http://kathynida.com talking about art and hopefully making some too Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:34:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The girlchild is attempting to teach Ivy to shake paws.   She has broken-up Milkbone treats, and right now all I hear is "Ivy sit. Ivy sit. Ivy sit. Would you SIT already!" So it's going well. "Good dog." Ivy keeps running to me like she needs protection. Maybe she does. Maybe ... http://kathynida.com/2008/07/04/futile-attempts/ Some people work better on only one project at the time. Not me. I need about 5 or 6 to be happy. Maybe I really am ADD? No. Not really. But I do like to bounce around a bunch of projects, in case there is down time or I get ... http://kathynida.com/2008/07/01/splitting-my-focus/ 1. Take time off from your stressful job. 2. Send kids to camp, preferably stay-away-from-home, for at least a week, a month if you can afford it. 3. Change your phone number. 4. Turn off the computer. Let's start with the fact that I have done none of these, except sort of take time ... http://kathynida.com/2008/06/30/how-to-get-stuff-done/ We finally said goodbye to the family invasion, so we are all a little sad, but it is quiet here and relatively peaceful (for now, until the girlchild hits some sort of anti-quiet zone and starts demanding we all play Clue again), and we are all tired. We spent hours ... http://kathynida.com/2008/06/27/peace-quiet-and-exhaustion/ I think the kids are winning. My brother, his lovely wife, and their three crazy lunatics are visiting this week. Tuesday, we went to the beach, which was actually fairly calm. Today, we spent 6 plus hours at SeaWorld, and I'm bordering on exhaustion. I don't know how the kids ... http://kathynida.com/2008/06/25/five-kids-vs-five-adults/ Today was the first day we all got to sleep in during summer vacation. We had no obligations in the morning. But it was too hot for me to sleep, so I was awake at 5 something and up before the alarm went off. I thought I might get the ... http://kathynida.com/2008/06/23/giving-myself-time/ It was 113 degrees here yesterday...but I wasn't here...I was in Imperial Beach, where it was only 93. I was there for 8 hours of soccer; with gas prices so high and so little time between games, we just stayed there and braved it out. I managed to get sunburnt ... http://kathynida.com/2008/06/22/still-warmer-than-necessary/ It was only 103 degrees at school today. I say only because it was 108 here at home. Ugh. Whatever happened to the infamous San Diego June gloom? We have at least 5, maybe 6 soccer games to sit through this weekend...in the sun. Hopefully it will be cooler at ... http://kathynida.com/2008/06/20/overheated/ I was grading one of my student's final exams yesterday afternoon...and for the third part of the cell theory, he wrote "Brain Fart." I laughed. He's a funny kid...and he already has a handle on many adult problems. I was having a brain fart on the obsession with crazy quilt ... http://kathynida.com/2008/06/20/brain-fart/ I have hours of work to do tonight. I've already done about 2 hours tonight and a full day at school. Yet I am obsessed with working on the Victorian crazy quilt blocks. Obsessed to the point of falling to sleep thinking about seam treatments, waking up still thinking about ... http://kathynida.com/2008/06/18/strangely-obsessed/