stacey ewing

What a crazy semester! Things are just now slowing down as our students finish up finals this week and start leaving town to go home for the holidays. We’re still SUPER-busy here in the library as we wrap up our projects and put others on hold to pick back up in January.

Eariler in the semester, I had problems with this site that I didn’t have time to deal with until recently, so I let things lapse here until I could get them fixed. In the next week I’ll try to post pictures and video of some of the fun events we hosted in the InfoCommons. It’s been a great semester. :D

Missing the boy this week. Can’t believe today marks a whole year without him. :(

Can’t believe a whole year has passed since we lost the wee Shadout Meeps. :(

We still miss her dearly.

Tim and I celebrated 10 gov’t sanctioned years (out of 19) back on June 12th. We went to St. Augustine for a day/night to celebrate and had a great time!

Probably the best part was spending most of the evening walking along the ocean around sunset! So pretty out there!

Anyway… 10 YEARS! AND you have to say it like Piven does here at :29 –

Well, I let posts at the ol’ blog here, dwindle into nothingness for the last several months. There was some kind of weird server issue that wouldn’t let me login through my wordpress login page. It’s happened before, I’m not sure if it’s some kind of hijacked site thing or just a WP glitch. My hosting company fixed it for me twice in the last year but I just haven’t had the time or will to get in touch with them again and try to get them to fix it for me- espec. since that usually requires several calls until I can get someone on the line who knows how to help. So the site has sat broken since April.

This afternoon, while Tim was teaching drumline out in Trenton, I took the time to upgrade to a newer version of WP and that seemed to clear up the issue. So whatever it was, is fixed now. :)

I try to catch up on a few posts later today but most of you can find me over on facebook these days.

Thinking of Trey hard these last two days after finding out that he’s been in the hospital for the last couple of weeks with pancreatitis. They found gangrene yesterday and will be doing surgery hopefully soon. Right now he is in an induced coma and everyone is holding their breath.

There is more information at a website that some friends set up: http://trey.thecoho.net

He doesn’t have health insurance so there is a donation box set up on the site to collect money to help defray medical costs.

Meanwhile, we’re sending all our thoughts and love to the boy:

I’m still alive, just mega-busy with a gabillion things at work and home. Can’t believe it will be May on Friday! This semester has flown by far too quickly! Most of my time has been spent cleaning up, launching and loading our new InfoCommons Blog. I’ve tried to add a little bit of everything on there so it’s not all boring library stuff. Our unit is so diverse anyway, it kind of works. Tons more to fix and add though.

I’ve got a million little things to share, including new pictures of Maui and some funny video from Wes’ birthday party a couple of weeks ago.

Meanwhile, I’ll leave you with this picture taken outside of our townhome. Little dude was hanging out in my window box of lettuce. I saw online that they eat bugs and lizards. Now I know why I hadn’t seen to many lizards around our door lately. Haven’t been too many bugs out their either. Too bad he doesn’t eat the squirrels who have been munching all the leaves off my Rose of Sharon! heh :P

I’m SO excited and not just because today is FRIDAY! ;) One of my most favorite kitties in the world now has his own blog!

I love, Love, LOVE this 21lb hunk of luuuuuvvve and look forward to following his daily adventures!

Our power went out last night early this morning around 2:00 ante meridiem. I heard a loud “pop” before everything that was running in the house powered down, including the HEPA filter in the room adjacent to our bedroom and T’s c-pap machine. It was SO quiet and REALLY dark. You don’t realize just how much light the power strips and alarm clock give off until they go out.

Worried that the new 9v battery backup I put in the alarm clock wouldn’t work and wake us up in time for work, I made Tim get up and stumble downstairs in the dark to get his cell phone so we could set its alarm as a backup.

I woke up again around 4:30 ante meridiem when the power returned. Kitten was so confused both times… “sweet! is it time to get up and play now? oh, no?? really?? you’re sure? well, okay… sigh”

the tilt-shift is especially very cool.