Archive for 2010

Merry Christmas!

December 29, 2010 By Dianthys Leave a Comment

This year, on Christmas Day, the little kids and I had planned to go and visit my parents in Charlottesville, VA. But the weather had other plans, as a blizzard swept through Atlanta, and our flights were cancelled. I have to give mad props to Delta airlines, who not only got us rebooked for a [...]

Filed Under: Health and Well Being

Jake

December 23, 2010 By Dianthys 3 Comments

Yesterday, GT came to work with me. He wasn’t sick or anything, but he just wanted to hang out. Now, I have a pretty fun office. We have Wii, and air hockey, and ping pong. GT spent most of the day playing Wii. He played with a dog for a while (people bring their dogs [...]

Filed Under: At the Office, From a child's mouth

Plague

December 18, 2010 By Dianthys Leave a Comment

I’m fairly certain the plague has descended upon our household. Last weekend, at this time, TK was up, hacking and coughing and miserable. Four hours later, he’d gone to the doctor and gotten a steroid shot and the biggest horse-pill antibiotics I’ve ever seen. By Monday, he felt great. Conversely, by Monday, I felt awful. [...]

Filed Under: Health and Well Being, In the Mommy Trenches

Awkward

December 8, 2010 By Dianthys 1 Comment

I’ve been working on an analysis for one of our clients for a few weeks now, but not all of the data feeds have come in. I sent a quick email this morning to one of the guys on the team to give him the status. Here’s what I MEANT to type: “Hey, still waiting [...]

Filed Under: At the Office

Shiny

November 29, 2010 By Dianthys Leave a Comment

Tonight, my Monday web analytics class was canceled so I decided to go over to Sunshine’s house so we could exercise together. Mind you, this is an activity we’re both less than thrilled about – but we dream of small waistlines, so there you go. On the way over, we drove by all of these [...]

Filed Under: From a child's mouth

Saturday Marketing Chat

November 27, 2010 By Dianthys Leave a Comment

OK, so I didn’t write LAST Saturday about any marketing-related topic. That’s because I was in the hills of Texas, doing the Warrior Dash, far away from modern technology. (I’m exaggerating. There was modern technology a-plenty. I was just really tired after the race and didn’t feel like blogging.) If you’ve never done a crazy [...]

Filed Under: Deep thoughts

My dog

November 27, 2010 By Dianthys Leave a Comment

I was at a fancy dinner with my friend Mia a few weeks ago, and she says, “Why don’t you ever blog about your dog?” Now, let it be stated for the record that Mia and I have completely different dog-owner-mindsets. Her dog isn’t crated. He sleeps with her. She goes outside with him. She [...]

Filed Under: Deep thoughts

Thanksgiving

November 25, 2010 By Dianthys 1 Comment

This morning, I woke up at 6:00 to start working on today’s feast. TK always gets very excited about our holiday traditions, and brining the turkey is one of those traditions. The night before, we mix up the brine, as a family, in the big cooler. We place the turkey in, cover it with ice, [...]

Filed Under: Deep thoughts, In the Mommy Trenches, Love and Marriage

Take A Yellow

November 18, 2010 By Dianthys Leave a Comment

I had lunch with my good friends Argyle and Lucy this week. We hadn’t seen each other in at least two months. Yet we picked up right where we left off. I suppose that’s how you know you’re good friends. We were sitting at Champps, eating sandwiches, while talking. I happened to glance up at [...]

Filed Under: At the Office

Dance class

November 14, 2010 By Dianthys Leave a Comment

On Friday, I noticed a 50% ladies’ dance class offer at a local gym in Rockwall. I thought it was a really good deal, so I crafted an email to my friend Sunshine. “Hey, there’s a really good deal on this website, and I know you’re getting sick of running. You want to do this [...]