Brother: Let’s get a Reisling.
Me: Got it.
Joy: Oooo, snacks…
Brother: What should we get?
Me: Cheetos!!!
Brother: Nah, I don’t want to have to lick my fingers. What goes with Reisling?
Me: Cheese goes with wine. Cheetos?
Brother: OK.
Hi Mommy! Your cheesey smile has lasted through the years. I’ve just figured out where we got it from!
Happy 60th Birthday! We love you!
Last Saturday I had the pleasure of photographing Charlie’s 1st birthday party. Charlie is actually little Jack’s nanny buddy and his mom hired me to shoot photos of his special day. There were little kids all over the place and the community room was a great venue.
Amy and David’s family were in town just for this event and they were all so nice.
Charlie is quite the cutie and loves the camera. It certainly makes my life easier when the star of the event is also a ham.
Charlie also donned a hanbok, which is the traditional Korean outfit worn on special occasions like this one. He was quite a little trooper with so many layers on him.
Here’s a photo of Charlie, Jack, their mommies, and their favorite nanny. Cute.
Happy 1st Birthday, Charlie! And thanks for having me at your party!
Here are the photos.
Brother and Joy came up for the weekend to run the Nike Women’s Half Marathon on Sunday. Joy was the only one that actually got an official registration (it was a lottery) but Brother and I planned to “run” the race with her anyways.
It was a cold and early 5 am rise for us and I made sure to eat my usual peanut butter sandwich and banana. Fortunately for us (and Jes), the shuttle from AT&T Park was free so we got a ride to the start in a fancy tour bus. The race started at 7am but there were so many people in front of us that we didn’t actually cross the start line until 7:20 am.
The sun was starting to come out by then but the run through the financial district and along Embarcadero was still pretty cold.
The scenery, of course, was awesome and we got quite a few photos taken along the way. I think they changed the course on us a little this year because I could have sworn the first big hill was easier this time around. But the middle 6 miles of the course was pretty brutal. It was hill after hill after hill.
Surprisingly, my legs were going strong and our pace was pretty steady. I managed to stick by Joy the entire time and supposedly pushed her to keep going on the hills. I guess there’s something to be said for teamwork.
Near the end of the race, Vyl called to warn me that she got pulled off the race for not having a number. So, I stayed right behind Joy on our way in, we crossed the finish line together at 2 hours, 37 mins, and we both scored a necklace and t-shirt. Awesome.
Joy and I felt pretty good afterwards but Brother was hurtin’ all over the place. Unfortunately, my body decided to punish me this morning as I rolled out of bed. My legs are achey and squatting down to play with the kids at work is not easy today. Luckily, this is a good soreness and not the I-totally-injured-myself soreness. I should be fine in another day or so. I guess I was more trained that I had thought. It’s nice to know that I’ve still got it in me.
Here are the photos!!
Boy, I’m pooped…and cross-eyed from staring at the computer screen for the past 5 hours grading papers. Every Wednesday, my students submit paperwork to me via a “Digital Dropbox” where I can download their work. I then go through and make revisions and make comments in the Word Document while “Tracking Changes”. It’s a great system but I wonder if it would be to my benefit to actually do it on hard copies. I’m not sure I was built to stare at text on a screen for so long.
We’re mid-way through the semester now and the workload has certainly picked up. Tonight, I only got through 2 out of 5 sets of paperwork so that means I have another 7-8 more hours to look forward to this week. Yip. ee. Each week, the students have to not only turn in their assignment for the current week but they’re also continuing to work on the revisions that I suggested in the past weeks. We have to go through several revisions before I can feel comfortable signing my name on them. It’s pretty tedious but I remember that being the best way I learned back in grad school. They’ve all be very receptive to the feedback and their patient documentation (and treatment sessions) have really improved over the past 3 weeks.
Teaching is fun but the paperwork sucks.
I took my trusty camera along for my evening walk with Koa to find that there’s a full moon out tonight! It’s been a while since I last went exploring and I managed to get a couple shots.
This street photo is one of my favorites. It’s shot at f/22, 8 seconds, ISO 400, and a really steady hand. Muni was running at the time and it made an eerie woosh of light in the middle of the street. Neato.
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