Author: Doris

Pizza day!

Edda’s favorite toys are a Peter Rabbit stuffed animal that Ben gave to Vince when he was a year old. God forbid you try and put on Pete’s jacket. She is adamant about wanting it off. And she likes a partially filled Nalgene water bottle. You should hear her scream when Vince tries to take either away.

Edda and her favorite toys.

Went to story time again at the East Fishkill library. We learned the colors in Spanish… Pardo, verde, rojo, negro, dorado, morado, rojo, amarillo. One of the moms, who’s first language is Spanish, read a book to us in Spanish. Then we played bingo using our new vocabulary. Apparently all the kids know spanish because of a show on TV.

Made a yummy shrimp/scallion dish last night. It was so verde.

Yesterday, while Vince was at daycare and I had finished my rowing and a bit of piano, I went to Goodwill and bought an ugly bag for $5 and also a winter jacket for Edda for $4. You may ask why I don’t have a winter jacket for my soybean, but we’ve had her in a head-to-toe outfit for the bulk of the frigid winter and now I wanted something to just put on the top because the other outfit is so damn difficult to put on and now Target isn’t selling winter clothes, only bikinis.

Also, I spent the afternoon trying to use Thunderbird from Modzilla, and I was all excited because Jeremy hyped it up so much. So first I get my gmal account to show up, and then I’m slowly transferring my address book over to Thunderbird and then I find out that when I print out my address book, it sorts by the order I enter the entries. Wouldn’t alphabetical be more helpful? Basically took me all afternoon, and now my address book is half in Thunderbird and half in Yahoo. Ugh. All the meanwhile, this has eaten up hours of my time and I’ve tried to convince the kids that they would really rather just play in the other room. Oh well.

Here’s my 2 other crappy projects from class that I’m not really very happy about. One is a copper pot that’s been annealed and hammered out from just a sheet of copper. It doesn’t even stand up straight and there’s a crack on the bottom where I hammered it in a really thin area. The other thing is just a stainless steel bit that’s been put on the mill. The mill is just a fancy drill press really. It’s super precise too. You can get things to 5 one thousandth of an inch.

Copper Pot and Thing 

Here’s some pics of my roomies, Frank and Andrew. Here we’re just chatting outside in our hallways about a lot of random things like church, church girls, how to make church girls think more about starting a family (like going out with Frank) instead of working all the time.

Frank 

Andrew 

Last night, we went to Bard to have dinner with the Tishes, Andy (the mom), Mark (the dad) and Sarah (the prospective college student). Andy is a college friend of Katherine’s and the Tishes live in Boston and are doctors. Sarah is a junior and getting ready to apply to colleges. She’s interested in math/science but definately not interested in being a doctor. Apparently they have changed the SATs now, so the max score is 2400. Who knew? Vince spent the evening watching Bob the Builder videos.

Mom is getting better 🙂