Archive for April, 2010

Chugging Along

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

During my lunch break today at the clubhouse, I saw two commercials that I greatly enjoyed.  Instead of describing them, I thought I would just post their video.

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The first is from Ally Bank:

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The next commercial is selling the Perfect Fit button.  This is definitely the second strategy for selling in our “growing” world.  The other strategy of course is the weight loss commercials. The first 30 seconds of this ad is all you really need to see!

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Crunch Time Part 2

Sunday, April 11th, 2010

Right now I am finishing up my work for ACT.  Then I have less than a day until a draft of my dissertation is supposed to be in.  It is definitely crunch time…

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I was supposed to put up pictures several days ago, but never got around to it.  Here are the pictures, finally…

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Start of the Weekend

Friday, April 9th, 2010

Jess, Liam, and I went to the chiropractor today.  Jess and I needed an adjustment from our long drive.  I am working from home today and Jess is doing some detail cleaning on the house.  Liam is enjoying his exersaucer – I can hear from the office room.  The dissertation is coming along.  On Monday I have to turn in a draft to my adviser.  It will be one of God’s many blessings if I can finish the draft by Monday.  There always seems to be so much work left.  I noticed I haven’t put any pictures up on the blog for a while, so hopefully I can do that sometime today too.

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I have been working this past week talking to my Uncle David who is re-designing my personal website.  I am so excited!

Crunch Time Part 1

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

Well today is definitely a crunch time.  I have lots of grading to finish up by tomorrow, then a conference paper to submit to two conferences, work for the ACT, and more dissertation writing.

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On a much happier note, Liam started on lima beans yesterday.  And as my incredibly clever wife pointed out on Facebook, lima is an anagram of Liam.  Also, from my viewing of his feedings, Liam seems to like the lima bean.

Liam’s Adventures in March/April

Monday, April 5th, 2010

Jessica just relayed to me this morning that our baby boy is army crawling. Every day he gets closer and closer and this morning he’s got the arm over arm technique down. For the last 6 days he’s been waking up at 12:30am, 2:30am, and 5:30am. He drinks a whole bottle and then goes right back to sleep. Last night, I believe he skipped his 2:30am feeding. Hopefully, he starts sleeping longer at nights. The good news is that over the last 6 days he starts his sleep at 8:15pm! He’s up for the day now at 7:15am.
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His first tooth broke through the surface on March 19th. His second tooth is working its way through the gums right beside the first tooth.
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About 3 or 4 days ago we started him on pears. In March, the new foods were broccoli and then later green beans. It’s pretty apparent that carrots and green beans are two of his least favorite foods.
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The other day Liam and Westie were playing with each other. In fact, the last couple of days they have been playing. Liam will lift up off his stomach, then Westie thinks it’s time to play. Westie will reach out her paw and Liam will reach out his hand. Then Westie barks and Liam laughs. Westie will bark louder and Liam will laugh harder. It’s incredibly fun to watch!