organizing... yo.

So we have actually been reasonably organized around here this weekend... organized at trying to get organized... er... or something like that. There are still several projects left to be done around the house before the kid arrives (we hope). Among these are:

1. Clean out the office which has been stacked with the last few boxes of stuff that we haven't unpacked yet and a few too many years of AT bills so that certain items like Danette's sewing machine can be re-located from what is going to be the baby's room.
2. Various painting projects to keep small hands away from potentially peelable paint.
3. Finish the baby's dresser. We bought it unfinished, finally chose a stain, now it has to get done. Dresser will double as changing table too.
4. Taxes
5. Wax the floors... for some reason our first floor hardwood floors are of the 'waxing' variety... not a favorite job.
6. the other ten things that I am sure that I am forgetting, but that are equally important...

We actually made some headway on number (1) today, which is quite an accomplishment... so much so that the shredder over-heated and called a time-out of its own. Yesterday involved both of us actually going to work for a few hours in the morning, so we are rather proud of our attaining certain goals today.

According to some sources this week will mark the beginning of the third trimester --- woo hoo, home stretch... the 28th week also means yet another routine test. Basically this one usually means that someone (Danette in this case) has to ingest a known amout of glucose in a short period of time and then have a glucose blood test 1-hour later. The strange thing is that the only option in our chosen health system includes an artificial color that doesn't agree with my wife. Apparently there used to be several 'flavors' that would get around this problem, but someone in the supply chain decided allergies weren't important... the Dr.'s office has tried valiantly... but alas, no. So, 7-UP makes a good substitute (as long as the lab techs know, of course), therefore no-worries.

Today I decided to finally try to make a dent in organizing our digital music collection... we are starting to move toward MP3 players, Danette has one and I keep a some music stashed on an SD card for use in my PDA... but our collection of MP3's isn't even a fraction of our CD collection. All of our MP3 are actually from our own CD's, but we don't have them well organized. So I am moving stuff onto a single drive that we can all get at in the house... in the process I am sort of re-discovering music I/we haven't listened to much.... At the moment I have some Ned's Atomic Dustbin going... and I even had some tunes from a CD my friend Chad played on with Vanilla Thunder.(can you find Chad in the band bio pic?)..

All of this is happening against the backdrop of the kid being on the way, Danette's company getting very busy, and me having a few grant proposals to write before that eventful day in May sometime... no rest for the w.....