Finally!!! There was a substitute teacher for the first one- Miss Sarah will back next week. It's at the YMCA in a beautiful room. She loved it and showed us all the new moves after. I got busted filming the class but it was worth it:)
Thursday, June 30, 2011
First Ballet Class!
Finally!!! There was a substitute teacher for the first one- Miss Sarah will back next week. It's at the YMCA in a beautiful room. She loved it and showed us all the new moves after. I got busted filming the class but it was worth it:)
butterfly garden complete!
What an experience! It was so much fun waking up everyday to see how they had grown or if they had hatched from their cocoons. I myself loved taking these macro pictures of them. How intense and extremely majestic they are! Thank you West Coasties!! The video runs a little long but I couldn't handle the edit process;)
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Good Grades and Gay Weddings!
I have not posted about going to school here in a while. The day of talking about not what I want to do but what I have actually done is HERE! I finished my first college course yesterday with a 94 on my final. This is after a week of practice finals during which the first three grades were 45, 36, 48! There was actually a very real possibility that I would need to take this class again, happens all the time. The day I got a 72 I knew there was hope and when I got a 96 I knew everything would be OK. During the course of this class I learned not only basic algebra (which I don't remember EVER knowing) but also many things about about school and myself in general like...
I learned how to study - I have tools! Notecards and highlighters and page marker thingy's and reading glasses;) I learned how to test. I learned I can test when nervous, can calm myself with breathing and affirmations. I can sit and learn in a room with rowdy 18 year olds and want to strangle them and then not strangle them. I can trust in my brain. I can learn as well as anybody (part of me deep down always thought college was for "other" people and that I couldn't do it) I learned how to just get down to studying- I can spend a LOT of time getting ready to study. I learned I can be very disappointed and want to give up and then NOT give up and succeed. (I think I learned that one before but it felt new;)) I can ask for help - Professor Han spent a fair amount of time with me, my Aunt Liz was back and forth sending scans of homework and emails and my cousin Phebe was there with help I didn't even know I needed and so many others out there supporting me with thoughts and calls and texts. The last thing I learned was don't drink before the final - even a small amount - nervous test pee syndrome;) - I had already learned don't drink too much caffeine before a test a few days earlier. Fall sememster starts with a full load of psychology 101, math 1175, biology 101, and english 101. I am VERY grateful that I had to cut my teeth on this summer class. Looking forward to my days as a brainiac. Onward! Lifelong evolution... weeeeeeee! I will also add that Craig and Finley were so supportive and we worked very well as a team - I definitely didn't do this on my own... Craig didn't sleep much and Finley watched a TON of show but we made it.
AND the other really great thing that happened yesterday was Governor Andrew Cuomo made gay marriage legal in New York State. Way to GO New York! I want to see a conga line, a band wagon of other states lining up for this one!
I learned how to study - I have tools! Notecards and highlighters and page marker thingy's and reading glasses;) I learned how to test. I learned I can test when nervous, can calm myself with breathing and affirmations. I can sit and learn in a room with rowdy 18 year olds and want to strangle them and then not strangle them. I can trust in my brain. I can learn as well as anybody (part of me deep down always thought college was for "other" people and that I couldn't do it) I learned how to just get down to studying- I can spend a LOT of time getting ready to study. I learned I can be very disappointed and want to give up and then NOT give up and succeed. (I think I learned that one before but it felt new;)) I can ask for help - Professor Han spent a fair amount of time with me, my Aunt Liz was back and forth sending scans of homework and emails and my cousin Phebe was there with help I didn't even know I needed and so many others out there supporting me with thoughts and calls and texts. The last thing I learned was don't drink before the final - even a small amount - nervous test pee syndrome;) - I had already learned don't drink too much caffeine before a test a few days earlier. Fall sememster starts with a full load of psychology 101, math 1175, biology 101, and english 101. I am VERY grateful that I had to cut my teeth on this summer class. Looking forward to my days as a brainiac. Onward! Lifelong evolution... weeeeeeee! I will also add that Craig and Finley were so supportive and we worked very well as a team - I definitely didn't do this on my own... Craig didn't sleep much and Finley watched a TON of show but we made it.
AND the other really great thing that happened yesterday was Governor Andrew Cuomo made gay marriage legal in New York State. Way to GO New York! I want to see a conga line, a band wagon of other states lining up for this one!
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Butterflies, Ballet and Annie's Birthday!
Annie and the guys gave Finley a Live Butterfly Garden for her birthday and we finally sent for and received and our real live caterpillars in the mail. Finley has named them Annie, Silas, Uncle Matt, Emmett and Mac;) Truly.
As I walked home yesterday, the Garbage Gods of Park Slope gave me a beautiful picture book on modern dance and ballet which is amazing because today is the day we finally signed Finley up for her first ballet class at the YMCA. We had the same teacher long ago at another studio for Sing, Dance and Make Believe - Miss Sarah, she's the one who taught us "moon, moon, moon"
And finally today (ahem, actually YESTERDAY!) was Annie's 40th birthday. Welcome to this side of the hill, sister. Pretty awesome as far as I can see;) We will love you for forty more and Forever!!
Here she is doing a few of her favorite things... holding babies, being outside (firepit at Michael & Emily's wedding) and listening to live music played by her other babies:)) ok, none of them are babies anymore, i mean that in a Loretta Lynn kinda way -you know what I'm sayin, Annie;)
As I walked home yesterday, the Garbage Gods of Park Slope gave me a beautiful picture book on modern dance and ballet which is amazing because today is the day we finally signed Finley up for her first ballet class at the YMCA. We had the same teacher long ago at another studio for Sing, Dance and Make Believe - Miss Sarah, she's the one who taught us "moon, moon, moon"
And finally today (ahem, actually YESTERDAY!) was Annie's 40th birthday. Welcome to this side of the hill, sister. Pretty awesome as far as I can see;) We will love you for forty more and Forever!!
Here she is doing a few of her favorite things... holding babies, being outside (firepit at Michael & Emily's wedding) and listening to live music played by her other babies:)) ok, none of them are babies anymore, i mean that in a Loretta Lynn kinda way -you know what I'm sayin, Annie;)
Monday, June 13, 2011
Pre-K Yay Day!!!
Friday was a much anticipated day all over NYC. June 10, the day the acceptance letters went out announcing the spots for 2012 public preschool. I really was not expecting much and was ready to have Finley go another year at Huggs for the two 1/2 days a week. Well surprise, surprise - she got in! Now it wasn't a first or second, third or fourth (there were 12! choices) but at a certain point it is moot. The good news is we are talking 5 full 6 hour 20 minute days which will mean a lot to this family as I will be in school 2 full days and one night a week myself. The other good news is that it is right by the park, museum and botanical garden. The bad news is that it is basically one mile away. We have to figure that one out. We go on Wednesday to meet and see... If we don't like it we still have our beloved Huggs but it looks goooood. Hee heeeeeee!
Friday, June 10, 2011
Two Weeks Two Thousand Pictures later...
Our vacation in San Diego and Colorado included: an anniversary, a funeral, a birthday, a trip to Disneyland, another birthday, a wedding and MUCH Cousin Power! It was crazy and I loved most every minute of it (except for a few horrible ones at the United ticket counter - right Gracie!? :}
Here are a few photos: I would also suggest a stroll down on Plumpotter for some more of the action...
The boys, California Style - frisbee in the street
Annie making tiny "pizza's in your mouth" with things from the garden for Mac's bandmates
Woody's Mountaintop Memorial
Flower Fairy Princess Finley on her Fourth Birthday
Flower Fairy Garden Birthday Party
Forty One!
Michael and Emily's Mountaintop Malibu Wedding!
Bonfire music
Grandma Carol and Grandpa Arnie at the wedding
Now there are lots more pictures to post - lots more action so I am going to try to do that later today! Got to catch up with me bloggin!
Here are a few photos: I would also suggest a stroll down on Plumpotter for some more of the action...
The boys, California Style - frisbee in the street
Annie making tiny "pizza's in your mouth" with things from the garden for Mac's bandmates
Woody's Mountaintop Memorial
Flower Fairy Princess Finley on her Fourth Birthday
Flower Fairy Garden Birthday Party
Forty One!
Michael and Emily's Mountaintop Malibu Wedding!
Bonfire music
Grandma Carol and Grandpa Arnie at the wedding
Now there are lots more pictures to post - lots more action so I am going to try to do that later today! Got to catch up with me bloggin!
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