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Jennifer — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 03:09:05 +0000

What’s up doc?

Jennifer — Fri, 27 May 2011 21:20:38 +0000

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Summer is almost gone?

Jennifer — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:47:17 +0000

Took this photo a few weeks ago at the annual Hot Air Balloon festival they have here. For some reason, the weekend they schedule this event has consistently seen bad weather – either high winds, rain, lightning. And it’s the one week of the summer that’s consistently bad like that. Makes me wonder why they don’t move the date. You’d think they’d see the pattern there…?

I can’t believe summer is coming to an end. Rachel starts school next week. I had wanted to go camping this summer, and make a small trip up to visit Portland, OR to see if we maybe want to move there. Good or bad, Sam was supposed to be laid off at the end of July and they ended up extending him 2 more months. So the time off we thought we’d have during the summer disappeared. Don’t get me wrong, health coverage and salary are good things – so I’m not complaining. I just wish the summer could extend to when he WILL be officially laid off so we could try to make lemonade out of the lemons we’ll be getting.

WordCamp is just 11 days away (but who’s counting). I still feel good about my presentation, but I am nervous. I don’t know the audience so I have no idea if I’m going to be talking over everyone’s heads, or going over the obvious. (or both) Also, Matt Mullenweg will be there. I’m really psyched about that. I feel like some things are coming full circle – A few years ago, Matt asked me to speak at a panel at SXSW and I turned it down. I feel kind of stupid having done that, but at the time, I was working for a company (not for myself, might have been more inclined to do it otherwise), as well, it meant having to travel there by plane and speak in front of people (obviously) – my two worst phobias: flying and public speaking – all rolled up into one. Anyway, I’m glad I was able to get over at least one of those fears in order to take this on.

life continues

Jennifer — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:57:25 +0000

That is my poor dog. He’s been on Prednazone for a number of weeks and while he needs to be on it to keep him stabilized (we already tried reducing the amount he takes with bad results) the drug itself is causing all kinds of problems. The more annoying of which is it makes him pee. Endlessly. It’s like he manufactures pee from the air he breathes. I couldn’t keep up with all the accidents and even though he looks ridiculous, I broke down and made him a “doggie diaper”. Basically it’s just band that goes around his belly and I line it with an incontinence pad. Does the job. And this way he can still walk freely around the house.

In other news, I haven’t mentioned it on this blog – but I’m speaking at WordCamp Utah. I’m doing a presentation on using WordPress as a CMS. I finally finished making up all my slides and know what I’m going to say and I think it’s going to come out really well – so long as I stop saying “um” in between every other word. I’ve been doing a few practice sessions (including taping a few so I can see how I sound) and that’s the biggest thing I need to fix. I’m thinking shock therapy. I’ll rig it so it zaps me every time I say “um”. Eventually it should work, right?

I’m almost finished reading Ender’s Game and when I do, I’ll write up a review. I had been so proud of myself for how quickly I was able to read through “The Help” – (it only took me about a week – maybe two – that is definitely a record for me – especially for a book that size!) But that was during my vacation. LOL! Definitely hard to keep up that same pace while “normal life” is going on.

Mountain Bluebell

Jennifer — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 03:50:16 +0000

While I did use the ShakeItPhoto app for it’s filter – the picture wasn’t taken on the iPhone. Took this photo on our hike today to Donut Falls. I thought it was so funny how the bees go completely inside the bluebell, wiggle around in there and then back themselves out. It was pretty funny to watch.

When I wanted to write this post, I was 99.9% certain this flower was a Mountain Bluebell, but I wanted to make sure I was right. I found this other website with pictures of tons of wildflowers here in Utah: Western Wildflowers (Most of them are named on there). Very cool website.

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Morning Commute

Jennifer — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:12:31 +0000

Alternate titles:

A Snail and a Centipede Walk Into a Bar…

Small Sized Traffic

Even though I took the picture, I actually can’t stand snails. But I thought it was funny that for several days in a row, I swear I saw the same snail making the same trek across the sidewalk in the morning. Like he was going in to work or something.

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Dog Appreciation

Jennifer — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:18:35 +0000

Still just really happy I still have my doggie. (As you can tell by his regular position in photos, he’s kind of a couch-potato type dog. LOL! We lovingly call him a cat-dog – likes to sit on your lap, etc.)

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Climbing Camp

Jennifer — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:08:25 +0000

The last two weeks, Rachel has been going to a “Climbing Camp” that Momentum offers. (They’re an “Indoor Rock Climbing Gym” here in Utah) If you live near by and are looking for a cool camp for your kids, definitely check them out. Rachel loved it. She did it last year too, and I can’t believe how quickly she scales those walls now! She’s like Spiderman. LOL! They run weekly and on the last day – they have a pizza party and a “reptile show”. When I went a little early to pick her up on Friday, I got to see one of the huge snakes they regularly bring to this show. HUGE. Amazing to look at… from a few feet away.

As for an update on our dog: He’s still at the vet/hospital. Yesterday morning I thought he had given up – but we started a new treatment last night, and it’s given me a little hope. We’ll find out for sure tonight whether this will hold him for a while. He’s an old dog, so we’re on borrowed time – but I would really love to have a few more months with him.

The Dog

Jennifer — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:31:34 +0000

This is our dog, Charlie. He’s a 12-year old Cairn Terrier. We’ve been visiting the vet quite a bit recently because he’s been extremely sick. He’s hardly eaten at all in the last two weeks, despite all the medications the vet has given us. I finally caved in and agreed to an ultrasound which of course didn’t produce any significant results, except to tell us his stomach is filled with fluid. With everything else that has been going on with him, they think this means it’s an ulcer – which they say they can treat with medications and make him almost as good as new. He’s spending the night at the vets, hooked up to IVs of fluid and other medications. He’s the smartest dog I’ve ever known. I’m really hoping this helps him. It’s heartbreaking to see him suffer like this.

Climbing Camp

Flower 2

Jennifer — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:19:08 +0000

This is the last of the shots I had stored up from our vacation. My back was doing a bit better today, but then I was cleaning something on the floor and it got tweaked again. With the exception of one day, I have been posting a picture every day – but not sure I’ll be able to keep up now. We’ll see.