Holiday weekends bring new people to my neighborhood, and of course bring my neighbors to other people's neighborhoods.
New people mean of course new routines and activities.
By this I of course mean the man that is jump roping in the street at the end of my neighbors' driveway. Strange, since it is in the street and it is dark out, but true. I guess that there is not a good place inside for him to get his jump roping done for the day.
Are there any weird things you have seen in your neighborhood over holiday weekends?
Kate's Busy Grandpa
Thursday, April 1, 2010
It's fire season!
Kate's Grandpa has been all over the news since yesterday, check it out!
(I promise that this isn't an April fool's joke!)
Kate's Grandpa has been all over the news since yesterday, check it out!
(I promise that this isn't an April fool's joke!)
Challenging Myself
Monday, March 29, 2010
I have decided to challenge myself. No, not to work out, climb a mountain, or learn something new.
I am challenging myself to ride the bus to work every day for a week.
This is something that I did for a long time when I first started working downtown. Unfortunately when I got pregnant, the motion and smells did not quite do it for me.
So I started driving to work, and got addicted to it.
Every time I drive to work this is how much it costs me:
Mileage: 50 miles round trip. My car gets about 16.5 miles to the gallon (economical I know). A gallon of gas right now is about $3.70. That comes to a daily expense of about $11.21.
Parking: I usually park underground in the winter and have begun parking in an above the ground structure now that it is warmer. The daily rate for parking is $7.25.
My total daily expense, not including wear and tear on the car, is $18.46. This would bring my weekly expense to $92.30 and my monthly expense to around $369.20.
Scary huh? When I look at it from that angle it makes me very happy that I rode the bus this morning. Just for kicks I will figure out how much the bus costs me to commute each day.
Monthly bus pass: $75.00 pre-tax, which I think makes it about $52.50 post-tax.
Mileage to park and ride: 22 miles round trip. Daily gas expense $4.93.
The total monthly expense for commuting via the bus is $151.11.
Really there is no question which of these I should be doing. So I challenge myself to start riding the bus again like I did before, EVERY DAY.
I will let you know how it goes. Reading while riding it to work today was actually pretty nice!
I am challenging myself to ride the bus to work every day for a week.
This is something that I did for a long time when I first started working downtown. Unfortunately when I got pregnant, the motion and smells did not quite do it for me.
So I started driving to work, and got addicted to it.
Every time I drive to work this is how much it costs me:
Mileage: 50 miles round trip. My car gets about 16.5 miles to the gallon (economical I know). A gallon of gas right now is about $3.70. That comes to a daily expense of about $11.21.
Parking: I usually park underground in the winter and have begun parking in an above the ground structure now that it is warmer. The daily rate for parking is $7.25.
My total daily expense, not including wear and tear on the car, is $18.46. This would bring my weekly expense to $92.30 and my monthly expense to around $369.20.
Scary huh? When I look at it from that angle it makes me very happy that I rode the bus this morning. Just for kicks I will figure out how much the bus costs me to commute each day.
Monthly bus pass: $75.00 pre-tax, which I think makes it about $52.50 post-tax.
Mileage to park and ride: 22 miles round trip. Daily gas expense $4.93.
The total monthly expense for commuting via the bus is $151.11.
Really there is no question which of these I should be doing. So I challenge myself to start riding the bus again like I did before, EVERY DAY.
I will let you know how it goes. Reading while riding it to work today was actually pretty nice!
Funny Beagles
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Who knew that Nora and Puller were so funny?
Is it just me or is her laugh contagious?!?
Calmness
Friday, March 19, 2010
Throughout my pregnancy, and even the three days at the hospital before Kate made her first appearance, while still in the womb Kate was a very calm baby.
Because of preeclampsia I was going into the doctor three times a week at the end, and having two ultrasounds a week. She was usually just hanging out in there, probably snoozing, with her hands up by her face (she still sleeps like this).
Come to think of it the only time she was really super active in there was at the 12 week ultrasound after I had eaten a Snickers bar for breakfast and at the Bruce Springsteen concert around 26 weeks.
I should have known that she would be a calm baby after pregnancy as well! How lucky did we get?!?
Because of preeclampsia I was going into the doctor three times a week at the end, and having two ultrasounds a week. She was usually just hanging out in there, probably snoozing, with her hands up by her face (she still sleeps like this).
Come to think of it the only time she was really super active in there was at the 12 week ultrasound after I had eaten a Snickers bar for breakfast and at the Bruce Springsteen concert around 26 weeks.
I should have known that she would be a calm baby after pregnancy as well! How lucky did we get?!?
Lip Hickey
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Kate, who I swear has been frantically working on growing in some teeth, has begun sucking her bottom lip into her mouth like mad.
This started yesterday while at daycare, and has now resulted in a hickey on her lower lip!
Ha ha ha ha ha.
When she gives us a chance to look at it I can't help but laugh, which of course makes her think she is funny, so then she laughs (it is a trait passed down through my family, we all laugh at our own jokes).
What a funny girl, now if I could only figure out how to get a good photo of it to use as blackmail someday...
This started yesterday while at daycare, and has now resulted in a hickey on her lower lip!
Ha ha ha ha ha.
When she gives us a chance to look at it I can't help but laugh, which of course makes her think she is funny, so then she laughs (it is a trait passed down through my family, we all laugh at our own jokes).
What a funny girl, now if I could only figure out how to get a good photo of it to use as blackmail someday...
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