So another, Sunday another post. This week has been crazy!
Hubii left on Wednesday to attend the SIGCSE (Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education) Conference in Dallas. He got back last night but he now has a cold :( Thankfully Hubii is off for Spring break this week so he has time to recuperate. We were supposed to go for a walk with the Hike of the Month small group at church, but Hubii skipped out. Good thing he did it was cold and not too pretty.
It was kinda good to have the house to myself/ be alone because I was able to do a lot of school work. I stayed on campus later and came home to Pasta Roni dinners (Don't worry I threw in lots of spinach to offset the unhealthiness).
We did some dissections in our lab on pigs' legs to help ease our undergrads into cadaver testing. Also we use it to introduce the different muscles (pigs have similar muscle structure to humans). I was supposed to help lead that, but really I know less about anatomy than they probably do (being 10 years removed from my last biology class). Thankfully, we have a masters student with a biology undergrad working in our lab.
Yesterday, I helped my advisor with a Technology and Tea event on Campus. We had 6-8th grade girls come and participate in different engineering workshops. We tried to do a Lego Mindstorms project. We had them build the basic robot and then gave them the obstacle and asked them to modify their robots to get past the obstacle. To keep it simple, we just had different boxes that the girls had to try to escape from. Unfortunately, we didn't have enough time and no one was able to get out of the boxes. But it was fun, and a little relaxing to not think about school work or research.
This week is the first proper ultrasound appointment at the OB. Maybe I will get some pics to put online and make this blog more exciting. I know just talking can be boring, and I don't know how to write to be interesting :P
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Maybe I will be better at this?
So, I am pretty bad at keeping in touch with people and calling and emailing. But there are some nice people out there who are still my friends. And since I am preggers and all I thought it would be nice to track things and share, since it is the thing to do and people ask and want to know about pregnancy stuff. Sooo, I am gong to commit to posting once a week, Sundays from now till the baby comes.
So how are things going?
With the baby:
I am now on (wait I need to look this up online) week 20. I have gained 9 pounds since my first weigh in at the doctors (which does not include the immediate binge I went on when I found out I was eating for two).
Our home has exploded with baby books. As soon as I found out I was pregnant I pretty much requested every book I found on my library's website that dealt with pregnancy and babies. I have been told not to read more than one 'all you need to know about pregnancy' book because the contradictory information will just confuse me. Well my friends, they do not know me and perhaps are not familiar with cognitive dissonance. Holding contradictory beliefs in my head at the same time is my speciality.
I am reading the ever popular What to Expect When You Are Expecting, I was loaned I'm Pregnant by a friend. I also tried to listen to Your Pregnancy, Week by Week as an audiobook, but it made me nauseous. I have books on delivery Easy Labor, Your Best Birth, Pushed and even Hypnosis for a Joyful Pregnancy and a Pain-Free Labor and Delivery (I like to have all my bases covered, consider me the Unitarian of birthing techniques). I haven't read them all, but most of them are partially read.
I just got Hubii a few books on being a Dadii. Hope he enjoys reading them, I just got what the library had, not the best selection but better than nothing. Or maybe ignorance is bliss and he should just stay unjaded for as long as possible.
With school:
argh, it's tiring. I am officially registered for 2 classes plus research, but I am also taking one class unofficially and getting credit for it later. Plus I am TAing another class. It's crazy and tiring and my Advisor wants me to get all my testing done this semester (i.e. by June) before I go off to have the baby. I feel like I spend most of my time doing HW. It's crazy and I feel overwhelmed, like I am not going to get it done.
Hubii is busy with school. Planning, grading HW, writing exams takes up most evenings. But at least we can relax on Sundays. After church we come home and Hubii relaxes by playing video games. Currently he is playing Shining Tears on PS2. I can't get into it so much because the text is so small, but he likes it so far. This Friday we had two friends over and played Dominion with them. It was fun, hopefully we can do it more often. I am really looking forward to the summer, classes will be over for the both of us and we can just be lazy.
Well, that's a recap of the last few months. the following posts shouldn't be such a deluge.
So how are things going?
With the baby:
I am now on (wait I need to look this up online) week 20. I have gained 9 pounds since my first weigh in at the doctors (which does not include the immediate binge I went on when I found out I was eating for two).
Our home has exploded with baby books. As soon as I found out I was pregnant I pretty much requested every book I found on my library's website that dealt with pregnancy and babies. I have been told not to read more than one 'all you need to know about pregnancy' book because the contradictory information will just confuse me. Well my friends, they do not know me and perhaps are not familiar with cognitive dissonance. Holding contradictory beliefs in my head at the same time is my speciality.
I am reading the ever popular What to Expect When You Are Expecting, I was loaned I'm Pregnant by a friend. I also tried to listen to Your Pregnancy, Week by Week as an audiobook, but it made me nauseous. I have books on delivery Easy Labor, Your Best Birth, Pushed and even Hypnosis for a Joyful Pregnancy and a Pain-Free Labor and Delivery (I like to have all my bases covered, consider me the Unitarian of birthing techniques). I haven't read them all, but most of them are partially read.
I just got Hubii a few books on being a Dadii. Hope he enjoys reading them, I just got what the library had, not the best selection but better than nothing. Or maybe ignorance is bliss and he should just stay unjaded for as long as possible.
With school:
argh, it's tiring. I am officially registered for 2 classes plus research, but I am also taking one class unofficially and getting credit for it later. Plus I am TAing another class. It's crazy and tiring and my Advisor wants me to get all my testing done this semester (i.e. by June) before I go off to have the baby. I feel like I spend most of my time doing HW. It's crazy and I feel overwhelmed, like I am not going to get it done.
Hubii is busy with school. Planning, grading HW, writing exams takes up most evenings. But at least we can relax on Sundays. After church we come home and Hubii relaxes by playing video games. Currently he is playing Shining Tears on PS2. I can't get into it so much because the text is so small, but he likes it so far. This Friday we had two friends over and played Dominion with them. It was fun, hopefully we can do it more often. I am really looking forward to the summer, classes will be over for the both of us and we can just be lazy.
Well, that's a recap of the last few months. the following posts shouldn't be such a deluge.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Lots a pics
Ok, here are the pics that I had promised in the previous post.
This was a lemon cake I made courtesy of Martha Stewart for Easter dinner. Unfortunately, in the process of making a lemon syrup, the acid corroded my wire whisk. I then used the metal whisk in my lemon curd, which not only further corroded the whisk, it also left a very very very strong metallic taste in the curd! When did I discoer all this? Only once the curd was mostly thickened. So what did I do, throw it away and start from scratch? Of course not! I just used it anyway and hoped that the lemony taste of the cake would mask the iron-y taste of the curd. Was it successful? Well, I wouldn't really serve this to anyone else, but it is quite satisfying.
I don't get too gushy online about how wonderful Hubii is. But I thought that he deserved this one. I was having a hectic/ tough week at school so Hubii made me a delicious dinner of Mushroom Stroganoff. He also did something else super nice, and I said I would gush about it on facebook... but I forgot. I am truly fail at gushy facebook wife.
Smile Chef Hubii
This is just a cute supper I thought I would share. As close to breakfast for dinner that Hubii will agree to.
Say Happy 33rd birthday Hubii. Enjoy your cake. Unfortunately, it was from a box. This is what grad school does to you: It robs your soul.
It also pays for fun presents (really it does, at least untill I lose my 3.5 GPA)
So, at uni they stick all the grad students who don't have research profs (and some who do) into this one nasty dusty room. I thought I would try to brighten mine desk up a little with this cute mug that an old coworker made and that potted plant. Unfortunately, the mug was brought to its untimely end by an errant cricket ball. No I am not back in India but I am surrounded by Indian Grad students (whoda thunk it?) Some grad students were throwing around the ball and it strayed too close to my desk. Also, spring break was not kind on my plant. It's still alive, but probably on its last legs, roots, something.
When we went to Michigan we, we visited Hubii's Aunt MaryAnne. She gave us some paper lilies that did pretty well. They smelled quite strong though. Good thing that I like it, mostly.
So Pretty: they sparkle. If you click on the photo you will see it.
This is Hubii across the table from me at the Swanky restaurant that we went to for our 3rd anniversary dinner. I remember I got seared duck and... seared duck is pretty raw. I like to think of myself as a wordly foodie, so I chewed my way through a fair bit of it before my jaw and tongue begged for mercy. It was like eating a whole chunk of sashimi without soy sauce or wasabi and with the toughness of raw chicken. Anyways, we had them cook it a little more and it was delicious.
Here we are in front of a pendulum clock from the when Union Station was really a train station.
This is Winnie the poo. "What?" you say. Well this was a food bank event they had at the Union Station. It was a canned/ packaged foods scultpure contest.
This is a six pack. Very meta.
This is a Christmas pic that didn't make it into christmas photos. These cakes were baked by an elder at our church. He is one of the younger elders I think, maybe in his thirties. But he definitely doesn't look like a cake baker. He is bald and big and with a burly beard, he looks more like a hells angel in a suit. But these cakes tasted better than they looked.
The funny thing is, we asked him how we should cut the tree cake and he got confused. He said that he usually just drops them off and leaves. But they were delicious.
This was a lemon cake I made courtesy of Martha Stewart for Easter dinner. Unfortunately, in the process of making a lemon syrup, the acid corroded my wire whisk. I then used the metal whisk in my lemon curd, which not only further corroded the whisk, it also left a very very very strong metallic taste in the curd! When did I discoer all this? Only once the curd was mostly thickened. So what did I do, throw it away and start from scratch? Of course not! I just used it anyway and hoped that the lemony taste of the cake would mask the iron-y taste of the curd. Was it successful? Well, I wouldn't really serve this to anyone else, but it is quite satisfying.
I don't get too gushy online about how wonderful Hubii is. But I thought that he deserved this one. I was having a hectic/ tough week at school so Hubii made me a delicious dinner of Mushroom Stroganoff. He also did something else super nice, and I said I would gush about it on facebook... but I forgot. I am truly fail at gushy facebook wife.
Smile Chef Hubii
This is just a cute supper I thought I would share. As close to breakfast for dinner that Hubii will agree to.Say Happy 33rd birthday Hubii. Enjoy your cake. Unfortunately, it was from a box. This is what grad school does to you: It robs your soul.
It also pays for fun presents (really it does, at least untill I lose my 3.5 GPA)
So, at uni they stick all the grad students who don't have research profs (and some who do) into this one nasty dusty room. I thought I would try to brighten mine desk up a little with this cute mug that an old coworker made and that potted plant. Unfortunately, the mug was brought to its untimely end by an errant cricket ball. No I am not back in India but I am surrounded by Indian Grad students (whoda thunk it?) Some grad students were throwing around the ball and it strayed too close to my desk. Also, spring break was not kind on my plant. It's still alive, but probably on its last legs, roots, something.
When we went to Michigan we, we visited Hubii's Aunt MaryAnne. She gave us some paper lilies that did pretty well. They smelled quite strong though. Good thing that I like it, mostly.
So Pretty: they sparkle. If you click on the photo you will see it.
This is Hubii across the table from me at the Swanky restaurant that we went to for our 3rd anniversary dinner. I remember I got seared duck and... seared duck is pretty raw. I like to think of myself as a wordly foodie, so I chewed my way through a fair bit of it before my jaw and tongue begged for mercy. It was like eating a whole chunk of sashimi without soy sauce or wasabi and with the toughness of raw chicken. Anyways, we had them cook it a little more and it was delicious.
Here we are in front of a pendulum clock from the when Union Station was really a train station.This is Winnie the poo. "What?" you say. Well this was a food bank event they had at the Union Station. It was a canned/ packaged foods scultpure contest.
This is a six pack. Very meta.
This is a Christmas pic that didn't make it into christmas photos. These cakes were baked by an elder at our church. He is one of the younger elders I think, maybe in his thirties. But he definitely doesn't look like a cake baker. He is bald and big and with a burly beard, he looks more like a hells angel in a suit. But these cakes tasted better than they looked.The funny thing is, we asked him how we should cut the tree cake and he got confused. He said that he usually just drops them off and leaves. But they were delicious.
Hello My Name is Fuancime Wolfe
Hello all. Now that I woke James up an hour before he needed to be up this Saturday morning, I had time to upload all the photos I have taken recently. We will work chronologically backwards because I have more to say about things that are current.
First, yesterday was amazing! I thought it was just going to be a free dinner courtesy of one of Hubii's students who backed out last minute on a conference. Her name is really Francine and I have no idea how you can misspell it the way they did. Dinner was alright. As I was licking the last bits of my cherry cheesecake I wondered how long and boring the the keynote speaker would be.
I was soo off. The speaker's name is Dr. Carol Browning, who is a CS/ Math professor at Drury University. Which is pretty cool by itself, but she also worked at NASA Jet Propulsion Labs from 1987-1995. And she had some awesome stories. She talked about how the failure of Galileo led to the ubiquitous presence of smart phone. Galileo failed to open completely because some spines of its web became tangled and the next mission, Cassini, had the mandate of no moving parts. They had to find a way to create memory without magnetic tapes. They started to work with state of the art technology called solid state memory and the rest is history, as reported by twitter.
She had a lot of great stories. But I thought I would share this adorable video made from images from the Cassini mission. Sorry I wasn't sure how to embed an online video in my blog.
Dr. Browning's speech was very interesting and I was quite satisfied with it but then they said 'WAIT! We have one more thing for you. And now I will embed a video for your viewing pleasure.
I apologize for the poor quality of my cheap mobile phone video and for my childish exclamations. It was just sooo cool. I know... I am a 12 year old.
First, yesterday was amazing! I thought it was just going to be a free dinner courtesy of one of Hubii's students who backed out last minute on a conference. Her name is really Francine and I have no idea how you can misspell it the way they did. Dinner was alright. As I was licking the last bits of my cherry cheesecake I wondered how long and boring the the keynote speaker would be.
I was soo off. The speaker's name is Dr. Carol Browning, who is a CS/ Math professor at Drury University. Which is pretty cool by itself, but she also worked at NASA Jet Propulsion Labs from 1987-1995. And she had some awesome stories. She talked about how the failure of Galileo led to the ubiquitous presence of smart phone. Galileo failed to open completely because some spines of its web became tangled and the next mission, Cassini, had the mandate of no moving parts. They had to find a way to create memory without magnetic tapes. They started to work with state of the art technology called solid state memory and the rest is history, as reported by twitter.
She had a lot of great stories. But I thought I would share this adorable video made from images from the Cassini mission. Sorry I wasn't sure how to embed an online video in my blog.
Dr. Browning's speech was very interesting and I was quite satisfied with it but then they said 'WAIT! We have one more thing for you. And now I will embed a video for your viewing pleasure.
I apologize for the poor quality of my cheap mobile phone video and for my childish exclamations. It was just sooo cool. I know... I am a 12 year old.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Buying a home
So Hubii and I have been trying to buy a house. We are trying to buy it in Platte City. buuuttt.... ugh, I hate buying houses. I should know, I have never bought one and there's a reason for it. How do I know that this exorbitantly priced town home is worth the money I am going to pay for it? I know I should look at comps but the only comp my real estate agent will give me are for the other town homes in this complex. I feel like I am pulling teeth getting comps from her. Sigh. This is majorly stressful. I don't want to be the cause of a housing crisis.
I just got some more comps from my agent. It seems that there are none. How do people justify selling this house at the same price as a year ago if they haven't sold it in a year. grrr....
I just got some more comps from my agent. It seems that there are none. How do people justify selling this house at the same price as a year ago if they haven't sold it in a year. grrr....
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Just so I am not the worst blogger out there
Hello,
I haven't posted in 3 months now. I have been very lame. I thought I would go back and put up pics that I missed but I can't. I have missed too much. We just have to go on from here. Sorry, the last 3 months will have to remain a mystery for you.
I am at school right now, taking a too long break. I am now a graduate student at the University of Kansas in the Mechanical engineering. Yesterday Hubii and I went to a pancake dinner for Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Day or Fat Tuesday. Yummy. Today one of Hubii's classes is cancelled for the all school Ash Wednesday service. School is busy, but I like it.
:)
There, I posted. Now I can be less lame.
I haven't posted in 3 months now. I have been very lame. I thought I would go back and put up pics that I missed but I can't. I have missed too much. We just have to go on from here. Sorry, the last 3 months will have to remain a mystery for you.
I am at school right now, taking a too long break. I am now a graduate student at the University of Kansas in the Mechanical engineering. Yesterday Hubii and I went to a pancake dinner for Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Day or Fat Tuesday. Yummy. Today one of Hubii's classes is cancelled for the all school Ash Wednesday service. School is busy, but I like it.
:)
There, I posted. Now I can be less lame.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
It's snowing
"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas..."
So incase you haven't been following my pictures on facebook I have put some on my blog.
This is what it looks like outside out home today. We haven't cleared our driveway because our car is sick. We think that it has a bad alternator but we will probably only find out on Thursday. Then I will no longer be house bound.
Here is a pic from the carriage ride that we took recently. We went for a tour of old homes of Weston. It was nice to look inside the old homes. Some were remodelled and look all modern. Some tried to stick with designs that were more true to the age when the home was built. For example one home that we visited had a kitchen that had a floor and walls of exposed red brick. It look pretty cool, but kinda cold for the winter. It also had an open hearth that you could just walk into. You could roast a pig in there probably (a small pig maybe a pig let).
Here is a picture of some cookies that the local catholic youth baked as a fundraiser. They were delicious (I suspect that there were some moms and grandmas lending a hand). We picked an assortment of cookies and treats for $5/lb. They were delicious.
And here is the picture of our town all dolled up for the coming of Christ (or seasonal tourists).
This is probably the only Christmas decorations we will do this year. It seems kinda pointless to me to put up a tree if we aren't gonna be home for most of Christmas or on Christmas day. We did decorate it with ornaments that James has collected over the years.
Here is picture we took while we were at Hubii's sister's place in Iowa. Her husband is showing everyone how he practices putting the baby in the car seat and buckling her in (he is practicing with a doll).
At college the Math club had a ginger bread house decorating contest. But they made it with gingerbread trains. And no one actually made a train.
There were three groups of students two of the groups made one entry each, the third group weren't really a group and submitted individual entries.
This group's entry came with a story about ants, human, aliens, and the fourth dimension.
This one collapsed shortly after the picture was taken
A jack of hearts
And the winner is....
Moustach man!
Just so you know this gingerbread is really bad. We hope that everyone is having a good time. It's really cold here (as you can tell from the snow). I will be doing my GRE soon and hope to apply to a couple of Uni's here for grad school. Hopefully I can get it all completed soon.
James will be done with school soon. His last class is today and next week is exam week. Then his break will be done and he can get some house work done ;)
I hope everyone takes this Christmas time to relax (easy for the housewife to say) and reflect on all the great gifts that we have received over this year.
So incase you haven't been following my pictures on facebook I have put some on my blog.
This is what it looks like outside out home today. We haven't cleared our driveway because our car is sick. We think that it has a bad alternator but we will probably only find out on Thursday. Then I will no longer be house bound.
Here is a pic from the carriage ride that we took recently. We went for a tour of old homes of Weston. It was nice to look inside the old homes. Some were remodelled and look all modern. Some tried to stick with designs that were more true to the age when the home was built. For example one home that we visited had a kitchen that had a floor and walls of exposed red brick. It look pretty cool, but kinda cold for the winter. It also had an open hearth that you could just walk into. You could roast a pig in there probably (a small pig maybe a pig let).
Here is a picture of some cookies that the local catholic youth baked as a fundraiser. They were delicious (I suspect that there were some moms and grandmas lending a hand). We picked an assortment of cookies and treats for $5/lb. They were delicious.
And here is the picture of our town all dolled up for the coming of Christ (or seasonal tourists).
This is probably the only Christmas decorations we will do this year. It seems kinda pointless to me to put up a tree if we aren't gonna be home for most of Christmas or on Christmas day. We did decorate it with ornaments that James has collected over the years.
Here is picture we took while we were at Hubii's sister's place in Iowa. Her husband is showing everyone how he practices putting the baby in the car seat and buckling her in (he is practicing with a doll).
At college the Math club had a ginger bread house decorating contest. But they made it with gingerbread trains. And no one actually made a train.There were three groups of students two of the groups made one entry each, the third group weren't really a group and submitted individual entries.
This group's entry came with a story about ants, human, aliens, and the fourth dimension.
This one collapsed shortly after the picture was taken
A jack of hearts
And the winner is....
Moustach man!
Just so you know this gingerbread is really bad. We hope that everyone is having a good time. It's really cold here (as you can tell from the snow). I will be doing my GRE soon and hope to apply to a couple of Uni's here for grad school. Hopefully I can get it all completed soon.
James will be done with school soon. His last class is today and next week is exam week. Then his break will be done and he can get some house work done ;)
I hope everyone takes this Christmas time to relax (easy for the housewife to say) and reflect on all the great gifts that we have received over this year.
Merry Christmas!!
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