Just regular folks.

Just before this photo was taken, Edda was happily chomping on Ruby’s ear. I think Edda is finally back to her old self, the trip to Boston threw her for a loop. I remember when Vince was about Edda’s age and we went on a trip to the southern part of Taiwan, he was so fussy the whole time and when we finally got back home to his apartment and his friends, he was so happy.

Edda enjoying Ruby’s company and my toes are also in this lovely picture.

Ack! So final projects are coming up. I’m pretty gung ho about doing my bike frame. Of course I’ve been reading a lot of newsgroups about frame building yadda yadda. There’s one woman that’s sorta a newsgroup favorite newbie, Suzy Jackson. She made her own frame and was a beacon of shining light to all those newbies out there. Unfortunately, I’ve learned that her frame cracked. not very cool. I’m wondering if I shouldn’t just practice like mad instead?

Sorta a good fillet weld… in the middle about 1/2 an inch long. 

Yesterday afternoon, I drove to our DC home, retrieved Mom’s info, cut the grass, had a bowl of beef noodle and drove right back to Pittsburg. Left at 11:00 AM, arrived at my motel around 9:30 PM. Not bad.

My XM radio helped. I figured out how to change to unused FM frequency in big cities.

Vince has a new friend at the playground. Notice that Vince is wearing Edda’s pants.

Lilo and Vince.

A gorgeous day today. Hmmm, I’m finally wearing shorts. Cleaned out the front closet of gloves, mittens, -20F coats and boots and stashed them all upstairs. I’m getting my spring cleaning fever, it means, time to throw the clutter out out out! It’s hard though with Vince going through the trash and IDing each McD toy and saying, “This is not trash” in his serious, serious voice.

At lunch today, Vince managed to spill both a jar of mayo and a bottle of yogurt smoothie and I was flipping out a bit and he said, “Let me give you a hug, mom.” It was very nice.

I’m working on my piano stuff, a Kuhlau sonatina. I’m pretty sure that Donald played it before. Working on playing the right hand louder than the left hand. Who knew, I always played the melody and harmony with the same hand strength. I did start the Bartok also, it’s 6 books of progressively harder pieces. In book 2, it’s still pretty easy, 2 hands in the same position and not moving across the keyboard, but, man, there is pretty much no tune. It sounds very weird. Oh well, I’m going to have to buy a recording to know if I’m playing it right.

Laundry is still a mountain over my head.

Thanks. It works great! It took a little time to install the crappy ass software, but it’s all good now. I’m surprised it took like 2 days to ship. Crazy. Thanks again!

Thanks… 

Stayed up wayyy too late last night. This morning, I had to get up and get Vince ready for school. Then, Jeremy and I met at my piano teacher’s place and I gave him Edda for an hour and I had my lesson. Then I got Edda back and drove to Vince’s daycare. Jeremy had gone grocery shopping during my lesson. I spent the afternoon doing loads and loads of laundry, unloading the groceries and trying to get the kids to nap. Sheez, all this takes a lot of time.

This evening we entertained ourselves by calling everybody in our phone book and leaving messages and singing happy birthday a bunch of people.

Most of the interviewers would like to see hair, except in the arm forces 🙂