Hello, Everyone! Is there an everyone, or is there just me? Who knows! Perhaps I am writing to my very own imaginary friend.
Eh...sorry. A little sleep deprived.
Why sleep deprived? Well, for starters our taiko meeting lasted until well after 10 pm last night. After that, I drove Michelle home. After that, I drove myself home. After that, I let the dogs out and such like. I had a headache, but I didn't take anything this time. I was too tired.
I had nightmares that I woke up this morning and Julie had written the newsletter without me, and I felt horrible because I knew she didn't have time for that sort of thing, and I wondered why she hadn't told me. And then I realized that they didn't want me to do it anymore.
I might be a little self-conscious today. I applied for more jobs that I actually want yesterday. So nervous!
Anyway, I woke up earlier than I had planned, given the time I went to bed, because Josh sent me a text....from the living room. Writing it on a sticky-note was apparently just too difficult. And then there was Grant getting in trouble for pointing a knife at his sister... Really wish I was making that one up. So - we had the "Tools Are Not Toys" conversation, along with Josh's slightly more traumatic intervention. I am fairly certain that Grant won't play with knives anymore. He's pretty train-able. And Abbie is sly and learns from other's mistakes, so I'm fairly certain she won't try it, either. Progress? One can only hope.
I wondered, yesterday, if Abbie had a fever. She felt warm-ish. She claimed to feel fine. Now I know that I was correct...because I am not feeling well. I still have the headache, for instance. But! She didn't end up having any other symptoms, so maybe I won't either. Let's all ignore the good fortune that I typically do NOT have when it comes to germs.
Maybe I just need Motrin and a shower. That cures many, many things, you know.
Yesterday was the last day of swim lessons this session. Both kids jumped off the diving board themselves! Awesome! They will be in the same class again, though, next session. It starts on the 8th, I believe.
I read all of Night Watch, and am now reading Howl's Moving Castle again. I need to read something new.
I also need to get this house cleaned! Before that even, however, I have a pressing need to grocery shop. It is next on the list.
Have a happy day and weekend!
Friday, June 28, 2013
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Words! I love words.
This fascinates me. Lots.
http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/25/19134561-worlds-most-mysterious-manuscript-has-genuine-message?lite
Well, that's not any more than a tease. How about some back story:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_Manuscript
That is just so cool. Personally, I think the story about Edward Kelly making it up and pretending it was angel-language seems pretty believable. However! I shall reserve judgement. I have a terrible urge to be in the room when it is first translated. I just want to be associated with the project, not actually be the discoverer. Perhaps.
I really should have been a linguist. I really do want to learn a lot of languages. Most recently, I've been curious about Danish, Tibetan, and something from India, but I can't decide which one.
I still haven't bought a lottery ticket, and I really could use one. A winning one, that is. I want to do some traveling, but haven't the money. Plus, there are some large and prosperous looking houses with nice yards and mature trees in Josephville, where Grant had his ball game last night.
Well!
I shall now take myself away to the kitchen to make dinner.
Monday, June 24, 2013
Yawning Day
Not sure how it is possible that someone as tired as me got only a few hours of sleep. Maybe I am sensitive to the "Supermoon". I don't know how you could have missed hearing about it, but it appears especially large just now - plus is full. One of the times I was up last night, I paid it a quick visit. It really did look big. It was also very bright. It was impressive. Part of me is glad that I was able to see it. The rest of me, however, is darned tired.
Well! Taiko performed at the St. Lou Fringe. We had standing ovations both days from small but energetic audiences. I wish I felt better about my contribution to the shows. I don't feel like I was much of an asset. Or maybe I'm just feeling sensitive and low. It shouldn't be surprising. I am quite sleep deprived.
Really, though, I don't feel like I've been much of a success lately.
Still no word from potential employers, and yet I am still applying somewhat regularly, and looking nearly constantly.
This week, we are having a day off of taiko on Tuesday, and on Thursday we are having a meeting. Grant has a ballgame tonight, and Abbie has one on Wednesday. Both are out of town. Friday I am at a rare recreational taiko event, and Saturday we go to Rolla to see Peter Pan!
After that, we will go to Versailles for the 4th of July. I am bringing a fruit salad that I enjoy. Probably, I will bring the ingredients and assemble it there, so as to be extra fresh. Possibly I should bring something else, as well. I will have to look into that. Something simple, like juice, maybe?
Lookie! I own these:
http://www.sockdreams.com/products/socks/critter-socks/sock-it-to-me-sloths:11515
I am currently reading Terry Pratchett again. Theresa lent me Thief of Time, and when I finished it I picked up my copy of Night Watch.
Sarah Addison Allen's new book, speaking of books, will be out in February. I am conflicted, though. I have all of her books in paperback, and you know how I am about keeping the set together. That part of me wants to buy the paperback....which will come out much later. However, as a re-reader, I am not sure how I ended up with all paperbacks in the first place! She is one of my favorites! When I win the lottery, perhaps, I will get the hard cover boxed set.
I meant to buy a lottery ticket...
Master Awesome and his little girl are so incredibly cute! They were playing last night and sent me pictures.
Josh bought Despicable Me for the kids. ....and the Star Trek Movie boxed set for himself. This is what happens when I am unavailable for the weekend. The upside is that I watched Star Trek The Motion Picture for the first time since I was little.
I must find something to make for an early lunch before swim lessons. Hope today is good to you! (I hope today is good to me, too.)
Chamomile = Energy in Adversity
Monday, June 17, 2013
Quick note to say...
Hi.
Did you have a good weekend? How was Fathers' Day? I tried to get all healthy on Saturday, but that didn't really work out for me. Before Abbie's game on Friday, we went to Panera Bread (still St. Louis Bread Co in my heart...) for dinner. I had the iced green tea. I am not sure how much actual green tea is involved, but I LOVE that drink. Love it. Wish I had some right now. Abbie's game was great. They played really well, and Abbie even paid attention while fielding. Last game, she was catcher, but I missed it. And then all the parents kept asking me if she was covered in bruises. It would seem she got pummeled pretty seriously! I was pleased and surprised when she wanted to do it again Friday. Sadly, they didn't have enough girls, so she had to play outfield. It was fun, though, even for a sick mommy.
Yesterday was the taiko performance in Columbia. Considering that we had all the new people and that they made up half of the available performers, we did pretty well. I made one minor arm mistake in Ashura, but no other mistakes. Sick or not, I did all the talking, and all 6 workshops, complete with yelling. So...my voice is pretty much gone, today.
By the way, I am not so much happy about this: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/17/19003391-supreme-court-strikes-down-arizona-law-requiring-proof-of-citizenship-to-vote?lite
Having lived very near the southern border in Arizona, I can say - and I am not trying to attack anyone. This is not personal - that there are a LOT of illegal immigrants there. A LOT. I wish they would just become legal ones. The problem, though, that is relevant to this article is the fact that unless they are talking to a police officer they really don't think there is anything wrong with A) being an illegal immigrant and B) taking American privileges, just as if they were entitled. If your sister/grandmother/son/uncle is an illegal immigrant and would never dream of such a thing, I apologize. (P.S. That is illegal. And a crime.) It is what I observed with my own senses having been there myself.
I'm not a mean person. I promise. I like immigrants. Legal ones.
In a moment, we are off to swim lessons. Then a small break. Then music lessons. Then Grant's baseball practice. Then Abbie's softball game. I wonder if she will play catcher.
Hope you are having a good day!
Did you have a good weekend? How was Fathers' Day? I tried to get all healthy on Saturday, but that didn't really work out for me. Before Abbie's game on Friday, we went to Panera Bread (still St. Louis Bread Co in my heart...) for dinner. I had the iced green tea. I am not sure how much actual green tea is involved, but I LOVE that drink. Love it. Wish I had some right now. Abbie's game was great. They played really well, and Abbie even paid attention while fielding. Last game, she was catcher, but I missed it. And then all the parents kept asking me if she was covered in bruises. It would seem she got pummeled pretty seriously! I was pleased and surprised when she wanted to do it again Friday. Sadly, they didn't have enough girls, so she had to play outfield. It was fun, though, even for a sick mommy.
Yesterday was the taiko performance in Columbia. Considering that we had all the new people and that they made up half of the available performers, we did pretty well. I made one minor arm mistake in Ashura, but no other mistakes. Sick or not, I did all the talking, and all 6 workshops, complete with yelling. So...my voice is pretty much gone, today.
By the way, I am not so much happy about this: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/17/19003391-supreme-court-strikes-down-arizona-law-requiring-proof-of-citizenship-to-vote?lite
Having lived very near the southern border in Arizona, I can say - and I am not trying to attack anyone. This is not personal - that there are a LOT of illegal immigrants there. A LOT. I wish they would just become legal ones. The problem, though, that is relevant to this article is the fact that unless they are talking to a police officer they really don't think there is anything wrong with A) being an illegal immigrant and B) taking American privileges, just as if they were entitled. If your sister/grandmother/son/uncle is an illegal immigrant and would never dream of such a thing, I apologize. (P.S. That is illegal. And a crime.) It is what I observed with my own senses having been there myself.
I'm not a mean person. I promise. I like immigrants. Legal ones.
In a moment, we are off to swim lessons. Then a small break. Then music lessons. Then Grant's baseball practice. Then Abbie's softball game. I wonder if she will play catcher.
Hope you are having a good day!
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Hi. I'm hungry.
First, before it gets to be too far in the past, the highlights of my trip:
Things we saw:
The Baltimore Inner Harbor. Loved it. I think I might be a harbor person.
The Baltimore aquarium - the jellyfish were my favorite.
The USS Constellation
The Torsk
Bubba Gump Shrimp
The bad side of Washington DC. Seriously. So much graffiti. So many strip clubs!
DC Chinatown, and an Irish pub whose sign was in English and Chinese. *giggle*
Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. It was a lot like the Science Center.
Botanical Garden (kinda like the Jewel Box in Forest Park, St. Louis)
The Capitol Building, from outside
Library of Congress - beautiful and ornate artwork all over the ceilings, floors, walls, etc, etc..
Special exhibit featuring the Gibson Girl - loved it. I always did like the Gibson Girl.
The Supreme Court building - white marble everywhere! Plus, we kinda got in trouble for having our picnic under the wrong tree out front. I hear that breaking rules is a national monument family tradition.
National Gallery of Art - so much cool stuff! But could never find a good souvenir.
The best crab cakes ever. And I tried a new cider - Angry Orchard.
Natural History Museum - great place to take kids!
The National Archives
Darci Graves - love her!!!
The DC Monuments...but not the Thomas Jefferson Memorial up close, sadly.
Tylar Graves and Addie - yay! But not Lily. *sulk*
Fort McHenry
Maggie Moo's
Some bubble tea at the Inner Harbor
Tylar's house. ^_^ Hi, Addie!!
Paper Moon Cafe. Very cool. Kinda creepy.
Savage Mill/Rams Head Tavern - Very Awesome. One of my favorite parts of the whole trip! There was an antique store that I took as many pictures as some museums! And next time I'm going into that bakery.
Johnny Rockets - lotsa pickles on their burgers.
The New Star Trek movie - and my 3D glasses worked almost perfectly when on top of my regular glasses. Usually I can't see 3D stuff at all.
Rain
Udvar Hazy center (more Air and Space)
Ft. Belvoir, VA, and my awesome Aunt
My newly wedded cousin, Amy and her husband, Seth!
At least 2 Baltimore Orioles (birds, not ball players) and one gold finch
Mosquitos. So itchy! :(
Things about Baltimore/DC:
The tap water doesn't taste bad.
Those lane lines on the highways are optional.
Know what it means when you are walking and someone says, "On your left"? They don't either. All the walking we did, and I only heard it once. That one person has restored my faith in humanity.
Car horn use is encouraged.
Reminiscent of Columbia, MO, there are so many trees left in the city that you don't have to look at how built up it is. I like it.
Fresh seafood is so good.
20 dollars or more to park? WHAT?! Apparently everyone but us knew that you always take the subway in DC. Whoops.
Yingling. That is how they pronounce a beer that is spelled Yuengling. Would not have been my first guess.
Ta-Da!!
And as for this week....I'm sick. I know. I told you already. I'm actually hoping to feel better tomorrow. And I'm still reading Daddy Long Legs. When I am done, I will start the Terry Pratchett book that Theresa lent me.
What should I bring to the 4th of July? It's almost the next non-taiko event I've got going. The true next thing is that I'm going to take the kids to see Peter Pan in Rolla on the 29th. Ozark Actors' Theater is putting it on. That's who I performed The Sound of Music with. Sound fun? I thought so.
I think the taiko newsletter is finally going out either today or tomorrow.
I'm hungry, but at the same time, I have no appetite. This being sick thing is a little bit hilarious. And annoying. Good thing I'm going to feel better tomorrow.
By the way, I love this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74LXx0wSqMI
Tonight is going to be a rough taiko practice and Grant's away game in O'Fallon at the same time. Just thinking about it makes me tired. I really hope I do feel better tomorrow.
Now, I think I will go look for something to eat. 'Cause I'm hungry.
MUAH!
Things we saw:
The Baltimore Inner Harbor. Loved it. I think I might be a harbor person.
The Baltimore aquarium - the jellyfish were my favorite.
The USS Constellation
The Torsk
Bubba Gump Shrimp
The bad side of Washington DC. Seriously. So much graffiti. So many strip clubs!
DC Chinatown, and an Irish pub whose sign was in English and Chinese. *giggle*
Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. It was a lot like the Science Center.
Botanical Garden (kinda like the Jewel Box in Forest Park, St. Louis)
The Capitol Building, from outside
Library of Congress - beautiful and ornate artwork all over the ceilings, floors, walls, etc, etc..
Special exhibit featuring the Gibson Girl - loved it. I always did like the Gibson Girl.
The Supreme Court building - white marble everywhere! Plus, we kinda got in trouble for having our picnic under the wrong tree out front. I hear that breaking rules is a national monument family tradition.
National Gallery of Art - so much cool stuff! But could never find a good souvenir.
The best crab cakes ever. And I tried a new cider - Angry Orchard.
Natural History Museum - great place to take kids!
The National Archives
Darci Graves - love her!!!
The DC Monuments...but not the Thomas Jefferson Memorial up close, sadly.
Tylar Graves and Addie - yay! But not Lily. *sulk*
Fort McHenry
Maggie Moo's
Some bubble tea at the Inner Harbor
Tylar's house. ^_^ Hi, Addie!!
Paper Moon Cafe. Very cool. Kinda creepy.
Savage Mill/Rams Head Tavern - Very Awesome. One of my favorite parts of the whole trip! There was an antique store that I took as many pictures as some museums! And next time I'm going into that bakery.
Johnny Rockets - lotsa pickles on their burgers.
The New Star Trek movie - and my 3D glasses worked almost perfectly when on top of my regular glasses. Usually I can't see 3D stuff at all.
Rain
Udvar Hazy center (more Air and Space)
Ft. Belvoir, VA, and my awesome Aunt
My newly wedded cousin, Amy and her husband, Seth!
At least 2 Baltimore Orioles (birds, not ball players) and one gold finch
Mosquitos. So itchy! :(
Things about Baltimore/DC:
The tap water doesn't taste bad.
Those lane lines on the highways are optional.
Know what it means when you are walking and someone says, "On your left"? They don't either. All the walking we did, and I only heard it once. That one person has restored my faith in humanity.
Car horn use is encouraged.
Reminiscent of Columbia, MO, there are so many trees left in the city that you don't have to look at how built up it is. I like it.
Fresh seafood is so good.
20 dollars or more to park? WHAT?! Apparently everyone but us knew that you always take the subway in DC. Whoops.
Yingling. That is how they pronounce a beer that is spelled Yuengling. Would not have been my first guess.
Ta-Da!!
And as for this week....I'm sick. I know. I told you already. I'm actually hoping to feel better tomorrow. And I'm still reading Daddy Long Legs. When I am done, I will start the Terry Pratchett book that Theresa lent me.
What should I bring to the 4th of July? It's almost the next non-taiko event I've got going. The true next thing is that I'm going to take the kids to see Peter Pan in Rolla on the 29th. Ozark Actors' Theater is putting it on. That's who I performed The Sound of Music with. Sound fun? I thought so.
I think the taiko newsletter is finally going out either today or tomorrow.
I'm hungry, but at the same time, I have no appetite. This being sick thing is a little bit hilarious. And annoying. Good thing I'm going to feel better tomorrow.
By the way, I love this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74LXx0wSqMI
Tonight is going to be a rough taiko practice and Grant's away game in O'Fallon at the same time. Just thinking about it makes me tired. I really hope I do feel better tomorrow.
Now, I think I will go look for something to eat. 'Cause I'm hungry.
MUAH!
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
To Catch Back Up a Little.
I guess I jinxed my good health when I noticed how long it had been since I had been sick. Or maybe it's just impossible to go to a bunch of free museums in DC and have two plane rides next to or in front of sniffling people without contracting something. I'm just glad I didn't get the stomach virus that Master Awesome got just after we left.
So, I'm sick.
In other news...I went to Baltimore and Washington DC! I have now seen my own nation's capitol. I mean, I'd already been to Paris, Monte Carlo, Geneva, London and Tokyo. It was a great trip, which I will recap later. The kids had a great time seeing the Grand Canyon! So - all good stuff in regards to our fancy summertime travels.
What do you think we did our fist weekend back? Well, on Saturday, I got up and taught a children's taiko workshop. Then, I co-taught and took pictures at an adult taiko workshop. Then I grabbed the kids and drove to Rolla to the Frisbee family's hog roast. It was so much fun! They sent us home with milk from their very own cow. It was amazing. What a great event.
By the way, the second I got back, I was writing the newsletter and making photo galleries for taiko. But I did get it all done as scheduled. I am amazing. ..Hmm. I wonder why the newsletter hasn't come out yet. ???
This week hasn't let up at all. We have baseball/softball every night this week. Yesterday after music lessons was Grant's practice, tonight is his game (while I am at taiko). Tomorrow is Abbie's practice. Then another game for Grant on Thursday and Abbie's is on Friday. Both of those last two games are out of town. As for me, I am writing a set that we will perform on Sunday in Columbia. We always do the Missouri Scholars' Academy. And I have always signed up for that one. It's always on Fathers' Day and Josh takes the kids out for fancy ice cream while I'm gone.
I'm reading Daddy Long Legs.
Had this at my mom's. Make it today:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/simply-delicious-strawberry-cake-recipe/index.html
I am not much of a fancy telephone person, but I recently got a new app. Many of my friends use the song identifying app called, Shazam, but I wasn't pleased with the reviews. Instead, I got one called iD. I tested it by playing some of my more obscure songs. It knew them. Even the foreign ones. Crazy awesome. I noticed that it didn't know some of the Irish ones, and that had me worried, because the one song I've been wanting to identify forever is Irish. I tried it today.
It. Worked.
TA-DA!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjPMVnLaGyg
Anyway, now you know that we are all alive and well. Next time, I will tell you all about my vacation. ^_^
Have a great week!
So, I'm sick.
In other news...I went to Baltimore and Washington DC! I have now seen my own nation's capitol. I mean, I'd already been to Paris, Monte Carlo, Geneva, London and Tokyo. It was a great trip, which I will recap later. The kids had a great time seeing the Grand Canyon! So - all good stuff in regards to our fancy summertime travels.
What do you think we did our fist weekend back? Well, on Saturday, I got up and taught a children's taiko workshop. Then, I co-taught and took pictures at an adult taiko workshop. Then I grabbed the kids and drove to Rolla to the Frisbee family's hog roast. It was so much fun! They sent us home with milk from their very own cow. It was amazing. What a great event.
By the way, the second I got back, I was writing the newsletter and making photo galleries for taiko. But I did get it all done as scheduled. I am amazing. ..Hmm. I wonder why the newsletter hasn't come out yet. ???
This week hasn't let up at all. We have baseball/softball every night this week. Yesterday after music lessons was Grant's practice, tonight is his game (while I am at taiko). Tomorrow is Abbie's practice. Then another game for Grant on Thursday and Abbie's is on Friday. Both of those last two games are out of town. As for me, I am writing a set that we will perform on Sunday in Columbia. We always do the Missouri Scholars' Academy. And I have always signed up for that one. It's always on Fathers' Day and Josh takes the kids out for fancy ice cream while I'm gone.
I'm reading Daddy Long Legs.
Had this at my mom's. Make it today:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/simply-delicious-strawberry-cake-recipe/index.html
I am not much of a fancy telephone person, but I recently got a new app. Many of my friends use the song identifying app called, Shazam, but I wasn't pleased with the reviews. Instead, I got one called iD. I tested it by playing some of my more obscure songs. It knew them. Even the foreign ones. Crazy awesome. I noticed that it didn't know some of the Irish ones, and that had me worried, because the one song I've been wanting to identify forever is Irish. I tried it today.
It. Worked.
TA-DA!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjPMVnLaGyg
Anyway, now you know that we are all alive and well. Next time, I will tell you all about my vacation. ^_^
Have a great week!
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