Category: Life

Having been born on the thirteenth (of a different month) I’ve always had an affinity for what many feel is an unlucky date.  When the 13th also happens to fall on a Friday… that’s even better.  Hey, it’s the 13 AND it’s the end of the work week.

So, for those of you who are a little anxious today, I’ll distract you with some vocabulary fun:

Triskaidekaphobia – Fear of the number thirteen (not to be confused with Trichopathophobia, the fear of hair)
Paraskavedekatriaphobia – Fear of Friday the Thirteenth

Hmm… I wonder if paraskavedkatriaphilia is a word?

We’ve been dreaming about and planning this for so long now that it hardly seems it could be happening… but it is.

We’re an hour away from touching down in our new home, Dublin. I suppose at this point we are officially expatriates.

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We had cake…

… and there was much rejoicing.

Yay!

Last night we attended the wedding of our good friends Leslie and Jason. It was a beautiful ceremony at the Greenbriar Inn in Boulder, Colorado. The weather was perfect and the setting was beautiful.

After the wedding we went to a piano bar called The Reef. We were expecting a place for the wedding party to hang out, talk and listen to some music. We instead discovered a boisterous review music ranging from the 60’s to present day with a little humor mixed in and lots of audience sing along encouraged. If you’re in Boulder, stop by there on a Saturday night with a group of friends ready to have fun.

Long time, no blog.

I’m just starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel… and I have been “on vacation” for two weeks now. Why is time off such hard work? Because Paula and I are moving to Ireland.

I’m not leaving Microsoft… or even really leaving Windows Live Mail/Hotmail. Microsoft is adding to its development workforce based in Dublin and I’ll be going over there to work on Windows Live Mail with a couple developers.

We’re going to sell our house and (as you saw earlier in the blog) I needed to finish the bathroom I started. I also needed to finish off a project I started of replacing the trim throughout the house. Combine that with a house hunting trip to Ireland, meeting with realtors, packing up some of stuff to stage the house and having a garage sale I’ve been running ragged.

Things are starting to ease up, however. The house goes on MLS tonight and there is only one small bit of trim to finish in the bathroom and I’ll be all done.

And Paula will be happy because I now have the energy to shave again. 🙂

If you take a pocket full of change, segregate it by color then examine the coins you’ll find we have one colored coin in America… and it has Abraham Lincoln on the face.

Think about it…

On a related note, is it any coincidence that paper money and envy share the same color?

A shorter day today (took a break for Rob and Sharon’s baby shower), only three hours. No more ugly vinyl floor, yay!

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Vinyl is nice and all… but it’s gotta go.

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