I’m being a complete goofball AND completely serious here: William Shatner’s website looks like a horrible, sad mess. A HOT HOT MESS.

And I can fix it for him!

So I’m launching a campaign to get William Shatner, the awesome Captain Kirk himself, to hire me as his new web designer.

Dear Captain Kirk, your website should be MADE OF AWESOME.

If you’re so inclined, you can click here for that tweet, and retweet it. That way maybe he’ll see it and decide that yes, he does – in fact – need a WEB DESIGNER.

Guess what?! FINALLY THE SECOND PODCAST IS DONE OMG.

Special Guest: Sarah Smyczynski, the Geeky Wife, who also happens to be my new assistant (YAY!)
Find her here: The Geeky Wife (her blog) and @leianajade on Twitter

Topics covered include:
- how most post-wedding advice seems to consist of ‘Haha you have no idea how much this is going to suck’
- the dynamics of long-distance relationships
- how difficult it can be to learn new ways of communicating
- the awesome Matt, Sarah’s husband (also @stanmanx on Twitter)
- the awesome Troy, my husband (also @troyacklin on Twitter)
- how Guild Wars, one of our favoritest MMORPGs, makes a kickass online date

Download here, or click to listen: Caffeinated Podcast, Episode Two.

And please, leave us comments! We live to read your comments. And also, we live to make MORE PODCASTS. :)

Hello, lovelies!

I was asking around Twitter a few days ago about formatting awesome ebooks because… drumroll… I am creating an ebook from ten of my own favorite blog posts of all time.

And it’s going to be FREE! Hooray!

Also, I woke up this morning (having slept on my side and snuggled up to my sweetheart husband) with the worst neck-back-shoulder lockup I’ve ever had. Couldn’t move my neck, couldn’t get up off the bed by myself, couldn’t put my robe on unassisted. IT SUCKED.

I’m still really super sore, but some medicine and plenty of water to drink and lots of careful stretching here and there throughout the day has made it better. You bet your butt I’m sleeping ON MY BACK, no snuggling allowed, to let my spine rest in a nice straight sort of alignment tonight. I do NOT want to repeat this morning, EVER.

Um. That’s it! For now. ;)

Good light, good day. :)

So this hair! It’s odd, guys.

By now, I am used to not having any. It doesn’t brush my shoulders or my neck. It doesn’t get in my way, EVER. It’s easy to wash, easy to forget about. For the first few weeks, I actually kept forgetting to take SHOWERS because I was accustomed to my dirty hair reminding me to go wash up. (No, I didn’t forget for two weeks straight! Ewww.)

Sometimes it’s very soft to the touch, and other times it seems very wiry. I have insanely thick hair and also, apparently, numerous cowlicks that I didn’t know about. NOW I know why my bangs never cooperate without severe disciplinary action, and why my hair really only likes to go in one particular sort of way.

Also, I’ve mostly gotten over my apprehension about my looks. For a girl who’s had long-ish hair most of her life, and who defined some of her beauty by what kind of good-or-bad hair day she was having, it’s so very odd not to have much hair to speak of. It’s not that I feel like a different person now – it’s more that I realized that my hair has nothing whatsoever to do with my attractiveness.

My beauty is in the way I speak, the way I act, the way I walk and look at people and what makes me laugh. My beauty is in my eyes, my smile, the dimple I love (that I inherited from my Dad’s side of the family). My beauty is in the curves I have that I’ve accepted after so many years of hating them. My beauty is in my attitude.

In a weird and surprising way, I am grateful that we had lice in our house in December. Without that stress, and without my last-ditch attempt at sanity (by shaving my own head), I would never have discovered this gift:

That I am myself no matter what I look like.

Hi, awesome people!

I just sent the first edition of my Very Caffeinated Awesome Newsletter (stop laughing, it’s an AWESOME title) this morning, to a group of 22 totally with-it people.

If you’re not on the list yet (and you’re probably not! ONLY 22 OF YOU ARE ON IT, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR!), you can sign up for it right over there (pointing to sidebar), and you even get a neat little ebook with it.

Then let me know you subscribed and I’ll make sure you get today’s copy of the newsletter. :)

And I forgot to put this part in the newsletter, oops

My best friend Sarah is doing a survey of married and non-married people (a very friendly survey!), and it’s research for a book she’s writing.

Oooh! Research!

If you want to join in, here are the direct links to the survey:

For married people: Marriage Survey
For non-married people: Relationship Survey

Thanks bunches, I love you guys. :)

The lovely and awesome Marilyn tagged me, so here are one favorite photos of each of my four kiddos. ;)

(Apologies for TWO POSTS IN A ROW full of cuteness! I’m sure you’re all throwing up unicorns by now.)

Elisabeth, age nine

Joseph, age seven

Ian, age four

Serenity, age 10 months