This weekend, I took Neils and Luke to SLC. Anthony had to work, but Meg said she'd help pay for the trip, so I went! I hadn't seen her since a few days before Neils was born, so it was time she finally meet the little guy.
We had a lot of fun, but Neils had a rough time. He is getting his two top teeth, though, so he wasn't happy most of the time. He has his top tooth on the left about halfway out, but the other one is being stubborn. He drools so much...and he is whiny most of the time. I gave him tylenol, and even teething tablets, but he just was miserable. I feel so bad for him.
We went to Wheeler farm, and Neils got to see lots of animals, and he played with Hope and Isabelle a lot of the time. Luke even had fun playing with the girls...at dinner one night, Hope even said "I want Luke" for something. It was funny.
At the end of the trip, we went to Cold Stone to meet Katrina. My family and her family lived in a duplex in Midvale when she and I were in kindergarten. When my brother died, my family moved back to Sevier County, and I hadn't seen her since. Imagine that...almost 16 years! It was really cool, though.
I have a lot more to say, but I just can't think right now. I will post pictures later!
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Food food food!
Another thing… I found a blog about recipes and stuff on blogger, but I was discouraged. I am picky about recipes, and I hate when you have to fry things. I hate fried food. It literally makes me sick, gives me stomach aches and bad experiences. So…I may just make my own food blog. There will be rules:
-Nothing fried in large amounts of oil! I’d rather bake things or figure something else out, and although some of those things might be so, so good, I just can’t do it! EEW!
Well, that is the only rule I can think of right now.
I got this book called “Eat this, not that!” and I found it really entertaining. It will have a page spread on a restaurant, and it will show good ones on the left, and bad ones on the right. It will tell you all the calories, fat, etc. that’s in the dish, and it will tell you a few more options of each. It also has sections where you can find the best options for snacks, frozen foods, and more. I’ll try to get bits and pieces up and show you, so you can be as entertained as I was…still am….
Maybe I’ll make the food blog not only about recipes, but I’ll post what I am eating, too. Ha ha ha…that might be entertaining.
-Nothing fried in large amounts of oil! I’d rather bake things or figure something else out, and although some of those things might be so, so good, I just can’t do it! EEW!
Well, that is the only rule I can think of right now.
I got this book called “Eat this, not that!” and I found it really entertaining. It will have a page spread on a restaurant, and it will show good ones on the left, and bad ones on the right. It will tell you all the calories, fat, etc. that’s in the dish, and it will tell you a few more options of each. It also has sections where you can find the best options for snacks, frozen foods, and more. I’ll try to get bits and pieces up and show you, so you can be as entertained as I was…still am….
Maybe I’ll make the food blog not only about recipes, but I’ll post what I am eating, too. Ha ha ha…that might be entertaining.
TV!
In my class, my professor just posted these facts (in my advertising class, talking about TV advertising today)
“By graduation, 11,000 hours in school(through high school), 15,000 hours in front of the TV. By age 20 today people have seen 800,000 tv commercials”
Now, what I get from this:
AGH! Too much TV! I know people really enjoy this, and it is good sometimes, but I really think spending more time watching TV than in school is ridiculous! At my house, the TV is on a lot. But lately, I’ve been reading in some parenting magazines that TV in the background is not so good when your babies are playing. That’s really all the TV is to me, though, background. I rarely ever pay attention to it. When my mom comes over to help watch Neils, or when Anthony turns the TV on sometimes, it is on the TV Guide Channel. From me…trying to find something to watch, but getting distracted or playing with Neils instead. Ha. They always say “Sierra must have been watching TV, her favorite channel is on.” It really isn’t my favorite channel, I just end up doing something else and don’t turn the TV off.
Now, to get Anthony, who says he hates TV…but watches is all the time…to stop watching it so much while playing with Neils…that might be a task. Ugh. I hate tasks.
“By graduation, 11,000 hours in school(through high school), 15,000 hours in front of the TV. By age 20 today people have seen 800,000 tv commercials”
Now, what I get from this:
AGH! Too much TV! I know people really enjoy this, and it is good sometimes, but I really think spending more time watching TV than in school is ridiculous! At my house, the TV is on a lot. But lately, I’ve been reading in some parenting magazines that TV in the background is not so good when your babies are playing. That’s really all the TV is to me, though, background. I rarely ever pay attention to it. When my mom comes over to help watch Neils, or when Anthony turns the TV on sometimes, it is on the TV Guide Channel. From me…trying to find something to watch, but getting distracted or playing with Neils instead. Ha. They always say “Sierra must have been watching TV, her favorite channel is on.” It really isn’t my favorite channel, I just end up doing something else and don’t turn the TV off.
Now, to get Anthony, who says he hates TV…but watches is all the time…to stop watching it so much while playing with Neils…that might be a task. Ugh. I hate tasks.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
1000 Journals Project
I think this is amazing. I've known about it since I was a sophomore in high school, I think. Maybe a Junior. It is this project where a guy bought 1000 journals, decorated the covers, numbered them, etc, and sent them out into the world. It is such asn incredible idea, and even more incredible that people kept it going. I wrote about it in high school, in the school paper, and even in my blog on Myspace. I wrote to the guy who started the project, got stickers from him, learned about another project (vandalsandpoets.com), but I haven't thought about it in a while, until now. I just got an e-mail saying he now has a documentary showing at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and he even has a book! I wish I could see that, and have the book. That would be so amazing!
Here is a blurb from the SFMOMA site
"This exhibition celebrates The 1000 Journals Project, an ongoing collaborative and participatory experiment that follows 1,000 blank journals as they journey around the world. Each journal is stamped with a message inviting participants to draw, paste, rip, or write on its pages, and then pass it on when finished. Exchanged by friends and strangers or left in bus shelters and other unexpected places, the books have accumulated a rich tapestry of stories, drawings, and personal reflections. Collectively, the journals have traveled to more than forty countries and all 50 states. Co-curated by anonymous project creator Someguy and Stephanie Pau of the SFMOMA Education Department, this presentation features a selection of journals that have returned to San Francisco. In keeping with the spirit of the project, journals and art supplies will be available to visitors, offering an open invitation to participate in this exciting social-art experiment."
Ahh..I love it!
Other things in my life:
Neils is getting his third tooth
I had my first day alone at work today (only my thrid day working, too)
First test of the semester
My other professor has been gone for three weeks, the sub, another professor, is kind of odd, but I really enjoy him. I enjoyed oth of them
Um...
I'm still sick. I really just have a cough now, but it is annoyoing and sucks. It is worse at night.
Here is a blurb from the SFMOMA site
"This exhibition celebrates The 1000 Journals Project, an ongoing collaborative and participatory experiment that follows 1,000 blank journals as they journey around the world. Each journal is stamped with a message inviting participants to draw, paste, rip, or write on its pages, and then pass it on when finished. Exchanged by friends and strangers or left in bus shelters and other unexpected places, the books have accumulated a rich tapestry of stories, drawings, and personal reflections. Collectively, the journals have traveled to more than forty countries and all 50 states. Co-curated by anonymous project creator Someguy and Stephanie Pau of the SFMOMA Education Department, this presentation features a selection of journals that have returned to San Francisco. In keeping with the spirit of the project, journals and art supplies will be available to visitors, offering an open invitation to participate in this exciting social-art experiment."
Ahh..I love it!
Other things in my life:
Neils is getting his third tooth
I had my first day alone at work today (only my thrid day working, too)
First test of the semester
My other professor has been gone for three weeks, the sub, another professor, is kind of odd, but I really enjoy him. I enjoyed oth of them
Um...
I'm still sick. I really just have a cough now, but it is annoyoing and sucks. It is worse at night.
List of Classics
I saw this on a friends blog and I like it....
Here is a list of Classics. Bold the books you have read. Italicize the books you plan on reading , Copy and post!(ideally, then you will pick a book you havent read, and get to it)
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling - well, only three I think. I forgot...
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - Ahh...my favorite book!
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Here is a list of Classics. Bold the books you have read. Italicize the books you plan on reading , Copy and post!(ideally, then you will pick a book you havent read, and get to it)
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling - well, only three I think. I forgot...
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - Ahh...my favorite book!
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Monday, October 13, 2008
Baby Neils!!
Oatmeal container=awesome toy!
already wanting to get out of the bath tub!
This is so funny...he climbed under anthony's drafting desk, clear to the back and under the chair, and got stuck. Luckily, my camera was on my desk right behind me...
But Neils was ready to get out!
He really likes mylar balloons
He gets this big smile all the time
Talking to grandma on the telephone
He makes this funny face, kind of like fish lips but then he smacks them...does that make sense? It was so hard to catch!
Eating daddy cereal!
This one is cool, you can see his eyes looking at me. He was trying to get the cereal in his mouth this way. What a smart guy!
Friday, October 10, 2008
Proposition 8
These people aren't from Utah, but the video is still relevant, and it still matters.
Go here to see it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtUlJel4RR8
I can't figure out posting a video just yet. I have to go, but I needed to do this right now.
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