Our internet connection at home is slow. Very slow. Like the mighty tortoise. Like watching grass grow. I'm talking wait 5 minutes for a page to load kind of slow. And forget uploading pictures. How frustrating!
This also reminds me how annoyed I get when things (or people, for that matter) don't do what they're supposed to do, when they're supposed to do it. Like the jerks who block the box at a particular intersection on my way to work so I can't cross when my light is green, for example. Why can't you just wait your turn? Can't you see that I have important things to do, such as being slightly less late to work than I am already running?
Anyway. So. Sorry. I wrote a lot this weekend, had pics to go with it, but couldn't get it to load. Clearly my internet connection has no sense of my busy busy schedule and my deep-seated sense of self-importance.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Saturday, May 24, 2008
May 24, 2008
Yes, it really took this many days to have the bandwidth to post photos. So I present, a blast from the past: last weekend!
I'm so glad to have a long weekend to spend with my family. Today, Edythe and I made play dough for the first time. I didn't love any of the recipes I found, so I made up my own.
Play Dough
2 cups flour
1/3 cup salt
1 cup water
Food coloring (if you want)
Put flour and salt in a bowl and mix. In a measuring cup, add food coloring to water, then add the wet ingredients to the dry. Mix well with a spoon. Taa-daa! Play dough!
The recipes I saw all involved cooking on the stove, or adding the food coloring last, which made no sense to me. Of course this probably won't keep long, but that's okay. Edythe enjoyed eating it (I tried it; it was terrible), gooshing it in her fingers, and throwing it on the ground and stepping on it (I tried it; it was fun)!
While we were doing that, Christopher was enjoying some "free" time of fixing the washing machine and creating a new antenna for the TV. I don't pretend to know how he did it, but there was a blowtorch involved.
It works pretty well! And best of all, it's a decent replica of the giant ones he works with. I want to put tiny buildings around the bottom and pretend it's a cell tower in a subdivision.
I'm so glad to have a long weekend to spend with my family. Today, Edythe and I made play dough for the first time. I didn't love any of the recipes I found, so I made up my own.
Play Dough
2 cups flour
1/3 cup salt
1 cup water
Food coloring (if you want)
Put flour and salt in a bowl and mix. In a measuring cup, add food coloring to water, then add the wet ingredients to the dry. Mix well with a spoon. Taa-daa! Play dough!The recipes I saw all involved cooking on the stove, or adding the food coloring last, which made no sense to me. Of course this probably won't keep long, but that's okay. Edythe enjoyed eating it (I tried it; it was terrible), gooshing it in her fingers, and throwing it on the ground and stepping on it (I tried it; it was fun)!
While we were doing that, Christopher was enjoying some "free" time of fixing the washing machine and creating a new antenna for the TV. I don't pretend to know how he did it, but there was a blowtorch involved.
It works pretty well! And best of all, it's a decent replica of the giant ones he works with. I want to put tiny buildings around the bottom and pretend it's a cell tower in a subdivision.
Friday, May 23, 2008
Happy Friday
I am so thankful for this long weekend! Edythe and Christopher were out of town last weekend, and with our crazy work/school/daycare schedules, I feel like I've hardly seen them. We're looking forward to a weekend of good old-fashioned family fun!
I've been thinking about this blog, and how I've grown to dislike writing about writing, in the same way that I dislike people looking over my shoulder while I'm drawing. But I do enjoy when friends and family show an interest in what I'm doing, and when they get excited about projects they hear about on here.
So. I think I'm going to expand it and try to capture a wider swath of the creative work going on at home. Maybe play around with the look of the blog a bit. More on that later.
Also, for those who read it, our family website is experienceing some technical difficulties, but we hope to get a password-protected version up again soon.
I've been thinking about this blog, and how I've grown to dislike writing about writing, in the same way that I dislike people looking over my shoulder while I'm drawing. But I do enjoy when friends and family show an interest in what I'm doing, and when they get excited about projects they hear about on here.
So. I think I'm going to expand it and try to capture a wider swath of the creative work going on at home. Maybe play around with the look of the blog a bit. More on that later.
Also, for those who read it, our family website is experienceing some technical difficulties, but we hope to get a password-protected version up again soon.
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