05
Aug 2010
For some reason, Holly thought that it would be a good idea to teach Alex how to play chess. Apparently she taught him too well because he ended up winning. Not bad for a kid of six.
I was at work at the time so I wasn’t able to see Holly and Alex play their game of chess, but I imagine that the conversation that took place as he was winning went something like this:
Holly: You can move that piece there or that one there.
Alex: (moves piece)
Holly: Now you can either go there or there with that piece or this one here can go there.
Alex: (moves piece)
Holly: Oh… It looks like you just beat me.
Alex: (maniacal laughter worthy of a super villain)
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29
Jul 2010
I have always enjoyed doing puzzles. This is something that has been passed on to Hannah who will sit down at a puzzle, it doesn’t matter the level of difficulty, and start trying to put it together. In fact, Hannah will choose to do a puzzle over playing video games or just about anything else that her brother and sister want to do with her.
Sometime within the last year or so, Holly has also decided that puzzles are fun. I’m not sure what brought about this change, but she now loves to do puzzles. It used to be that I would suggest a 1000 piece puzzle with a really cool picture and Holly would complain that it had too many pieces and that puzzles were dumb. Now though, she actively seeks these large puzzles and looks forward to doing them. She has even gone so far as to hitting up garage sales and thrift stores looking for them at discount prices. Since I’m always up for a good puzzle, I have no complaints about this since people usually do a puzzle once then either get rid of it or leave it on a shelf to collect dust. Almost new puzzle for 50¢? What’s not to like?
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01
Mar 2010
As many of you now know, we had a baby a few months ago. Yeah, I know that I’m late but better late than never, right? While I actually Tweeted our time at the hospital, I know that many of our readers don’t follow me on Twitter. Consequently, they may not be familiar with the events surrounding Lincoln’s birth.
Because I have a serious lack of time, and because I’ve also typed this all out once, here is a Twitteriffic time line of Lincoln’s birth:
- At hospital. It looks like there may be a new Zohner tonight. 10:36 PM Dec 21st, 2009
- Waiting for the doctor to come and let us know if Holly gets to stay and have baby or if we have to try again another day. 11:48 PM Dec 21st, 2009
- Contractions are 3-4 minutes apart. I hope they don’t send us home. 11:49 PM Dec 21st, 2009
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28
Feb 2010
I know that I’m about a week late in posting this, but I’m later than that in posting other stuff so I don’t feel too bad. A year ago I promised that I’d post something about the Billy Joel/Elton John Face to Face concert. After nearly a year of waiting for the concert to actually happen, the night finally arrived. (In case you weren’t aware, it was originally scheduled for November but was rescheduled because Elton John had swine flu and Billy Joel was suffering from exhaustion.)
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Category: Holly, Jeremiah, Music
Tags: alcoholic, Billy Joel, concert, dancing, Elton John, Face to Face, flu, Music, Salt Lake City, swine
27
Sep 2009
When we found out that I would be getting laid off from Centercode, Holly was actually somewhat excited because it meant that I would have time to get things done around the house. In addition to finishing organizing the garage and shed, Holly had plans for painting and organizing Alex’s bedroom and getting all of the baby stuff set up in there.
I decided to start with the garage since it had been on my list of stuff to do for the longest amount of time. I knew that it was in bad shape but I had no idea that it would take me a week to get looking how I envisioned. I started by moving everything in the garage that belonged in the shed out. This meant that in addition to organizing the garage, I had to also organize the mostly empty shed. This wasn’t too big of a deal but it did take some time.
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Category: Holly, House, Jeremiah
Tags: Alex, bedroom, downstairs, food storage, furniture, garage, Hannah, Holly, House, paint, painting, unemployment
19
Jun 2009
Shortly after Mother’s Day, Holly called me at work while we were playing video games at lunch. She indicated that she had something that needed discussing but didn’t want to do it over the phone while I was getting off sweet, sweet sniper shots in Halo 2. She asked if I could come home but since it was lunchtime and I still had half a days worth of work to do, that wasn’t really an option. She insisted that the conversation not take place while I was at work so I spent the rest of the day wondering what I had done that had Holly so riled up that she needed to speak with me in person.
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20
Mar 2009
For those who are interested, Holly has gone rogue and decided to start a blog of her own detailing all of the fun things that we are doing in the yard. Actually, they’re fun for her but when they’re all finished, my back screams lots of bad words at me for participating but I take great pride in a job well done so it’s worth it.
You can check out her blog here. For those of you who are interested in what she has to say but clicking that mouse one more time is just too much to ask, don’t worry, I’ll try and steal her posts from this new rogue blog and post them here.
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10
Mar 2009
When I was a kid, I would spend countless hours at the roller skating rink with my friends. I don’t think that it was so much that I enjoyed roller skating as it was something to do. Don’t get me wrong, I had fun, I just don’t think that the fun was due to the fact that I was wearing ugly shoes with wheels.
A few weeks ago, Holly and the kids thought that it would be a good idea to go roller skating. Skating rinks have evolved since my youth into an entertainment utopia. In addition to roller skating, the one by us has a large number of arcade games, a place to get food, including pizza, a rock climbing wall, and a wing of bounce houses.
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Category: Alex, Emma, Family, Hannah, Holly, Jeremiah
Tags: Alex, bounce houses, Emma, Hannah, Holly, Kids, pizza, roller skates, roller skating rink, skating
12
Feb 2009
Like the title of this post would imply, I don’t dance. I just don’t enjoy forcing my limbs to flail about as if independent from my torso. I look foolish enough on my own; I don’t need to throw my pitiful dancing dancing abilities into the mix.
I’ve never really enjoyed dancing. In high school, I would go to dances, but that’s because my friends were there. It didn’t hurt that there were also girls there, but now that I’m married, going where the ladies are isn’t very high on my priority list. I think that it falls just above “route canal”. Well, maybe below. I can’t be certain.
Ever since we’ve been married, Holly has wanted me to take her dancing. I have been very good at avoiding having to commit to this but I knew that my luck would eventually run out. Saturday night, that well finally ran dry.
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23
Jan 2009
This is a post that I’ve been wanting to write for quite a while but have not been sufficiently motivated to do so. Now I have a video clip to accompany my words so I’m glad that I waited. Videos make everything so much better.
Everyone is familiar with MySpace. I don’t like it. With all of the half naked ugly chicks, angsty pre-teens, and frat boys, it’s bad enough. When you add poorly designed pages that should come with seizure warnings into the mix, it becomes completly unbearable. However, millions of users would probably disagree with me. For years, it was the leader in social networking sites but that doesn’t change the fact that it makes my eyes want to bleed.
About a year ago, my sister Chelsea, started bugging me and Holly about setting up profiles on Facebook. After Holly finally capitulated, I decided that I better give in as well. (I feel shame over caving to peer pressure.)
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Category: Friends, Holly, Jeremiah, Technology
Tags: blog, blogging, Chelsea, digg, facebook, Family, FriendFace, Friends, Holly, Jeremiah, LinkedIn, social networking sites, technorati, television, The IT Crowd, youtube
For some reason, Holly thought that it would be a good idea to teach Alex how to play chess. Apparently she taught him too well because he ended up winning. Not bad for a kid of six.
