Crab Fest entries

I DID IT, I DID IT, HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, a view like this.

Patrick often proudly shows me the pans he stitches together, where's there no seems, and I think they are really nice, but "I have done good pans before". However, as you can see here, maybe they aren't as easy as I recall. I didn't try stitching these because it would have taken forever! Kudos to Patrick and his nice pans. He takes the best pics of Kodiak.

She la-la'd and "sorted" clothes for twenty minutes or more. She started out with a very sweet high pitched la-la, but by this time she started using her mezzo instead of her soprano.

Make-up time

Abby's favorite new activity is painting "hake-up" on herself, and daddy when we can convince her (a better alternative to painting it on herself as she gets it everywhere!). Our neighbor gave her the Bratz make-up kit as a gift (appropriate name). I tried to put it away so she would forget about it until she was older, but no luck. One day I opened the closet and she saw it. That was it - hake-up or bust. She does not need it, but she loves it!

Uh, ok....mmm hmm.

15th

It's been a busy week, but next will be more hectic. This week I was interviewed on camera. That will be interesting to see later...urgh. It was also the museum's 15th b-day. I gave just three collections tours, but the people who do come in to see the collections are always impressed or even awestruck (I have my tour speech down!). They often ask me questions about myself, how long I have been here, and I got here and say what a cool job it is, and it is.

Funhouse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdjtqu3XK4U

"This museum full of ash, once a tickle, now a rash. This used to be a a funhouse, but now it's full of evil clowns."

MILF day

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Brag Board

Why does he cut off my feet? Oh, not paying attention, thinking of something else.

Don't mess with a Registrar who's got Badang in her pocket.

I tired to run away from Shawen when he wanted to take my pic, but you know, I'm kind of glad I indulged him. I am not trying for the brag board, it's just been awhile since certain people have seen me. Heck, it's been awhile since I've even seen my backside. Yes, that is my leaner bod and smoother skin in a leather trimmed skirt. I know I am not gorgeous, but later in life I will look back and say to myself, girl, you shouda flaunted it! So Abby girl, flaunt it! You ARE gorgeous.

Hey, at least she's using a spoon.

We had a visitor. Abby welcomed him with some stones. He totally fell for it. He was dinner (just kidding).

Lots (too much) yummy food over the weekend. Just some leftover tortillas with sugar and cinnamon, but after a hard day at the beach they were yummy. Shawen made some oh so delicioso tacos with all the fixins'.

Beach toys rock. Without them Abby's all over the place, running in circles, making mommy crazy, but with beach toys we sit in the sun and and make turtles and castles. The one good thing about Abby's 10:30pm bedtime is that we are out much later than the rest of the populace and we get to the beach to ourselves, well, us and the teenagers. It feels naughty being out late with a 2.5 year old - rebels are we!

Wow that's lots of beach crap. It was a three foot high pile of mucky, stinky, slimy rotting ocean stuff. It smelled so bad up top and covered the path down so thickly a lot of people decided not to venture down, but the smell was wafting up, so it was ok from the beach, and walking through it was in some weird way fun. "Ewwwww" said Abby.

Mental chaff III

I went to school for seven years to pursue a museum career. Not only do I have a Master's degree, which included a position working with UC's collections, but I also earned a Museum Studies Graduate Certificate. I left my family and friends, everything I knew and loved, to move here for a museum position, for a museum career......

You took it to a level you did not have to. It did not have to be that way.