The best thing to do when you have had a bad day....

Lots of things went wrong today and I thought maybe I would just quit everything and join the circus. The car had to be towed to the mechanic and our refrigerator went warm. Spent all day in school only to come home to crabby husband and spoiled food.

I have learned that the best thing to do when you have a bad day, is to just find something to convince you that it could have been a worse one....

Pretty sure that I won't be running off to join the circus anytime soon.

A Stellar Presentation

Attended an "all-team" meeting today and had a wonderful surprise guest speaker! Dr Bonnie Dunbar - the astronaut- spoke to us for an hour about her experiences flying into space on the space shuttle, visiting the International Space Station and being weightless.

Four things I have in common with Bonnie Dunbar:

• We are both from the Yakima Valley


• We are both U of W Huskies


• We have both worked for Boeing, in a field where we are outnumbered by guys.

And.....

• We both had someone tell us we should just get married and have children instead of pursuing a career (is something in the water over there?)

Dr Dunbar's presentation was fabulous. She even showed us home video from her two trips into outerspace. She talked about weightlessness and the affects of zero gravity on the human body and she spoke of her passion for turning kids on to science and math. Dr Dunbar is now the director of the Museum of Flight. She is just a very cool and inspiring pioneer.

Home Sweet Home

Decided to share some pictures of our home. These were taken in June 2008. The first is the view out of our back window. The Sky' River flows amongst those trees in the distance. We spent as many hours as we could sitting on our back deck, drinking wine and enjoying the chiminea

The second is a picture of the entrance to our home. It was very beautiful with all the rhodies and azaleas in bloom!