Hard conversations
We all have them, some are easier than other but they all have their own level of awkwardness no matter how many times we rehearse what we are going to say. The hard conversations I have had are numerous from the awkward “I have a crush on you. Do you like me?” to “Do you [...]
The odd woman out
That’s me, I am the odd woman out in my home. I have two boys and my husband and often it feels like an all boy house as I cuddle in my favorite spot on the couch and attempt to read something girly. I’m happy to have my boys, they are awesome, I wouldn’t trade [...]
Enabling AWS Console Login for IAM Users
Posted by RyanG in Uncategorized on April 4, 2011
Last week, I told you how you can use Amazon’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) offering to better secure the services and tools you use to manage your AWS environment with service accounts. Well on February 14th IAM got that much sweeter when they opened up the ability for IAM users to login to the [...]
Motherhood is complicated
You know those moments when you are ready for a change, something big that will put some pep in your step? I have an afro. It has taken years to get it this long. My boys know nothing but me with braids or wearing my afro big. Every now and again I consider chopping it [...]
Things I never thought I’d say
I was told on numerous occasions by the veterans of motherhood that you’d be amazed with the strange things you will, not may, but will say. It’s completely true. I was amazed by the truth of it when i had my first child, but the things that have come out of my mouth since having [...]
Create AWS Service Accounts with IAM
Posted by RyanG in Cloud computing on March 28, 2011
I’ve been making use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) quite a lot lately. In order to really enjoy the benefits of Cloud Computing (automation, agility, etc) I’ve had to use a number of tools to interact with AWS on my behalf. All of these external tools ask for the same thing to enable them to [...]
Multitasking at it’s finest
My mom is one of the finest multitaskers, she did fantastic job of raising my sister and I as a single parent. I watched her on numerous occasions doing a million different tasks at once and doing so with a smile. I have no idea how she did it but she did it well. Now [...]
New and Newer
I have been kindly blessed with two beautiful boys. My eldest is going to be three soon and my youngest is six months old. They are amazing, interested in everything, and are already best friends. I know it sounds silly but when I was pregnant my youngest would kick furiously when his big brother was [...]
Please Standby…
Posted by RyanG in Uncategorized on March 21, 2011
You may (or may not) have noticed that there has not been much activity here over the past couple months. There are a number of reasons for that, but I’ll spare you the excuses. I’m here to tell you that things are about to change.
My gated community
Moving on up! Ok, not really. My youngest little man is mobile and moving at ridiculous speeds. When I went to his four month appointment his physician mentioned that I should have the baby gates up and prepared to keep baby boy from any and all possible dangerous incidents, well all that wouldn’t involve my [...]
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