Month: June 2007

R. giving the cactus pinata a final whack!

Edda is always a little off center when she walks, so she uses her abs a lot to maintain her balance. Look at her six pack.

Quince Orchard Community day at the library. What would a community day be without a fire truck?

Looked at Circle of Hope Therapeutic Riding for Edda. Gave the horses some carrots, saw a horse getting a bath, got to see a 3 month old foal! Edda laughed and laughed when she saw the foal.

For father’s day, we are hosting the DC Martins family dinner. It’s a great father’s day gift for Jeremy because he loves to cook and he hasn’t really, really cooked for a while. He started tonight by roasting the pablano chilies.

Edda and her cottage cheese mess at dinner. If we ever do the gluten free casein free diet with her, cottage cheese will be the thing she will miss the most.

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That’s my weight for this morning. Woo hoo! First time I’m under 170 since the 24hr race.

For all you science geeks out there, you know how I weighed myself with my camera right? 😛

I’ve been thinking a lot these days. (When have I not thought a lot?) I’ve been at my place for 2 years now. I’ve been at my job for 2 years now. I guess life is sorta moving forward, and I feel like nothing is changing. I’m pretty much responsibility free, so it’s kinda nice to lead my own life. I suppose I was/am working on the girl thing, but it’s a lot of work and as mentioned in a previous post, perhaps it’s better to make my own way first? Anyways. It might be time for a change. But I have a healthy fear of change. So I’m mostly talk.

Here are some choices for me:

– Move back to DC

I could spend more time with Doris and her family, which I find to be a fun time. we’ve talked about this briefly. Vince is getting to a good age to go out and have fun (if he doens’t whine). And dunno. there’s a definite draw with family. While we’ve joked about it before, but it migght be nice to start some business with my sister.

– Move into the city

Might be a good change of scenery. I’d probably hang out with a different crowd than I do right now. It’d probably be pretty expensive. I would want to live in a hip part of town. Of course, I kinda dislike hip pretentious city folk. Oh well.

– Change jobs

Honestly, I’ve never changed jobs “responsibly”. I’ve always quit a job before getting the next one. It would boost my confidence a bit if I could get a job this way for once. 🙂

Vince has been a whine-a-minute machine. Typical car ride: “I don’t want to go adventuring. I would rather not go. I want to go home. I was just starting a video game. Edda just told me she wants to go home.” Repeat eighteen hundred times. But as soon as we got to the C&O canal, he scrambled out of the car and took off his pants and threw rocks into the water for 30 minutes.

Getting a camp physical and vaccinations up to date so Vince can start summer camp on Monday was complicated today. Two referrals to two pediatricians led to two phone calls which said, sorry, no appointments until August! Argh!

So we went to a minute clinic at a CVS and then they referred us to a walk-in clinic down the road. I love the minute clinic, service just like in Singapore. You walk in, no appointment necessary – staffed with folks who can treat ear infections and seasonal allergies – it’s great and (relatively) cheap. Then you can pick up your prescription 10 feet away. Genius.

It’s also a relief to be able to answer in quick succession –

any medical problems – no!
any medications – no!
any developmental delays – no!
any speech problems – no!
any physical limitations – no!
OK – kid you are ready for summer camp – let me sign all the forms….

because I have had many, many, many conversations with medical professionals are much more complicated.

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Well Got in from Boston yesterday. Had a pretty good time. It’s quite sad tho. I don’t know Boston at all. I spent waaaaay too much time on campus. I never had time to do the touristy stuff. Choon would ask me, “What’s here? What’s there?”. I could only say that I had never been to those places. Sigh.

MIT was interesting. I saw the new Stata building. I heard from Amy that everyone hates working in it cause it’s all weirdly shaped. Oh also the new Sponge dorm, apparently all the furniture is made from poured concrete, so if you want to change your room around, you have to call Facilities to have people come and move your furniture.

Oh yeah, there was a wedding. There’s Ken and all the girls. Hahah. Too bad it was on the only cloudy day of the weekend. Oh and I absolutely loved their photographer. She was a photojournalist for a long time, and doesn’t normally do weddings. But since Ken and Lia are easy going folks, with an easy going wedding, she agreed to do it. We bonded over our Nikon kits. Basically I had the same camera that she had, except that she had two of them. 🙂

Too bad we couldn’t get Ken to say “Pianist” in his Austrailian accent.. ha!

Finding a job and new friends make me feel blue. I know that I will find both, but today the tasks seem daunting.