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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Dream A Little Dream Indeed!
Only the coolest quilt ever! Or maybe it's this one. Or THIS one! Damn! Anyway, they're amazing. If you want to smile, take a peek... I promise, I won't tell anyone ;)
My 3rd Tattoo
won't actually happen for about another year. I've decided to forgo the turtle "doves" until after this next one - my tiger mom! LOL I want a tiger wrapped around my arm with the Moose's name spelled out in the tail stripes :D totally stoked about this idea! Eventually, the turtle "doves" will come back to the forefront. Unfortunately, one of the few down sides of breastfeeding is no ink. Luckily, it's one of very few down sides, so this will just be a lesson in patience. When it gets closer to the time, I will have to research local artists again as it's been a LONG time. REMINDER to self: start this project next January.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Moose's Teeth
LOL unfortunately fellow A-Towners, there is no pizza in this post.
The Moose had her 1st ever dental appt yesterday - it went a lot better than Iexpected! She normally takes a good 20 minutes to get her bearings in new surroundings, but there was a boy in the waiting area, playing with toys, and she was FASCINATED by him. He was jumping around with this wood & string bucky ball looking contraption and she wanted down out of dad's lap within like 5 minutes! She crawled right over to the boy and was all "what's up?" and climbed the side of the little table to stand up & check out what his toys. The boy was so sweet, trying to engage her, and I actually ended up sort of playing with him. He was telling me about his little wooden race car and his progession in a make believe race. Then it was our turn to see Dr. S.
The tech just gushed over the Moose and tried to give her a toy, which the Moose looked at momentarily before letting me know she above such tricks. The Moose was in Yobo's lap, facing him, then laid back so her head was in Dr. S's lap. She only cried while Dr. S was poking around in her mouth; as soon as there were no more fingers in her mouth, she stopped crying and just acted like it'd never happened. The COOLEST part though was afterwards, Dr. S was saying good-bye & the Moose was pointing at her. Dr. S says "you want to come see me?" and reached out to pick her up and the Moose let her! They even walked around for a minute, Dr. S pointing things out and telling her what was what. It was AMAZING! Yay! I don't know what happened, but it was wonderful :) Normally, the Moose cries when strangers try to hold her.
AND! We (Yobo & I) felt like much better parents after leaving the dentist. It is, apparently, not the norm to not let your almost 11 month old baby drink soda or juice, eat gummy bears, or not brush their teeth. The tech was flabbergasted at the fact the we brush her teeth twice daily and that she's never had juice, much less soda, or gummy bears. I told her I wasn't trying to raise a diabetic by choice! When Dr. S came in, she, too, was amazed at this & informed us that most kids she sees do AT LEAST one of them. Wow. And people wonder why we have an obesity problem. Someone I know told me they fed their 1 year old donuts & let them eat french toast at IHOP - ew!
If this makes me a snob, then I am proud to be one. People also think it's weird that we don't let the Moose watch TV. WHY?!?!?!? WHY IS THIS WEIRD? My mom's husband doesn't come home when we're visiting because he can't watch his beloved television until after we leave. Sucker. Personally, I like my kid - she's pretty effin' awesome. If preferring to actually interact with my child and help her get a grasp on the natural world before inundating her with commercials designed to make fat cats even fatter is truly weird, then you're gosh darn right I am as weird as they come.
ENGAGE YOUR CHILDREN!
The Moose had her 1st ever dental appt yesterday - it went a lot better than Iexpected! She normally takes a good 20 minutes to get her bearings in new surroundings, but there was a boy in the waiting area, playing with toys, and she was FASCINATED by him. He was jumping around with this wood & string bucky ball looking contraption and she wanted down out of dad's lap within like 5 minutes! She crawled right over to the boy and was all "what's up?" and climbed the side of the little table to stand up & check out what his toys. The boy was so sweet, trying to engage her, and I actually ended up sort of playing with him. He was telling me about his little wooden race car and his progession in a make believe race. Then it was our turn to see Dr. S.
The tech just gushed over the Moose and tried to give her a toy, which the Moose looked at momentarily before letting me know she above such tricks. The Moose was in Yobo's lap, facing him, then laid back so her head was in Dr. S's lap. She only cried while Dr. S was poking around in her mouth; as soon as there were no more fingers in her mouth, she stopped crying and just acted like it'd never happened. The COOLEST part though was afterwards, Dr. S was saying good-bye & the Moose was pointing at her. Dr. S says "you want to come see me?" and reached out to pick her up and the Moose let her! They even walked around for a minute, Dr. S pointing things out and telling her what was what. It was AMAZING! Yay! I don't know what happened, but it was wonderful :) Normally, the Moose cries when strangers try to hold her.
AND! We (Yobo & I) felt like much better parents after leaving the dentist. It is, apparently, not the norm to not let your almost 11 month old baby drink soda or juice, eat gummy bears, or not brush their teeth. The tech was flabbergasted at the fact the we brush her teeth twice daily and that she's never had juice, much less soda, or gummy bears. I told her I wasn't trying to raise a diabetic by choice! When Dr. S came in, she, too, was amazed at this & informed us that most kids she sees do AT LEAST one of them. Wow. And people wonder why we have an obesity problem. Someone I know told me they fed their 1 year old donuts & let them eat french toast at IHOP - ew!
If this makes me a snob, then I am proud to be one. People also think it's weird that we don't let the Moose watch TV. WHY?!?!?!? WHY IS THIS WEIRD? My mom's husband doesn't come home when we're visiting because he can't watch his beloved television until after we leave. Sucker. Personally, I like my kid - she's pretty effin' awesome. If preferring to actually interact with my child and help her get a grasp on the natural world before inundating her with commercials designed to make fat cats even fatter is truly weird, then you're gosh darn right I am as weird as they come.
ENGAGE YOUR CHILDREN!
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Double Boo-yah!
I got a 102 on my first test in class :) Thank you, thank you. With extra credit, there was a possible 108. I'm still a little irked at the teacher though as I am now beginning to think that this class may be going at too slow a speed to effectively prepare me for algebra next year. Also, dude lost my test! At least he graded it before it was lost & grades were posted online. I don't think many other people did too well on the test; when I asked around I got a lot of "meh" or "well, I did better than I thought I would" answers. Too bad for them, but at least I rocked it! Boo-yah #1.
The other day I read a lovely blog post talking about how sometimes if you say what you need out loud, put it out into the universe, you will be answered. I mentioned this to Yobo the other day and he says something along the lines of it being complete & utter crap and that I should know better LOL Last night, he says "we really need to get some fish for the kid, preferably some salmon." As non-fishers, this would mean buying it in a store - something I have never actually done... It's Fat Tuesday & we had a lunch-time party to celebrate. It was SPECTACULAR! So much good food; I totally went for a nice long stroll out in the elements after partaking in such gluttony. BUT, the COOLEST part was that someone brought a whole lot of salmon filets, more than we needed, and he totally said "of course you can take one home for the kid!" At the end of the day, when I was gathering my things to leave, I grabbed my fish bag out of the freezer and there were FOUR filets in it! And THEN Ms. K, who was delivered some fish from a friend that morning, stopped me on the way out the door and gave me one of HER filets. See?! Request heard and answered in full. Boo-yah #2. I don't even care that it's a fallible argument; we got what we asked for and that's good enough for me :)
And, actually, now thinking about it more, I don't see why he wouldn't believe. He's way into reality is merely a mass of agreed upon individual perceptions (society) and this kind of fits into that theory. If reality is what you will it to be, by stating out loud that we needed fish, we did, in fact, will it into being. Nice.
The other day I read a lovely blog post talking about how sometimes if you say what you need out loud, put it out into the universe, you will be answered. I mentioned this to Yobo the other day and he says something along the lines of it being complete & utter crap and that I should know better LOL Last night, he says "we really need to get some fish for the kid, preferably some salmon." As non-fishers, this would mean buying it in a store - something I have never actually done... It's Fat Tuesday & we had a lunch-time party to celebrate. It was SPECTACULAR! So much good food; I totally went for a nice long stroll out in the elements after partaking in such gluttony. BUT, the COOLEST part was that someone brought a whole lot of salmon filets, more than we needed, and he totally said "of course you can take one home for the kid!" At the end of the day, when I was gathering my things to leave, I grabbed my fish bag out of the freezer and there were FOUR filets in it! And THEN Ms. K, who was delivered some fish from a friend that morning, stopped me on the way out the door and gave me one of HER filets. See?! Request heard and answered in full. Boo-yah #2. I don't even care that it's a fallible argument; we got what we asked for and that's good enough for me :)
And, actually, now thinking about it more, I don't see why he wouldn't believe. He's way into reality is merely a mass of agreed upon individual perceptions (society) and this kind of fits into that theory. If reality is what you will it to be, by stating out loud that we needed fish, we did, in fact, will it into being. Nice.
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Oh noes! Did I kill my sewing machine?!?!?
I have sewn 7 of 8 triangles for my next block and my sewing machine has gone on the fritz! I have been using the same spool of thread for all of my projects (not quite yet fancy enough to change it out yet), but it ran out 2 nights ago. I put a new spool on & made a matching bobbin, but now it won't properly sew anything! HELP! It's feeding like there's way too much slack (ginormous loops on the bobbin side) - I have adjusted both tensions to every possible combination & it just isn't working right :( I flipped the spool & bobbin, I tried a different spool (the first one was a thinner Guterman one, the second a Clarks one that's shorter & fatter).
Arg!!!!!!!!!! Banging my head against the keyboard. I need to hook up with some sewing peeps here... they've got to be out there somewhere, right?
Arg!!!!!!!!!! Banging my head against the keyboard. I need to hook up with some sewing peeps here... they've got to be out there somewhere, right?
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Quilting Block #2 or Project #7
Yay! I finished block #2 a couple of days ago :) I still need to trim both of them down to 12.5" squares and I've already started block #3. This one was a "wonky pound sign", up next is a "Balkan puzzle block". I'm working on my first triangles!
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