I am a delinquent blogger. you must forgive me.

holly said the best way to get blogging again is to just jump back on the horse. so here's my proverbial jump (stolen from her blog) :: A photo- journal/journey to my inner-most self. I love photo mosaics & Flickr & answering personal questions, so here it goes...



Here's how you do it:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker.

The Questions:
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One Word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name. (or if you're not a member of Flickr, do your blog name or email name or something like that)

here are the links to the flickr pages of the pictures in my mosaic

1. LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION!, 2. ah, se a magali visse essa foto..., 3. Bald Eagle, 4. Wasn't There Supposed To Be Another One?, 5. Reese Witherspoon 2, 6. Rootbeer Float, 7. Sunset over River Seine, 8. 20080716 52 Cremé Brulle, 9. Day 106 - I am a librarian, 10. Family Portrait, 11. New Mom and Baby - Quilled People, 12. Are we negotiating? Always.

An Unavoidable Update

We are officially 3 days overdue people! Baby girl Emelyne will come at her own sweet time. You should know that I have a habit of speaking for her as if I can hear all her thoughts. At the beginning of the pregnancy I would tell B that I didn't know what she was saying because she only spoke Japanese - well, now she's fluent in English a bit sassy and wiser than her months. She says things like "dad, this is just the beginning of you needing to exercise more patience than me" and "I really need apple fritters and organic milk" (she was very into watermelon this summer). My mom came into town a week ago to prepare for Emmie's arrival. We've been having fun doing crafts, going shopping, watching crime scene dramas, and today we're celebrating Mom's birthday by seeing a movie-musical, eating donuts (emelyne....) and taking a long-hopefully-labor-inducing walk. We're hoping that Em comes today - but she may come tomorrow or the next day. The doctors assure me that she will come sometime before the beginning of next week - either of her own will of the will of a petocin drip (those of you taken to praying can pray for a more natural birth situation in the next 6 days).


In other newsworthy news an official announcement - We're coming back to California in Summer '09. That's right friends - we're comin' home! B accepted a job from Cali-based trial law firm Quinn Emanuel. We're pretty stoked, though we'll miss New England and our dear dear friends here.

In preparation for our move I'm doing lots of research on real estate websites like Zillow & Redfin (beware - these sites are major time vacuums). We plan to live somewhere in the East Bay (see map below - Contra Costa County is most likely).



When baby comes we promise more updates and of course pictures!

Duely yours,
erin

Now Starts the Craft of the Father

I have written that over the last nine months many of my besties have had babies - some firsts and some seconds. But, what about the fathers? Where is their song? Where is their moment? Here is a little montage dedicated to my best friends' husbands & fathers (who luckily, are also some of my bff's too).

most recent addition, my cousin Brady Anderson with second-time daddy Matt
07.28.08

Niece Joanna Shields with first-time grandpa Glenn (B's dad)
-- couldn't get a pic of Jim with Joanna... but, here's his blog --
birthdate 12.14.05 adopted 06.04.08

Nine-month-old Isabella "Bella" Kristian with 2nd time daddio Jeff
11.06.07

Beautiful 10 week-old Hannah Joy with first-time dad Matt
05.15.08

Bjorned little Adeline Rose with brand-new daddy Cameron at Holly's Wedding
05.23.08
(b's birthday too!!)

So... Yeah Dads!!! I will post more from the trip to California soon. Plus, get psyched for some good ones from our upcoming vacation ... back to Northern California ... leaving on Friday.

paternally yours,
erin

Bonus :: here's 2 new bump pictures:

24 weeks with blousey shirt

27 weeks
self portrait

what i have to show for all this time

after 3 weeks in california i was sadly disappointed with ZERO celeb-spotting occurances. the shame - as i am pretty good at this form of stalking. well, i am in the sacramento airport and finally i've found one - a good one. she's small, she's blonde, she's one of b's favorite singers:

Carrie Underwood




she's on my flight to boston through dallas - doubt she's in coach like me.


flight-boundly yours,
erin

I'm so over america

For the last three years I have been a loyal watcher and supporter of the fox phenomenon 'so you think you can dance' - going around thinking it was a legitimate finder & keeper of dance talent - and, more significantly, I have for many years been under the impression that the democratic process works - even going so far as to send in absentee ballots. FALSE ONE, YOU HAVE DECEIVED ME! POWER TO THE PEOPLE - HA! AMERICA'S FAVORITE DANCER - HA! ALL DIRTY ROTTEN LIES! Friends, this week's results show on sytycd has disillusioned me. I walk in a fog of pain and fear. America cannot be trusted! I won't bore you all with the gritty details and minutia of my feelings tonight, but know that I am upset beyond comprehension. Necessary facts are these: this week's decision on who was to leave the show was left in the hands of the watching American public, and America went down; plummeting to the ground in a fury of flaming ignorance & fascism. Moral of the story: wisdom cannot be left of the masses - vote independent.

2 of my favorite moments from 2 of my favorite dancers on the show.
America should be ashamed.

R.I.P.
spoiler alert

disenchantedly yours,
erin