The Family

OK. So we all know that I am really particularly bad at remembering people’s names.

Getting this telescope. Very Very Exciting. And from a new local start up astronomy business, and that is also very very exciting. Kevin talks to the owner a lot in deciding which to get. The man’s name is Kendall. I work and work and work at remembering this, because I know I’ll need to ask a lot of questions myself, and it is much more friendly if you know the guy’s name.

I practice mneumonics. I write it down over and over. I use every memory trick in the book. I have a friend with the same name, and that helps. I eventually, many months, come to a point where I can remember his name in less than a minute of concentration. I can think of his name, and then call. I’m feeling pretty good about this.

Day comes. We go pick up the new telescope. His daughter is there with him, she is introduced, -whoosh- goes here name out of my head. His daughter brought their young cat with them, soft beautiful calico about 6 to 8 months old. Pet and play and generally have a wonderful time. Kevin is also there, so we do manage to leave eventually, and remember to take the telescope.

Run into some problems with assembly. Call -Kendall- (I know his name, see) and ask if he’ll be in on Saturday. Yes, he says, and his daughter will be in the shop, too (daughter is under 10, very young girl). Oh, I say excitedly, and you can bring Patches!

I then start laughing internally. In two, three weeks time, I haven’t thought of this cat. I had to push and pull and trick myself into remembering the person’s name (and couldn’t tell you his daughter’s name) with months of effort. One meeting, three weeks later, and the cat’s name is right there. No recall trouble whatsoever.

Methinks my trouble with people names is that perhaps I really am not paying that much attention to people. Not deliberately, you understand. But .. well … I knew the cat’s name. I like cats….

Just got a “funny” email…   Says “You know that summer is near when the girls start showing off their belly buttons,” followed by a picture of a very fat woman sitting on a park bench with her knees splayed out, and her belly hanging between them so badly that her belly button shows under the hem of her skirt.
My first reaction was shock and horror of a belly so droopy that it hangs down between her legs.  My second reaction was feeling sick for her…  She looks like she tries…   her dress is a cheery pink print; she is well groomed….   she cares what she looks like.  I KNOW she has no idea that her belly is showing.  She is just sitting on a park bench minding her own business (and unintentionally grossing out anyone who sees her).  Can you imagine how much it hurts her to have her picture plastered all over the WWW?  You know that people who know her will see it (have seen it) and many of them will laugh and some will tell her, and some will titter when she walks past.  She will feel like everyone has seen it……    I know how i would feel.  I would hurt…  and want to never be seen again.

I don’t know about there, but here the boxes of Honey Nut Cheerios are currenly coming with 3D (red/blue) cut out “glasses”

If you happen to buy this cereal, or if you happen to already have 3D glasses, you should go check out this USGS page – http://3dparks.wr.usgs.gov/index.html.

This is one of those pages I’d marked as potentially interesting, but then revisited it when I got my Cheerios glasses. Some of the pictures are so-so, but some (the Delicate Arch in Arches National Park comes to mind) are really cool.

Thought I’d let everyone else know … and I don’t mind hawking Cheerios .. if it were cocoa crispies or something, that would be different..

OK; will try to keep this one a -bit- shorter than previous ones.

Grailing has six different powders – yeast, barley, tea, mushrooms, kelp, and the hoxsey blend. Right now I’m mixing them in all different combinations so that he gets two different ones at each meal, hopefully covering all six of them in the day. He’s supposed to get some of all of them each day.

It would be much easier for delivery purposes if I could mix up all six into a day’s powder mix. I could do up a week or more at a time, and then I’d just have to pour powder onto the food, without having to mess with capsules and remembering which are the whole capsule, which are the half capsule, which are 1/2 tsp and 1/4 tsp and etc. The chart helps A Lot but if I could do this up a week in advance, that would help even more. Specifically, it would help Kevin. (Kevin is good about following the chart, but easier would be better).

I’m having trouble figuring out how to store this powder mix, though. I’ve thought of those 7 day pill dispensers, which is the right concept, but the little slots are generally small rectangles that don’t lend themselves to spoons or to pouring little bits at a time out of them.

Does anyone have any other ideas for storage and delivery? All told, it would be about a tablespoon’s worth of powder for a day, maybe a little less.

Well I am holding steady……. I have read that when you lose weight you starve your fat cells and they cry out to be filled. I think mine are crying out.

I am not happy. My body is soft. I feel spongy. It is not so bad at this point that i could not get used to it, but i poke myself every once in a while and gross myself out with how i feel, especially when i think of how much worse it will be when i loose more. I saw a young woman on Dr Phil who lost about what i want to lose and her body was horrible. I wonder how much “reconstruction” it would take to make a body like that something a person could bear to live in. I wonder if i could afford it.

I thought i would look on ebay for an autograph hound. I found a few. This one is the best. Of course, at another time there would be another selection.
This one is made by an individual.  From the look of it the gal who made it knows what she is doing, more than i would. I wonder if she would be willing to make the same dog in a bright Christmas color. I will write and ask.  This dog is pricey, especially considering shipping.  (the shipping would be less if it was slower)
I also looked at Simplicity to see if there was a pattern i could use to make a dog.  Of course if i made it, there would be no guaranteeing the quality or the speed.

Our signature thing would not have to be a dog…  or even an animal.

Just thinking.

Since matters of maternatiy don’t all fit into the family website here, Christina and I started up a new website, Crabby’s First Website. Our intent is to make updates there about how the baby is doing, how we’re progressing, and other baby related news.

Hope to see some comments showing up there, and don’t worry: we’ll have plenty to say here too.

This is a message i am using as an example to show Luke How this works.

I wish i knew if you were awake. You should be awake on new years eve at 11:00, but what if you are sleeping????

I have thought all day that i would call you just as soon as… And then tonight a friend called at about 6 i think and kept me on the phone till almost now… and i did not think of calling all that time. (bad bad bad mama)(in-law, i suppose)

Of course i could call not, and if you were not pregnant, i probably would. I cannot imagine anyone going to sleep before midnight tonight. But what if you had a bad day and this is the first rest you have gotten.

So…. Happy Birthday Christina. I hope the day was wonderful and that Chris took you out to eat and that you felt like eating and that you like your presents.

A little confetti here. Happy Birthday.

(Do you read this more than e-mail?)

I’m a bit late (but still in the year 2005, really!), but here’s some pictures for your enjoyment.

They are located, temporarily, here

A zipped version of all the pictures can be downloaded with this link

And, of course, there are other pictures available here