It's snowing again here in Wichita, KS. I like it, really puts me in the winter spirit. Last week it snowed quite a bit and the museum closed so I got a day off. It reminded me of school snow days growing up. There was so much snow that I actually could not get my car down my driveway to the asphalt road. But I could walk down my driveway so Emma (the dog) and I went for a walk while it was lightly snowing. Invigorating! I think she really liked it too.
Who wants to go to the Black Eyed Peas (plus Ludacris and LMFAO) concert with me in Kansas City March 24? Should be some amazing performances!
No takers on the wedding DVDs yet? Come on, Nathan did a really good job. The bag of unsold DVDs is sitting on a small table in my dinning room waiting for you to buy its contents.
There are a lost of boxes in my dining room right now. Two large boxes came archival storage companies. One really large box is for my wedding dress, which I finally had cleaned last week. Apparently there is a mystery stain on the back that they could not get out. The stain is not really a different color, it just has a different sheen than the rest of the satin the dress is made out of. Oh well. Who knows if I will wear it again, and if I do I will just make sure the lighting is dim so the stain isn't obvious. The good thing about the stain is that the dry cleaner let me out of my $90 cleaning bill. Sweet ... except part of me wonders if he didn't mess up and then felt bad so didn't charge me. Whatever, can't change anything now.
The other archival boxes are for items I picked up when my grandma Schrag moved to the Salem Home last year. She had some memorabilia from her and my grandpa's younger days. I spent a couple nights last week organizing the bag she gave me and found a bunch of old report cards, special event invitations, diplomas, etc. One of the most interesting pieces was a handmade rainbow themed program from my grandma's Freeman Academy Junior/Senior banquet and a paper cup and tissue paper handmade flower object. It looked like it might have been a pre-dinner treat holder. Cute.
The last box is from our new computer. Jeremy came back this past Thursday from a two-week stint in St. Jo, MO at the ICM pilot scale plant. He brought back another computer. It's really getting out of control in our house now with all the computers! Every time there is a used computer auction at Jeremy's work, he comes home with something new. There is a desktop in the basement, which does not get much use. There is a desktop and a laptop in the office, as well as two monitors. I have a laptop. There is a desktop in the living room. Now we have a sixth computer.
This new computer was built by one of Jeremy's coworkers as a wedding present and it is crazy. It has over 2 TB of memory, a blue-ray player and burner, as well as normal CD and DVD capabilities. It has ports for every type of card and drive out there and a silly, fast, hot processor. It has four of five fans working to keep it cool enough and an LCD display on the front of the CPU that monitors the temperature at different parts within the CPU. That scares me a little. I don't want my house to burn down. Oh, all these computers. Cracks me up.
Christmas was good. I went back to SoDak around Christmas and it snowed and blew for most of the five days I was there. Every time we wanted to drive somewhere it was like gambling. We could get clear the roads to get out, but were never sure if we could get back home again.
Over the holiday my cousin, Nathan, gave me the Schrag/Javers wedding DVD he made. He gave me a few extra to try to sell, so this is my sales pitch: They cost $20 (all going to Nathan), which is very reasonable considering the amount of time he put into the project. He used some computer software and his own smarts to make them very clever and professional. I think they are pretty entertaining. Seriously, I'm not just saying that because I was in the wedding. Let me know if you want a DVD and I will do my best to get one to you.
I put new bathroom photos on facebook (it's easier to upload photos on facebook). Check them out. The transformation is amazing.
The bathroom is finally done ... mostly finally done. We still have to do some paint touch up and get rid of the excess caulk around fixtures. I really hope I get motivated to finish up so this doesn't become one of those projects that drags on for a couple more months.
About half of Jeremy's family came down to spend Thanksgiving with us. We had a traditional day of cooking, eating, and bonfiring yesterday. Today I had to work and the family came in this afternoon to tour the museum.
Today was the opening of the new Ancient Near East exhibit at the museum. I am so relieved it is done! We had a little opening with some speeches, mingling, and hummus (get it, Near East = hummus). The exhibit really came together well and it was exciting to see people actually reading, using, and enjoying this thing I designed.
I feel like I have been doing a lot of construction work in the last month ... and I'm glad it's not my full time job. For the exhibit, staff and volunteers helped me build some walls and some cases. We mudded and sanded sheetrock, painted, and assembled things. At home, Jeremy and I have been remodeling two of our bathrooms. We combined them into one and completely stripped the interiors so while I was constructing walls at work, I was destroying them at home; kind of a weird feeling. We got this 10% off coupon for Lowe's so we decided to buy everything at once for the bathroom so we could get the most use out of the coupon. It was fun to go through the store and pick out everything, but it took many hours. I was so tired and thirsty when it was over.
Adam, Jeremy's brother stayed with us last week to put up the walls, ceiling, and tile the floor and walls. It looks awesome. I can't wait to use it. The new bathroom will totally trump the bathroom in our bedroom, which used to be the best one.
I'll have to post some pictures when I am at home near my camera.
