Finally!

I finally watched 300! I think I'm the second to last person to have seen this in the world. I thought it was good.. I knew how it was going to end even though I didn't want it to end that way.. but I felt the same way with Star Wars Episode III. I knew it would end badly but I still had hope :p


On the subject of movies I look forward to seeing more from "Wall•E". Not much has been explained yet but it looks cool for a kid movie. See the "trailer" here.

I just want to say I'm glad another week has gone by.. 7 weeks to go. Stuff is starting to formulate at work for our new project and it's giving me a production headache. I've had a perm-a headache all week now. I have a lot of freakin' work ahead of me and I hope I can get most of it done. I worry I may not be good enough for some of it, but we will see.

This Weekend

So Courtney had her baby shower on Saturday. For obvious reasons I w as not invited, but we made out well. My favorite thing is the travel system we got. Wee! For some reason I'm really excited about the travel system.

While Courtney was at her shower I met up with Johnny to say my goodbyes before he heads to Hong Kong on Monday. He's going to help edit 7th Moon; another one of Mr. Ed Sanchez's films. I'm happy for him, getting to go to China and all. I know he wanted to from the beginning and now he's one of the select few that can actually go. So that's cool.

Next month will be interesting as we get closer to the due date. It is possible for that to happen next month even though we're not due until late November. Waiting is the hardest part.

On the work end we should be heading into full production mode this week. I hope stress levels go down over there. It's been a hard few weeks.

Sorry

Sorry I haven't posted in a few days... I mean weeks. So I'm not sure what to update with since it's been so long.

On the work front; we got a new guy at work. He's going to head one of our new projects. We may be getting a new graphics guy soon too. Soon I shall have a minion! Just kidding. I also finished the Product Sourcing Radio site today. A lot better than the previous one.

A guy from Apple came on Monday. Got all our new server stuff almost all setup.

We are doing a Monday night football poll at work. Courtney is in the lead. Courtney is playing for me. She thought be funny to pick the opposite teams of her co-worker Troy to make him mad. She is in the lead. On the subject of this football thing at work.. we were going to have a "work outing" and hang out at a sports bar next next Monday. That sounds like fun.. maybe I can learn something about football :p

On the home front Courtney is doing well. She has back pains and had a tooth ache. I was having a wisdom tooth problem myself so we have had some tooth woes. She has been tired too. But our baby shower is this Saturday so if you want to buy us something your time is running out! I can't believe we're due to have a baby here in 8 weeks. That is crazy.

My friend Mike is coming home from the Army (stationed in Texas) on October 2nd and leaves around October 23rd. So I'm going to have to figure out something to do before he leaves. When he does leave he goes to Iraq for a year and a half so we have to do something memorable. Don't know what yet. We used to go to Disney Quest but I don't really want to do that this year... I was hoping to go to Kennedy Space Center or something.

Wrapping up this Week

We got a 3D ultrasound today. This was scary for two reasons. There is a lot more detail in a 3D ultrasound than there is in a traditional ultrasound. We we're about to find out if it was a girl for sure. More importantly we we're about to find if there was anything wrong with the babies growth. My mother-in-law had a friend that had that done and found out that her babies brain was growing on the outside of her head. That's horrible. They had to terminate.

The first thing we found out was that she is in fact a girl! That was a relief. We already bought too much stuff to return it all. It seems that would be the least of our worries but fact is she is healthy and very very cute. We had a 30 minute session which included 11 photos and a DVD of the whole thing. We discovered that Makayla likes to keep her right foot by her head with her toe in her eye at times. I don't know how she keeps her foot up there. Another thing she does is keeps her left hand on her face. The tech said that this is a sign she might be left handed. It's very likely because I'm left handed. Left handed people are usually creative so this made me really excited. We've got the dvd and I promise to cut it up and post a shorter quicktime or youtube video of it. We've got video of her yawning, kicking (herself in the head), smiling and opening her eyes. Some other stuff too. She's cute. We got 102 photos I posted 98 because I'm not sure what to cut out yet. Here's the gallery.

Also have some news about work stuff. We're going to launch a new product next year and we will be hiring some new designers. Probably somebody straight out of college that doesn't have much experience. Also my manager left on Friday and will be taking on some of his responsibilities. Therefore, I am now a manager as of yesterday. I now have managerial benefits like a 60 minute lunch and I get to be in the manager meetings and such. Those are kind of boring but I can help determine the direction of the company. I'm excited and scared at the same time. I am going to manage people and I don't want to be a jerk or bad at it. All in all I'm happy I got the promotion and I feel I deserved it. I didn't get a pay raise and I don't expect one because I already got one this year :p

I have a lot of work ahead of me!