I just finished my last final of the quarter and I'm feeling good about it.
In 4 mins when my first on-call shift is completed, Kath and I are going for a walk in the freezing cold and windy--yet sunny--day. I think we're going to head out to Lake Padden.
Tonight I'm going to try to finish my essays for the Critcal Language Scholarship to get funds to learn Bahasa Indonesia, in Indonesia and apply for the International School Services. I need to go to ISS's conference in Boston in June to be hooked up with a job. And as you may have noticed, I would like to live in Indonesia. I have found several openings for school counselors across the globe-one must be for ME!
Time to bundle up!
Monday, December 07, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
big day!
Today was the last day of my summer job. I worked for the Border Policy Research Institute and the Whatcom Council of Governments. First I hung out at the border attached to a laptop or a PDA collecting data. Then I was thankfully chosen to clean the data and make pretty graphs out of it. I've spent last couple of weeks knee deep in a database. But--a plus, I've learned some stuff about Access and I have another reference for my resume.
Today is also the day Walker's wife Kadie's water broke! There's going to be a Wee Walker any minute, I can feel it!
Today we also continued the cleaning of the house. Bryant's mom is coming for a visit and that's a good excuse to deep clean. Lord knows the apt needs it and we won't do it on our own. Today was vacuuming and folding clothes. These tasks also entailed stacking magazines and old mail (hey! there that is!) and Bryant vacuuming so hard he broke a...thing, it doesn't really have a name. Now it is a thing without a lid.
TOMORROW is a bigger day. I am starting my internship at Burlington-Edison High School. I wasn't feeling nervous until today when Jen asked me if I was going to be wearing a suit. A suit?! No one is going to be there except the counselors and maybe secretaries. Then she said I needed to impress people-and I agree. So I mentally reorganized my day to fit a trip to the blasted mall to find a suit. I emailed others to get a second opinion--Kath, a teacher in the school next to mine said hell no! I like that answer. So I came home and picked out my second best outfit next to a suit--nice grey pants and a black button front shirt, black socks with grey circles and black danskos. I even de-linted or whatever it's called the shirt. I continued cleaning, showered and settled down with a beer to check out the McKinney-Vento act that was mentioned in an email from my supervisor when my phone rang. It was Laural, my supervisor. She just wanted to let me know NOT to dress up tomorrow (a HUGE phew on my part) and that wearing shorts/capris and a nice shirt was just fine. woot.
And tomorrow Joan gets here. Kath let her crash at her house so she doesn't have to get a hotel so Rick gets a roommate for a few nights. We're thinking we'll cook out over there later on.
The rest of the week will be spent in OR.
Today is also the day Walker's wife Kadie's water broke! There's going to be a Wee Walker any minute, I can feel it!
Today we also continued the cleaning of the house. Bryant's mom is coming for a visit and that's a good excuse to deep clean. Lord knows the apt needs it and we won't do it on our own. Today was vacuuming and folding clothes. These tasks also entailed stacking magazines and old mail (hey! there that is!) and Bryant vacuuming so hard he broke a...thing, it doesn't really have a name. Now it is a thing without a lid.
TOMORROW is a bigger day. I am starting my internship at Burlington-Edison High School. I wasn't feeling nervous until today when Jen asked me if I was going to be wearing a suit. A suit?! No one is going to be there except the counselors and maybe secretaries. Then she said I needed to impress people-and I agree. So I mentally reorganized my day to fit a trip to the blasted mall to find a suit. I emailed others to get a second opinion--Kath, a teacher in the school next to mine said hell no! I like that answer. So I came home and picked out my second best outfit next to a suit--nice grey pants and a black button front shirt, black socks with grey circles and black danskos. I even de-linted or whatever it's called the shirt. I continued cleaning, showered and settled down with a beer to check out the McKinney-Vento act that was mentioned in an email from my supervisor when my phone rang. It was Laural, my supervisor. She just wanted to let me know NOT to dress up tomorrow (a HUGE phew on my part) and that wearing shorts/capris and a nice shirt was just fine. woot.
And tomorrow Joan gets here. Kath let her crash at her house so she doesn't have to get a hotel so Rick gets a roommate for a few nights. We're thinking we'll cook out over there later on.
The rest of the week will be spent in OR.
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
miso soup
I made miso soup for the first time today. I've made the packets before but the other day we bought the soft, keep in the fridge miso so today i thought I'd give it a try. The directions said to boil some kelp and some other green thing we don't have in 4 cups of water. I had neither so i substituted onion. not a surprise as i love onions. I brought that to a boil and added tofu and 3 tablespoons of miso. The package said 4 but...I didn't want it to be too salty and figured I could add more later if need be, best to be conservative with salty things. I looked in the fridge for some greenery and found half of a zucchini and chopped that up. I let that all simmer a while longer before adding 2 sheets of dried seaweed. It was delicious. When I ate the soup again 3 hours later, I reheated it with leftover rice. Good stuff.
So maybe it doesn't look so good in the photo but it was tasty.
So maybe it doesn't look so good in the photo but it was tasty.
Friday, July 03, 2009
crazy dreams since watching 6 feet under
i've had a couple weird dreams since we started watching six feet under.
the first one i am planning my wake (mind you i don't want a wake, but that's what goes on in the show and my mom once told me that i had to have a wake and that it wasn't for me but for everyone else--just like the rest of my life ;). Ok, so i'm planning my wake and i am thinking of how i want my hands folded, or not and which rings i want to wear and whether or not i'll wear shoes and which ones. when i'm dreaming about the shoe thing--in my dream--i think of a conversation i had with steve blazek (sp) who used to run the funeral home in town. it was my first wake and mom had arranged it so i could ask him questions. i asked if the woman (i can't remember who died...) was wearing shoes and he said yes but either i didn't believe him or i was just really curious and i asked to see-- AND HE SHOWED ME!! Thanks, Blazek! She had on black shoes and some sort of hose, I'm surprised I didn't ask about THAT.
Second dream. In this one I'm dead and I know I'm dead and AGAIN i'm planning the wake I don't want. This time I'm in the morgue and I'm thinking, I should have my retainer in and I wish I had packed my mascara--funny b/c i never have make up in my purse. not that the retainer part isn't funny...there was more to this one but it's lost now.
headed to IA in a few hours. dinner with kath and maria first.
the first one i am planning my wake (mind you i don't want a wake, but that's what goes on in the show and my mom once told me that i had to have a wake and that it wasn't for me but for everyone else--just like the rest of my life ;). Ok, so i'm planning my wake and i am thinking of how i want my hands folded, or not and which rings i want to wear and whether or not i'll wear shoes and which ones. when i'm dreaming about the shoe thing--in my dream--i think of a conversation i had with steve blazek (sp) who used to run the funeral home in town. it was my first wake and mom had arranged it so i could ask him questions. i asked if the woman (i can't remember who died...) was wearing shoes and he said yes but either i didn't believe him or i was just really curious and i asked to see-- AND HE SHOWED ME!! Thanks, Blazek! She had on black shoes and some sort of hose, I'm surprised I didn't ask about THAT.
Second dream. In this one I'm dead and I know I'm dead and AGAIN i'm planning the wake I don't want. This time I'm in the morgue and I'm thinking, I should have my retainer in and I wish I had packed my mascara--funny b/c i never have make up in my purse. not that the retainer part isn't funny...there was more to this one but it's lost now.
headed to IA in a few hours. dinner with kath and maria first.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
seattle trip pt 1
We went to Seattle 2 weekends ago to hang out with Jess and Kevin. We took the Amtrak bus down and got in around 5:30. We met Jess and walked to a sushi restaurant--Maneki. I forgot my camera in the car at that point so there are no pictures from there unfortunately. We had some rolls, some sashimi, plenty of sake. My favorite sake was the bouquet aftertaste. My favorite roll was the sassy salmon roll--a little spicy, a LOT delicious! This is where we met Kevin's sister, Jen.
The whole time we were there Jess, Kevin, and Jen kept referring to a SUPLISE that made me nervous.
After walking around the international district looking for a bar to have a drink--one drink--before the suplise. This is the bar we ended up at.
Then we found our SUPLISE!
VENUS KARAOKE! Smaller karaoke rooms for you and your friends--just like Korea! WOOT!
Heck yeah!
This guy was there--They say his name's Steve.
This is what Steve did to Jess's car. He neglected to tell her when he got out of the car...
At the car wash
Beard scrubbing. Scrubba scrubba scrubba!
Jess rinsing.
Bear
SUCCESS!
The whole time we were there Jess, Kevin, and Jen kept referring to a SUPLISE that made me nervous.
After walking around the international district looking for a bar to have a drink--one drink--before the suplise. This is the bar we ended up at.
Then we found our SUPLISE!
VENUS KARAOKE! Smaller karaoke rooms for you and your friends--just like Korea! WOOT!
Heck yeah!
This guy was there--They say his name's Steve.
This is what Steve did to Jess's car. He neglected to tell her when he got out of the car...
At the car wash
Beard scrubbing. Scrubba scrubba scrubba!
Jess rinsing.
Bear
SUCCESS!
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Hello World
It's been brought to my attention that I have not blogged since January. Ellen, this one is for you!
Last week was Spring Break. I went camping with Christy and Megan at Silver Lake State Park off of Mt. Baker Hwy in Maple Falls Tuesday night.
Wednesday, Timm rode his bike out (nuts) and Craig and his kids Keegan and Kaeliegh came out for dinner and marshmallows.
We sang songs and huddled by the fire.
C, M and I walked around the park Wednesday and found some nice cabins and a little trail. The lake is pretty nice too, except for all the goose poop.
Friday Chirsty and I went to a seminar about healing Native American children who have been sexually abused. We gained some new ideas and insight. It was one of slowest seminars I have ever been to. and no set schedule. i got to practice having patience.
Friday night Rick came over for dinner and he and Beard decided it would be a good idea to buy as much pork as possible and grill it all the next day. And that's what we did.
5 different bbq sauces and a rub. all delicious.
We boiled the meat first so it was good and tender.
we grilled 18 lbs and made our way through about 11--pretty good for 6 ppl.
Tara made an awesome coleslaw, too. BBQ pork and coleslaw--yum!
Sunday we (me, Beard, Tara, Sam, Delilah, Rick) took a hike to walk off some of the pork. We started at the N. Chuckanut Trailhead on the Hemlock trail and turned off on the Salal Trail. We were looking for the Madrone Crest trail and were probably on it but it wasn't posted.
We ended up back on the main trail and made our way back to the car. And since the pork was still on sale, we bought another package for the freezer.
Sunday night Beard and I had dinner with Stacia and Evelyn who work with Beard at the Border Policy Research Institute on campus. Good food, good company.
And now it's Monday--bah.
I have an interview today with David Davidson of BPRI to work for him this summer at the border. It's a backup job in case I can't work with a professor on research. I think it would be pretty interesting though. Interviewing people about what they are bringing over the border--I might even be able to sit in the little box.
Tonight I have training for teaching kids English online and then dinner with Beard and Rick. Kath's spring break is this week so she's headed to LA to see her parents.
Tomorrow class starts again....
Here are some more random pictures for your viewing pleasure.
Last week was Spring Break. I went camping with Christy and Megan at Silver Lake State Park off of Mt. Baker Hwy in Maple Falls Tuesday night.
Wednesday, Timm rode his bike out (nuts) and Craig and his kids Keegan and Kaeliegh came out for dinner and marshmallows.
We sang songs and huddled by the fire.
C, M and I walked around the park Wednesday and found some nice cabins and a little trail. The lake is pretty nice too, except for all the goose poop.
Friday Chirsty and I went to a seminar about healing Native American children who have been sexually abused. We gained some new ideas and insight. It was one of slowest seminars I have ever been to. and no set schedule. i got to practice having patience.
Friday night Rick came over for dinner and he and Beard decided it would be a good idea to buy as much pork as possible and grill it all the next day. And that's what we did.
5 different bbq sauces and a rub. all delicious.
We boiled the meat first so it was good and tender.
we grilled 18 lbs and made our way through about 11--pretty good for 6 ppl.
Tara made an awesome coleslaw, too. BBQ pork and coleslaw--yum!
Sunday we (me, Beard, Tara, Sam, Delilah, Rick) took a hike to walk off some of the pork. We started at the N. Chuckanut Trailhead on the Hemlock trail and turned off on the Salal Trail. We were looking for the Madrone Crest trail and were probably on it but it wasn't posted.
We ended up back on the main trail and made our way back to the car. And since the pork was still on sale, we bought another package for the freezer.
Sunday night Beard and I had dinner with Stacia and Evelyn who work with Beard at the Border Policy Research Institute on campus. Good food, good company.
And now it's Monday--bah.
I have an interview today with David Davidson of BPRI to work for him this summer at the border. It's a backup job in case I can't work with a professor on research. I think it would be pretty interesting though. Interviewing people about what they are bringing over the border--I might even be able to sit in the little box.
Tonight I have training for teaching kids English online and then dinner with Beard and Rick. Kath's spring break is this week so she's headed to LA to see her parents.
Tomorrow class starts again....
Here are some more random pictures for your viewing pleasure.
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