{"id":346,"date":"2009-04-28T02:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T02:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2009\/04\/what-have-i-been-up-to.html"},"modified":"2009-04-28T02:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T02:22:00","slug":"what-have-i-been-up-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2009\/04\/what-have-i-been-up-to.html","title":{"rendered":"What Have I Been Up To?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good question.<\/p>\n

Right now, I’m enjoying Dancing With the Stars, although my enthusiasm is somewhat limited because I was away for the first 3-4 weeks. I couldn’t believe that Steve-O wasn’t eliminated the first week…I guess he was a better dancer than I gave him credit for…<\/p>\n

I’m also back to a CD-burning spree. Not making new CDs, but rather going through my old college-era CDs and burning them to iTunes. With a few exceptions, the quality is doing well enough. This was something I started back in North Carolina about a year ago, but then got distracted for obvious reasons. I’m finally back and it’s like lightning on my new computer! I also managed to get my backup hard drive that’s still connected to my PC to backup the music 2x weekly.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, I’m still getting the hang of things around here, starting with keeping up with all the activities the kids have: soccer, school field trips, dentist\/doctor’s appointments, birthday parties, etc. Dave had a train show last week that I assisted with, and this coming weekend Dave is headed to Pennsylvania to enjoy a weekend of railfanning with some friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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From 2009 04 20 JacobTimmySoccerUniforms<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Here are the boys hamming it up in their soccer uniforms last week.<\/p>\n

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From 2009 04 23 Timmy_ChildCare_GiffordFarm<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Timmy’s child care class went to a petting zoo and Timmy had a wonderful time!  I tagged along as a chaperone.<\/p>\n

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From 2009 04 25 DaveLayout_BurkeHS_TrainShow<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Dave is on the far right in the maroon t-shirt. The “crowd” you see around his layout was typical during most of the show…he had at least 1 party there observing. Dave allowed some children to operate if it wasn’t too crowded (and if the child was well-behaved). Timmy spent quite a while operating on Saturday morning while I went with Jacob to the Apple Store up the street for a Mac User’s workshop.<\/p>\n

I’m now being beckoned to help wash dishes, so I’ll close here. I wish I had a little more to talk about, maybe I’ll speak more about the spring cleaning I’m enduring right now, we’ll see.  I had these artificial nails put on last weekend for an Air Force formal event — I wore a DRESS! for the first time in 15 years…no formal AF uniform!  (Pictures are forthcoming).  Anyway, the nails made it pretty difficult to type.<\/p>\n

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*Update: I just trimmed down those artificial nails.  They’re acrylics, so I was nervous about taking nail clippers to them, for fear their might simply shatter, but it did well enough and now my nice nails are at a reasonable length.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good question. Right now, I’m enjoying Dancing With the Stars, although my enthusiasm is somewhat limited because I was away for the first 3-4 weeks. I couldn’t believe that Steve-O wasn’t eliminated the first week…I guess he was a better dancer than I gave him credit for… I’m also back to a CD-burning spree. 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