is scary to me after reading all sorts of dire warnings on children smothering in their mattresses and then that evening finding my child with her face directly down in the mattress while asleep because she's sleep crawling. Dear child, stop that!

She's so darn alert. I've met only a handful of people as alert and focused as she is. Distracting her from her goal is really difficult.

Yesterday, she and I learned a new game. It is called "mommy can do the dishes IF she bangs on them and makes noise in between dishes. Otherwise, baby monster will scream." J came home to a cookie sheet drum solo yesterday and stared at me like I was insane. He's probably right. I was really getting into it.

But really, cookie sheet drum solos are AWESOME.

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I'm in the process of befriending someone at school. She is awesome and keeps pushing me to read things I've never come across on philosophy. It was time, I suppose. I don't know what I'm going to do when I graduate this semester. I really enjoy the academic climate where I'm continually meeting awesome people who know more about things than I do. Maybe I should go back for a dance degree. :-P

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I'm going to stay in my current job for a while, as there is this child I need to take care of and the flexibility of my position is hard to beat. Even though I'm going to have my Masters and full ability to make (much) more money, the flexibility wins. I love being able to work 32 hour weeks and have extra time to spend with her. Speaking of which, back to work. Ten minutes of brain break over now.

Behind

So, since my last post, I got married (Yay!) and had a baby (on purpose, even!). She's my first baby and a true delight.

I love my husband and my baby is the most awesome thing ever. Seriously, you might think your baby is the most awesome thing ever, but you are wrong. Mine is.

Well, on my planet anyway. Your planet might have different rules.

She says OMNOMNOM a lot.

Yes, that is my child eating another child.

NOMS.