Sharing a song for Good Friday

It is Good Friday, and I was blessed earlier this week  to have Nichole Nordeman's rendition of How Deep the Father's Love For Us come up on my playlist. The powerful lyrics accompanied by her soft, almost wounded voice, do a great job in cutting right to the heart:

   

May this Easter weekend be a time of deep reflection, as well as a joyful time with friends and family!

Street Fighter X Mega Man

You must go download the FREE retro-loving game Street Fighter X Mega Man now! Here's the game trailer if you need some convincing:

Goats yelling like humans and babies eating wasabi

And now for some silly videos. First up, we have a good 'ol compilation of goats yelling like humans:


And then, Chinese parents giving their baby a glob of wasabi...

   

Happy Friday!

New Amazing Spider-Man 2 costume

I'm digging the new costume for the Amazing Spider-Man 2 because it looks closer to the comic book version, and is an improvement on the yellow eyed costume used in the first ASM:

And now a quick comparison with a recent comic cover by artist Humberto Ramos::

It's too bad a lot of people didn't give the new Spidey movie a try, since a casual viewer can only take so much retelling of an origin story (I don't blame you), but casting is top notch and worth a viewing if you're in the mood for some fun super-hero antics. For those psyched for Amazing Spider-Man 2, here's a few photos that popped up recently.

Preparations

An adorable hat the Mrs. knit this weekend

Once it felt like Baby Hsieh's due date would never come, that it was months and months away...and now, with roughly a month to go,  I find myself physically and mentally scrambling to get ready for the his arrival! Granted, I'm not expecting to truly feel 100% "ready" before his arrival, but there are a few tasks that I'd really like to wrap up in the next few weekends:

• Purchase the crib and dresser/changing table at IKEA
• Assemble said crib and dresser
• Purchase the stroller
• Install the car seat

A few of these tasks requires me asking for help, which I seriously struggle with, but something I know I will need to be doing more in the near future. Blame it on a combination of stubbornness and macho/delusional pride.

It also seems like the remaining weekends are going to fly by. A quick glance at the calendar reveals daylight savings time coming up (the bad one where we lose an hour), and in two weekends I'm expecting a wonderful visit from my sister and cousins, who are making the trek from New York to visit us up in Boston...on St. Patrick's Day weekend (an unplanned coincidence). Following that, we've got Palm Sunday and Easter, which I look forward to every year as time of celebration and gratitude. After that, there may be a sliiight decrease in the frequency of blog posts ;)