Is it strange that my photo of the day is a bottle of Penicillin?
I guess that’s what I get for waiting until the last minute to take my daily picture. All of my living photo subjects are fast asleep, and I can only take so many pictures of the dog sleeping before you all revolt and tell me enough is enough.
Though, if I keep posting pictures of random things like medicine bottles, you might tell me that anyway.
When we got to the doctor’s office this afternoon, the nurse said “So, do you have a sore throat like nearly everyone else in Tama County?”
Apparently strep throat is making the rounds and has made it to our house. Weird, though, cause he’s not all that sick, just a little bit of a sore throat and tummy ache. Hope no one else gets it…he’s been at school with it (and with a billion other kids who have it…) for days now, but lucky kid, he gets to hang out at the shop with me tomorrow.
Joe’s sense of justice is quite satisfied. The LAST time they had strep throat, Joe had to have the swab test done. When Will got sick, the doctor just prescribed medicine and didn’t bother testing. Joe was outraged that Will didn’t have to get swabbed.
The nurse was able to sneak up on Will, though. She had the swab in her hand, but he didn’t notice it, and she didn’t tell him that’s why she wanted his mouth open. She said she was just looking nad next thing you know, the swab was taken and he was gagging.
At least the test was positive. It’s pretty annoying to go through that and NOT have strep throat.
Now that I’ve thoroughly bored you, I think I’ll go to bed. I had great hopes for today, that were…dashed to bits.
Tomorrow is another day, I’ll try again.
Suzanne
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I shared the previous story with my husband.
His comment?
Yea, I’d say you were probably worth $50,000, considering the almost 10 years of training the boys have invested in you.
My outraged response was that I ought to be worth a lot more than that.
Well, before the market crashed and the economy went down the crapper, you were probably worth about 40% more.
Snap!
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The scene
Back hallway of the Earley home, boys putting on outdoor clothing and prepping bags for departure.
Mom walking back and forth amongst them, finding her scarf, mittens and saying “Excuse me, coming through” “Coming through again” “One more time” (cause she couldn’t remember to get everything on the first pass…), and generally being annoying to her offspring.
The conversation
Joe Can I have a grant?
Will What’s a grant?
Mom A gift of money.
Mom What do you need a grant for?
Joe A new mom.
Will Or maybe a dirt bike.
Scene changes to car interior on way to school
Joe Yeah, maybe a $30,000 grant for a motorcycle would be OK.
Mom So how much do you think you’d need for a new mom?
Joe $20,000?
Mom Really?
Will Oh no, probably $50,000.
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Mom, will you just give me the damn cookie already?
My niece saw Katie yesterday and said “Wow, Katie’s getting really big!”
Yeah. That would be ALL HAIR. We did do some trimming on her legs the other day, to make it easier to clean her up when she came back inside, but it made her look a little silly. Top Heavy.
Next time we give her a haircut, we are considering tranquilizers.
For us.
This morning I realized that I hadn’t opened the shop mailbox for a few days, which was silly because it was packed full, plus it had my second new piece of artwork in it!
Look! Penguins!
Diane Duda is the artist. If you visit her site, you can scroll down and see better pictures of the originals.
I need to get some frames, I’m thinking just plain black ones. I’ll probably put these in my bedroom somewhere.
(Diane is the same artist that did the My Favorite Things paintings I got last Christmas.)
Last thing for now. The boys were out playing in the snow yesterday, and I threw on my boots and other warm accoutrements and took the camera outside. This is not my “picture of the day” but the mouth on Joe in this one just kills me. He does this a lot.
The Cascade Yarn sales guy was here this morning, spending my money, so I’d better get to work on trying to MAKE some money. I’ll yak more later.
Oh, but first, it’s lunchtime…
Suzanne
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Will wanted to tell me about something that happened at school. I asked him if I could take some pictures of him while he talked. He said no, but I did it anyway.
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Poor guy. That darned dishwasher always needs to be unloaded.
I’ve told that them that if they want to stop eating, the dishes won’t get so dirty all the time.
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These were actually done last night, but it was too dark to take pictures. And the pictures I took this morning aren’t all that great, but I wanted to have them “modeled” by my helpers.
Get it? Fraternal Twin Quilts? The same, but not the same?
I guess it helps to know that the boys are Fraternal Twins. (Speaking of which, I never did write any more posts about having twins, did I? I’ll have to remedy that).
Excuse all that stuff you can see laying around in the background. And the Be Merry sign in the window.
Honey, I found another Christmas deco that didn’t get put away.
We had our Christmas countdown calendar (frozen on 7 days til Christmas) on the wall until a few days ago.
The pictures I took this morning weren’t great. The boys had no interest in helping me.
But I wanted to show you what the original picture that I showed above looks like:
I still have a lot to do to figure out how to get the picture coming straight out of the camera (SOOC) to look good, but I feel like I’ve been let into a secret society now that I’ve figured out to make the pictures I do take look better.
Here’s the edited picture again:
And then the two side by side:
(to see it larger, click on the picture, then click on ALL SIZES (up above the picture) which will give you different size options to look at)
I did several things to this picture, including sharpening it, running a noise reduction filter, and running an action called Boost, from The Pioneer Woman.
My aim is not professional photography, or doing lots of fancy touch-ups…and I’m not saying the fnial result is great, but it sure is a lot brighter and sharper. Of course, I’m also something of a geek (OK, a LOT geek), and this sort of thing thrills me in the core of my geekiness.
Time for my inner geek to go shower and get breakfast and get moving. Have a great day!
Suzanne
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Mercifully, we had a warming up today, and temps are currently +2 (F). Still cold, but somehow, the fact that it is ABOVE zero, makes it seem significantly warmer.
Following on from yesterday’s photo, today I thought I’d show off the finished Scorpion robot, being put through some trials. It wouldn’t do what Will wanted, but after trying several different things he said “Oh! I know what it is!” And then he hopped off and headed back to the computer to fix his program. I was pretty proud of him for persevering. I felt bad that I had to drag him away and take him to school!
Mark and I are headed to a movie in a bit. I’d rather stay home and watch the premier of Battlestar Galactica, but alas, I do not have cable and can’t watch it until it’s available online. Pity me, I’m quite deprived.
TTFN-
Suzanne
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Mark had the Beatles going tonight at supper. I was quietly singing along (how can you NOT sing this one???)…
all you need is love…
all you need is love…
And then Joe asked me to stop…(his timing was impeccable)…
ALL YOU NEED IS LO-OVE! LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED!
I adore driving them crazy.
Speaking of them:
Part of my goal with these photos is to learn more about Photoshop, so I dinked around for awhile with Actions and such-like and decided I liked the look of this action from the Pioneer Woman. That wall in the background is actually very yellow. I think it’s cool.
I think I’ve mentioned before that Mark has been helping to coach our elementary school’s Lego League Team. The team gets to go to the state competition on Saturday, which is quite exciting. Santa brought Will, Joe and Mark a Lego Mindstorm set of their very own, and tonight they decided to try to build the Scorpion Robot. I don’t know how far they got, but they were having fun. That’s Katie sitting on Mark’s lap, keeping an eye on everything. Or maybe she was sleeping…
Remember how I realized in a previous post that the pictures I had thought I had taken yesterday were probably non-existant? Well, I was right. Duh. The above picture is a fake. It’s not even precisely the same as what I had taken yesterday. The picture I really wanted to use was a spread out stack of about 30 of my books, waiting to be shipped. I couldn’t retake their picture because…they got shipped. So, a stack of covers will have to suffice. It’s hard for me to imagine how many copies of those covers and books I’ve printed and punched and bound and shipped over the last 2.5 years. A lot.
And with this one, I’m now caught up on this week’s pictures. I was going to use the frosted window picture, but decided that I’m ignoring the weather right now, and would rather remember this quilt. I somewhat surreptitiously posted a link to these pictures the other day, so in case you missed them, more pics of this can be found at this post. I am extremely happy with how this quilt has turned out. I really like it when things turn out the way you expect them to.
As of this moment, school has posted a 2 hour delay. It is just so *bad word* cold out there, and is supposed to stay that way. It’d be nice if they could actually go to school, but we’ll see what happens.
Stay warm!
Suzanne
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The boys’ hair situation is dire, but we haven’t yet found the time to do the threatened haircuts. They went to bed with dampish hair last night and woke up with some pretty crazy looking hair.
I helped Joe wet his hair, and then he grabbed the comb and went away.
This is what he came back with.
It’s a good thing he’s so darned cute.
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