Nora’s birthday, while small, went really well. Nora doesn’t like being the center of attention unless she specifically asks for it, so having such a small party seemed to be much more enjoyable for her. She hung out with pretty much everyone there. The only time she showed her reluctance was during a stirring rendition of happy birthday (which you can see in the pictures on the kids site).
More importantly, I feel like I had major quality time with both kids. The downside was that I didn’t really get to see Lisa. This is one of those things I mentioned in entries months prior. We’re working on it.
Finally, I managed to get a few things done on Sunday: hang pictures in the basement (five total; 3 diplomas and two paintings) and install an adapter panel in my car. I picked up an ipod video/audio adapter that uses the dock instead of the headphone jack and it sounds significantly better. It gives me a really good reason to finish with the music project (which in fairness died because Jaya killed my portable drive).
Install is a misnomer, though. I need to take a dremel to the dash to permanently mount it. Aided by a flashlight, I tore apart my dash at 9pm to run wires. Lisa (god bless her) let me do this without second guessing me. It took a lot of effort to get out of the car at work this morning – the sound quality was that enjoyable. I’m very excited for warmer weather to install the better speakers, wire the amp to the fronts and install the lcd in the roof.
I’ve been loading some videos onto my ipod and dingoo; ideally, I’ll be installing the DVD player in Lisa’s car. Not sure when or how that’ll happen. I can install the overhead LCD in my car guilt-free as Lisa’s car has overhead airbags and a sunroof – that isn’t something I’d touch. My willingness to work on cars ends when it becomes a security risk.
It should definitely be an interesting spring.
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