1 Year Ago
Wow, a lot has happened in the last year. Last May12th was my last day at Yahoo. The following I was running errands and getting things ready for our big move to Seattle. Steph was completing her last week of work, and Zacher turned 1.
Now I’ve been at Amazon for almost a year…and I got to say, things are looking good. It’s a good place to work. It helps tremendously that I’m on a great team - each person works hard, wants to do well, and is genuinely fun to work with.
This next weekend we’ll be down in the bay area for Zach’s 2nd birthday. We fly down on his birthday (Thursday May17th) and we’ll return on Sunday. The following weekend we are staying in a cottage in Discovery Bay just west of Port Townshend. This will be the calm before the storm…Nate’s storm that is.
Zacher has been acting like a person on depression drugs - he has really good moods and really cranky moods, but nothing in between. And if you are not careful, the moods change almost immediately. Sounds like his dad! Tonight we had a big win (I think) in the Zacher cranky mood phase. He worked himself into a crying frenzy. So I shut him in his room and after about 5 minutes he stopped crying. I walked in and he was sitting on his bed indian style. We read a little and watched a little TV. He was asleep by 8:15pm which is early for him.
I haven’t figured out how much time I’m going to take off of work when Nate is born. Definitely 2 weeks. I want to take 3 but not necessarily consecutively. I’m thinking of taking a week in September so we can spend a long weekend somewhere. This also gets complicated by work since September and October are very busy times. Steph will be off of work from July 13th to October 22nd.