Day 44

Today, I, Anna (Ben's wife) will be blogging, because Ben wanted a break.

The last few days, I've been researching what Time Trails needs to sell securities to investors. Basically, it's like selling stock. I've never done any work in this area before, so I was overwhelmed a bit with trying to find this information. Thankfully, Debbie pointed me to the U.S. Securities and Exchange website (www.sec.gov) where I could find the forms I needed. Reading that stuff is about as exciting as watching your fingernails grow.

So, that leads me to today's activities. I took the links and paperwork I found and studied them more closely. I took some notes and tried to decide what I thought might be relevant to Time Trails. I also did some research on the exponential growth of websites that Time Trails will be modeled after. Recorded some numbers, took more notes, etc. I also printed off a form that we'll need for the IRS.

It's strange that I enjoy doing this, but I love it! Hey, someone has to be the odd ball and gets satisfaction from the boring work.

Other than that, I played with Lily, complained about the hot weather, and wished that Ben didn't want to build my character by refusing to use the air conditioner. I curse hot weather...

Lily is the absolute highlight of my day. While Ben was practicing for a show he has Friday night, Lily screamed in my face. Finally after 30 minutes of this, I found out it was because she was hot. So what do people like to do when it's hot? What else but swim? Since we don't have a pool the next best thing is the bath tub. Or in Lily's case the kitchen sink. It's just her size, and I don't have to worry about her drowning quite so much as I might if she were in the bathtub.

Well, the cool water did the trick. Her screaming stopped as soon as I put her in the water. She splashed in the water for about 10 minutes and laughed and smiled. Oh she just melts my heart!




After that I introduced her to the best toys in the world: a pot and a wooden spoon. I remember using them as a drum set when I was a kid. She couldn't quite figure out how to use the spoon as a drumstick. Actually, she was using as it as a drumstick, but of the chicken variety not the musical instrument kind. However, she did realize that she could beat on the pot with her hand and make a pretty cool rhythm. (As an after thought, I realized that I might regret introducing this to her someday...)

Ben came home, fed Lily her bottle, and she fell asleep in his arms.

Now I'm ready for bed...I really hope it's not too hot tonight.