After all the flurry of preparations for the wedding, then the frantic catching up on all the stuff that got neglected, it was nice to have a relaxed weekend for a change. Saturday Wayne and his friends played D&D, while I caught up on laundry and other exiting chores (I also made them cookies, which won me the designation of “good gaming wife” :). That night we took our friends Scott & Julia and Brian & Lenore out to dinner at the Berlin Inn, to thank them for all their help with the wedding. German food was enjoyed by all.

Sunday (today) we took the dogs to the Oregon Garden in Silverton. It’s about an hour drive from Portland so not exactly convenient, but well worth a visit. Especially since it’s dog-friendly. Afterwards Wayne racked up some good husband points by giving me a massage. Prrrr! :)

Tonight while watching TV I redid the “old site archive” you see linked in the sidebar. It turns out that when you use a website slurper to save the HTML for a Typepad blog, it contains links back to Typepad for things like CSS files. And when I switched littlecatfeet.com over to here, all those links stopped working. At least I found out before my Typepad account went away! I used a program called Little Snapper to take snapshots of each page and save them to PDF. Not all the formatting was preserved but it’s way more readable than the previous copy.

(note to anyone who comes here from Google – Little Snapper was quite buggy for me, crashing and hanging regularly. I ended up having to export the pages one at a time. It also makes large PDFs, that is, you have to scroll around to see the whole thing in the browser. It got the job done, but was sub-optimal in my opinion.)

Update:  after a brief flirtation with Tumblr I ended up moving the blog again, to a self-hosted WordPress instance, so I was able to import all the old posts.  Yay!

Original post:

I’ve just moved this site from Typepad to Tumblr, necessitating putting the old posts into the deep freeze (I couldn’t figure out any way to move them over here as real posts, other than doing it all manually). You can get to them via that “Old Site Archive” link over there on the left (unless you’re on your phone, in which case I think you’re out of luck).

So, what’s new in my life? Well, Wayne and I got married on September 25th, after getting engaged in San Francisco in early June. So wedding planning pretty much took over the summer, but it was actually a lot of fun. Everything went well and we had a great time.

People keep asking me how married life is. To most I just say “same as it ever was”, since we’ve been living together for over a year. But in reality I do feel different, and I think he does too. There’s a deeper bond and sense of commitment, even though we both thought we were fully committed before. I can’t really explain why, but I highly recommend being married. It does make a difference.

I need to post a picture for my beta testing, so here’s a great recent picture of

She of the Tortie ‘Tude:

I hope you all had a great Valentine’s Day!  We spent today cleaning out the garage, which sounds very unromantic, but that’s just because we went out last night.  We went to the Mambo Lounge for some salsa dancing, and had a great time.

I’m watching the Olympics while writing this… spectacular skiier wipeout!  It’s amazingly compelling to watch this stuff considering I don’t know any of these people and don’t really care who wins.

FYI, I’m beta-testing a new version of the program I use for posting, so if anything looks funky, that’s probably why.

Let’s see… Clarklewis and a midnight 5K for New Year’s Eve (also our first anniversary!) and then back to real life. It’s been kind of a blur since then.
We spent last week in Nevada, visiting Wayne’s dad. There isn’t much to do in Indian Springs, but I enjoyed meeting him, along with his wife and several of Wayne’s aunts. I’ve only got one uncle to go, then on to the cousins! :)
What else… I’ve been working, mostly, and going to an endless series of appointments. I’ve been doing acupuncture for my knee, which actually seems to be helping quite a bit. There’s still something wrong with it, yet to be figured out, but I’m almost back to normal now.
High points recently – I finally upgraded to Snow Leopard (of interest to computer geeks only), and I bought a Vita-Mix. Combined with the juicer I got Wayne for Christmas, we now have the ultimate in hippie food accessories! :)
We still have four dogs – I’ve mentioned that, haven’t I? Hmm, guess I haven’t. Wayne’s ex-wife kept their dogs, but the night before Thanksgiving they pulled her over on a walk (trying to chase another dog) and broke her leg. It’s healing very, very slowly, so they’re still with us. It has been interesting… they don’t get along with my cats, so it has really changed the way we do things. We go on a lot more walks, though, and faster, so it has been good from an exercise point of view. I do miss my cats hanging around while we watch TV, though.
Ok, you’re caught up now!