(i love that photo)

oh yeah, i forgot to mention:

welcome to the world, finnian christopher (becky's baby, and little brother to liam) and ava julian (ben & erin's new bundle-of-joy). it's baby time!

we went to tahoe for the first time this weekend. it was a helluva drive back tonight, though: it took us about 8 hours to make the 4 hour trek. we just got in.


this video shows some of the non-moving traffic (although when the reporter is on camera in her jaunty purple coat, things are moving MUCH FASTER there than where we were).

it's beautiful up there, but it's good to be home.

time for bed...

things i'm so in love with right now:

meyer lemon marmalade: like eating sunshine

an old, light-up globe that i found in the trash, which is now cleaned up and on display in our living room

the wall street journal, in its new smaller size

my nike+ ipod connector kit

yahoo widget photo frame, which pulls a new photo from my computer to my desktop every five minutes

cool, cool, cool: one of my faves,

aaron eckhart has been officially cast as two-face in "the dark knight" (the next batman film).

things are great! work has been hectic and a bit stressful, but we've got a couple of new people coming on board soon to help with the new projects, so that makes me very excited and optimistic. we have a really great team, which i'm excited about (sheesh, i'm a geek).

i recently bought a few new cds that i'm really enjoying. i love these streets, by paolo nutini and savane, by ali farka toure. i also bought the new norah jones album, and i do acknowledge that steve is correct: i am cheesy.

i recently bought the nike+ ipod kit, which got me really excited about running. i went running three days in a row and promptly had sore shins for the following three days. anyhow, with moderation and proper stretching it's going to really be a great thing since it makes pretty charts for me about my runs and gives me lovely soothing reminders while i'm running about my pace and distance achieved.

i don't think there are any other updates here. i highly enjoyed several celeb-related news stories today that i thought i'd share:

- bill cosby's dog won the westminster kennel club dog show
- there will be a milli vanilli movie coming out (where in the heck is the sweatshirt i bought on their tour?!?)
- ralph fiennes supposedly joined the mile high club while on a STD awareness campaign tour for UNICEF

i couldn't write a better day of random celeb headlines!

steve is in san diego for work. i miss him! he got me sick before leaving, which only makes me miss him more. he's such a good caretaker...