Images of the little girl who will make her grand entrance in 6 +/- 2 weeks. From my perspective, she'll make her exit. Her little legs have been busy kicking me. These images were from early April.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Six more weeks to go!
Images of the little girl who will make her grand entrance in 6 +/- 2 weeks. From my perspective, she'll make her exit. Her little legs have been busy kicking me. These images were from early April.
Monday, April 4, 2011
It's a girl!
It's been a busy winter! Trek through Taiwan in early January was spectacular. It was wonderful to see relatives (Grandma especially, aunts, uncles, cousins). It was great fun to show John around the Island and take him to the old homestead.
It wasn't so much fun to be in the first trimester of pregnancy though and traveling through Taiwan at the same time where it's an island of food, glorious food. It was actually quite miserable to have no appetite when there was so much good food to eat at all times of the day and everywhere! I still took in as much as I could.
This spring semester has been hectic. The students either have spring fever or senioritis. It's been hard to engage and motivate them.
Today, the baby is about 21 weeks old. The first ultra sound revealed that it's a girl! Here's looking forward to pink bows, puffed sleeves, and tea parties! I think she's going to look like John and will have lots of hair when she's born.
It wasn't so much fun to be in the first trimester of pregnancy though and traveling through Taiwan at the same time where it's an island of food, glorious food. It was actually quite miserable to have no appetite when there was so much good food to eat at all times of the day and everywhere! I still took in as much as I could.
This spring semester has been hectic. The students either have spring fever or senioritis. It's been hard to engage and motivate them.
Today, the baby is about 21 weeks old. The first ultra sound revealed that it's a girl! Here's looking forward to pink bows, puffed sleeves, and tea parties! I think she's going to look like John and will have lots of hair when she's born.
Friday, October 15, 2010
Autumn
It's been a while since my last post. I had a pretty busy summer, mostly at work. I had 3 research students in the lab... technically 4 but only 3 were actually there. This semester, I am teaching 2 courses again, one with a weekly lab. The students are very motivated and seek help when they need... always a good sign.
It's been 7.5 months since the wedding. Everything is going very well. We had a blast playing with our vegetable garden. We had a tremendous harvest of tomatoes, peppers, and basil and tried lots of recipes with these items. Next summer, more varieties will be added. Aside from bunnies helping themselves out of the flower bed, there was a hungry groundhog that helped himself to our tomatoes. Some home improvement projects will start over the autumn. In a few days, another advanced degree will be added to the family. John will earn a Masters in something related to computers.
Most exciting of all, we are planning a trip to Taiwan in the first 2 weeks of the new year!
It's been 7.5 months since the wedding. Everything is going very well. We had a blast playing with our vegetable garden. We had a tremendous harvest of tomatoes, peppers, and basil and tried lots of recipes with these items. Next summer, more varieties will be added. Aside from bunnies helping themselves out of the flower bed, there was a hungry groundhog that helped himself to our tomatoes. Some home improvement projects will start over the autumn. In a few days, another advanced degree will be added to the family. John will earn a Masters in something related to computers.
Most exciting of all, we are planning a trip to Taiwan in the first 2 weeks of the new year!
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Hungry bunny
The previous owners of our house planted a row of lilies. They are all getting ready to blossom, and I looked forward to seeing the radiant colors. Every morning, though, we would notice the stems of the lilies becoming bare one by one. Earlier in the spring, I planted sunflower seeds; as many as 15 seedlings emerged up from the ground. I looked forward to the brighten mammoth sunflowers. Day after day, I noticed the leaves gnawed away one seedling after another; some were plucked out of the ground completely.
On Friday, my dear husband drove into the driveway and caught this little rascal red-handed!
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Even more snow!
Round 3... for the winter of 2009-2010! How appropriate that exactly 17 years ago today, we arrived in the US for the first time, welcomed by the blizzard of 1983! This storm is the 3rd this season, dumping over a foot of snow. School canceled classes for the 2nd day in a row. We've well surpassed the most snow accumulation in a season at 71.6 inches, previous record was 65.5 back in the winter of 1995-1996!
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Monday, December 28, 2009
Winter!
One week into winter! The weekend right before, we got about 10 inches of snow. (The picture above is from 3 years ago... but they all look about the same anyway.) This past weekend, we got tons of rain which melted everything.We're on Christmas break right now. I'm on a condensed break this time. The new spring semester will start on Jan 18th. I may have just enough time to get prepare for it.
68 days until the big day!
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Whirlwind
This has been a whirlwind of a semester. Lackluster students and very apathetic under-achievers are very discouraging. I am looking forward to the end of the semester, now just 3 weeks and 2 days until the week of final exams. We get 3 days off next week for Thanksgiving. I'm preparing a turkey dinner with all the trimmings.
I am in the slow process of cleaning, down-sizing, and decluttering. I found the old floppy disks from my college days that still had readable documents. Some were lab reports I had written. I must say, I did a pretty good job with them.
Here's the abstract to one of them:
ABSTRACT
In this experiment, respiration patterns during and after various activities were investigated. As the subject remained at rest, after open hyperventilation, after closed hyperventilation, after rebreathing, during speech, after breath holding, during obstruction of respiratory passageways, and after exercise, inspiration and expiration cycles were recorded and analyzed. The rates of respiration increased significantly after open hyperventilation, closed hyperventilation, rebreathing, breath holding, and exercise. Slight increases were observed during reading aloud and obstruction of the nasal pathways. Chemoreceptors detecting changes in gas concentrations and baroreceptors detecting changes in gas pressures, among other factors, could have stimulatory effects on the rates of respiration. Respiratory volumes and capacities were determined along with forced expiratory volume within the first second (FEV1.0) in two subjects. There were clear differences in these volumes and capacities between the male subject who exercised regularly and the female subject who did not. Since FEV was measured incorrectly, the extremely low FEV1.0 could have no significance in clinical diagnosis of diseases of the pulmonary system.
Unfortunately, I didn't keep the title of the report. But, it was for Animal Physiology that I had taken in the spring semester of 1994.
I am in the slow process of cleaning, down-sizing, and decluttering. I found the old floppy disks from my college days that still had readable documents. Some were lab reports I had written. I must say, I did a pretty good job with them.
Here's the abstract to one of them:
ABSTRACT
In this experiment, respiration patterns during and after various activities were investigated. As the subject remained at rest, after open hyperventilation, after closed hyperventilation, after rebreathing, during speech, after breath holding, during obstruction of respiratory passageways, and after exercise, inspiration and expiration cycles were recorded and analyzed. The rates of respiration increased significantly after open hyperventilation, closed hyperventilation, rebreathing, breath holding, and exercise. Slight increases were observed during reading aloud and obstruction of the nasal pathways. Chemoreceptors detecting changes in gas concentrations and baroreceptors detecting changes in gas pressures, among other factors, could have stimulatory effects on the rates of respiration. Respiratory volumes and capacities were determined along with forced expiratory volume within the first second (FEV1.0) in two subjects. There were clear differences in these volumes and capacities between the male subject who exercised regularly and the female subject who did not. Since FEV was measured incorrectly, the extremely low FEV1.0 could have no significance in clinical diagnosis of diseases of the pulmonary system.
Unfortunately, I didn't keep the title of the report. But, it was for Animal Physiology that I had taken in the spring semester of 1994.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
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