I'm still not feeling well... no appetite for anything and I slept most of the day away today.  I have a quiz on Tuesday (tomorrow) that I really should be studying for.  It's on action potential, ion channels, sodium-potassium pumps and depolarization/repolarization of plasma membranes and such.  I also need to know the different types and components of muscle and nerve cells, too.  Believe it or not, I think it's really interesting stuff.  Anyhoo, in my sickly state of dorky delirium, I composed my very first haiku, in binary form, of course.  :P  I thought it was pretty funny, so I'm sharing it:

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011101000110100001100101011011100010000001001001001001110110110100100000

01100011011011110110110001100100001011000000110100001010

0100100101110100001000000110001101101111011101010110110001100100001000000

1100010011001010010000001110111011011110111001001110011011001010010110000

1000000100100100100111011101100110010100100000011000100110010101100101011

011100010000001110100011011110110110001100100001011000000110100001010

010010010010000001100011011011110111010101101100011001000010000001100010

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Click HERE for the translation.

April 24, 2005

Ugh,  I'm sick.   I'm sickity-sick-sick.  I have a temperature and I'm achin' all over.  I hate that hot, prickily feeling in your skin and my throat feels like it's on fire.  Not fun.  I should have stayed in bed today but the boys had a playdate with their friend Jordan at Chuck E. Cheese.  So we went.  They had tons of fun and got a lot of prizes.  When we got home, the boys and DJ played WOW for most of the afternoon while I slept for three hours.  As soon as dinner, bath and bedtime routines are done, I'm crawling right back into bed.  Nite-nite.

April 18, 2005

Today's gonna be a jam-packed day... I'm going over my friend Tina's house this morning to give her a one-hour Swedish massage.  Afterwards, we're going to head over to this new cafe/bar place called Dessert Noir.  It just opened a couple months ago in Beaverton and apparently their desserts are to die-for.  Then I need to do a quick grocery run and maybe Target/Rite-Aid run as well.  I need to be back home by 3pm before the kids get home.  Jarod has his Art Studio on Monday afternoons and Patrick has a baseball game in the early evening.  We're probably gonna have leftover pizza for dinner tonight.  Oh, but tomorrow night I'm making this roasted chicken dinner but with a few um, "improvements".  If you know me, I just can't stick to a recipe.  I'm going to use fresh herbs like basil, thyme and rosemary in a butter-garlic rub.  Yum...  Anyhoo, I'm off to study some more.  I have my first quiz of the semester tomorrow.  Wish me luck...  :)

April 12, 2005

Incredible... it's the middle of April and it's HAILING outside.  Crazy.  Anyhoo, today was the first day of Anatomy/Physiology class.  New semester and new classmates.  Some old familiar faces from last term but mostly new people.  The instructor's a geek, and I mean that in the most sincerest way.  He was throwing out quotes from Napoleon Dynamite and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.  None of us gals knew what the heck he was talking about.   When I got home, I was compelled to figure out what the heck he meant by "42".  Obviously DJ knew what he was talking about.  I suppose it was a "guy" thing, or a "geeky guy" thing.   heheh.  The class itself is reminiscent of my  freshman Intro to Biology class back in college.  Should be fun, I love biology.  :)

Oh, and on an icky note, Patrick's got a really nasty, croupy cough right now.  He woke up this morning and was barking/coughing really bad.  We kept him home from school today and it looks like he'll probably miss school again tomorrow.  Sometime in the afternoon, he lost his voice.  We've got the humidifier going and dosed him up with meds and stuff but so far it's not working.  (It's way past bedtime and he's still upstairs in bed coughing...)  *sigh*  poor guy...

April 8, 2005

I got to see Fever Pitch with DJ last night.  I entered an essay contest in the Willamette Weekly last month and I won free tickets to the sneak preview.  I never win contests and so it was a big surprise when I got the tix in the mail.  :D  Cool, huh?  We dropped the boys off at my friend's house for an extended playdate and drove across town to the movie theater.  I really enjoyed the movie, esp. the panoramic views of the Boston skyline.  Waxing nostaglia.  Then we grabbed a bite to eat at Chili's, picked up the boys and went home.  It was a pretty fun night!

What else?  Oh, I finally updated my artwork section.  yay!  I did most of the sketch work during my kinesiology course last term.  I felt surprisingly inspired by my class and the course materials.  The paintings were done sometime during '04.  Most of the calligraphy stuff are from my old college days.  I've been wanting to frame some of them for the longest time but I haven't gotten around to doing it.  One of these days... :)  I'd love to do some more calligraphy projects but with classes starting in 3 days, I'm not sure if I'll have any free time anymore.  

Oh, and speaking of classes, I can't wait for my Anatomy/Physiology class to start.  I'm so excited!  I've heard great things about my A/P instructor and I'm sure I'll learn a lot from him.  I miss seeing all my friends & classmates from last semester but hopefully some of them will be in class with me this term.  It's amazing how close we've all become since last fall and I'm enjoying every single moment of it...    :)

My friend Emily treated me to a pedicure today.  She's such a sweetheart!  My tootsies were in desperate need of attention but the best part of all was the relaxing foot massage...ahhhhh!!!  I felt so pampered.  heheh.  Here's a pic of my pedicure:

April 5, 2005

Despite the rainy weather, I decided to go to the Japanese Gardens today.  I wanted to take some scenic pictures to add to my photolog.  There's something about the rain that brings out the natural beauty of the trees and flowers.  Dunno what it is but it made everything seem more _alive_.  I sat  underneath one of the pagoda-shaped resting places and took in the scenery.  It was a great spot to just sit and think.  I took some really cool pics today and you can check them out yourself in the photo section.

April 1, 2005

Happy April Fool's Day to everyone!  Hope y'all didn't get punked today.  Last year I got DJ really good.  I decided to play a trick on him.  I thought to myself, "Hm, Self, what is DJ's most prized possession?"  His car.  heheh.  So I drove to his work and moved his car from one side of the parking lot to the other so that when he came out, his car would be "missing".  oooh.  I then stuck a Post-it note to his window saying "April Fool's!"  :P  This year, I didn't have much time to plan anything but then I thought of a fun little prank I once read about.  I unscrewed the caps to the bathroom sink faucet heads and filled it with BLUE Kool-Aid powder mix.  Then I screwed it back on and waited...patiently...for him to go take his shower and BRUSH HIS TEETH.  (I was hoping to either turn his toothbrush blue or give him a set of Smurf hands...heheh.)  1/2 hour later, I heard "&#%$@#*&#$!!!" from upstairs.  :D

I'm pretty lucky he has a good sense of humor.  He's pretty lucky I didn't fill the _shower_ head with Kool-Aid powder mix. :P