travis' brain dump

Finally…  Winter is finally settling in and I can’t wait to get some more board time up in the hills. Goaling for twice this week and four times at least after Christmas hopefully. 

So this weekend was pretty productive and we were just under the wire with getting the Christmas lights up in time before a snow storm.  Sitting here now with -4 and watching it drop. I freakin love Colorado. 🙂 Here’s the work so far.

I feel like I’m actually getting caught up. Just in time for some much needed time off work! So in catching up, I finally delivered on some more pics. You can find them in the gallery. A new section on my son and more additions to the misc category. Just a few but it’s additions none the less. Now I don’t feel like such a slacker. LOL

Anyway… workouts come early so this is a short post. 🙂

Having a baby. Dead serious. If you ever need time to fly by and lose track of the days that have past, having a newborn in the house will do it. I seriously can’t believe my son will be 3 weeks old tomorrow. It feels like yesterday. It’s probably due to the lack of good sleep and the holes in the memory that causes but wow.

I’m starting to have flashbacks of when my daughter was first born. I can honestly say I can’t account for the first 6 months of her life. I remember next to nothing about anything from that period of time. Pretty scary.

Anyway, having the new kiddo around is kinda fun. I feel sorry for poor Amanda though who has the worst sleeping schedule out of all of us. She’s been doing really good with though, I’m really impressed.

On another note. Started the second round of P90X this morning. This should be interesting since I’m switching up the workout times to early morning instead of after work. It’s just easier on my schedule and my body. When I get home in the evening, the last thing I want to do is work out after a day of dealing with my usual day of tasks and being gone from home for almost 12 hours. Early morning though seems to be the trick. I’ve got a friend of mine, Adam, who is joining in. I think he was successfully destroyed this morning, lol. Still, 4:30 am wakeups… *shudder*.

We’ll see how this goes.

Well that’s it in a nutshell. 🙂

I’ve just been that busy.

October 11th… wow, that’s almost a month. It’s not for a lack of things to rant and rave about that’s for sure but alas, I haven’t had any time. Seriously. It’s been one thing after another at work and home. Between projects at work and projects at home it’s a wonder I still even have something resembling an ounce of sanity.

So… I won’t drag on about projects, but I will post up a little update.

On October 28th @ 9:33 am, weighing in at 8lbs 9oz and 21″ long, our new son was welcomed into the world.

Both mom and baby are doing great and are now at home. He’s an awesome little guy with so much personality already. It will be interesting to see just how he changes as he grows.  Let’s just hope he allows us to get at least som sleep over the next few months, lol.

Other than being busy with preparing and welcoming home the new kiddo, things have been going well. I’m just hoping I’ll be able to get all my projects all finished up before the end of the year. That would be nice.

One nice thing that’s going on…. SNOWBOARDING SEASON IS ALMOST HERE! YAY! As most of you know this is my favorite time of the year, kinda like Christmas for some . The weather hasn’t been too nice to the mountains of the last week but it looks like tonight it could turn around and we could start seeing the snow we’ve been waiting for. I’m so excited for this season to get up there and take Arwen and Amanda (when she’s all healed up) back up there. Arwen is super excited.

Anyway, just a pulse post for now. I’m sure after the elections are done tonight I’ll have something fun to post up tomorrow. 🙂

Saying that it’s been a busy couple of weeks I think would be an understatement. After the DNC died down here the real fun began at him. Completion of that blasted downstairs family room. If I didn’t have a shaved head, I would pull out my hair. 🙂

The good news is. It’s almost done. We texture and paint this weekend then get new carpet down there on Monday. YAY! I’m running about a week behind however due to the lack of a window showing up last week so I’m a little irritated there but everything else is falling into place. Amanda has been super efficient at sanding and cleanup – I honestly don’t know how we would be as close to finished if she wasn’t able to knock out most of that during the day while I am working. We have just about everything to complete the room except the materials to build the swinging book case and hardwood floor the stairs… I’ll get to that maybe sometime after the new kiddo’s room is done as it’s not really that urgent. I’ve got to switch gears so I can get Arwen moved downstairs and get some much needed cleanup work done in her old room/baby’s new room before he gets here. It’s mainly left-overs from when we pulled the chimney that ran through her room for the old fireplace out but there are some other little things which definitely need attention up there. *NOTHING* in comparison to what we just did downstairs though… wow. I’m taking a year off fromanything major after this is done, lol.

I’ve updated a couple of pictures over in the photo gallery from the during portion of the project so there are some new progress shots. Hopefully I’ll have the finished section up before the end of next week. I think that will primarily depend on how swamped we are with cleaning. Once this room is done, it’s top to bottom all over the house to get all the plaster dust out of everything… I hate that stuff. No matter how much you do to prevent it from spreading, it finds a way to land on EVERYTHING! I’m seriously going to have to clean out every piece of electronic equipment in the house, lol. It’s a good thing I own a compressor.

Other than that, life is good. I completed round one of my workout plan with some really nice results, now its time for round two but I need to definitely wait until after we’re done with this room. Trying to balance in a workout schedule alongside this project just doesn’t work. Just trying to get things taken care of before the baby arrives is the biggest challenge. Only about another 5-6 weeks and the whole house will be turned upside down yet again…. I hope we’ll be able to maintain our sanity. 🙂

Well, that’s my little update for now. I needed to post something up besides a rant… LOL