My Baby is Sucking up All of my Internet Time (new look and update)

I really am going to try and start posting on this blog again.  I haven’t abandon it.  It’s just that Kenley (my lovely daughter) has been keeping me crazy busy.  Since her birth, I have finished my summer quarter teaching (though I still have my online classes) and I am home.

That’s right!  I’m being Mr. Mom.  My goal was to start posting everyday of the break (which really started yesterday since I had finals week and grading).

Yesterday, as some of my Twitter readers know, Gizmo (our once fuzzy cat), Kenley, and I headed over to the West side (Edmonds, WA) so that the boys could get hair cuts.  Gizmo gets his hair cut at the amazing City Kitty.  In Illinois, Gizmo would get so crazy that the cat groomers would want to put him to sleep just so they wouldn’t have to deal with him.  Adrianne is so good with him and actually thinks he is a really sweet cat (which is complete news to us.  He is usually a stinker).

Kenley was wonderful.  After we dropped Gizmo off, we went down to the Edmonds Waterfront.  I fed her lunch looking out over the sound.  I can’t wait to take her down there when she’s old enough to play in the sand and water.  As I said in my Twitter, I was 23 when I first saw the ocean (a story I should relate sometime), so I was pretty happy to have her there and so thankful that we live in this beautiful place.  I miss my friends and family from IL, but I will never miss IL.  I know Kenley wont remember our time at the beach, but I will.

Yesterday was also Shannon and my two-year anniversary.  Who would have thought that our whirlwind romance and marriage would take us all the places we’ve been.  I am so happy to have such a strong and amazing (not to mention – drop dead gorgeous) woman with me.  I am truly blessed.  We’re celebrating our anniversary tomorrow, so I will have more to update about later.

Meet – Kenley Hope Weiss

Here she is in all her cuteness.  If she looks a little grumpy, it is only because people wouldn’t stop prodding her!

Kenley is 7.5 pounds and 19 inches long.  She has strawberry blond hair!

It was quite an ordeal, which I will post about later, but we have her, and both mommy and baby are doing well.

Daddy, on the other hand, is a little shakey.  I have changed every diaper but one (I have always been a strong diaper changing man – Hunt boar with a knife and change diapers – two things that show your worth as a man!)

More updates to come!

Due Date Weeding

It’s the baby’s due date, but she doesn’t seem to care that much.  She likes it right where she is.  We went for a check up yesterday.  Everything was wonderful.

Last week our visit ended up taking us upstairs for a Non-Stress Test.  Baby Weiss had a bit of an eratic heartbeat, but we quickly found that she was just overly excited to have people fussing over her.

As soon as we hooked up to the machine, she jumped multiple times and though we stayed hooked up for 20 minutes, she had met her quota in 4.

Here’s a map of her heartbeat!

Today I have been out weeding the front yard.  We were told a few weeks ago (sorry for the lack of posts) that we have to move by the first of August.  Yep, smack dab in the middle of our baby coming.  We have already found a few places that we like, but we haven’t settled on one yet.

I should be posting more when work shifts in a few weeks.

Come on, Baby!!  Let’s go!!

Now Dig It!

more about "Now Dig It!", posted with vodpod

My Secret Sin

more about "My Secret Sin", posted with vodpod

Lady Fight #1 Out Today!

Lady Fight #1 is out today.  Lady Fight has a story has been put together by the amazing Ben Ferrari and features my comic Shots Fired.

Pick is up HERE.

Estate Sale – EEEWWW!!

After the book sale we felt so adventurous we decided to hit some garage sales on the way home.

Now, I have a long love of garage sales, and, though Shannon has a less enjoyable history, I won her over back in Illinois to the ways of the treasure hunter.

However, we haven’t really had any luck since moving out here.  There are constant garage sales going on all around us, but we have been so busy that we miss them.  The ones near our house that we have ventured out to have been full of $30 coffee tables that look like someone soaked them them in water and used it as an ashtray or $7 baby clothes that come pre-soiled.

Garage sale people (come near the screen, please, I have some sage advice for you).  If you were stupid enough to buy the $50 baby outfit, from Ralph or Tommy or whoever, that your baby crapped in once and then outgrew, that is your idiot move.  If you put it in a garage sale, it should be 50 cents to a $1.  (okay, you can back off now).

So, I saw a sign for an Estate sale on the way home and quickly turned off in the residential hell of Lake City. We drove by the place a few times.  There were people standing out front, but the house looked like a double-wide from some slasher movie.  You know, the one where the family has a kid who like to bite the necks off chickens and is ready to move up to teenagers.

Finally, we decided to move in.  Estate sales freak me out from the get-go.  You’re walking around someone’s house and there is stuff sitting and hanging everywhere.  Price tags on everything.  We walked through the front door and I really did feel like I was in the house of Trailer Face (slasher film pending).  The place was dimly lit as we walked into the kitchen/dining room.  There was piles of stuff stacked all around with just enough room to walk through.  People were walking around picking through stuff with two fingers.

Nobody was buying anything.  They were too amazed that anyone would think this stuff could be sold.  Sitting among the $1 nick knacks was a gaudy tea set with a $600 price tag.  I looked up at a shelf on the wall to see a ceramic cat with the body and breasts of a woman.  She was standing in a slinky evening dress.  I was tempted, but I decided my collection of big breasted cat people was already complete enough.

By the time I moved to the front-room, Shannon was more then ready to go.  We got out of there quickly before any deformed kids to come up from the floor and pull us down.

Book Sale – YAY!!!

Yesterday, in one of my classes, a student asked if I was going to the Seattle Library Book Sale.

I quickly replied, “Now I am!  Tell me of this… book sale.”

I had a picture in my head of the book sales I would go to at the Carbondale Public Library.  The sales where I found the coveted Beast Master and The Last Starfighter soundtracks.

I told Shannon about it when I go home and of course, being the book geeks that we are, we headed over there this morning.

It was awesome!  The Carbondale sale would have fit in one corner of the huge hanger that this thing took place in.  I wish I would have written down some authors that I have been looking for, but I found a few gems.  Three different Lansdale novels, including the best book I read last year – Sunsets and Sawdust.

Shannon has just started Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child’s Pendegast novels, so we picked up a few of those.

There was no Lit.crit. section and the American History section was a joke.  They had a huge Classic Lit. area that was stocked with… Atwood and Wolfe.  Whatever!  It was a joke, but the sale was great overall.

There were tons of people there.  Most of them smelled bad and all of them had bags and boxes of books.  I heard that Washington reads more books than the rest of the states combined and this sale made me almost believe it.

We left with 23 books for 23 bucks.

Half Price Books is having a huge warehouse sale next weekend and then we have a huge baby sale the weekend after that.

There’s a good chance that will have this baby on a warehouse floor.

New Comic Cover (Lady Fight: First Strike available soon)

My classic comic Shots Fired: Drunk and Disorderly is going to be in the upcoming anthology Lady Fight: First Strike. Here’s the awesome cover by Cedric Nocon.  My Shots Fired character, Bethany is the cop in the bottom right hand corner.

Birthing Class – We Didn’t Make It

I’m sorry to say that we didn’t make it tp our birthing class tonight.  Shannon had to go into work very early today and it was my first full day at both colleges, so we were dead by the time we both made it home and settled in.

Tonight was focused on medication and we really feel that we have a pretty strong understanding from our own research.  We are also going to work hard to have a natural birth without any meds, so we felt that tonight would be better spent catching up on some rest.

I can give you a quick assumption of how the class went though.

Mystic (our teacher) – If you take any meds during your labor you’re gonna poop!

Class – Where will the doctor be during this?

Mystic – They will clean it up quick.

Class – Sign us up!