Sunday, May 15, 2011
Sunday, bloody Sunday
No, seriously. Science this week was about genes and heredity and traits and such, and the lab was figuring out your blood type using the "eldon card" system. I have wanted to know my blood type for a while, ever since working at the whole foods where people were constantly talking about their types and what that meant for their diet and health. I didn't know mine and i was the only one. Now i do. After much jabbing and dobbing, i figured out that I am a type B+. Ha!
On a side note, for someone who almost gagged watching the instructional video when one hand inserted the lancet into the other hand, i successfully jabbed myself lots of times. It wasn't that bad.
On a side note, for someone who almost gagged watching the instructional video when one hand inserted the lancet into the other hand, i successfully jabbed myself lots of times. It wasn't that bad.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Baby madness!!!!!!!!
Ok, no, no, no, not madness. But baby for sure. We are having a baby! It hardly seems real that there are just a few months left, we are more than half way there! Shannon said something interesting last time I was down, that she had just begun thinking about actually, physically having a baby in her hands, she had just been thinking about being pregnant up to then. Well, I too have come to this realization. I have been thinking about her being pregnant, but now that i really think about it- there are only a few short months before we have a real live squirming, screaming being, the miracle of life itself, in our midst. I'm a little excited. And i'm planning a party.
On another note, I hate school and am ready for summer. And here's a few random pictures.
On another note, I hate school and am ready for summer. And here's a few random pictures.
This is Ben's side yard and his neighbors' <-- is that right? neighbor's? neighbors? Anyway, sidetracked... They mowed their yard right down the line, and left his long. I thought this was so funny.
Here's Ben now, helping with a science experiment.
Experiment in action! I got to design the experiment, as part of the assignment, it involved mixing potato juice with either water, lemon juice or "household ammonia" which I didn't have so I substituted rubbing alcohol which, trust me, is not the same thing. Then I added hydrogen peroxide to each mixture and measured the foam with the pink measuring tape I got in my sewing box for christmas.
That one right there.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Spring!
It is sooo spring! Yesterday it was summer, seriously, 65 at least. Now it's back to rain but with bits of sun here and there. Easter today, i'm not celebrating so much, not working- that's a celebration for me! It's been a nice, quiet day at home, getting projects finished and eating.
Speaking of projects finished- we have the baby shower date, it's June 26th. Yay! Biggest hurdle out of the way. Hopefully we decide where soon, I am thinking Emily's house is going to be the choice, we shall see. That makes for a huge weekend in our family, baby shower and june birthday- all in a matter of 2 days! And my Grandma Cissie will be here!
Speaking of projects finished- we have the baby shower date, it's June 26th. Yay! Biggest hurdle out of the way. Hopefully we decide where soon, I am thinking Emily's house is going to be the choice, we shall see. That makes for a huge weekend in our family, baby shower and june birthday- all in a matter of 2 days! And my Grandma Cissie will be here!
Thursday, April 14, 2011
followers....
Look! I now have 2 followers! I'm really coming up in the world! Speaking of following, if you want, you can follow the progress of the website i'm building in my web site building class. It's not super exciting yet but it gets better every day! Enjoy!
http://laurarenee.webs.com/
http://laurarenee.webs.com/
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Spring is here!
Today was so wonderfully sunny and perfect, it was almost possible to forget that i scraped frost off my windshield last night. Oh, spring, you are so fickle! The adventures have been endless, seemingly, and i have the hardest quarter so far ahead of me. I somehow seem to find time for it all....
And I had visitors, three to be exact. A whirlwind of a few days with Shannon and Kim, we ate well, shopped a lot, and watched 2 movies. One was boring but thought provoking and the other was annoying but kind of funny. I wouldn't recommend either. Got to eat at pambiche with shannon and ben on monday, always a pleasure. Mmm, plantains! Shannon allowed me a few pictures of her and the new one, i hope she will approve of the ones i'm sharing...
It was quite a baby shopping trip we had, lots of looking and comparing. Biggest lesson learned- the choices are pretty much all the same except for the fabric and color. Makes it both easier and harder. Shannon picked out the crib, though, and kim brought it on home, first major baby purchase- check! I bought myself a new pair of shoes and a new belt, the two things i had hoped to buy. So good, oh man, not having a good belt is torture! The morning after, or rather the morning after the morning after, ben cooked us breakfast at my house. It was pretty awesome.
This last shot is great! I didn't realize, until one of my facebook friends helped me out, but this is totally a picture that two pregnant ladies would take. I am not pregnant. I repeat, I am not pregnant. Good picture, nonetheless.
Other than that, my weeks are filled with work and work, of the school and real kinds, respectively. Real work has been a giant upheaval of change- the sous chef is "leaving" on sunday and whitney, of the a team line cooks is moving up. It could not be a better situation, in the whitney sense, but it involves hiring and training a new person and that sucks. Sucks so bad! Insane, banging my head against the wall suckiness. It's smoothing out now, but last week and the week before? Suck. Ok, no more work.
Took a short vacation, not last week but the week before. I think, could have been the week before that, i can't keep track of these things. Overnight at edgefield, a big, strangely awesome resort property in troutdale, the third town east on the 84. We had a great room, they had an amazing outdoor salt water soaking pool, as well as pool and restaurants and darts. The food was forgettable ( i actually have no idea what we ate) but the place itself is pure magic. It's like a whole other world, i swear. I would live there if I could. Our room had antique furniture and several great mirrors, one on the dresser and one on the wardrobe, as well as one on the door. Made for some interesting angles.... I had a good time taking pictures while ben read a magazine.
Which he did, apparently in red shorts, skin colored pants and a skin colored shirt. This is kind of the fashion here in troutdale. It's such a great picture, i had to put in on here.
Ok, more work- we got a halibut today, a whole one. I think it was 23 pounds, cost a fortune, caught off the coast of canada. I love halibut season, i love halibut, today was a good day.
There was a big night out with tonia in there somewhere, also, we went to see galactic (!!!) and ate at a restaurant called three doors down cafe. Fabulous meal, a place i may actually consider going to again, which is saying a lot- there are a lot of restaurants here in ptown, long, long list of places to go to. We had gnocci as an appetizer, it came with a butter sauce- it was green, but you could totally tell it was made of butter. The bread was served with a white bean puree instead of butter. Really good, but i have to say it made the bread more of a course in itself rather than an accompaniment for the meal. I probably wouldn't have eaten half of a plate of bread and butter but this bread came with a fancy spread so i wanted to eat the spread, and therefore ate the bread. And later on- butter sauce- i wished that the bread was still there. Mmm, ok, shared a salad, which they split- nice touch, thank you. And then two entrées- the pasta special and the pork tenderloin. The pork had a coffee rub, it was interesting and good. The portion we got was huge, i almost think that because the server was one of tonia's friends from school we got an extra bit. There was a nice piece of pork for each of us, two, where it seems to make more sense that they would be serving only one. Great, though, we loved it. Mashed potatoes on that, too, and some green. The pasta special was alright. For sure. House made sausage, prawns, i can't remember the sauce- not a good sign- and other things... pasta, i'm seriously drawing a blank here. Anyways, it was good. Sure would have liked the bread, though.
And then there was the show. Galactic, the most amazing live band, and my favorite dance partner, tonia. What more could you ask for? ( Just between me and you, crystal ballroom, you know what more i could ask for, but i won't go there). Things that great just don't happen often enough.
Thank you,,,,,,, and goodnight.
wow, what do you think of the ,,,,,,,,,, there? i am always with the ......., maybe ,,,,,,,is my new thing! ,,,,,,,,
And I had visitors, three to be exact. A whirlwind of a few days with Shannon and Kim, we ate well, shopped a lot, and watched 2 movies. One was boring but thought provoking and the other was annoying but kind of funny. I wouldn't recommend either. Got to eat at pambiche with shannon and ben on monday, always a pleasure. Mmm, plantains! Shannon allowed me a few pictures of her and the new one, i hope she will approve of the ones i'm sharing...
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| photo by kimberlee mcwilliams |
It was quite a baby shopping trip we had, lots of looking and comparing. Biggest lesson learned- the choices are pretty much all the same except for the fabric and color. Makes it both easier and harder. Shannon picked out the crib, though, and kim brought it on home, first major baby purchase- check! I bought myself a new pair of shoes and a new belt, the two things i had hoped to buy. So good, oh man, not having a good belt is torture! The morning after, or rather the morning after the morning after, ben cooked us breakfast at my house. It was pretty awesome.
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| Photo by kimberlee mcwilliams |
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| Photo by kimberlee mcwilliams |
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| Photo by kimberlee mcwilliams |
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| Photo by kimberlee mcwilliams |
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| Photo by kimberlee mcwilliams |
Took a short vacation, not last week but the week before. I think, could have been the week before that, i can't keep track of these things. Overnight at edgefield, a big, strangely awesome resort property in troutdale, the third town east on the 84. We had a great room, they had an amazing outdoor salt water soaking pool, as well as pool and restaurants and darts. The food was forgettable ( i actually have no idea what we ate) but the place itself is pure magic. It's like a whole other world, i swear. I would live there if I could. Our room had antique furniture and several great mirrors, one on the dresser and one on the wardrobe, as well as one on the door. Made for some interesting angles.... I had a good time taking pictures while ben read a magazine.
Ok, more work- we got a halibut today, a whole one. I think it was 23 pounds, cost a fortune, caught off the coast of canada. I love halibut season, i love halibut, today was a good day.
There was a big night out with tonia in there somewhere, also, we went to see galactic (!!!) and ate at a restaurant called three doors down cafe. Fabulous meal, a place i may actually consider going to again, which is saying a lot- there are a lot of restaurants here in ptown, long, long list of places to go to. We had gnocci as an appetizer, it came with a butter sauce- it was green, but you could totally tell it was made of butter. The bread was served with a white bean puree instead of butter. Really good, but i have to say it made the bread more of a course in itself rather than an accompaniment for the meal. I probably wouldn't have eaten half of a plate of bread and butter but this bread came with a fancy spread so i wanted to eat the spread, and therefore ate the bread. And later on- butter sauce- i wished that the bread was still there. Mmm, ok, shared a salad, which they split- nice touch, thank you. And then two entrées- the pasta special and the pork tenderloin. The pork had a coffee rub, it was interesting and good. The portion we got was huge, i almost think that because the server was one of tonia's friends from school we got an extra bit. There was a nice piece of pork for each of us, two, where it seems to make more sense that they would be serving only one. Great, though, we loved it. Mashed potatoes on that, too, and some green. The pasta special was alright. For sure. House made sausage, prawns, i can't remember the sauce- not a good sign- and other things... pasta, i'm seriously drawing a blank here. Anyways, it was good. Sure would have liked the bread, though.
And then there was the show. Galactic, the most amazing live band, and my favorite dance partner, tonia. What more could you ask for? ( Just between me and you, crystal ballroom, you know what more i could ask for, but i won't go there). Things that great just don't happen often enough.
Thank you,,,,,,, and goodnight.
wow, what do you think of the ,,,,,,,,,, there? i am always with the ......., maybe ,,,,,,,is my new thing! ,,,,,,,,
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Ok, so i've been busy, I swear. Here's some stories, in no particular order.
Finals this week past, pretty good, the "proctered" math final possibly being the hardest, having to go to campus and sit in a room and such. The final project for my electronic culture class was a group google doc assignment, the directions were insane and vague and the instruction from the instructor provided by request made the whole thing out to be impossible to complete. It didn't help that no one in my group logged on until 2 days before it was due, I pretty much set the whole thing up...... when i went online earlier to check my grade I saw that on that project i had gotten a 75 and just about freaked, but I realized that in the next column it said 75 was 100%, so, that's good. I worked really hard on that. Sooo that's all a's and one c in astronomy. But that's perfect- i don't deserve an a in astronomy because i don't really believe in it. The last chapter we covered was on black holes- 20 pages long, with everything from what they look like to what they're made of to how and why they form. And they've never even seen one. How the hell do they know all that stuff? It's all totally theoretical and i'm surprised that it's allowed to be a science. Anyways, next term my science choice is biology, online, which, strangely enough, requires a home lab kit- sent by mail- but does not require you to buy the textbook. It's optional. Interesting.
Blah, no more school. Fun stuff- i went on my tour yesterday at the children's museum, they accepted me as a volunteer. It is really amazing the difference between volunteering and working- when you volunteer they are so happy you are there and you get to do stuff no one would ever pay you to do. I am the Thursday morning clay studio assistant. And in 2 weeks, one of the ece teachers is going out of town and i am going to be the assistant paint and play early childhood education teacher. Seriously.
What else, oh ya went to whidbey island, hung out with shannon and adam, mmm there was my mom, matt, matt's girlfriend, my dad, kim. That's a lot of people for a two day trip. I even vacation efficiently. Coupeville was awesome, we had great pie. There was a dinner party on monday, we went to dad's and so did several of their friends. Party. I learned a new joke, here it is- two peanuts walked into a bar. One of them was a salted. Mmm, that doesn't work as well in print. Cause it's a play on words....anyways.....
Pictures! I totally stopped taking pictures, i need to work on that. Here's some from my whidbey trip.
Ya, the snow was rough. Skies cleared south of seattle, though, and the roads were dry all the way home. I was not driving in any of those pictures, by the way, I only took pictures while parked.
Lastly, my plant. Mmm, amaryllis, yes, thank you spell check. I've been thinking a lot about this plant, especially after visiting shannon and adams, which was tall and beautiful with four enormous red flowers. My plant really went a whole other direction.
This fourth frond only drooped down today, it's really an incredibly healthy plant. My best guess is, that because it was raised in an environment of unconditional love, it was able to make the choice to be just exactly the plant it was born to be. Not four red flowers on a giant stock but a tall, leafy plant instead. I commend it. And support it fully in it's decision.
And, that's all I got.
Finals this week past, pretty good, the "proctered" math final possibly being the hardest, having to go to campus and sit in a room and such. The final project for my electronic culture class was a group google doc assignment, the directions were insane and vague and the instruction from the instructor provided by request made the whole thing out to be impossible to complete. It didn't help that no one in my group logged on until 2 days before it was due, I pretty much set the whole thing up...... when i went online earlier to check my grade I saw that on that project i had gotten a 75 and just about freaked, but I realized that in the next column it said 75 was 100%, so, that's good. I worked really hard on that. Sooo that's all a's and one c in astronomy. But that's perfect- i don't deserve an a in astronomy because i don't really believe in it. The last chapter we covered was on black holes- 20 pages long, with everything from what they look like to what they're made of to how and why they form. And they've never even seen one. How the hell do they know all that stuff? It's all totally theoretical and i'm surprised that it's allowed to be a science. Anyways, next term my science choice is biology, online, which, strangely enough, requires a home lab kit- sent by mail- but does not require you to buy the textbook. It's optional. Interesting.
Blah, no more school. Fun stuff- i went on my tour yesterday at the children's museum, they accepted me as a volunteer. It is really amazing the difference between volunteering and working- when you volunteer they are so happy you are there and you get to do stuff no one would ever pay you to do. I am the Thursday morning clay studio assistant. And in 2 weeks, one of the ece teachers is going out of town and i am going to be the assistant paint and play early childhood education teacher. Seriously.
What else, oh ya went to whidbey island, hung out with shannon and adam, mmm there was my mom, matt, matt's girlfriend, my dad, kim. That's a lot of people for a two day trip. I even vacation efficiently. Coupeville was awesome, we had great pie. There was a dinner party on monday, we went to dad's and so did several of their friends. Party. I learned a new joke, here it is- two peanuts walked into a bar. One of them was a salted. Mmm, that doesn't work as well in print. Cause it's a play on words....anyways.....
Pictures! I totally stopped taking pictures, i need to work on that. Here's some from my whidbey trip.
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| Oz loves the wood stove |
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| Ferry terminal in freeland |
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| Just outside of everett |
Ya, the snow was rough. Skies cleared south of seattle, though, and the roads were dry all the way home. I was not driving in any of those pictures, by the way, I only took pictures while parked.
Lastly, my plant. Mmm, amaryllis, yes, thank you spell check. I've been thinking a lot about this plant, especially after visiting shannon and adams, which was tall and beautiful with four enormous red flowers. My plant really went a whole other direction.
This fourth frond only drooped down today, it's really an incredibly healthy plant. My best guess is, that because it was raised in an environment of unconditional love, it was able to make the choice to be just exactly the plant it was born to be. Not four red flowers on a giant stock but a tall, leafy plant instead. I commend it. And support it fully in it's decision.
And, that's all I got.
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