Day: August 28, 2009

Today my schedule was very vague on what I should write in the blog. It said: Craft, Fashion, or Girl Stuff. I get the feeling that Dad thinks that those three words sum up all of my extracurricular activities. He is mostly correct to tell you the truth, but ‘Girl Stuff’ can cover a broad range of things. Anyway, I’m going to follow my schedule and tell you everything that’s been happening in Crafts, Fashion, and Girl Stuff lately.

Crafts
I made most of a tiger amigurumi on the plane ride but it doesn’t look very good and it still needs legs. I’m also planning to make some of these cute headbands . I already found a great idea for handmade Christmas gifts for the year on Martha Stewart.com.

I’m not too crafty as of late actually. I have craft highs and lows. Right now I’m sort of medium. Outside of Betty Blonde, I’ve actually been drawing quiet a bit. I made my third annual convention drawing and put it on Facebook. It’s six pages long since there were like 45 kids that I wanted to draw. Very epic.

As for fashion, I’m afraid I’m not much of a fashionista. I like to look nice and I think shopping is fun as long as I have something in mind that I want to buy, but that’s about it. I suspect Dad put it in my schedule because fashion is to girls as football is to boys. 😉

Girl Stuff. I think I’ll just write anything I want here, because I’m a girl, and so naturally when I’m writing about stuff it will be girl stuff.

I think Dad already wrote this, but I’m reading The Victory of Reason to review on the blog later. I wish I could review it now because I have been enjoying it so much, but I’m not even through the second chapter. Because of it, I’ve been thinking about things that I never would have even considered before. It’s answered a lot of historical and even a couple of spiritual questions already and it’s given me a healthy list of vocabulary words to look up. And I thought non-fiction was a drag!

Also, I started Rosetta Stone French today! I’ve learned how to say how girls, women, men and boys can eat, run, read, write or swim! I feel very smart and culturally savvy at the moment.

La fille (moi) mange!!
Lunchtime 🙂

Aunt Jean, as much as she hates to admit it, is one of those rare nerds with finely honed people skills.  An electrical engineer with an MBA, she manages a group of support engineers for a company that makes very specialized circuit design and verification tools.  She was telling us that the people she hires need to have strong object oriented programming skills (java or c++), the ability to write code in a scripting language (Python, Perl, or tcl), and know how to design logic circuits.  I asked her if she thought that was something Christian could handle.  She, with the help of one of her engineers, sent us a bunch of resources to study.  They matched pretty closely what we are already doing with our Arduino project.

Christian and I are going to look into formalizing a study program to get him (and me–I want to learn, TOO!) ready to do that kind of work.  Aunt Jean said they sometimes hire interns to do that kind of stuff.  If we spend a couple years learning about these kinds of circuits, not only will we be able to use them in our water project, but Christian might be able to get a summer job.  How cool would that be?  The other thing is that Aunt Jean is a hard core runner.  Maybe Christian could do some of that if he goes to Oregon for  summer, too.

On another note, we got the new Version 3 Rosetta Stone French loaded up on our homeschool computer.  I started last night and absolutely loved it.  Lorena and Kelly are going to jump into it today.  Christian will probably wait until after he finishes taking the CLEP Spanish test, but we are all pretty excited about the idea of getting ready to do a semester of immersion French in Quebec or France in a couple of years.