Make it (stop) rain

It's rained for the past 4 days. Make it stop.

Went to Gwinnett county for J's birthday party this past weekend, and had a really great time. We were able to see Moxa's new house for the first time- I was very impressed! We took the baby, and she did extremely well. Very well behaved as she was passed around from person to person. Moxa busted out the grill, and he cooked some awesome hamburgers and brats. Mmmmmmmmmm. So delicious. We followed that up with a game of Quelf, which is a board game I had never heard of. It is basically just a game of complete random tomfoolery. I had to talk like a pirate for the entire game, while Moxa had to regale the group with tales of his childhood in Sri Lanka caring for timberwolves. Silly silly game.

Baby is now 9 weeks old, and she's a beast. She's started regularly sleeping about 7 hours each night, which I am a huge fan of. She smiles big now, too!

The next few weeks are going to be incredibly busy for me. At least I shouldn't be too bored!

MaRcH MaDnEsS

Sorry, I know that headline is incredibly annoying.

It's official: the week from February 23-March 2nd 2009 officially was officially one of the most surreal, crazy, and frustrating weeks of my life. Let's start at the beginning, shall we?

Monday morning - Wife wakes up with intense pain in her abdomen. We're talkin' tears. After suffering through it for about an hour and half, her mother takes her to the hospital while I stay home with baby. After a series of tests, they confirm that she has gallstones and will need to have her gallbladder removed. CRAP. Surgery sucks. At least she'll get to have it done over her Spring Break, so she shouldn't have to miss any classes. This is major, since she already missed so much due to birthing the baby.

Wednesday - My uncle's house burned down. I feel so bad for my uncle right now. He's just gone through a divorce (he has 2 teenage daughters), was living with my grandmother, was having money problems since he is in the construction business and that whole industry is in the crapper, and now the house he built himself is no more. Nobody was hurt (not even the dog), so that is the good news.

Friday - This wasn't bad, just interesting. Drove down to Albany to film an interview. It's been a long time since I've been to south Georgia. It's a totally different experience than the one I'm used to. I borrowed my brother's GPS for the trip and man, that thing is AWESOME. I got there about an hour ahead of schedule and was hungry. So I whipped out the GPS, looked at the local restaurants, picked one, and the unit took me right to the store. Amazing.

Saturday - Baby done got baptized! Yay! Then we had a party! Yay! With my favorite flavor wings! Yay! Family and friends! Yay!

Sunday - Snow. Seriously. Snow in Georgia. We started that day with light flurries at the inlaws house. About 1pm, we went to spend a little bit of time with my parents before we headed back up north. The snow kept coming. We left my parents at about 3pm, and made it about 15-20 miles before we had to turn around. Traffic on the interstate was gridlocked; nobody knew what to do or how to drive in the snow, myself included. There was no way I was going to be driving 2.5 hours on backroads in the snow like that. And it was a good thing, because northeast GA got around 6 inches of snow, which is by far the most snow I've ever seen in my life. We made it back home on Monday, which was fine because my work was closed anyway. Here are some pictures. Not mine, but credit to The View from the Upper Deck.

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