Our Wedding - The Wedding Deck on top of Aspen Mountain
7th January
2010
written by katherine

Carrie sent out the Evites for the baby shower this morning…they are so cute. She included all these little poems for the information…very clever! We are having the shower on Jan 23rd at 3:00 PM at Papago Brewery in Scottsdale. It should be a lot of fun and I hope a lot of people can make it! I still have to finish working on the registry…holy cow what a pain in the ASS! Even doing it online is just long and tedious…I feel ok that I at least got SOMETHING up on both the Target and Buy Buy Baby sites, but still needs work.

I also finally applied for a Federal Tax ID for the BobKat Consulting LLC. Kind of a pain as well, lots of terms not explained at all, of course. But I think I did it all correctly. I went down to the Amadeus office in Tucson yesterday and had really wanted to go over contracts, etc. with Al for all of this stuff so that it was set, but he had a personal situation and wasn’t down there this week. He promises that we can get it all taken care of early next week and I hope he is right! The drive down to TUS wasn’t that bad, but still long. I ended up spending a full 8 hours in the office, which I wasn’t really expecting to do, but holy cow, everyone wanted to talk! I also had 3 interviews scheduled, two for Developers and one for a replacement for my position. One of the Developers through TekSystems cancelled that morning (not impressed…!) and we were lukewarm about the one we did interview but will likely be making him an offer in the mid-level range. The guy interviewing for Director was pretty good, very solid, I liked his attitude, energy, but I just don’t think he has the experience. I think he would be a GREAT Development Manager and could develop with the right leadership and mentor into a good Director, but I just don’t think he is there yet.

Bob is hogging the VPN connection since today is his work from home day and he has these two big projects both due this week. I’m not getting a whole lot done through webmail, but luckily there isn’t a ton of things that I needed to do anyway. Thus my ability to finally get the tax ID number…next I’m going to work on the complete articles of incorporation for the LLC. This book we got has really come in pretty handy. We also meet with a tax/accounting advisor a couple weeks ago that was recommended to us through Bob’s uncle Barry (he’s Canadian, of course) so that should help us out a lot in figuring some stuff out.  It’s all pretty scary actually…the unknown usually is, but I figure since we are turning our lives upside down with a baby, why the hell shouldn’t we just stretch it as far as possible and get all of the super-scary, never-done-before stuff out of the way at once?!

Over the last week the Crib (we got the one we wanted for $43 less on Amazon.com and FREE shipping), crib mattress, changing pad cover have all been delivered. Looks like the cool QuickZip sheets I ordered, mattress pad and actual Changing pad should show up tomorrow. I’m not sure what we are going to do with the crib and mattress…on the one hand I really want to set the crib up to see if there are any damaged or missing parts as this is a REALLY common occurrence. That way we can get Delta to ship us replacement parts right away. The problem is that we have house guests the 22nd – 31st of January! So we can’t exactly put the crib up in the 2nd bedroom and leave people any room to move around! I’m guessing that we’ll just put them in the Garage with the dresser and armoire until February. We should still have plenty of time if we need parts…I hope!!

We finished putting up the second set of shelving in the garage last weekend and we really have a TON of room now…we do need to go through things in the 2nd bedroom and clear them out if possible and relocate to the garage so that we have more room in there for baby’s stuff.

We also think that we have a good name! Bob came up with it and I really like it: Gabriella. I like the idea of Gabby or Ella as nicknames MUCH better than Izzy! I know that regardless of my distaste for people calling her Izzy they all would have eventually.

Physical changes…of course the belly is now growing much more quickly! I still don’t think I’m overly big for being nearly 7 months, which is good. I’m weighing in at 172 right now…that is still REALLY hard to look at on the scale! I’m only gaining 4-5 pounds a month though, which is pretty good, probably not great, but good. I’ve definitely been eating a bit better since being home and having all my stuff and being able to cook for 2 again. My fingernails and hair are actually starting to see the positive benefits finally too. Probably the last 2-3 weeks the hair has gotten more lustrous and shiny and the fingernails have started growing and are thicker/healthier and whiter. Kind of a cool side effect. A not so cool side effect is that I am definitely having more gas…blech! It is probably most annoying from the point of   being all bloated and uncomfortable because it seems to take a while to get rid of and there doesn’t seem to be much rhyme or reason to what sets it off!

I’ve been listening to a lot of classical music while working…I think the baby likes it. I know that I certainly do, so it’s not like it’s hard for me to do! I honestly feel a little more focused if I’ve got some good classical playing in the background. I also shock myself sometimes that I know what so many of the tunes are and who the composer is! I guess some of that really stuck with me even after 15+ years!

Copy of the Evite for the Baby Shower… (for posterity’s sake!)

Host: Carrie Denk
Location: Papago Brewing
7107 East McDowell Road
Scottsdale, AZ 85257 US
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When: Saturday, January 23, 3:00PM    Add to my Outlook Calendar
Phone: 602-319-3629
Hey Diddle Diddle, have you seen Katherine’s Middle???

We are tickled pink and happy to say,
Alas, a darling Micro-Wilson is on the way!
There will be no more pub crawls from Phoenix to Tempe,
But instead a sweet baby girl crawling for all to see.

In honor of the expecting parents and sweet soul soon to arrive,
Please join us in raising a Pint or two.
Doesn’t matter whether it’s a Stout, Ale, Lager or Wheat,
As long as we soon see those cute tiny feet!

Although cards are nice
They are read once or twice
A book is a treasure
Forever and Forever
Instead of a card
To be put aside
Please give baby girl Wilson
A book with your name inside

We realize that many may not be able to travel for the event
Even if just to escape your cold winters and bask in our sun.
We wanted you to know that you will definitely be missed
And the party just won’t be as fun!

The couple is registered at Target and Buy Buy Baby.

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