James Cochran’s Blog

Another fun week here. When I started this week out last Wednesday I posted this to my diary:

Seems like I’m tired everyday I wake up. Got more Access work dumped on me today. Came home and we watched Wizard of Oz. James seemed to love it. I think Lucie smiled and laughed at me today. Although she could have just been cooing.

Last Friday we went out to dinner with some of my family I never get to see. My Uncle Tom who owns Archers Spot in Bloomfield Indiana ordered a steak that came out gray. He told them, “If this is medium well, then bring it to me medium.” Of course what do they do? They bring out a bloody steak. It was seriously raw. It was all down hill from here. I understand Tom’s stance but it was uncomfortable. Threats of throwing things on the floor and, I’m pretty sure, throat punches were flying everywhere. Luckily there were no actual throat punches. We ate, it was fun seeing my family, and we left. And as I wrote in my diary…

I guess that will be the last time we go to ocharleys with him

The weekend was pretty good. The Colts lost in the playoffs but I had an awesome time with some of the best people in my life watching the game. Then the next day I was able to play guitar in church which hasn’t happened since before James was born two years ago. We went to Jonathon Byrds for lunch after that and since the kids got to take a nap so late and it was so difficult to get James down I decided that I deserved a nap of my own. Unfortunately that meant I had to take two Tylenol PM that night to get to sleep. Monday morning came and I was hating myself.

Tuesday brought us a big snow. I came home and had to shovel the driveway. I remember when snow used to be fun. Now it’s just tiring. Fear not though, tomorrow is a day off and so is Monday. Big four day weekend and I look forward to taking James out in the snow and loving on Angi and Lucie. Come back next week for the exciting details…

I wouldn’t be a very good absentee blogger unless I made a New Years resolution to blog more. And confirm it by blogging that I’m going to blog more. So here is that post. You know, the one you generally see dated right after new years and then it’s August and the guy hasn’t posted anything else. Yeah, that can be me! But I have a plan.

To begin with I started using posterous, a website that makes it super simple to blog anything with through various methods such as email. I’ve also been writing daily (mostly) on a website called OhLife. It’s an online diary, or journal if you prefer. Every night it emails me and simply asks how my day went. I email it back a few sentences or paragraphs and it records it for me. It’s the only thing I’ve ever used that’s kept me writing frequently.

My goal is to create short posts with posterous every now and again with pictures. And about once a week roll up what’s been happening using OhLife. It will look a little something like this:

Leading up to New Years it seems the whole family got sick. I had to take a day off work to take care of everyone which of course meant I eventually got sick. I walked into work this past Monday coughing and generally looking of death and now regret not taking the day off. I switched James to the big boy Tylenol which means he has to take more of it but the dosage contains the same amount of medicine. It hasn’t been easy.

There was New Years of course which was a blast. Had a few friends over and watched the ball drop and rocked out to some rock band. I’m super excited about my baby girl growing up at the same time as my friends’ baby girl!

I saw the Social Network last Thursday. To begin with I thought the score of it was awesome. I think it was nominated for a Grammy and it deserves to be. Second, it kind of made me sad knowing I’ll never be as smart as I want to be. Some of the tings people can do is just amazing.

New Years day brought a surprise birthday party for Angi’s grandma. she turned 90 and the church by her house let us all come in and have a little party. James had a blast running around with the other kids and everyone complimented Lucie on how cute she is.

It was truly a good week with fun times with our family and friends. Praying for many more of those weeks this year. I’d be happy with 52 of them

P.S. Colts are in the playoffs. Go Colts!!!

This post is way over due. I found it as a draft and I figured I’d just go ahead and post it. Forgive the out of datedness. P.s. My brother and sister in law had twins. That’s four kids now! Yowza!

Another Thanksgiving has come and gone. Jason and Katie came down for our second annual Give Thanks to Crazy Fun Weekend. They came down Wednesday which lead us into the third annual night out before Thanksgiving where we had a tasty dinner and then played Rock Band into the wee hours of the night.
Every year we rotate which holiday will be spent with which family. This year Thanksgiving was with the Quills. The dinner was awesome of course and it’s always fun seeing everyone. We were treated to some special news that my brother and sisiter in law are pregnant again with their second child together (third in all)!
Angi’s dad cleaned out their mostly finished basement so we were able to get our some games of pool going and a little air hockey. It also made a great place for all the little ones to run around and scream their heads off at a safe distance from yours truly.
My mom came and had dinner with us which was real nice. She works retail so of course she couldn’t stay all night since she had to be at work before midnight but she stuck it out until almost six. That’s how much she loves me.