A sister in my ward said the funniest thing today. I wanted to write it down so I'll always have it to either use later or remember the good laugh.
The quote:
"It OK to be late to the Golden Gate, but not so swell to be on time to Hell."
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Monday, December 17, 2012
random
It is officially Tracy's Christmas vacation. We are planning some fun stuff, but mostly we'll be getting ready for Christmas and his parents visit after Christmas. Can't wait to finish our Christmas shopping. James is sure getting spoiled this year.
Yesterday Tracy got news of a grant he applied for to go to University of California campus in Berkley to look at their fossil collection. They have a huge track collection that he needs to go through for his thesis project. He went there last May on the same grant and just went through the tip of the iceburg of what they had and it was just to get some basic info for a paper he wrote. Now he's going back to get data for his thesis and they also want him to be a guest lecturer.
Since I don't have a job I have to try to take time off for, we get to have a little family vacation too. I'm excited to go explore San Fransisco area. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ME!
Lately I've been feeling a bit down. Not sure why exactly. Maybe part of it is the crazy stuff going on in the news. Maybe because it has been cloudy and rainy for most of the past week. I don't know. It is nice to have something to look forward to. Well that and going to Salt Lake on Christmas Eve.
Hope you all have a Merry Christmas.
Also if you feel so inclined to send us a Christmas card this year our address is:
720 El Cerrito Dr. #9
Riverside, CA 92507
If you would like a card from us, hopefully we get one together to send out soon, send me your address to aliciasuethomson@gmail.com.
Yesterday Tracy got news of a grant he applied for to go to University of California campus in Berkley to look at their fossil collection. They have a huge track collection that he needs to go through for his thesis project. He went there last May on the same grant and just went through the tip of the iceburg of what they had and it was just to get some basic info for a paper he wrote. Now he's going back to get data for his thesis and they also want him to be a guest lecturer.
Since I don't have a job I have to try to take time off for, we get to have a little family vacation too. I'm excited to go explore San Fransisco area. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ME!
Lately I've been feeling a bit down. Not sure why exactly. Maybe part of it is the crazy stuff going on in the news. Maybe because it has been cloudy and rainy for most of the past week. I don't know. It is nice to have something to look forward to. Well that and going to Salt Lake on Christmas Eve.
Hope you all have a Merry Christmas.
Also if you feel so inclined to send us a Christmas card this year our address is:
720 El Cerrito Dr. #9
Riverside, CA 92507
If you would like a card from us, hopefully we get one together to send out soon, send me your address to aliciasuethomson@gmail.com.
Thursday, December 6, 2012
An update
As I sit here reading blogs on my tablet. I realize it has been a few months since I posted about what we've been up to. Even though I have to post via email on my tablet, I'll get to the why in a bit later maybe, I'll still give you a bit of an update.
So, after our move we jumped right into life here. Tracy immediately started his first term at UCR and I went right into being a full time mom.
Tracy has been enjoying his classes and his advisor is really great. He recently submitted his second paper for publication in the New Mexico Museum Bulletin. His first paper is currently with the editor of Cretaceous Research waiting for publication. He spent his summer doing the revisions on it, on top of writing his second paper and doing Calculus II. He's been a busy body and is looking forward to his Christmas break. He calls it his Christmas Vacation.
I have been enjoying setting up our home. It feels nice to actually have space to put things, plus extra room for stuff to grow into. I spend my day keeping up house. I'm not too good at it though, I get distracted too easily. I also have to keep a two year old entertained. It took me a little while to get use to the fact that I don't have to keep office hours and I'm no longer on call 24/7. Nothing bad would happen if I left my phone at home. I actually had a mini panic attack on day while we were out cause I couldn't remember if I had any appointments and I didn't forward my phone. Then I remembered I'm not working that job anymore. Any way, see I get distracted easily. I have also enjoyed meeting new friends. Which isn't coming easily but I have made a couple.
James has become my little chatter box. He'll talk non stop for hours. It is so fun to hear all the fun things he has to say, but man sometimes it is nice to have peace and quiet. He also went through a bit of a rough patch when we moved. He had new territories, new schedule and new bedroom. We had a couple of weeks of bedtime/naptime struggles. Which resulted in a sleep deprevation with all. Now things are much better. I'll have to go into more detail in another post. James is loving being able to play outside everyday and actually have space to run, walk fast in his case, around and a playground to play on. He loves to pack up a bag with cars and balls. The cars have to go down the slides too. The balls he likes to kick them around the basketball court. We have fun every day either here or take a walk to the shopping center to the splash pad. Though right now there's a Christmas tree on the splash pad, he still love to go see it. Sometimes we even get ice cream. Such a lucky little guy.
As a family we have taken trips to the beach every few weeks. We have also explored the area. We have found some neat sights and some fun places to go, like the Rootbeer place in Temecula, the house Tracy's mom lived in when she was a teenager and the downtown area.
I wish I could post pictures. I'll for sure get some up once I have a computer again. Which brings me to some of the not so great things. First our cat developed an unpleasant infection in an unpleasant location. She had to have a surgury to remove a blockage that had caused the infection and a drainage tube put in for a few days. She healed up fine and glad she still has many more years with us. Second my computer crashed. It was 6 years old so I guess it was time to get a new one. We just weren't ready to have to get one so soon. With it went a lot of my files, but a cousin might be able to recover those so hopefully not a big loss. Just if you have a felling you should back up certain things, don't ignore it or think you'll get to it eventually, you will probably regret it later. Yep, follow those feelings. Now I'm computerless for awhile till we can buy a new one. Makes doing certain things challenging. I'm just thankful Tracy bought me a tablet. As a be-lated anniversary gift/ thank you for supporting him through his Bachelor's. Aww.( I'm sure that just went through all your minds.) And the third thing the tail pipe on our car came off. Not a huge inconvenience, we can still use it. Just makes us sound like one of those annoying people with loud mufflers and it will cost us to get it fixed. Darn cars always costing money.
I think that about covers all our going ons for now. Till next time I get up the urge to type a bunch of stuff on a touch keyboard or I have a computer. Have a great day, week, month.
So, after our move we jumped right into life here. Tracy immediately started his first term at UCR and I went right into being a full time mom.
Tracy has been enjoying his classes and his advisor is really great. He recently submitted his second paper for publication in the New Mexico Museum Bulletin. His first paper is currently with the editor of Cretaceous Research waiting for publication. He spent his summer doing the revisions on it, on top of writing his second paper and doing Calculus II. He's been a busy body and is looking forward to his Christmas break. He calls it his Christmas Vacation.
I have been enjoying setting up our home. It feels nice to actually have space to put things, plus extra room for stuff to grow into. I spend my day keeping up house. I'm not too good at it though, I get distracted too easily. I also have to keep a two year old entertained. It took me a little while to get use to the fact that I don't have to keep office hours and I'm no longer on call 24/7. Nothing bad would happen if I left my phone at home. I actually had a mini panic attack on day while we were out cause I couldn't remember if I had any appointments and I didn't forward my phone. Then I remembered I'm not working that job anymore. Any way, see I get distracted easily. I have also enjoyed meeting new friends. Which isn't coming easily but I have made a couple.
James has become my little chatter box. He'll talk non stop for hours. It is so fun to hear all the fun things he has to say, but man sometimes it is nice to have peace and quiet. He also went through a bit of a rough patch when we moved. He had new territories, new schedule and new bedroom. We had a couple of weeks of bedtime/naptime struggles. Which resulted in a sleep deprevation with all. Now things are much better. I'll have to go into more detail in another post. James is loving being able to play outside everyday and actually have space to run, walk fast in his case, around and a playground to play on. He loves to pack up a bag with cars and balls. The cars have to go down the slides too. The balls he likes to kick them around the basketball court. We have fun every day either here or take a walk to the shopping center to the splash pad. Though right now there's a Christmas tree on the splash pad, he still love to go see it. Sometimes we even get ice cream. Such a lucky little guy.
As a family we have taken trips to the beach every few weeks. We have also explored the area. We have found some neat sights and some fun places to go, like the Rootbeer place in Temecula, the house Tracy's mom lived in when she was a teenager and the downtown area.
I wish I could post pictures. I'll for sure get some up once I have a computer again. Which brings me to some of the not so great things. First our cat developed an unpleasant infection in an unpleasant location. She had to have a surgury to remove a blockage that had caused the infection and a drainage tube put in for a few days. She healed up fine and glad she still has many more years with us. Second my computer crashed. It was 6 years old so I guess it was time to get a new one. We just weren't ready to have to get one so soon. With it went a lot of my files, but a cousin might be able to recover those so hopefully not a big loss. Just if you have a felling you should back up certain things, don't ignore it or think you'll get to it eventually, you will probably regret it later. Yep, follow those feelings. Now I'm computerless for awhile till we can buy a new one. Makes doing certain things challenging. I'm just thankful Tracy bought me a tablet. As a be-lated anniversary gift/ thank you for supporting him through his Bachelor's. Aww.( I'm sure that just went through all your minds.) And the third thing the tail pipe on our car came off. Not a huge inconvenience, we can still use it. Just makes us sound like one of those annoying people with loud mufflers and it will cost us to get it fixed. Darn cars always costing money.
I think that about covers all our going ons for now. Till next time I get up the urge to type a bunch of stuff on a touch keyboard or I have a computer. Have a great day, week, month.
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