Thanks, mom and dad, for all the wonderful clothes! The kids really needed them and Vince has already worn all the shirts you gave him today. He loves to take on and off clothes. We needed to pick them up from the post office, we all walked to the post office together to pick it up.
Today was a quiet day, it rained all day. So we stayed mostly inside.
Felix Martin Westeson 
We also enjoyed the celeb magazine, all of us spent at least part of the evening leafing through this great American magazine. Thank you Karin!
Thanks for sending the treats in the mail, Vince dove into the animal crackers.
OK, the big news first… Ben called this morning and told us that his son was born on the 20th of Sept, right before midnight. Johanna and the baby (still nameless) are doing well after a long labor and finally a c-section. So happy and glad to add another young member to the family.
Vince was sick a lot of today, runny nose, sneezing and a low grade fever. Not bad, not great either. Took some decongestant and Tylenol. We went out today while Rukia cleaned our house. Here is a photo of Rukia and Edda.
I started my piano lessons today. This is the first time that my piano teacher is younger than me, she’s 20! Anyways, she is going to help me get the rythmn. Finally a teacher who will help me keep time with a metronome! I always thought I have had trouble keeping time in my music. I’m also going to work on having even consistent notes. So my first assignement is from the dreaded Hanon book, working on keeping time and the notes all the same. It’ll be a challenge. Also, I’m going to start taking theory classes as well.
Well it was a pretty good wedding. Had a lot of fun. I would post a picture except for the fact that I was fooling around mostly with someone’s Nikon D70s. I think I’ll have to buy one of those. It’s way too useful. Tho I am half tempted for getting the Nikon D2X.. but it’s probably overkill…
The speech went well. Everyone seemed to like it. Choon’s father had some good quotes. I ended up using your dinner quote Doris. There was a quote in there about sex. It might have been too much, but whatever. I think everyone got a good laugh out of it. 😛
It seemed a bit hectic also. There was some confusion about when they were saying the vows and the speech. Pei-sun ended up losing her vows right before the ceremony and we had to delay like 15 while we tried to reprint them. In the end, we just wrote them over again. It wasn’t terribly complicated since she had written something almost exactly like Choon’s vows.
There was good food as usual at Choon’s. He had another malaysian friend cook a Salad of potatoes, and had ordered 1 thing from various restuarants. Seafood soup from a peruvian place. mutter paneer from shalimar. some chicken and beef kabobs from this afghan place. All the meat was halal for all the Karims who came to the wedding.
Arif and his new wife Tahera are funny. They were absolutely tearing up the dance floor! very very cute.
of course everyone was in town for the big event. for the last week I think i’ve gotten like 4 hours of sleep pretty much every night. stressing about the speech, hanging outwith friend, staying up doing work… sigh
well at least i get to sleep now… sigh
plus the Redskins win in Dallas!
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Went to a craft store, Spotlight, with Julia and Mathilda. Here’s Vince and Mathilda trying out the various goods in the store. Man, they were out of control today.
My computer is dead. The HP people called and told me that I should just forget about it. It’s too old to fix. Oh well. I told Jeremy that I didn’t need a computer anymore – that since I had gone two months without a computer and hadn’t gone crazy myself, why do we need to go out and buy one? Then Jeremy reminded me that he has a job because people go out and buy computers, so maybe we should too. So OK. I’m going to go out and buy a computer. I think. I’m still thinking about it. OK while I’m thinking about it, Jeremy is going to buy one for me. I think it’s going to have an AMD chip. I think that we have only 4 computers to pick from anyways, it shouldn’t be that hard. I think we might have to go the whole nine yards and buy a new printer! Yikes! What will I do with all this new gear. I might have to enter the new millenium.
Today we registered for Appletree Nursery school. Here’s Vince playing with their kitchen set-up while I’m signing him up for class next year. So in November, there is going to be orientation and then in January classes start. I think it will be OK. I can’t believe it’s going to be months before he starts school.