Year: 2008

When I first met Jeremy (now more than 13 years ago), he already owned a whole cake shop’s worth of baking equipment. He owned the Cake Bible, he introduced me to cake flour and also to the concept of weighing baking ingredients rather than measuring them out in a measuring cup.

We have not baked in a long time. All the baking tools have been packed away for over 3 years. This Labor Day weekend, we spent a few days making a red velvet cake. We tried making this in Singapore for Emy’s birthday, but in the middle of baking, the power went out for 3 hours and the oven turned off, so I never got to try the red velvet cake in its full glory.

On a political note, I was relieved to hear that Trig is not the grandson of Sarah Palin as first rumored by various bloggers. I think that Ms. Palin will prove to be quite appealing to a good number of people, lets see how she does tonight.

We went to a lovely Labor Day Party thrown by Andy, a fellow patent examiner. Andy and I did not meet each other at work, we met via Bookcrossing, which celebrates the love of books and the love of recycling at the same time. Andy’s house is set up perfectly for a party – 4 flavors of slushies and a cotton candy machine all ready to go.

Edda loved the huge trampoline.

Every weekend should be three days long..

Ok, I have to admit, I was astonished and excited by McCain’s choice of Ms. Palin. I thought it was a good choice for McCain, to attract female independents and also because she had a son with Down Syndrome.

But the Daily Kos is reporting that her son, Trig, is actually her grandson by her oldest daughter!

Take a look at the evidence.

OMG, they didn’t vet her! It’s like The Days of Our Lives around here.

We have moved every year that Vince has been in school. His “schools” have all been very transitional, his first school was a day care with people joining and leaving all the time. His 2nd school was in Singapore and he started with all the other kids who were new to the school. His 3rd school was kindergarten – which again, all the kids were new to each other, and now that we’ve moved, his 1st grade is his 4th school.

School here started last Tuesday, and Vincent has happily gone to school each day. He’s good at transitions and is very friendly, but he pretty quickly figured out that the kids in his class already know the school and know each other from last year and that he’s a bit on the outside looking in.

We went back to our “old” house last night to visit my parents who are in town and on the way home, he was a little weepy thinking about the old house and how nice it was there and about his pals who are all going to his old school.

Jeremy got us a super-duper digital antenna to get the super-duper broadcast channels:

And installed it indoors on top of a bookshelf. Now that is waaayyy attractive.

This Chinese cat has two wings 🙂

I have been grouchy – this is why I haven’t been posting (or taking pictures for that matter). I try and keep this blog perky and upbeat, it is my daily lesson in optimism, but I have been not optimistic. Not even a sugar cookie could cheer me up today. (Have you tried the one from Potbelly’s? Yum.)

This past weekend, my parents, Jeremy’s parents and a few siblings came to the house for a low-key housewarming party.

It was so low key, my dad took a nap in the middle of it all!

A little chatting:

Some card playing:

We found our neighborhood ice cream shop.

The soft serve was huge (we ordered a small!) so Ruby had to help out.