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I live in Los Alamos, New Mexico with my husband, daughter and two dogs (and whichever mice are currently living under the house). I like to spend time with my daughter, knit, bike, run, and tear my house apart, but not all at once.
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when I need a reminder that there is a world outside of this town, and so today Ginnie and I headed for Santa Fe. We met up with her grandparents, and we had good time poking around a yarn shop on Paseo de Peralta (ok, that was mainly me), and then over to Hobby Lobby and then to lunch. I found out that Home Depot carries the 12 foot length redwood boards we need for the deck, which means that we don't have to buy the 18 foot ones the guy at Ace was trying to talk us into. This is good, because the joists under the seams between the short boards on the deck looked a little rotted. Just under the seams though, so I think we'll be getting the 12 foot boards, thank you very much.
I decided to skip the chaos of Neale being out of town next week on top of me having my final exam by moving the final exam to this Friday. This means that this is study week, which is fine. I'm ready to be done with this stuff. I'm still scratching my head a bit as to why we're doing an Embryology section, because the relevant thing (cleft palates and lips and their variations) is rushed over in lecture. I basically got from lecture that the palatine arches or folds or whichever fail to fuse at the midline (or their fusion is interrupted) because of environmental, hereditary, or unknown factors. Soooo, we had to learn about mitosis again because of that?...what's the point? Well, at least it's interesting. I think it's pretty amazing, this cell differentiation stuff. But I guess it's not that amazing if you take into account how much control DNA has. Anyway, I'm ready to move on from this class. And also, on those early pictures of embryos, up to six weeks or so, those aren't their eyes on the front of the prosencephalon. Those'd be their nasal pits. The eyes are on the sides of the head. So there, I finally done learned somethin'.
I'm already itching to get our bedroom painted, which is my project for the weeks I'm off from school. That and the baseboards in the living room, hallway and our bedroom. Ginnie's baseboards could use touching up, since pulling the carpet up exposed more of the boards. Today I briefly entertained the idea of painting the mudroom, which may still happen. It desperately needs it, although it would mean draining the water storage container and moving the freezer...hmmm, we shall see. It would probably end up the color of the dining room or living room, since I don't care too much about what color it is, and I still have plenty of that paint.
Other things to look forward to until mid-August: the rest of season 4 of Battlestar is out in 7 days, which means I'll have something to watch on TV. It is amazing how much TV we don't watch anymore, so I get excited when something I want to see is about to come on the boob tube. Also, Lisa and her family hit town in two weeks, and then we have a Denver trip after that. A Denver trip without crazy amounts of snow and ice and scary freeway traffic because of the two former things. yay!
Tonight it is raining steadily, which feels very homey to me.