So Many Things

Well, Simone passed the 1 year mark last month, and is about to round 13 months in a few days here. She's got 4 teeth with another starting to poke its way out. She's walking with assistance - just yesterday she walked the entire length of the hall plus the front room. And her personality is getting stronger and stronger (she does the Hulk thing where she holds her hands up and vibrates a little bit when she gets frustrated).

Simone no longer looks like a baby, she's looking more and more like a kid, so I guess we're past that stage (sigh...).

I finished the Intel job, had a party at Tim's place. I started the job at Mentor. Lots of nice little perks (the gym, the grounds, dual 1600x1200 monitors, an actual office). The job looks like it will be interesting - of course there's lots to learn, and I've (after a week) finally got all the hiccups out of my environment. Well, almost...

Last weekend we had a mud party where folks came down and mixed adobe and made bricks. Sam, Ingrid, Miles, Robe, Elizabeth, and Kirsten all showed up to help. Simone got to play in the mud (and eat a little too). Everyone had a great time, and the bricks are already dry enough to assemble - though that stage will happen later.

And, sadly, one of our cats, Jade, is missing. She's been gone for just over a week now. We don't know what happened, but fear the worst. Her leaving happened to coincide with a guy coming to clean the heater/dryer ducts, and Mary and I had noses that mislead us to think something had died in the dryer duct - so we crawled under the house and tore apart the ducting looking for Jade. Luckily it was just a case of hallucination. We're still hoping she's gonna come back home...

Note: upon hearing that Jade is missing, many people proceed to tell us of all the horrific things that might have happened to her. um.... thanks...