2007 - The Year So Far, Prior to Fatherhood

It's been quite a year thus far. Danine is getting big- hormones are running all through her system, she's getting some non-trivial pains, and she looks just radiant and lovely. Yesterday, April the 28th, we hosted a wonderful dinner party. We had Danines Project manager from work and her husband, one of my coworkers (at least for a brief time- he came and went very quickly of his own volition) and his wife and his 2 very adorable girls from a prior marriage came, my chiropractor and his wife (I hope to be seeing a lot of them- he plays guitar, chess, and lives literally a block away). Danine's friend Melanie and her husband Ben brought her kids (they have adopted 2 kids) so we had a full house. We played duck-duck-goose, tag, and then I read to Dag's kids (I read them the Tom books- how Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen, and then A Near Thing For Captain Najork). Danine cooked a marvelous dinner and I grilled skewered chicken, people brought loads of dessert and wine, and all had a lovely time.

Anyway, yesterday was great, although it was tiring. Slept like a rock.

March was probaly the toughest month for me. I was sick for weeks with an incessant buzzing in my brain, like a 60 Hz buzz from a cheap fluorescent bulb. Then just as I got over that I had a crippling back pain from gardening. On the upside that’s how I met my friend Joe the chiropractor, and I consider it a worth while injury. It certainly has made me wary of staying in shape, so I've been doing lots of time of the elliptical and doing lots of pull ups. I finally wised up and put tape on the chin up bar to make it more graspable- that's made an enormous difference!

Oh, and then at the end of the month the f***ing IRA billed me over $800 for taxes from 2 years ago. A company I forgot I'd worked with never sent me 1099 that year so I underpaid. It has set me back a bit, but thank goodness I've become an aggressive saver! That would have wiped me out a few years ago, but now its just a bank-to-bank transfer from my savings account away. Still, with the baby coming (Ms. Emily Helen!) and putting in new vinyl windows on the upper floor to replace the original 1965 hardware, its a real pinch.

I need to call everyone in the family. I need to get birthday cards for Uncle Matt and Uncle Dan- seeing that their b-days are a and 2 days prior to mine I have no excuse for forgetting them! I need to see if Matt and Irene would like to double with Danine and me, and Matt and i can get sloshed together. Except Danine is preggers so I can't. sigh...


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