A couple of weeks ago YaYa took a watercolor class at the art institute and spent a very long time making this volcano with a technique that involved using salt. The textures are really neat in person, and we both loved the rich colors.
I haven’t had a chance to mention it here, BUT I have a new niece! Auntie Dot had her baby two weeks ago, and it was a girl, who is rumored to have dark curly hair! I’m nearly beside myself with frustration for not being able to meet that new baby, whose name is Katherine, after Grandma Kathy. The Banana is super excited that the baby has curly hair like her. YaYa is excited that she shares a middle name with the baby’s first name.
I updated my computers to OS Lion. The transition on the newer Macbook Air was seamless and wonderful. The transition was painful for my aging desktop. And the worst woe of all is that I didn’t realize a bunch of my old software from forever ago was not compatible with the new operating system. In particular, my financial software does not work and all of my financial information for the last several years is LOST. Pretty much for good. So, I’m in the middle of starting over with new software. Yuck. I’m not a financial person anyway, and crunching numbers makes me very, very grouchy.
On the other hand, I’m in love with how my computers sync with each other.
One of my young students was learning about the note treble G, and even though I carefully explained that the word treble meant a high sound, he insisted on calling it “THE TERRIBLE G!” in a loud villainous voice. It totally cracks me up every time I think about it.
I love freshly fallen snow! I do not love how any kind of precipitation that arrives in cold weather freezes the sliding doors of the van closed. They are impossible to open until they thaw out, and worst of all, the electric door on the passenger side insists on beeping loudly and constantly to warn me that someone has tried to open it while it was frozen. It will literally do this for fifteen to twenty minutes of driving until the door thaws out. It’s the loud annoying beeping you might find on a construction vehicle that is backing up, and because I am a person who doesn’t handle overstimulation, especially when I’m driving, I end up being frazzled to the bone by it.
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