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eowyn22.multiply.com http://eowyn22.multiply.com/ <table width=100% border=0><tr><td align=center><a href="http://www.wunderground.com/US/SC/Taylors.html?bannertypeclick=big2"> <img src="http://banners.wunderground.com/weathersticker/big2_cond/language/www/US/SC/Taylors.gif" border=0 alt="Click for Taylors, South Carolina Forecast" height=60 width=468></a></td></tr></table> Fri, 4 Apr 2008 10:54:13 -0000 Mon, 14 May 2007 22:36:57 -0000 eowyn22.multiply.com http://images.eowyn22.multiply.com/logo http://eowyn22.multiply.com 100 100 Clinic Pictures of our makeshift clinic and some of our http://eowyn22.multiply.com/photos/album/50/Clinic Mon, 14 May 2007 22:36:57 -0000 The Food of Romania http://eowyn22.multiply.com/photos/album/47/The_Food_of_Romania Mon, 14 May 2007 22:15:31 -0000 Guess what? Just returned from a 2 week medical mission trip to Romania. I know, I know, I haven't updated in way more than 2 weeks, but that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Since Multiply doesn't let me upload more than 20 MB a month, I uploaded all the pictures to Flickr. And then I discovered that each picture was HUGE, was filling up Flickr's 100 MB-per-month limit too quickly, and had to break down and make them smaller after all. Anyway. They're in no particular order, not labeled, and probably make no sense. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8292455@N06/">But here they are</a>. http://eowyn22.multiply.com/journal/item/137/Guess_what Mon, 14 May 2007 15:33:00 -0000 Sewing Expo Day #2/3 No, that's not 2/3 of a day. That really means second day/third day, because I did a class that was before everything else started, so it's day 3 for me but really only day 2 of the expo. Cuz you were wondering and all. Meanwhile, back at the Expo, today was better than yesterday. The classes were better; either that or my expectations were lower. I'm seeing a lot more young fashionable sewists walking around the vendor area now as well. (I think me and all the old biddies were the early birds, hehe.) So I'm starting to climb out of my funk about where-are-all-the-fashionistas-from-PR-hiding and enjoying myself more. To top it all off, I did the most incredible thing today. While sitting and waiting for the door prize drawing (why, I don't know. I really do understand probability, but hope is illogical) I started looking over an exciting new pattern I had just purchased. I started to fuss over some details like I usually do, and instead of stewing and second-guessing myself ... http://eowyn22.multiply.com/journal/item/136/Sewing_Expo_Day_23 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:36:00 -0000 Sewing Expo Thoughts Right now I'm in Atlanta attending a 4-day sewing expo. I've never been to anything like this before, so I had no idea what to expect. So far it's been a roller coaster ride. As I sit in the classes and walk around the vendor booths I find myself critiquing a lot. A big lot. And then I start to wonder what's wrong with me that I can't enjoy because I'm finding too much fault. Because of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.patternreview.com">Patternreview.com</a> and its sizeable population of young, hip, fashion-forward members, over the last few years I have begun to see a new dawn of possibilities. Well-fitting elegant fashion is possible from the individual home sewist, and should be expected. Now, wading through a sea of tapered pants and crocs in the Expo hall, I again despair for the future of sewing. The home sewing industry is stuck in the 80's and early 90's, led by a group of apple-shaped menopausal women wearing unflattering "wearable art". Good techniques are buried in frumpy designs; stylish designs are frustratingl... http://eowyn22.multiply.com/journal/item/134/Sewing_Expo_Thoughts Fri, 9 Mar 2007 02:05:00 -0000 Monday #50 Wow, that was a hiatus. I sent off all our Christmas cards with this website address so people could check it out and keep up with our news... and then I didn't update it for over a month.  That was good forethought. Anyway, a lot has happened since December 30.  We've been home to Colorado and back, I delivered another baby (ok, that was just today), my brother corrupted us and introduced us to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_dance_revolution">DDR</a> and <a href="http://www.worldofwarcraft.com">WoW</a>, and I've actually gotten a <a href="http://sewing.patternreview.com/cgi-bin/readreview.pl?readreview=1&reviewnum=18617">tiny bit of sewing done</a>. Sebastian's tail hair still hasn't grown back in yet.  Sophie is still bad.  So I guess that in reality, not much has changed. I think some of my inability to update this has to do with the fact that this blog was an outlet for me, a chance to do some creative writing.  Since December I've been writing a monthly health-related article for the faculty/staff newsletter of the university, and that has been sapping a lot of my creative juices.  I'm also so ADHD that if I don't blog something right after it h... http://eowyn22.multiply.com/journal/item/131/Monday_50 Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:30:00 -0000 Merry Christmas. Um, kinda late. I meant to post on Christmas, but I was too busy. No really, we spent most of the day on <a href="http://eowyn22.multiply.com/photos/album/44">the bathroom remodel</a>. And the rest of the day at a friend's house watching Jeeves & Wooster and eating ourselves silly. There just wasn't time to post pictures of the kids. So here it is... Sophie thought it was the worst Christmas EVARRR!!! <img class="alignmiddle" src="http://images.eowyn22.multiply.com/image/3/photos/11/orig/79/sophiebadchristmas.jpg?et=UWrv7DmvOpr%2BzHPsraETHA" border="0" width="400"> We had a "wet" Christmas instead of a "white" Christmas, so she couldn't go outside. The tree lost a lot of ornaments that day... Here's our stocking lineup: my stocking from when I was a girl, Sebastian's stocking (with all the mousies on it), Casey's stocking (which is actually one of my stockings turned around backwards) which has yet to be labeled with his name after 6 years of marriage, and Sophie's stocking. Last year, we found the tiny stocking among the tree ornaments and thought it perfect for Sophie because she was a little kitten then. <img class="alignmiddle" src="http://images.eowyn22.multiply.com/image/3/photos/11/orig/78/IMG_2194.JPG?et=keDF%2B7HcoAxxuEKhnI%2CXFw" border="0" width="400"> This year we thought it still appropriate because she's been so bad all year. She still managed to score m... http://eowyn22.multiply.com/journal/item/130/Merry_Christmas._Um_kinda_late. Sun, 31 Dec 2006 03:02:00 -0000 Guest Bathroom Remodel Step-by-step photo essay of the transformation of our 70's guest bathroom into a vision of french country elegance. We hope. And discovering that the bathroom is pretty tiny to be taking pictures like http://eowyn22.multiply.com/photos/album/44/Guest_Bathroom_Remodel Tue, 19 Dec 2006 02:47:36 -0000 Monday #49 It has been another busy week - Casey is off for Christmas break, and I had my first OB call on Wednesday. By 3:30 AM Thursday, I had delivered my first baby in the new hospital and practice. So this week, I heard about another internet phenomenon that I succumbed to. It's called "Catster". It's a bunch of websites for cats. That's right, people post pictures of their cats and their personality traits. You can even have a "diary" for your cat. Pretty lame, eh? Um. Yeah. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.catster.com/?440239">Sebastian's page.</a> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.catster.com/?440246">Sophie's page.</a> ****************************************** Casey is not at work, but he's still hard at work. <a target="_blank" href="http://eowyn22.multiply.com/photos/album/44">We're remodeling the guest bathroom</a> - you know the one that has the patch of unpainted bad 70's wallpaper on it? Everything has been completely torn out and we're re-doing everything. Since the painted-over wallpaper is just about impossible to do much with, we're just nailing up beadboard and painting over it. That one was Casey's idea. He's so smart. :) Oh yes, and we just played the ... http://eowyn22.multiply.com/journal/item/129/Monday_49 Mon, 18 Dec 2006 01:25:00 -0000 One Would Think... ...that if one were working as live chat support personnel, one would be required to be able to type more than twenty words per minute. Calling and sitting on hold would've been faster. But I suppose at least now I don't have bad elevator music tunes stuck in my head. http://eowyn22.multiply.com/journal/item/128/One_Would_Think... Sun, 17 Dec 2006 18:44:00 -0000 Cats and Pills and Humor Casey received this email today from a co-worker who thought it apropos. We agree. ****************************************************************************************************** How to give your cat a pill... 1. Grasp cat firmly in your arms. Cradle its head on your elbow, just as if you were giving baby a bottle. Coo confidently, "That's a nice kitty." Drop pill into its mouth. 2. Retrieve cat from top of lamp and pill from under sofa. 3. Follow same procedure as in 1, but hold cat's front paws down with left hand and back paws down with elbow of right arm. Poke pill into its mouth with right forefinger. 4. Retrieve cat from under bed. Get new pill from bottle. (Resist impulse to get new cat.) 5. Again proceed as in 1, except when you have cat firmly cradled in bottle-feeding position, sit down on edge of chair, fold your torso over cat, bring your right hand over your left elbow, open cat's mouth by lifting the upper jaw and pop the pill in - quickly. Since your head is down ... http://eowyn22.multiply.com/journal/item/127/Cats_and_Pills_and_Humor Wed, 13 Dec 2006 02:05:00 -0000 Monday #48 Brrr, it's cold down here in SC. After weeks of 70 degree days, it was down to the upper teens at night over the weekend. Fortunately, I was able to bring my herb garden in for the last two nights. Unfortunately, I didn't know how hard it was going to freeze the first night and lost some sage and oregano. The basil has been long dead, victim of an early light frost. I don't seem to have good luck with basil anyway. I forgot to mention the <a target="_blank" href="http://eowyn22.multiply.com/recipes">recipes I posted the last few weeks</a>. Some were Thanksgiving recipes; the rest were from getting into an organizing fit and deciding that I was going to start trying some of the 10,000 recipes on scraps of paper that I have stuffed into various cookbooks. The ones that are worth making again are being posted here so I can throw away the paper. And share it with ya'll, of course. Since then, however, I have fallen into a deep blue funk and there ain't no recipes bein' cooked nor posted. So there. Let's see, what else... I took th... http://eowyn22.multiply.com/journal/item/126/Monday_48 Sun, 10 Dec 2006 23:57:00 -0000 Oh, The Indignity! This is a much happier post than I expected it to be, though Sebastian probably doesn't think so.  I let you know this in the beginning because there's a lot of ominous buildup and background info. I've been needing to take Sebas to the vet this month because at his last checkup he had some gingivitis that needed to be checked again in 6 months, probably needs a cleaning, yada yada.  He's also had a tumor on his tail for a good 7-8 years that we were told was a benign tumor to be left alone unless changing.  (I could've sworn that it had been biopsied and everything, but I'm not so sure anymore.)  The treatment for it, unfortunately, would be just to whack his tail off at the level of the tumor.  The last several days we've noticed that tumor getting hard and changing shape.  And finally, Sebastian has been acting old lately.  Yes, I realize he's nearly 13, whaddya want, etc.  But seriously, he went from pretty-active-and-jumping-ea... http://eowyn22.multiply.com/journal/item/125/Oh_The_Indignity Wed, 6 Dec 2006 17:51:00 -0000 SC Garden http://eowyn22.multiply.com/photos/album/42/SC_Garden Wed, 6 Dec 2006 17:29:23 -0000 Monday #47 Hmm, forgot to post that the <a href="http://eowyn22.multiply.com/photos/album/40">pictures of the sewing room</a> are now up for viewing. I think I may have to change the day that I post things. Mondays are consistently more hectic now that I keep relatively normal hours. Not that I'm consistently posting on Mondays, but you know what I mean. Well, this morning I was reminded of my love-hate relationship with fantasy football. I love waking up Monday morning to see what my players did on Sunday (cuz I'm too cheap to pay the $10 to have live scoring and so have to wait until the next day), and I've done relatively well every year I've played. For a girl. But sometimes I do more than just let my standard lineup play. Sometimes I pretend that I know something about the inner workings of the game of football. Or more accurately, can predict the outcome of a future football game. Sometimes I research what's going on, make changes in my lineup, confident that I benched a stinker and played a sleeper who's about to have a breakout game. Like t... http://eowyn22.multiply.com/journal/item/124/Monday_47 Tue, 5 Dec 2006 02:13:00 -0000 Monday #46 Urg.  Mondays after a long holiday weekend are always jam-packed.  Hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving - we had a bunch of friends and a couple of Casey's students over for turkey and all the trimmings, and then we had more over the next day to eat the leftovers. We took advantage of the holiday weekend to work on another home improvement project: painting over the dark wood paneling in the <a href="http://eowyn22.multiply.com/photos/photo/36/13">sewing/computer room</a>. As we were emptying the room on Wednesday night, the cats started running around wide-eyed with barely contained panic. Sophie finally flopped helplessly in the middle of the empty room, eyes glazed over. Since no other rooms were emptied and no moving boxes have appeared they have calmed down, but I think they have <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTSD">PTSD</a>.  Poor babies. Anyway, I would love to be able to post pictures of the finished product, but it's not photograph-ready right now.  I figured it's worth taking the time to really organize things rather than throwing it all back in just to... http://eowyn22.multiply.com/journal/item/123/Monday_46 Tue, 28 Nov 2006 03:47:00 -0000 Sewing Room Makeover http://eowyn22.multiply.com/photos/album/40/Sewing_Room_Makeover Mon, 27 Nov 2006 02:12:58 -0000 Italian Stuffing Great holiday stuffing, italian-style. I just bake the entire batch rather than stuffing the bird with it, because I like crispier stuffing. I make it significantly differently from the recipe I was given, but I'll give you both http://eowyn22.multiply.com/recipes/item/9/Italian_Stuffing Fri, 24 Nov 2006 02:43:04 -0000 Cranberry sauce Another thing I refuse to prepare from a can: cranberry sauce. It's simple to boil up a pot of cranberries and it tastes incredible. Very high taste to time http://eowyn22.multiply.com/recipes/item/8/Cranberry_sauce Fri, 24 Nov 2006 01:45:36 -0000 Libby's Pumpkin Cheesecake Recipe from Libby (as in the people who make canned pumpkin) for a great pumpkin cheesecake. Casey's favorite. I refuse to make anything pumpkin with the canned stuff, however - it's so easy and so much better to bake a pie pumpkin and puree the http://eowyn22.multiply.com/recipes/item/7/Libbys_Pumpkin_Cheesecake Thu, 23 Nov 2006 16:30:38 -0000 Chicken with Pine Nuts My variation on a recipe from MasterCook. It was originally scaled to feed 8 people; I cut it down to 2, didn't give measurements for things that should be to taste, and changed the chicken preparation. Instructions were rearranged to make more sense as well. The chicken breasts are cut more to be similar to the way I make Chicken Piccata because I like the way the little chicken medallions look and taste - they absorb so much more flavor when they're small and thin. Next time I make this I may pound the pieces a bit to make them more tender. It's a similar recipe to the chicken piccata, but different enough to be interesting. Casey thought it was particularly good served over steamed brown rice. I would imagine it would be just as good over http://eowyn22.multiply.com/recipes/item/6/Chicken_with_Pine_Nuts Thu, 23 Nov 2006 15:10:37 -0000 Monday #45 Well I'm getting to be quite the lawbreaker. When I'm on call, I go to the campus infirmary in the morning before clinic to see any patients who need to be seen by a physician. I get to park in the special doctor's reserved space because campus parking is tight. And I'm the doctor, see. Last week on call, I spent probably 45 minutes to an hour seeing patients prior to going to clinic. It was a busy morning. I came rushing out to my car heading for clinic and noticed a piece of paper under my windshield wiper. Parking ticket. For, uh, parking in the reserved spot. Reserved for the, uh, doctor. Huh. At first, I was furious that some overzealous moron had ticketed me. Then I started laughing, because hey, that's pretty stinkin' funny when you think about it. Walked into clinic, showed it to my office manager, and she got it all straightened out. This morning I was on call again. (Ok, so I just thought I was on call. I really wasn't. But I didn't figure that out until I had seen ... http://eowyn22.multiply.com/journal/item/122/Monday_45 Tue, 21 Nov 2006 01:09:00 -0000 Pork Steaks with Red Wine and Balsalmic Vinegar Sauce Pork braised in a flavorful sauce - great for company. From OtherWhiteMeat.com with my adjustments in http://eowyn22.multiply.com/recipes/item/5/Pork_Steaks_with_Red_Wine_and_Balsalmic_Vinegar_Sauce Tue, 21 Nov 2006 01:07:18 -0000 November 4, 2006 Concert in Carnegie Hall Program: Richard WagnerBéla BartókLudwig van Beethoven "Tannhäuser" OvertureConcerto for Violin and Orchestra No.1 , Sz 36Symphony No. 7 in A major, op. 92 Gidon Kremer, Violin Conductor: Mariss Jansons ******************************************************************************** Music feeds the soul. The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra is a master chef. Without question, this is the finest orchestra I have ever had the privilege of hearing live. The impressive acoustics in Isaac Stern auditorium at Carnegie Hall kept the venue from standing in the musicians' way. I was not expecting so much of the program to be familiar, yet the orchestra's dynamic control and musicality made it as though I was hearing each for the first time. The orchestra deservedly received a frantic standing ovation from the entire house. The key skills this orchestra masters that set it far above average: 1) Dynamic control. When soft sections are clear, yet so soft that the audience hold... http://eowyn22.multiply.com/reviews/item/4 Sat, 18 Nov 2006 21:12:35 -0000 I Crack Myself UP Spent another days worth of time working on this - and I wonder why my house is a mess all the time. <a href="http://eowyn22.multiply.com/video/item/5" target="_blank">Check it out here</a> (and view <a href="http://eowyn22.multiply.com/video/item/4" target="_blank">the first one</a> if you haven't already). For those of you who haven't had the opportunity to enjoy opera enough to understand what's being sung, here's the original italian along with a passable translation. "La donna è mobile Qual piuma al vento, Muta d'accento E di pensiero Sempre un amabile Leggiandro viso, In pianto o in riso, È mensognero. (chorus) Part 2È sempre misero Chi a lei s'affida, Chi le confida, Mal cauto il core! Pur mai non sentesi Felice appeino Chi su quel seno, Non liba amore!" (chorus) "A woman is as fickle As a feather in the breeze Capricious in word And in thought Always a lovable Pretty face, But whether weeping or smiling, She is deceitful. (chorus) Part 2He is always wretched Who trusts her Or confides in her, His heart is broken! But he can never be Completely happy Who on that breast Does not sip of the cup of love!" (chorus) Heh. ... http://eowyn22.multiply.com/journal/item/121/I_Crack_Myself_UP Sat, 18 Nov 2006 18:56:00 -0000 Part II Second installment in the "Cats and Opera" saga, opening to high critical http://eowyn22.multiply.com/video/item/5/Part_II Sat, 18 Nov 2006 18:48:23 -0000