Yes, it was kind of a bummer that I was sick for the entire cruise. And not all of our time ashore was as much fun as it could have been. But it doesn’t matter; this was still one of, if not the, best vacations I’ve ever been on. There was something amazing about traveling from place to place effortlessly, without even having to change hotel rooms, and having a choice of food and entertainment at virtually all hours.

And this was our honeymoon… I feel even closer to Wayne than I did before we left, though I would not have thought that was possible. He planned this whole trip and he was *awesome* – he took care of things but was considerate of what I wanted, he was patient with my occasional limitations, and we had a great time just being together. It almost didn’t matter what we did, but the fact that we were doing really fun stuff just made it even better.

Cruising isn’t appropriate for every vacation, and it has a few drawbacks, but I think we will definitely be doing this again. Next time to somewhere warm, so we can spend more time outside!

Today was my birthday! I’ll spare you trying to guess, it’s number 47. I’m getting oooold! :)

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As you may have noticed, if anyone is still here, I haven’t had much time to post recently. I have had this problem all my life… when I was young, I loved the *idea* of keeping a diary or journal, but never kept up with one for more than a few days. I don’t write small amounts very well; when I set out to write something it’s usually going to be long and detailed, and that takes a lot of time and energy. So, despite frequent decisions to “get back to the blog”, it tends not to happen.

However, today is the first day of a 10 day vacation, and that will at least give me something to write *about*. So here we go…

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!

My stats have gone nuts since C4… I’m guessing a bunch of you were curious about the new chick and somehow found this site. :)

You’re all more than welcome to keep reading, but I want to make sure you know that this is not in any way a tech blog. I don’t really have one of those right now, since my WebObjects site has been dormant for the last year. This blog is written mostly for my circle of close friends, most of whom are not at all technical, and for anyone else who wants to read along.

I hope you’ll stick around… the more the merrier. I just want to make sure you know what you’re getting into. :) And if you feel like it, drop me a line; I’d love to know who my readers are.