Well, the week has come to a close. And I am ready for that. I have a few projects I’d like to accomplish this weekend, and I think it’ll be nice to have some time to do them. One in particular is to upload a bunch more pictures to Flickr — the ones I didn’t get around to selecting or categorizing before Kirstin came along. I’ve done some more looking around, and I think I’ve got a game plan in mind, so I’m hoping to get some time to sit and do nothing but that (and watch the girls, of course).

I’m also hoping to get our taxes done this weekend (or at least start them). Fortunately they’re fairly easy, so it’s just a matter of actually doing the data entry portions. I can usually do them in an evening or two (I usually spend the first evening going over everything and the second actually doing the work. I’ve got everything in one bundle for tax purposes (just like in years past), so it should go pretty smoothly…and all will be well.

I’m also intending to print a few pictures and prepare for mailing to a few people without Internet access (who obviously wouldn’t be reading this post or seeing the pictures online). That’ll be good times.

Today at work was fairly laid back. After all, it was Friday…and you can’t work too hard on a Friday. Yeah, right. 🙂 We actually spent most of the day (when we weren’t having coffee or eating lunch) taking care of loose ends or meeting (pow-wowing) about schedules, requests, and deadlines. I don’t always like to pow-wow on a Friday, but in this case it worked out pretty well. We’re not done (more to come on Monday), but we made some significant progress (considering that Kevin and I haven’t been in the office at the same time for the last three weeks or better).

Beth came in to town in the mid-afternoon and hung around for a while. We ended up going over to Willie’s for a few things before we left town for the evening. Our supper consisted of some chicken quesadillas — made with the magic quesadilla maker I got for Christmas from Mark and Abby. Good stuff, that was. Before supper, I went out and gave the dogs some love…and ended up talking to the neighbor (he was warming up the grill) for a while and giving him the updates (he’d not known that Kirstin was around yet).

So anyway, it’s been pretty quiet here now since we gave Kirstin her evening bath. I imagine I’ll be heading for bed soon in hopes I can get another night’s sleep. She’s slept really pretty well the last two nights (not making terribly much noise aside from when it’s time to eat or be changed, which usually coordinate with each other), and that’s been good. She’s slept well since we got her home, but it’s been better in the last two nights.

I just came from upstairs where I put her down for the night (while Beth was getting ready for bed), and I had a very unique experience with Kirstin. While I was holding her to calm her down for bed, she got a big wide open smiled grin on her face, which promptly went away. When I asked her if she could do it again, she shortly thereafter did do it again, followed by a very neat giggle. I’d not yet heard that type of noise come from her…so it was neat. It was definitely a giggle type noise. Cute. No, awesome!

So yeah, that’s been the day in general. I’m looking forward to bedtime now. Soon as I finish typing this post and reading up on a few things I’m researching, I intend to head that way and enjoy the night.

Until next time…

–MZ