Month: November 2006

Good morning! We all slept well – except me. I don’t know, a bit nervous or something. At 11:30 pm, I finally had to crawl into bed with Vincent so I could finally fall asleep.

The kids are in bed, Ruby has pooped and the dishes are done. My day is done! Edda puked up her snack today, but she has been complaining about eating snack at school for about a week now, but she eats well at home and seems chipper, I’m not sure what’s up. There are lots of new kids in the class, maybe she’s just getting used to having less teacher attention? I dunno.

I had a nice breakfast with a mom of a kid in Edda’s class – we walked over to the prata shop and I had my usual.

Vince also needed some major cajoling to get out of the house while Edda was having a therapy session. We made it out of the house after a bit of crying and went on to do ab crunches in the exercise park.

We handed out our Thanksgiving invitations and everyone seems excited to come. Yikes, 2 turkeys maybe? I hope I can find pecans in the grocery stores, sometimes they can be hard to find here.

Vince made a friend out of a broom.

I am playing a piece by Bartok with a wacky key signature. Even though your hands don’t change positions everything is kind of weird sounding and not what you are expecting so I can’t really play it. Yet.

Also, I’ve always been really keen on bird watching, it seems like such a great hobby to have. Go out into the woods and look and see a bird and then look it up in a field guide and then check it off a list. I have read many books about bird watching and they all make it seem so exciting. But the few times I’ve tried it, I realize that birds tend to be pretty small and quick little buggers and they are hard to find when they cheep-cheep-cheep and you can’t really tell if they are in front of you or behind you. So maybe I should convert bird IDing to plant IDing, at least you can walk up to a plant and take as many pictures as you want and they usually grow on the ground. So here’s a tree right outside our house. I have no idea what kind of tree it is, but I’ll figure it out someday.

I suppose I can just ask the gardeners.

We were pleasantly surprised to find out that we have about 10 persimmons on our tree that we planted about five years ago. It is a good way of decorating our yard during winter months. I got this idea from the residents of Beijing, China. Of course, their trees have a lot more. I hope they will stay there all winter. I wished it could have more, maybe, next year.

Well, I didn’t get out of bed until 11:30 today. I didn’t get into work until 1pm. That’s definitely the latest I have ever come into work so far. Things are still pretty busy, tho I’m good at avoiding work.

Rock climbing class starts tomorrow. I’m psyched. Arif and Tahera are joining me, and we’ll get a pretty good crowd going on Thursday also. Acting class is over. Honestly, I’m not sure what to think about it. It was fun, but really waaaay too short. I’ve decided I like the interactive classes a whole lot better than the lecture format classes. I’ll have to take something next semester. On a side note, I’m going to see a play called Doubt. Some people in the class were working on scenes from that play, so I’m curious to see how it’s professionally put on. Ronnie is going to go with me.

Also, I got a book of NY Times crossword puzzles. It’s got a lot of the easy ones, and it seemed a whole lot easier than printing them out. Unfortunately, they are missing the titles which make it a little harder. Ah well…

Also, since Choon was kind enough to link to our blog… here the link to his blog.

Everyone slept well.

Vince has already dumped a whole bottle of talcum powder on his head. He looked like a cute baby polar bear. Ran to get camera instead of washing off child. Vince got to the sink faster than I got to the camera – so no photo.

Jeremy’s off tonight to Germany. I hope he packed some warm stuff.

We are getting ready to host a Thanksgiving shin-dig here in our tiny apartment. We are going to invite everyone we know, which is less than a crowd but more than a handful. I wonder if they are going to show up. We only have 6 chairs. Hmmm…

 

Since I know now that Choon is reading our blog, I thought I’d put a picture of him up. 🙂 Last night we went to eat ethiopian food – it was the first time in like 10 years when I had a bad experience in college with it. I vowed never to eat it again. Perhaps I was young. Perhaps I was uncultured. After all, I don’t think I liked sushi back then either. So we all went to this place, Zeni, and it was pretty good. There was the grilled beef dish that was great, and there was the chicken that you were supposed to eat with like feta-ish cheese that I grew to love over the course of dinner. The veggies weren’t anything spectacular. Go figure. 

Here are a few videos of Edda at the park with us this morning. She has been in a pissy mood all weekend – crying and whining a bit more than usual. On the videos you can hear her grinding her teeth and making her usual vocalizations. We are encouraging her to copy sounds like, “Boo” and “Ma”, with minimal success so far. She’s not mouthing her hand – which is a bit unusual for her.

Walking around some more…

You know, if I do buy the digital SLR, I won’t be able to take these little videos. Hmmm…

Vince took me out to lunch today. We went to a sushi place that had a conveyor belt bringing little plates of sushi to the table (Jeremy hates this place, so it’s just as well it was just me and Vince).

Why does Vince look like Mr. Bean? It’s because he ordered:

And for you folks putting on fall/winter gear, we all went swimming outside today!

And dresses too, someday I hope to have a turnip dress!