It's Alive! It's Alive!

It's alive! Today was the first time I felt the little man kick. I had put a pair of head phones up to M's tummy and piped some Enya through the head phones. I asked M if she could feel how he was moving to the music. She said that it felt like he was sort of moving his arms back and forth slowly. I told M that I'd like to do some experiments with different types of music. For example;
The Beatles, Dave Brubeck, Van Morrison, Edvard Grieg, even perhaps some light techno, but the essentials first. We probably won't try it for a nother month or so, but I 'm interested to see what happens and how he reacts to the different variations of music.

On Friday evening I went down to the Upfront Theatre which is Ryan Stiles's new little improv theatre downtown. I was given a call by the manager of the theatre to come down and meet the people and get a tour of the space. It's a really nice space, it seats about a hundred or so, and seems to sell out every weekend. When I was down there I really didn't think that I would get to meet Ryan Stiles, beacause he shows up when ever he wants, seeing how he owns the place. So anyway, I was in the lighting /sound booth talking to a person of the visiting improv group from Seattle, when Ryan Stiles pops in and says hi. It sort of cought me off guard, but he was really nice and friendly. When he is visiting he M.C.'s the show. The group that was prefoming that night was very funny, and at the end of the long piece they finish with improv games and thats when Ryan joins in with them. It was all very funny and made it a great ending to a great night. I do plan to go back and volunteer some more cause it was really awsome experience.

So as I sit here pondering away I can only think of one thing,.........Life if pretty good.:-)

It's been a long, long time.

Alots been going on in the last few months. First off I want to send my congrats to our dear friends Diego and his wife on thier new born daughter Zoe. I have a feeling that she'll grow up to be a wonderful person and have a great imagination. Also my wife and I have found out the gender of our child. It's going to be a boy!!!! Oh yes a boy he said a boy!! His name will be Adrian Conrad Sheridan. M and I sat down one day to decide the fate of our childs name. As some of you know we both have all of our parents lasts names. We were trying come up with different combinations of our four last names. We ended up with about eight different combos but only Conrad Sheridan sounded the better of the group. Both M and I had to make sure that later on in life Adrian wouldn't have to endure any ridicule or stress with having 50 last names. So with luck he'll be the talk of the town and one heck of a Theatre guy. (no pressure)

On to more new business, no punn intended. My wife and I have finally gotten our home business off the ground. Its titled Pixie Digital Photographic Restoration, "Recapturing your Memories one Pixel at a Time". We're going to offer photo restoration and all related services. I don't want to go too much into a new subject but most info you can find on the official web site for it. http://www.geocities.com/pixierestoration It's still very much under construction but the logo I came up with is pretty awsome. Thank you Adobe.

The summer theatre season is over at the Mt. Baker Theatre. Now my summer is really empty, but hopefully not for long. Yesterday I got a call from the Upfront Theatre, which is a new small theatre here in B'ham. The person who I talked to asked if I could come in on Friday and/or Saturday so that I could get to meet everyone there. For those who don't know this theatre is owned by Ryan Stiles, from (The Drew Carey Show, and Who's Line). Now it's not a paid position, it's volunteer, but it will keep me in the technical theatre mindset. It should be pretty awsome, and I'll keep everyone up to speed on that.

One last thing I'm going to use my Reel Songs web page to post around the house, baby and mommy pictures until I figure how to post pics on the blog here. http://www.geocities.com/radioshowkugs Well that's all for now but I won't keep the public hanging for long. Catch you all on the flip side.

Slow Summer

It's been a slow summer so far. I've been waiting for a call from a local custom photo lab in regards to a job interview from the begining of the month. I called them the other day for an update on thier decision on my interview. They said that they have been really busy and not really gotten a chance to make a final choice. Sooner or later I might hear from them. Who knows? Most of my days have been spent by doing dishes, looking for jobs online and watching T.V. School will be starting in a few months and then the baby will come shortly there after. And then it will no longer be a slow summer, fall or well it will no longer be slow.

Baby's first pictures

Here are a few of the pictures that turned out well. The baby waved at us. It was pretty cool. The ultrasound was done almost a week ago so it's hard to believe that the baby is already bigger. :-)

Jobs, Jobs Everywhere!

Recently around here has been quite exciting. Last week as some of you might know I got a phone call from Quicksilver Photo Lab seeing if I was interested in a part time job position. I called them back and told them that I was very interested in a job with them. I should be hearing back from them either Monday or Tuesday WOO HOO !!!!. In the mean time I have been preparing all my resume, reference and cover letter infromation for a job position at Mt. Baker Theatre. The position is for (Lead Tech), which is a sort of an assistant technical director job. I'll be turning in all that infromation on Monday, so this past week has been quite fun. M is doing good, getting a little more tired now-a-days, but besides that alls well. M's mom sent out a bunch her maternity clothes from when she was pregnant with M. Also my mom and dad will be out here in Bellingham in two weeks from their trip to Alaska. They'll only be out here for three days, but it will be a great three days when their out here. Our new life is turning out really good and will be getting even better between January 6th and 10th. Tomorrow will be a new day and will bring new adventures.

It's a Good Day

Today we went to meet the Nurse Mid Wife for the first time. She turned out to be a really nice and friendly person. We talked about when around the baby will be due. The nurse used a pregnacy wheel to determine the approx. date, from what we figured the baby will be born somewhere between January 6th and the 10th. It's all really exciting! When we got home we found that we had three new messages on the answering machine. The first message was from Quick Silver Photo Lab. The meassage was asking me if I would be interested in a part-time Job!! I couldn't beleave what I was hearing, because I had filled the application out over a year ago. So I called Quick Silver back as soon as the message ended. Their answering machine picked up and then someone actually answered, and I left a message with them. So hopefully I can get the job and work over the summer and save some money. Ah yes before I forget I would like to thank Diego for the heads up on the job at Mt. Baker. Thank You!

Ah, Friday.......

Friday is finally upon us and it couldn't have happened any sooner. Yesterday I went to Hardware Sales to fill out an application. Little did I know it would take almost two hours to complete. During my stay at Hardware Sales it became apparent that they were definitely hiring, especially with someone calling for help in the Electrical Dept. for almost 30 minutes. I just hope I get called back in for an interview. School is school, the photos I put up at the Bellingham Tech Art show will be coming down today at the closing ceremony. It was pretty cool to hear about what the many people had to say about my pictures. M is doing alright, she really hasn't had any morning sickness yet, but she has had her gag reflex tripped by post nasal drip(icky). That, thankfully, is all that has happened so far. I guess she has been pretty fortunate that it hasn't been worse.

It's an Electricians Life

Back at school for this week. Tomorrow all the students from the BTC electrician program will be going down to Seattle for the Seimens Product show. It's where you can go and check out all the new advances and products in the electrical and electronics field. The Seimens Show travels around the country on it's own company's train. And Seattle will be it's last stop on it's country wide tour, so it should be fun. M and I are doing well while we pick and choose names, which has become somewhat fun. If anyone would to check out the web site for the Seimens Show click on the link below.

Sunday Afternoon

It's Sunday afternoon, and for me it's my day to relax from school. For those people who have not been privy to the news of late, my wife and I are going to be parents. Yes that's correct I am going to be a father. We first found out the day before Mother's Day at excatly 5:45 am. I know because I was asleep at the time. At first we where making ourselfs see a negative test, but of course it was not false (both times). We chose to tell our parents on Mother's Day, which we thought would be a nice surpirse for our mothers. When I called my house back east my mom answered the phone. I asked her how she was doing and then asked her "How do you feel about being a grandmother?" She said that it would be nice, and then a few seconds later my dad soouts from the backgound "It's about time!" My folks were very happy for us. Then, it was M's turn. She had to wait till she got home from work to call her parents. She wasn't sure how they take it. When M called her mom answered and said to her mom "happy Grandmother's day!" C said "what?" pause, "what?" and then alittle later "how did that happen?" Which I thought was little silly. So all and all our familys have taken the news pretty good, and are really happy and excited for us. So far everything is going pretty good and it's turning into just another Sunday Afternoon.