Whow, I was tired last night

You know I am tired and distracted when my English is as bad as it was last night. The real capper on it was that I said “operating engine” rather than “operating system”.  Ouch, I just lost nerd points.

February 21, 2011   Posted in: Steven's Lalala 

Anberlin didn’t come to Hawaii

Maria was totally bummed.  I was pretty bummed too.  We dropped the kids with a relatively new babysitter named Svetlana. She and her husband are Russian.  He is in the military, and I honestly don’t know how it all works, as they both have Russian accents and are from Russia, but it works.  She is trying to get into the military as well.  Maybe they are spies, but the girls love her, and she paints with them and reads them stories and such so I don’t care. 

Maria and I went to a place called the Loft downtown, because there had been flyers and such all over the internet saying Anberlin was coming there. Unfortunately, sometime between when the flyers went up and our date the place had closed down.  So we found a nice place to eat next to where the Loft used to be. It was a Vietnamese restaurant and we ate asparagus, salad, spring rolls and drank the most awesome homemade ginger ale ever. Goodness but I can’t think/write when there is music in the background and kids jumping on top of me.  It is weird, but I really need quiet to think to write. Otherwise I end up with a bunch of grammarbroke sentences and sound stupid. Reading too, I can’t read if there is noise in the background.

So there were cool pictures of Vietnam all over the restaurant, but the one at our table was particularly nice, and Maria took a picture next to it. 

What else… Afterward we went to Menchie’s, which is a frozen yogurt place. We walked along the beach a ways and sat on a wooden bench. Maria was too bummed that Anberlin didn’t come to really enjoy the date much though.

You might be wondering why I am not putting Maria’s umlaut in. That would be because I don’t know how to on this computer. I got a free laptop in the mail from Google. It is called the CR48 and it runs Google’s Chrome operating engine. It is a push to call it an operating engine though, as it only actually runs Google’s Chrome browser, and everything has to be done through a browser window. They gave about 30,000 of them away for free, out of several hundred thousand applicants. I don’t really know if there was rhyme or reason to who got one, or if it was like a big lottery. Anyway, I got a free laptop out of the deal, but it is a bit of a rough laptop usage wise. I couldn’t even figure out how to rotate the above picture!

One last picture, this one from Seporah’s school. They had a family fun fair and the girl’s got to play games, eat hot dogs and get their faces painted. They even had bouncy houses.

 

February 20, 2011   Posted in: Steven's Lalala 

School, Social Networking and my Knee

Things sure are slow around here. Märia has pretty much moved over to Facebook exclusively. It is just way easier to post a 2-4 sentence funny episode with the kids. A blog post just seems to entail a longer, more time intensive project than a Facebook status update. Jason has posted a few funny anecdotes, and I haven’t said much. Life gets busy.

So school is going fine. I am taking four history classes and an anthropology class. My history classes are focusing on Nazi Germany, Europe since 1945, East Asia in Antiquity and Modern East Asian Economy (joint History/Business course). Anthropology is about what you would expect.

So my knee is fine now. The doc gave me meds and it cleared up remarkably quickly. I haven’t run on it since the last time it swelled up on me, but I intend to run on it again soon. If it swells again then I may be done running. We shall see…

I am not sure what I am going to do about this site… Part of me wants to set up a plugin that automagically moves facebook/flickr/twitter/whatever updates to this page and part of me wants to archive it (as the old pages are archived above^^^) and provide links to our various Facebook/etc social networking sites…

We shall see…

February 16, 2011   Posted in: Steven's Lalala 

The Movies that we all know and love!

February 1, 2011   Posted in: Jason's Jabber 

My knee is seriously jacked

The doc was supposed to fix it with the surgery, and it looked pretty good for 6 or 7 weeks.  Unfortunately the very first time I seriously exercised on it, it blew up to the size of a grapefruit.  Doc says it is another bursitis or gout or an infection.  So he get me anti-inflamitories and anti-bacterials.  I can hardly bend my knee now, it is so much worse than before the surgery.

January 20, 2011   Posted in: Steven's Lalala 

Great.. a Liberal in my house…

Right before the 2010 elections, I went in with a buddy to buy 100 copies of the U.S. Constitution.  We passed them around campus and urged people take the election period seriously.  I still have about 10 of them.  They keep wandering around the house.

I got back late last night from drill and went straight to bed.  This morning I woke up and came into the man cave (the spare bedroom used exclusively as a computer room)  and found that my dachshund chose my personal copy of the constitution (a booklet about 2inches by 6 inches long)  to take a crap on…

I’m officially blocking msnbc from my television.. I don’t know what left winger is responsible for corrupting my dog, but I’m not taking any chances.

January 16, 2011   Posted in: Jason's Jabber 

Seporah during our bike ride

The four of us went on a trip yesterday on our bikes to baskin Robbins, seporah was asking what bikes eat. I said that bikes don’t eat, they aren’t alive. She said, oh, i mean what do bikes drink. Again i say, they aren’t alive, they don’t eat or drink. She says but cars aren’t alive either and they drink gas. She totally stumped me there. Haha. Im not funny.

January 4, 2011   Posted in: Steven's Lalala 

My Christmas wish…

Is for someone with easy access to Big Red (the soda) to fill up a USPS flat rate box with it and mail it to me. I can send Hawaiian chocolates in exchange…

Merry Christmas everyone!

December 22, 2010   Posted in: Steven's Lalala 

Various Facebook Updates for the Non-Facebook People

Our water’s out, so I told Felicity the toilet wouldn’t flush today, “Oh, the toilet’s out of batteries?”

Actual quote by the weather lady on the radio this morning, “High today is 78 degrees. It’s a little cold, but remember it is winter time.”

Felicity pooped in the potty! Oh happy day! I’ve changed diapers every day for 4 years, 11 months and 15 days, I am sooo ready to be done with them :)

Felicity talking into a toy phone, “Hi Naomi! Hi Naomi’s Mommy! You come to Seporah’s party?… Oh no!… Please!!!

Mom: How many times have I told you to put on your house slippers? Seporah: Um, 6? Dad: How many times should Mom have to tell you? Seporah: 7

Seporah: I don’t like breakfast, I don’t like lunch, I only like snacks. Mom: The problem with only eating snacks is you don’t get the right nutrients. Seporah: I don’t like nutrients.

Ack! Just caught Seporah singing Justin Beiber’s Baby, Baby, Baby Oh! He has officially taken over.

Actual quote by some random guy in the elevator, “You’re really beautiful, except for the short hair. That’s too bad because I really love long hair.”

December 21, 2010   Posted in: Märia's Moments 

On the Plus Side, Plain Exhaustion Has Helped Me In the Weight Loss Department

-We started patching Seporah’s eye a few days ago. We discussed with the opthamologist and she said we’d probably be doing it for 1-2 years based on her current exam. Right now we’re only doing it 3 hours a day though, so thankfully she doesn’t have to go to school with it on.

-Steven’s now able to walk around with relatively no pain, hopefully sometime by February he’ll be able to run again.

-Christmas came early here. We’ve been using our USAA card for 5 years racking up points apparently. We didn’t know it, but you can trade in the points for gift cards. I was not planning on getting the girls anything (grandparent’s are the bomb, so they had some things), but now I’ve got all these gift cards for Walmart and Target. It was totally sweet let me tell you.

-Felicity pooped in the potty 2 times this week! So excited to be almost done with the diapering stage of our life.

-Seporah got the Good Citizen of the Quarter at school! Super proud of her. She also did a school performance of Brown Bear, Brown Bear a couple of weeks ago that Steven (wink, wink) needs to put up.

-We actually sent out Christmas cards this year. Steven designed them and we both mailed them out. It’s a good thing Steven took the initiative because if it had up to me, it just wouldn’t have happened. Good intentions are just that intentions.

December 19, 2010   Posted in: Märia's Moments