5.31.2010

Good things for May

1 - We helped serve the community by driving around delivering supplies, lunches, and baby smiles to teams that were doing actual work.
2 - Our server at Ruby Tuesday gave us extra chocolate chip cookies.
3 - I think I can handle this chiropractor thing.
4 - Trip to Christiansburg to see Grandma Great (and Jonah met some other relatives, too).
5 - We both had chiropractor appointments, and Jonah came with us, and he pooped in the waiting room and was smelly and probably very hungry because he had spit up his breakfast before we left home, but he was kind enough not to scream in the office.
6 - Six years after receiving my engineering degree, I bought an engineering scale and learned to use it.
7 - We had some much-needed time at home to catch our breath.
8 - Off-roading trip with Bartley boys involved no injuries or major mechanical failures, although the best spots were closed (silly Harrisonburg, wanting clean water).
9 - Mother-in-law got the surprise of a lifetime with a new Mustang for Mother's Day (not from me).
10 - Freebies at work: Clif bar and ginger ale for a meeting, cinnamony bagel to celebrate a cancer-surviving co-worker's return after chemo.
11 - Finally spent some time with Jonah after spending too much time working on a newsletter the last few days.
12 - Belmont BBQ for lunch.
13 - Jonah pulled the handle on his rocker chair by himself for the first time, activating the "If you're happy and you know it" melody.
14 - I learned that the boy would giggle if I blew in his face or on his belly.
15 - The weather cooperated, and so did Jonah's feeding schedule, for our trip to Fredericksburg to see my parents and some other folks.
16 - Had fun at the Chestnut Grove Baptist Church Follies, even though we're too poor to win any of their auction items.
17 - Played with 2-year-old twins at work, then saw a former co-worker of Amanda's at a meeting.
18 - Went home for lunch and caught Jonah in a good mood. He cracked up with laughter at my silly song/sound effects/motions.
19 - Found out that my job is funded for a third year! Yay employment, even if it's only one grant year at a time! Also, Ride of Silence was mellow and a good time to reflect.
20 - I cannot remember exactly what happened that was good, although there was probably something. Thursdays tend to be like this.
21 - Rode bikes around the parking lot with my boss and a co-worker for a few minutes during work to celebrate Bike to Work Day. And then tried out the co-worker's recumbent trike.
22 - Learned to wrap Hardee's hamburgers at the Relay for Life (and stood under the tent while it stormed).
23 - Drove the graduation golf cart step-saver shuttle thing. The weather held steady enough to be enjoyable, with the thunderstorms waiting until I got home.
24 - We pushed the stroller to Belmont BBQ for dinner, and I had a rib sandwich, and it was delicious, and Jonah slept.
25 - At work, I was treated to a great video of a lawn mower driving into a bus earlier in the day and one of our finest employees uttering a poetic exclamation.
26 - Amanda brought Jonah to have dinner with me so I wouldn't have to bike home and back out again.
27 - After stressing out about the city bus running late, it got me to my appointment right on time.
28 - Jonah made the ladies at work swoon when he dropped by at lunch. Also, I got a second monitor on my desk and oriented it vertically. Exciting.
29 - Todd and Amy stopped by and Todd asked where the May list of good things was, so I am being sure to mention Todd and Amy here. Todd and Amy. And we went to... Belmont BBQ! Three times in one month! New record.
30 - We attended our first Jewish wedding. We were somewhat nervous about leaving Jonah with my parents, and he gave them some challenges but survived.
31 - Jonah met even more people at a festive Memorial Day gathering, to make May his most meeting-est month yet!

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5.01.2010

Good things for April

1 - I was already planning on going home for lunch, and then I did, and then my mom stopped by on her way home from visiting relatives.
2 - Fresh sausage for dinner. (seriously, the pig was killed earlier in the week, and the sausage was never frozen)
3 - The three of us went to the farmer's market, and the weather was perfect for it.
4 - Easter in Earlysville. Too much food. Jonah met his great-grandmother.
5 - I amused my co-workers with the mechanical bunny my parents gave Jonah for Easter.
6 - Chocolate frosted donut at a meeting far away, then lunch with a friend far away as well.
7 - Realized how totally unaffected I have been this allergy season. Thank you, Lord, for generic Flonase.
8 - Drove back from a meeting in Louisa through the countryside with the windows down.
9 - Visit from the Lesters!
10 - Unexpected visit from family, some of whom were meeting Jonah for the first time.
11 - Went for a 3-mile walk by the river! Beautiful weather, shade, sun, trees, flowers, water, and a midway milkshake from Hardee's. And no bee stings, despite numerous bees.
12 - Left work early to drive a bus in my new bus shirt with a name patch.
13 - Our first date after Jonah (Outback). Good steak. Happened to go home at the right time to catch the Dogwood Festival fireworks from the K-Mart parking lot.
14 - As I was getting on my bike to ride home for lunch, the Chinese-food delivery guy was getting in his car, and he said to me with a big smile and a thick Chinese accent, "You don't need no gasoline!"
15 - National High Five Day. Many high-fives given at work.
16 - Stayed home with Jonah in the morning, and there were no problems.
17 - My parents came, and the five of us toured the lovely Morven estate.
18 - Jonah was very cooperative during a long afternoon of garden tours. Probably because he got to meet Pinky beforehand.
19 - Jonah's first laugh! Caught on video, since I wasn't there! Also, we went downtown for dinner, and the place we tried to go was closed, but that was OK, because we got to walk down the Mall and I had fried green tomatoes on a salad.
20 - Jonah slept through the night.
21 - He did it twice in a row. This is pretty cool. Also, ice milk at the dining hall, for old times' sake.
22 - No more sleeping through the night, but he laughed while looking at me for the first time.
23 - Bread from a local bakery.
24 - Bought a coffee table to complete our living room with adult furniture.
25 - Ginny's request for breakfast from Bodo's benefited everyone involved.
26 - After having some for dinner, we threw away the last of the turkey from Thanksgiving 2008.
27 - I drove buses in circles at work and measured the circles using chalk.
28 - New coffee table arrived!
29 - Jonah stayed awake for our entire walk around the block.
30 - I took the afternoon off to drive a bus, and Amanda and Jonah came to ride it!

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