Well, March is certainly heading out like a lion with all of the excitement in our lives lately!!! Dad is doing better everyday (despite the rough one here and there) and Noah is also doing well, although my brother is sick at the moment!! On another exciting (and equally frightening) note...I have made the decision to return to school in the fall. As of September 2006, I will be a Doctoral student at Temple University working toward writing my dissertation on 19th century American art...most likely focused on images of children and family portraiture. I say frightening, because I'm going to do this while working full time at CCP and keeping the rest of my life in order! It's going to be a crazy few years, but I really think I'm ready for it. Better yet, so do my professors at Temple, which makes me feel pretty cool about it.
Turkey is now only a month away. Wow...I still am having a bit of a hard time dealing with the reality that I am going to be in a country half-way around the world in a short time. It's very exciting, and I am really looking forward to going! I have been studying my Turkish, which is a really tough language, but I can introduce myself, ask how someone is, and count to 10!!! :) I'm working hard...we are having a language lesson on Friday, so I hope to be able to learn some more!
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
News from the past couple of days:
Friday, March 24, 2006
10:32 am
Noah Christian Rieder was born
9 pounds 1 ounce and 19 1/2 inches long, he is described by his father (my brother Aaron) as short and fat! Hopefully, not forever! :)
Noah and Liz are both home and doing well. Emma and Aaron are adapting to life with another body around the house. Wow...amazing to think that they have this whole family! We're not quite ready for that...one day.
Monday, March 27th, 2006
7:00 am
Dad went in for Open-Heart Surgery to replace his aortic valve.
Quite a few hours later, we hear that the surgery is over and he is doing well.
Several more hours later, he is awake, breathing on his own, and showing no signs of complications from surgery. One of the major complications is stroke, but he appears fine.
That's the big news from our neck of the woods for now. Hopefully, this weekend will be far less exciting! I think that I might go down to Wildwood and do a biathalon, but we'll see!!
10:32 am
Noah Christian Rieder was born
9 pounds 1 ounce and 19 1/2 inches long, he is described by his father (my brother Aaron) as short and fat! Hopefully, not forever! :)
Noah and Liz are both home and doing well. Emma and Aaron are adapting to life with another body around the house. Wow...amazing to think that they have this whole family! We're not quite ready for that...one day.
Monday, March 27th, 2006
7:00 am
Dad went in for Open-Heart Surgery to replace his aortic valve.
Quite a few hours later, we hear that the surgery is over and he is doing well.
Several more hours later, he is awake, breathing on his own, and showing no signs of complications from surgery. One of the major complications is stroke, but he appears fine.
That's the big news from our neck of the woods for now. Hopefully, this weekend will be far less exciting! I think that I might go down to Wildwood and do a biathalon, but we'll see!!
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
To be Digital or not to be Digital?
Well, I dropped some negatives off at the Camera Shop the other day in order to put some photos of Ireland in my new Irish-green kitchen. While I was there, I began to oggle a few cameras. Yes, I think it is a sickness of some sort to want desperately to have a new photographic toy once in a while!! (I also continue to look on E-Bay for darkroom equipment so that I can turn our unfinished basement bathroom into my own little studio!)
Anywho...I have been fumbling with the idea of buying a new digital camera. The one we have was a gift from my Dad, and is very nice, although a bit out of date. It only holds about 19 photos at a time, and the program that it uses to download the images to the computer is somewhat clumsy. It would be nice to have something streamlined...quick...and easy.
But then...at the Camera Shop...I saw the Canon Rebel K2 and the Canon Rebel T2. Ahh...REAL cameras!! They use FILM!!! :) I just had visions of myself running around Istanbul with one camera (my Nikon that I got as the BEST GRADUATION GIFT EVER) filled with color film and the other chock-full of Black and White! Oh...the joy! And so the battle wages on...do I succumb to the evils of the digital photography age...or do I put my foot down and say...hey it's film or nothing?!?! Or...do I just keep my debit card in my pocket, pick up my enlargements, and leave?! :)
Anywho...I have been fumbling with the idea of buying a new digital camera. The one we have was a gift from my Dad, and is very nice, although a bit out of date. It only holds about 19 photos at a time, and the program that it uses to download the images to the computer is somewhat clumsy. It would be nice to have something streamlined...quick...and easy.
But then...at the Camera Shop...I saw the Canon Rebel K2 and the Canon Rebel T2. Ahh...REAL cameras!! They use FILM!!! :) I just had visions of myself running around Istanbul with one camera (my Nikon that I got as the BEST GRADUATION GIFT EVER) filled with color film and the other chock-full of Black and White! Oh...the joy! And so the battle wages on...do I succumb to the evils of the digital photography age...or do I put my foot down and say...hey it's film or nothing?!?! Or...do I just keep my debit card in my pocket, pick up my enlargements, and leave?! :)
Kitchen Remodeling at its best!
Well...not exactly remodeled...but refinished. I spent my Spring Break working on the house. I'm so glad that I did...I feel a sense of accomplishment and I actually can look at my kitchen now without thinking, "EWWWW!" :)
The top two photos are "Before" images...the rest are "After" images. Well, then there's the Tuga as Mom's Helper image! As soon as the drawers were out of there...she was in! :)
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