Wasssuuuuuppppp????

I don't have anything earth-shattering to report. I just got tired of seeing the same post every day when I check this site (despite the fact that it is a lovely post, Modee).

The swim season, from which I "retired," is almost over. Just a couple more weekends. As I have told many of you already, instead of being done with coaching, I now find myself helping out four teams in some way or another. Oh well. Maybe next year.

Hillary and I are doing well. She moved a few more belongings from her apartment to my house over the weekend, as we continue to decorate my bachelor pad and transform it into something more suitable for the two of us in just a few months. Also, since New Years, I have had the luxury of housing both cats at all times now. Yippee. Actually, I like them, despite the fact that I don't. Except for the litter boxes.

Work is going well. The company is representing a number of good athletes in the upcoming draft (at the end of April). And I'll be going to the Combine in Indianapolis again this year at the end of February.

Speaking of trips, Hillary and I are going to Grand Bahama Island for our honeymoon. Pray for good weather, few people, and safe travels. Who knows when the boss man will let me have another week of vacation? It could be years. I have to take full advantage of this one.

Well, to wrap up this exhilarating post, I hope all of you are doing well. And I hope that those of you who have been unable to post on this new-fangled website are soon able to do so. And I hope that Doug fixes it STAT so that I don't have to continue opening up another window to view the comments, because that takes up a really long portion of my day that could be better served playing euchre against the computer.

Thanks to Walsho!

Hey everyone! Just wanted to give a shoutout to Kevin for hooking me on the blog. I couldn't figure out how to merge my pre-existing gmail account with my blogger account and Walsh solved all my problems. Thank you much.
I booked my flight and hotel for the Hurst-Strong wedding in May. I hope all of you plan on coming! Unfortunately I'll be flying solo b/c Matt (my boyfriend) is overbooked for Memorial Day, but I promise to behave myself in front of the kiddies. =)
Also, my big news of the week is that tomorrow I'm going over to the set of "The Office". I can't wait! I will post a picture if I get a chance to take any. I love love love that show so much. If you're not watching it, you're missing out. It's the only show I can watch 3 times in a row and laugh every single time. And that's my plug of the week.
Hope everyone's doing great!!

Update: here's a pic of me at michael's desk and me by the Dunder Mifflin sign. I had the best time over there!

Color Palette?

I'm all for green, but does it have to be various shades of what exits a baby? [whine] Doooooooooooooooooooooooug, fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiix it!!!! [/whine]

douglay

any way we can bring back the comments so that they are automatically showing, instead of having to click on them to see them? just a selfish, lazy request on my part.

hope you, anne, and the little one are doing well. we missed you guys at new years...

Be sure to use IE

The new Navbar (the bar at the very top of the web page) works in IE, but not in Firefox. No word on when the Team list will be fixed.

BLD98 has switched

If you can't post, you'll have to switch. I can't seem to get the Contributors list to work. Let me know what you think about the new look.

Gmail accounts

So if I understand Kevin correctly, you all need Google accounts before the blog can be switched. I can send invitations to everyone for a Gmail account (which is Google). Then you can use that to sign on and transfer your old blogger account to the new Gmail address. The only downside is that you can't comment using the new Gmail account until the BLD blog is switched to the new Blogger.

Doug, does that seem right to you? I'll go ahead and send invitations to everyone from Gmail in case you'd like to try switching your blogger account (or if you just want to use Gmail).

New Version of Blogger

Apparently it is not possible to switch over to the new version of blogger until invited. I have not been invited so I have not switched over. Apparently a team blog cannot be switched over until the original members have switched over, which means that we should all switch as the option becomes available.

Happy New Year!

We're sorry we had to leave the party early. On the plus side, we rung in the new year playing poker with my folks and walked away with over $20 in winnings (mostly mine, for the first time ever).

We're currently thinking Caleb has an ear infection. If so, the rest of the BLD brood should be safe.

We hope to see you all in May, November and next New Year's Eve!

Traveling with 3 month olds

Flying with a 3 month old is nothing! It's easy! At 3 months, Caleb had flown to Illinois, California and Florida.

Driving with a 3 month old is a whole other ball of wax. You can't take the baby out of the car seat when you're driving (as opposed to at the airport or on the plane). Plus, the same trip takes only a few hours instead of 3 days. (Yes, 3 days of driving from Wichita to Cleveland.) Have I mentioned that Reva only likes the car 50% of the time? The rest of the time is spent screaming, even if we're moving! (If you don't have kids, you haven't yet learned that stoplights are evil. It's one of the great discoveries of parenting.)

I would much rather be flying, but we couldn't afford 4 tickets this year. Josh'll be done with his dissertation next year, though, and working, so hopefully we won't have the same problem.

We're sorry we won't get to meet Julia just yet. But we're looking forward to seeing her in May.

(This is in reference to Doug's comment below about New Years. Apparently, the new version of Blogger is not good enough to recognize an account that has been converted as a team member of this blog, so no comments from Jill until Doug has a bit of time to switch the blog over. Hopefully that won't be too long since I think it's out of beta now. Sadly for you, I can still create new posts.)

Happy Birthdays!

Happy Birthday to Mr. Papsdorf and Mrs. Greenwald. I hope the first day of your fourth decade was spectacular (and that I got your ages correct).

Our Eyes Only

The new version of blogger lets you make blogs password-protected and just for authors. Doug could make the BLD blog visible only to those of us with passwords so we could post pictures with impunity (which I do anyway, but I know some people are more careful).

Just a suggestion. (I'm sure the new blogger does lots of other things, too, but I haven't spent too much time looking at it.)

new years plans

hello all. if you are coming to lovely cleveland for new years, please let me know your plans when you get the chance. all i know so far:

- the mazzuccos are coming by plane, arriving saturday & departing monday; i have their flight info
- the papsdorfs are coming by car, arriving saturday & departing TBA
- maurissa can't come

i should probably start planning food and sleeping arrangements so just give me the heads up.

hope you are all doing well and can't wait to see you.

New Address

Devon and I moved into our new house on Nov 17th. We're still organizing things, but some pictures are up and the tree is decorated. I don't want to post the address online, but as soon as I get the internet connected, I'll email it out. All previous addresses should get forwarded to us so never fear. We are now officially in Modesto. We're renting, but it's nice to be in a home without neighbors on the other side of the wall. I hope the holidays are treating you all well.

Rob

Joining the ranks

Hi Friends,
I made the requisite call to Shan, so I thought it safe to post my crazy news! (I hope she doesn't mind my teasing her)
Jay and I told our parents this Thanksgiving that we're expecting a baby in July. I guess that makes it true. Although, given our schedules of late--Jay phrased it best when I told him, How is that *possible*?
Regardless of the logisitics, which I shall spare you, I am well on my way to getting pudgy and to setting records for peeing. Luckily, since I've been on surgery, after an initial pep talk, baby has been quite cooperative in the morning sickness department. If not for the exhaustion, which may be work's fault somewhat, there are times when I could forget that I'm pregnant. I'm almost afraid to write that--better go knock on some wood.
Miss you all!
Fondly,
Kristin