. colmunson will be losing his job soon. It's a wonderful opportunity for him to find his dream job and I'm trying to support him in whatever he wants to do. I started thinking about contingency plans, and one possibility is that we could be moving in the next year if he got a job that was too far away to commute. We haven't done anything to the house in the past 5 years and it needs a lot of work, so I'm giving up on fallacious notions that we'll fix it up ourselves and hiring contractors. So far I've interviewed electricians and siding and roofing people (for the garage) and a custom cabinet maker... I have a painter (for the exterior... interior painting is one thing I CAN still do if I can just get someone to take care of the kids long enough) and a guy who does bathrooms and a flooring company coming to the house this week. I still need to call masons, plumbers, and a structural engineer or authority on wet basements. I made a Microsoft Project project to keep track of it all. Yes, I know I'm a geek.

Hopefully researching my options should continue to be fun... I found a slate sink countertop on craigslist and a 2-year-new enameled iron sink that measure-ment-wise should fit under it for the kitchen. I'm contemplating a dual-flush toilet for the bathroom and trying to weigh whether the expense is worth it.

T is walking and starting to talk. He points out important things like book, doggie, kitty, ball, milk, banana (generic word for food - he eats 1-3 bananas a day) and requests for up, outside, and more. Some of those words are only intelligible once you've been around him for a while... like "dah-dgog" is doggie and "meh-meh" is his sister's name(not to be confused with "nah-nah" which is banana or I'm-so-hungry-I'll-eat-anything-except-what-you're-trying-to-offer-me-now).

E is in acrobatics instead of ballet for the summer and seems to be enjoying it. It doesn't hurt that NJ is in the class with her. She still loves all sorts of movements... this morning was busy doing jumping-jacks while I was trying to get her to put her shoes on. She's going to Kindergarten in the fall and I'm really not sure what all that's going to do to us.

Asatru - Still trying to do one Asatru thing a month, although sometimes it's more than one or we miss a month. Hoping to read more of the Rune study books soon. We plan to go to ECT.

SCA - Went to Southern Region Warcamp this past weekend. It's funny... I'm completely out of all the gossip and everything but still it was so easy to catch up because at the heart things don't really change. I had a great time working Troll. I was really glad I could find something useful to do that didn't involve abandoning T.