Author: Doris

Starting yesterday, I lift weights while doing walking exercise. I just do two types of weight lifting – pushing legs and pull down weights. So, I can out muscle Mom 🙂 I will eventually visit all the machines out there. But, for the time being, two is enough for me.

woo hoo! don’t blow all your cupcakes at once! 😛

I got to Bard at about 5:30 and met a prospective Bard Conservatory student (Francesco) and his Dad (Curtis). Very nice folks. Francesco is accomplished in the piano, violin and viola and has composed 3 major musical works already! Very impressive.

Vince tried to sleep in Katherine and Bob’s bed last night, but apparently he kept insisting that he was hungry and thirsty, so they sent him back to sleep with me.

In the morning, we said goodbye to Francesco and Curtis and headed to the student center so Vince could eat 2 sausage patties.

I looked for poetry books in the bookstore, especially John Ashbery books.

Then we went back home in a raging blizzard. Yikes, it was pretty silly being out there in the slush and cold with two kids and a single stroller, but we made it home.

Then I spent the rest of the morning making cupcakes with Vince. Vince didn’t really help, he mainly ate sugar. The cupcakes were too full and they all overflowed the tops and made a gigantic 9-cupcake mass.

Then we braved the weather and drove back to Wappingers. It took more than 2 hours in the snow, but the kids slept and I went really slowly.

We had an early dinner of raviolis and then I made the frosting for the cupcakes. Frosting is just sugar and butter pretty much. Remember that. It is so much better than the stuff out of the can. We are ready for B-day.

So you’ll notice a few things different about Just Regular Folks… At the top of the page, there is this blue bar. If you look on the left hand side, a button that says, BlogThis! Click on this and you will get a pop up window that you can enter your blog in on. As you are entering your wonderful prose, look at the light blue bar on the pop up window in which you are typing. You will see a button that has the letters ABC with a check mark. This is the spell check. Good luck with spelling.

Also, if you look at the very bottom of the Just Regular Folks page, you will notice a site counter! We have had 101 visits! Hooray!

Oh, I get three bags of dumplings with 9 each left. That will last until Thursday night. Then I will go to Richland and ask for a refill. The timing is just great.

The kids have been great. Vince went to school today and they had Pat’s Pals come over. A lady, Pat I guess, comes over with animals for the kids to pet. She had a snazzy set-up, a background painted with trees and mountains, a real tree with branches for the birds to perch on. I didn’t see the show, but Vince tells me that that he saw a blue bird, a tall tall snake, a tiny bunny, a prickly hedgehog and something else? I forget.

Anyhoo, Jeremy called from Germany, he’s doing great. Set up a web cam so we can see each other. The kids loved it, and Ruby looked behind the computer to find Jeremy. No luck.

Well I’m off to the elder Martin household – generally withour internet access. Be back in 24-36 hours.

I guess Doris is too busy with the kids and no time for blogging 🙂

I was at Doris’ place over the weekend. To handle two kids are not easy. While watching her, just reminded me about your Mom too. Well, indeed, they (moms) are super mom everyday, not just today.

Vince is cue. From time to time, he said let us call Rena. And on the phone, he always said “Rena, I love you” Edda is always smiling.

I was completely exhausted and can imagine how tough and rough with those kids all day and night. 🙂

Friday:

I went to Arif’s company (they have a 50″ DLP flat screen) to watch “The Big Lebowski” and “Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle”. The first was entirely random and the second was just super funny. I wanted to go to White Castle after that movie. It’s also funny casue we were watching both those movies with Arif’s boss, her husband, her 16 year old daughter and her boyfriend. Not exactly normal family fare, but liberating. Oye, and I’m out of my element with white people.

Saturday:

Woke up at the early hour of 1:30pm. Spend the afternoon ripping music from my old HS CD’s to Apple Lossless format. I’m running out of disk space tho.

I went out to dinner with Arif and Arif’s cousin Nasreen. Nasreen is looking for an availible Muslim boy that’s good looking. Most of the night was strategery for her to find a good feller. We, again, went to Pacific Edge and watched “We Don’t Live Here Anymore”. Naomi Watts is pretty good looking, tho her character was kinda bitchy in the movie. It was the perfect movie to set Arif off about philosophizing about what could go wrong in marriage.

Sunday:

All day eating affair with all the Malaysians. Choon and Pei-Sun. Judy (non malaysian) and P’ng. and Lynn. We went to a Thai temple in berekeley where they were serving hawker style food. Yum Yum. There were these deep fried sweet potato yam, coconut and onion cakes that were soooooo good.

Then we went to see P’ng and Judy’s maybe new house in Alameda. $450k for about 800 square feet. ouch. plus I’m hanging out in the wrong crowd. Everyone’s in that group is getting married and looking to buy a house. Of course the conversation revolved around home loans and home improvement. Kinda felt a little out of place there.

Of course, then we went out to eat Malaysian for dinner. Beef Randag. Good stuff.