Meet my new daughter Keira Lin



She was born January 5th at 12:30am. 6lbs, 14oz, and 20 inches long.

yes, i am now the father of two little girls. *shudders*

Oh man, that means that I have two prom dresses to buy, and two weddings to pay for.

Yeesh, they weren't kidding when it was said that girls are more expensive than boys!

But after all that waiting, and "when's the due date?" games - the waiting had finally paid off, and I got this little thing in my life.

So far, two months after she has been born, she is starting to smile a little bit, and loves taking baths! The first bath she took, she didn't care too much for, but now she's like a damn fish - she loves the water.

Her big sister, my first - Kaylee; absolutely loves her to death. She loves to hold her, sing to her, and be around her.

And yes, this picture is one of the most recent ones:


I dont' know what the hell is wrong with TV.com...  no matter how I re-size the image - it keeps cutting off the left..  but y'all get the idea, right?

One of the gifts for Xmas was a nice digital camera, so I'll be able to take many pics of the two of them, which was something I wasn't able to do with Kaylee

So there she is. Y'all were wondering, and again, ol Tavi produces.

Ahhh,  It's good to be back. 

I'll bet you all have wondered "Where in the hell is our Tavi?"   Well, I guess I doubt y'all have wondered that.

But I shall tell you anyways.

Let's just say I made a grave mistake, that I don't intend to repeat.  I will never listen to a website (gateway.com) when it says what RAM to buy for my machine.  Next time I go to upgrade the RAM in my computer - I will physically speak with someone from the manufacturing company. 

An Xmas gift for me was some nice and shiny new RAM for my puter.  Yay for me right?  NO.  See, Gateway.com told me that my machine needed Pc2700 RAM memory.  There's a program on there that you can download, and it scans your machine by using your serial number and all that goodness.  So I did it, and that's what it recommended for me. 

So the night I go to install it - okay cool - I pop the hood on the computer, and put it in.  

Hmm....   computer won't start.     

Take the chip back out.

Hmm...  computer still won't start.  

Do all the usual diagnostics I know how to do.

Hmm...  still won't start.

Hmm.   Well, I finally bend and give ol Gateway a call - and guess what!!!!   It was the WRONG memory!!!!!   It burned out my motherboard!!!!!   LOL!!!!

So, hence my hiatus, or my sabbatical, if you will.  I had to find a way to buy this brand new Acer Aspire computer (with Windows Vista, mind you - which I'm still trying to figure out.) so that's why I haven't been on or around.

Oh yeah, and we had the baby January 5th.

Well well well...

Looking at this year in review - it's been a helluva bad year. First, my wife's Mom dies, then her dad gets hooked up with a girl who's 7 years older than me, then we have to put our cat to sleep, and continuing daycare costs and such put us basically in the poorhouse...

But there's now a light.

First thing was - is that I managed to score a B in my last class - a math class that I had to take to finally get my damn sheepskin. So for starters, I finally got that Bachelor's degree a comin'. That right there - signifying the end of my long and arduous school career - is a huge relief considering, I've been "back in school" for almost 7 years now. But, now that that money pit has been escaped (once I make my final payment), then it's done. Wait six months and pay off a 180/month school loan. I can handle going to work, and coming home.

No more having to go to work at the butt-crack of dawn, go to work, get off, go to school for three to four hours, while dealing with snot nosed punks who are all in bands, and are only concerned with the next party (college kids), then either go back to work, or go home, and have to hit the sack, to do it again the next day. No more having to stay up until 2-4 in the morning, running to Kinko's for printups because you have an assignment due the next day. No more having to continually put money on the parking card - and always wondering if you have enough on it... No More!!!

I literally feel almost lost - what will I do with my time now? Get re-addicted to the video games that I used to soak myself in so long ago? Get re-acquainted with the role playing games I used to enjoy? Start building model rockets again? Now that I have all this extra time after work - what shall I do? Obviously, taking care of the kid(s - when the second one finally decides to show...) would be first priority - but when they're not around, or asleep??? I don't know what I'll do!!! (this is a good stress - I'm not worried about it at all!!!) I got so used to having to worry about something after I get off of work - that it's hard not to have to worry about that anymore! LOL!!!

Oh.. the second light.... Well, I've been offered Department Manager at Lowe's. DM of Building Materials, Millworks, Lumber, Hardware and Tools (yeah, five departments... ) We are talking a substantial raise over what I was making. Substantial. May I say that again? Substantial! I ranted previously that I'm 30 and not even making 25,000/year - well not anymore. It's well above the 30,000/year mark!!! So the money has finally started rolling in.....

Who knows? I may even have to say screw the side work.... (although, I love it so... having that extra money rolling in, is quite addictive...) Although, unfortunately, the money wont' start rolling in, until January 6th.. which is okay, I guess, in the end.

Do I want that kind of responsibility? Sure! I say bring it... It gets stifling when you outsell the specialists in your department, and handle all the freight. Doing this means that I won't really have to worry about putting up stock, and doing projects... I can delegate that out. It's great!

Slightly unnerving though.. here are a bunch of people whom I already know - that I'm going to have to turn around and lead...
Well, it's all good though - luckily I'm good with everyone.

So those are the lights that have shown up here in December. Still haven't gotten to meet baby #2 yet... but should soon enough.. (the wife and I are wondering when in the hell this thing's going to show... )

Either way, I'll keep y'all posted on that part!!! But yay for me otherwise!!!

HASTA!