Musings of an almost-not-pregnant mom

Well, its finally that time of day when there is peace on earth... or at least in our home.

It's Nap Time!

So, why aren't I sleeping, you may ask.

(Well, I'll pretend I didn't hear you since I'm already onto another thought.)

I am secretly hoping that this will be my last week of pregnancy. This pregnancy has been easy: very little physical pain, very little nausea, very little fatigue(And, its a good thing, too, since I have 2 children to keep up with.), and (shockingly) a fairly modest widening of the girth. Its widened a lot, but it is more basketball-belly and less whole-body-blob than my last 2 pregnancies.

But, now, at the end, the easiness of it is giving way to pain, aches, fatigue, nausea (strange to me at this stage, but anyway...), and chaos in the household. I've never wished for a friend who wanted to do my laundry before... Anyway, I was sort of thinking the household chaos would not ensue until after Junior was born. NOT!

Tonight the Relief Society is throwing a baby shower for me... So, maybe I'll remember a camera, and have some pictures of the HUGE belly for you! Maybe not. My memory has been a rare companion lately.

My friend Ann recently asked me why I'm not giving birth at home. And, you know what? I didn't really have an answer. I hope someday to be the kind of person who has a great, logical reason for all the choices I make. Or, at least, A spiritual prompting. After I showed Grace some under-water birth videos, she asked me why we don't have our baby at home, in the tub. I told her it was because we didn't know a doctor who would help us do that. But, really, I guess I was just too busy this time around to try to "beat the system". So, I just picked a DR from our insurance, etc.

Catch y'all later.

Old Websites Part 2

After making SpiralEye, I went to college and made Ubernube after my first year. Still pretty lousy, but getting better, I think. It hosted my very short claymation video work in progress and my industrial design work. (that was a fun class!)
Here are a few pictures from it:



I'm particularly proud of my design solutions in Unicron V2.0.

A few years later I added more recent work and sketches to "Floating Islands".
I actually still like this design out of all my sites the best. It has the feel I like the most. A little dreamlike, and it's really easy to navigate. That's nice too.

A couple images from there:



I also put up some old work that hadn't appeared anywhere else before:


More tomorrow.

Old Websites

Hello! Royal here. Around 2000 I started learning how to make webpages, and I made my very first one. Since then, I keep making new ones and abandoning the old ones. It's surprising how some of them are still floating around the web.

First, there's SpiralEye. I slapped up some thumbnails and some MIDI files and was really happy with the website. Now I think it's pretty lousy, but it does still host some of my older artwork from high school. I even posted some of my very first computer generated work. A couple pictures from there:


More tomorrow.

It's snowing!

It is snowing outside! Here in Kentucky.

Just thought I'd mention that....

Extreme Pine Wood Derby

The Elders got together last Friday for our own "Extreme Pine Wood Derby". It was a lot of fun. I placed third. Check it out!

Now! Reposted for your cleaner, better enjoyment!

I still win third in this version!

Extreme Pine Wood Derby

Metacafe put up some not-nice thumbnails at the end of my Pine Wood Derby Video, so I reposted it above, minus the additions.