Hello World, I'm Zoe!
Posted by Jess in
Zoë
It's a Girl!
Welcome to life, Zoë Kendall Stratton. We love you so much already.
Zoë was born on Friday, August 24, 2007 at 4:45 AM at the Westerly Hospital in Rhode Island. At birth, she was 7 pounds, 4 ounces, and 19" long, and came out eyes wide open with a full head of hair.
We're all doing great! We got home today, and enjoyed watching Reboot meet her.
It will be a fun journey getting to know each other. I've been getting to know her for the past nine months, she's real now. We walked into the hospital with just the two of us and a duffel bag, and walked out as a family.
Click here for some more pictures are on Flickr, Zoë already has her own album!
Sadly the hospital had no Internet access, and I was sort of limited to what I could do on my Treo. Of course my friend today mentioned that I probably could have hooked it up to my laptop via Bluetooth/EDVO. Who knew?
No baby yet - sending out the eviction notice!
Posted by Jess in
Zoë
Found on the Internet:
Dear Baby:
Please note that today is (8/17/2007), which, as you have been orally reminded for several weeks now, is the "Due Date" referenced in the lease that you agreed to approximately nine months ago, and thus the date by which you are supposed to vacate your current premises.
Following a routine inspection of the property on Friday, I have been advised that you have not yet begun to make any preparations towards moving, other then possibly removing a few items from the walls. I am also advised that you may have changed the locks, as the inspector was unable to obtain access to the property. Please note that, if your departure continues at this pace, you will be in violation of the lease, which was entered into in good faith, with the expectation that you would honor its terms. Accordingly, I have no choice but to advise you that if you do not voluntarily remove yourself from the premises within the next 48 hours, I will have no choice but to commence formal eviction proceedings, and I have already put the proper authorities on notice. As you have been repeatedly advised, your new accommodations are in fact ready and awaiting your arrival, so your cooperation in voluntarily moving out of the current premises, avoiding the time and inconvenience of more formal, compelled proceedings, would be much appreciated. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
The Landlord (a/k/a "Mommy")
Aside from waiting till this kid shows up so I can finally meet him/her, I'm just trying to get last minute things done (and waiting for my new server to come in so I can get up and running with ND8!). He/she is definitely running out of room and not comfortable anymore (which makes two of us). Matt and I watch in amazement as my stomach stretches and slides. The best analogy I heard was from my doctor, who said that it looked like I had a bag of snakes in my stomach! I am trying to capture it on my phone's video camera.
It's quite funny, Matt and I spend lots of time during the day fielding calls and instant messages: "No, no baby yet!"
Yesterday, I got a text message from Matt. "Have we had the baby yet?"
Sleeping has not been easy the past few weeks, and we laugh with the neighbors when they see a light turn on during the wee hours of the night, or early in the morning. It's almost like the walkie-talkie turns on,
*static* "We have activity at the Strattons... I repeat, we have activity at the Strattons."
There's a reason I haven't posted any updated belly pics, the summer finally caught up with me. I have about 55 pounds to lose before Lotusphere. What can I say? When her Royal Highness the Dairy Queen requests a private audience, you don't say no!
Real Men Love the Fifth Element
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Geek Humor
I found this article via Fark the other day. I think my circle of friends have found a kindred spirit in this author!
Real Men Love the Fifth Element
The entire article is a compendium of all the reasons why this is one of my favorite movies. And I knew I wasn't alone when I was at my friends house (that I didn't know that well) and she announced, "Cheeken GOOD!"
It was a friendship meant to be.
What really hit me about this article was the fact that he stumbled on something that I thought only Matt and I had ever noticed (okay, it was Matt...). There's a scene in which the Priest knocks out Korben (Bruce Willis) in his own home. Matt had noticed the funny look on Bruce's face, and we had a good laugh at the time rewinding it over and over in slow motion. Apparently, this guy noticed it too, and not only does he show you a slow motion video of it there, but he also did the rewind/watch again. I nearly fell off my chair laughing when I read that he did this!
From the loud announcement of "HELM 108!" to the President saying, "Get-out-of-there! I don’ wan’ a issiden!", this article covers most, if not all of the favorite quotes and reasons we love this movie.
Ask me to do my impression of Korben's mother the next time you see me. "Oh Korwben, I never should have pushed you out!"
