Apparently Addie is just not a fan of her costume. Or it just makes her a cranky baby. But only for mom. We took her to a baby costume party on Wednesday (adorable!) and she did great (mind you she was held by dad the entire time).
Yesterday Erin met me at Kathryn Albertson to get some outdoor pics of Addie in her cute ladybug outfit. First Addie wouldn't sit, then she hated the hat, then she just seemed to hate the whole darn thing. And absolutely nothing could get her to smile -- except Kaia, and even then I think we got 1-2 smiles. But I think we still got some decent pics. I'll post them as soon as Erin gets a chance to upload them.
Today I decided to have Loren bring her to my office in her costume (if she would cooperate). He brought her in all smiles. After he left she got a little fussy with it, but was okay for a bit of visiting. I knew she was getting tired and hot, but we just had a few more people to see. Sitting in Coleen's office (last stop), I took her costume off and thought she was fine . . . until she was set completely over the edge when she tapped her head on a desk (really, she barely hit it). She screamed and screamed (I'm talking red face, real tears, runny nose -- the whole show) -- a nice noise for a quiet office. Absolutely nothing would calm her down, so for the sake of my coworkers we booked it out pretty quick (I couldn't even shut off my computer). Apparently she just does not want to be a ladybug!
*Okay, I had to edit this post. Apparently poor little Addie hit her noggin a bit harder than I thought. It appears she caught herself right between her eyes -- and she has a red mark there. So maybe it wasn't the costume in that case . . .*
Friday, October 31, 2008
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Seattle Visit
So we took our first big trip as a family -- to Seattle. It was a work trip for me, but we made some family time. :)
Sunday: Our plane left at 11:15am so I woke up early to try to finalize everything before the trip. I take way too long to pack, and want EVERYthing done before I leave. Needless to say, I still had things to do, and I way overpacked -- it's amazing how much stuff you think you need for such a little being (Addie). :) But we made it to the airport around 10am, got Addie's "boarding verification pass" and made it through security quickly, taking advantage of the family line. Once at our gate we were greeted by fellow Boiseans who were also attending the convention (Nancy F., Cindy A., and Pua S.). I changed Addie's diaper prior to boarding (good thing because she had a bit of poopy in there) and we found seats together no problem (I snagged the window seat -- not difficult when you're flying with Loren). It was a full flight, so a guy sat next to Loren -- on the flight we found out he was from Seattle, attending community college to get his pre-requisites for medical school. I nursed Addie on take-off and she promptly fell asleep -- she awoke about halfway through, but was content just exploring her new surroundings. Our friend from Seattle said, "I can't believe what a good baby you have." :) We made it to Seattle on time and were happy to find Addie's carseat and stroller waiting for us. We wandered our way to the baggage claim, loaded up our overpacked belongings, and headed for our shuttle. I'm sure it was a sight to see me with an overstuffed purse/diaper bag pushing Addie in her stroller, and Loren with a backpack, our large luggage bag with our toiletry bag attached, and our smaller luggage bag, attempting to maneuver the populated airport. :) But we finally made it to our shuttle location and loaded up. We used Shuttle Express and they were great -- very personable and helpful. We headed out to our hotel . . . we were warned we could hit some traffic as the Seattle Seahawks game started in 45 minutes, but we didn't really have any problems. We made it to our hotel (Red Lion on 5th) and checked in (early check-in -- yay!). Loren and I were starving so we decided to hit the streets and see what we could find.
Our venture led us to the Pike Place Market where we explored the many shops and vendors, and finally settled at restaurant called The Islander. The food was good, but we had a bit of sticker shock with the prices -- which we came soon to find out was the norm for Seattle.
Addie's beanie kept sliding off (it's a little small) -- Loren thought she looked like an angry pope.
We spent some more time down by the market, and discovered the hills of Seattle. I have to mention that my favorite part of the market were the flowers. They were gorgeous! And cheap! I told Loren he's lucky we don't live there or he'd be expected to buy me flowers on a weekly basis. :) Silly me did not, however, get a picture of them. :(
We had to get a picture with the pretty horse. :)
After we made it back to the hotel, Loren decided to check out the pub downstairs and brought back some dinner. Later I decided to treat myself to a delicious, although expensive, indulgence from The Cheesecake Factory and then we called it a night.
Monday: My day started promptly at 8am with the AHIMA (American Health Information Management Association) convention's general session. We were welcomed by the mayor, heard a nervous president's address, and then enjoyed an amazing speaker, Chris Jordan (see previous blog). We also heard about personal genome services, which sound rather interesting -- you can purchase a kit to spit into (yes, spit) and mail in so they can run studies on your genome to see what diseases you are susceptible too. It's the new wave in personalized medicine. But I think she said it's $450 or so to try it out. I then headed back to the hotel (a 2-block trip that I became VERY familiar with) to feed Addie and hang out with her and Loren until lunch. We wandered down to the library, apparently a Seattle "must-see" -- it's a strange building, a bit awkward, but quite the sight. We didn't go in, just walked around the outside.
Once we got back to the hotel I then trekked back to the convention center for an Assembly on Education luncheon. It unfortunately turned out to be rather unimpressive -- the speaker was uneducated on his audience and the material was quite irrelevant. Oh well. After doing my 4-block roundtrip to feed Addie, I attended two more sessions in the afternoon -- one on MS-DRGs (part of inpatient reimbursement) and one on ICD-10 (the new coding system that is DESPERATELY needed). Both were slightly disappointing -- the MS-DRG one just wasn't applicable to the classroom and the ICD-10 one covered the same things we heard time and time again. While I was at the convention, Loren took Addie back down to the waterfront.
That evening I was exhausted, so just wanted to grab something to take back to the hotel to eat. I had seen a place called Bowl-o-Rama by the library that sounded good, so we headed that direction -- about 5 blocks away. The day had been overcast, but no rain yet. It waited until we were 5 blocks from our hotel (at Bowl-o-rama, which was closed) and started pouring. "Now this feels like Seattle!" :) We ran back to the hotel and were already drenched. While Addie and I dried off (well, actually just me, because Addie miraculously remained dry), Loren braved the rain to run over to the mall to get us some food. We ate and decided to call it a night.
Tuesday: With Seattle being an hour behind us, I found myself waking up early in the morning with nothing to do (trying to be quiet for Addie and Loren). So on Tuesday I decided to head to a complimentary breakfast at the convention. This one was for current HIM professionals who were interested in becoming faculty -- I was there to share my experiences as faculty. It turned out, though, that most everyone that showed up was faculty -- so it turned into a faculty networking breakfast instead (fine by me). :) I then headed over for the general session, where a physician was discussing the future of medicine and the challenges we're facing. It was interesting, although I missed the beginning and thus was a bit lost throughout. When that session ended I booked it back to the hotel for yet another feeding. Because I was already missing the next speaker I decided to skip that session and the three of us headed out for a late breakfast. We read that the breakfast at Lowell's in Pike Place was "legendary" so we tried them out -- they were definitely good, but I probably wouldn't use the word "legendary" myself. But tasty nonetheless. :) We wandered more around Pike Place and checked out the waterfront.
Our first family photo (and Addie's not looking)!
I wanted to get a picture with the whale, but Loren wasn't too keen on it as there was a bum sleeping in very close proximity. But we got our pic.
I decided to grab a piroshki from Piroshki Piroshki! just to try to out, as well as some chowder from Pike Place Chowder, on our way back. The chowder was delicious . . . I wasn't as impressed with the piroshki. The piroshki itself was good, but the chocolate hazelnut filling was very bitter. With my overly full belly I trekked back to the convention center to attend a session on RACs (they're a new Medicare regulation that audit facilities' Medicare claims) and mosy around the exhibition hall. The exhibition hall is where all the vendors set up and overload you with free pens, notepads, etc. while trying to get you to enter drawings for prizes, mainly so they can get your contact information. I'm not really into getting a bunch of junk and filling out my name on form after form, but my mission on this visit was to find reusable bags I could use at the grocery store. I was a little late -- it seems most were already given away, but I did get one (a cool one from Fujitsu that folds and zips closed). Loren and Addie went to the aquarium while I was gone.
I then made the all-too-familiar trip back to the hotel to feed Addie, and then back to the convention center to finish up the day's session. I finished with a session on E-health/telehealth, which was interesting, but I was a little lost as I arrived late, and finally one on Health Information Exchange (HIE -- it's about developing systems to electronically exchange data between facilities -- crazy to me that we're just now thinking about this). For dinner that night we decided we absolutely had to have sushi. There was a place right by the convention center -- a decently long wait, but delicious! I think you just can't go wrong with a caterpillar roll . . . (dreaming of sushi as I type this) . . . For the convention that night they were having a President's Celebration at the Experience the Music Project (by the space needle).
I originally hadn't planned on going since extra tickets (for Loren) were $90, but I was able to get a free one from a friend, so we thought we'd check it out. Well, it was much more of a party than expected. We rode the Monorail (overpriced) and found the party was hoppin'! Not really a place for a baby. I'm talking live band, people drinking . . . not conducive to a baby in a stroller. But I told Linda we'd stop by, so we weaved the stroller through the crowd and found an enclosed area where the music wasn't so loud. We stayed for one drink and then rode the ever-so-exciting Monorail back.
We put the baby to bed and called it a night.
Wednesday: I started the morning with another convention breakfast -- a networking breakfast for professionals interested in research. It was a little hard to network, however, when nobody sat at the table I was at. Oh well, free breakfast (continental). Then I went to another session on HIE, which was good, but ill-prepared (speakers went over time and still didn't cover half their slides). The next round of sessions included about 3 different ones that I wanted to go to, but decided on one about recruitment of quality HIM professionals. I thought it would be a good session to report back to the students -- what are these facilities looking for in "quality" HIM professionals? Well the session ended up being much more about the recruitment piece . . . not what I wanted, and had I not decided to sit front and center, I would have ducked out and went to another session. This actually ended up being my final session because after the trek back to feed Addie, I just didn't have it in me to go back. Instead, we packed up our room and checked out. Now, this wasn't perfect planning on my part, but when I originally set this up I wanted to make sure I could attend the complete convention, which didn't end until 3:30pm that afternoon. Our flight left at 7:50pm, so the shuttle was picking us up at 5pm. Well, check-out was at noon, which I was able to delay 1 hour, but that left us 4 hours of killing time outside the hotel. We decided to head back down to the Market and waterfront to kill the afternoon until we could catch our shuttle back to the airport. We originally planned to ride a ferry, but had a hard time finding the ferry schedule, so we just wandered. We did see a huge cruise ship up close, which was pretty neat. Other than that we just wandered around.
We had stopped to get the camera out to take a picture with this statue, when a man and his mother came and started taking pictures themselves. We didn't mind as we were still digging through our bags looking for the camera. It turns out the mother was from Italy, visiting her grandchildren. They were very sweet and insistent on taking a picture of the three of us.
We knocked out a couple hours and decided to head back towards the hotel. I was starving so we stopped at the mall and grabbed a bite. It was pretty windy that day and I just wanted a place we could get Addie warm. It was also time for her to eat by then, and I had been scoping out discrete places to nurse -- essentially finding none (I was amazed at the lack of parks in that part of Seattle -- the only ones we found were part of apartment complexes and were private). As we sat in the mall, exhausted from walking all day, I noticed a Motherhood Maternity store upstairs. Great, looks like a baby friendly place -- they kindly let me nurse Addie in their dressing room. After eating we mosied back to the hotel, still with about an hour to kill. And guess who decided to poop themselves . . . with no bathroom available because the only public restroom was in the bar downstairs and it was flooded. Normally I wouldn't mind changing it in the lobby, but there was a big group gathering and I didn't think they'd enjoy the smell of Addie's poopy diaper. We headed across the street to a little mall to check their public restrooms -- which were all the way upstairs on the 3rd floor. No changing station. Fine, we just changed her on the nice benches outside the bathroom (nobody was around). Thankfully it was a contained poop, so no clothes changing was required. We headed back to the lobby of our hotel and patiently awaited our shuttle. It came right on time, we packed up, and headed to the airport. Check-in was uneventful (thankfully) and we found ourselves with another long wait of over an hour (I wanted to get there early just in case -- I didn't know how the Seattle airport would compare to Boise). Addie hadn't eaten since the mall, so I attempted to feed her -- twice (again, in public, hiding in unpopulated areas of the airport) -- but she wouldn't have it. We watched the presidential debates and then boarded up. Addie fell asleep as we waited -- about 20 minutes -- to taxi (they were missing equipment because the previous flight had a medical emergency), but was up and ready for take-off. Loren and I worked on a crossword puzzle, as Addie tried to grab it and eat it at every opportunity. :) We picked up our bags in Boise and Phil (Loren's brother) picked us up. Addie and I got dropped off while Loren took Phil home (Phil had our car since we needed the carseat) and we got ready for bed. Ah, it was nice to be home.
Sunday: Our plane left at 11:15am so I woke up early to try to finalize everything before the trip. I take way too long to pack, and want EVERYthing done before I leave. Needless to say, I still had things to do, and I way overpacked -- it's amazing how much stuff you think you need for such a little being (Addie). :) But we made it to the airport around 10am, got Addie's "boarding verification pass" and made it through security quickly, taking advantage of the family line. Once at our gate we were greeted by fellow Boiseans who were also attending the convention (Nancy F., Cindy A., and Pua S.). I changed Addie's diaper prior to boarding (good thing because she had a bit of poopy in there) and we found seats together no problem (I snagged the window seat -- not difficult when you're flying with Loren). It was a full flight, so a guy sat next to Loren -- on the flight we found out he was from Seattle, attending community college to get his pre-requisites for medical school. I nursed Addie on take-off and she promptly fell asleep -- she awoke about halfway through, but was content just exploring her new surroundings. Our friend from Seattle said, "I can't believe what a good baby you have." :) We made it to Seattle on time and were happy to find Addie's carseat and stroller waiting for us. We wandered our way to the baggage claim, loaded up our overpacked belongings, and headed for our shuttle. I'm sure it was a sight to see me with an overstuffed purse/diaper bag pushing Addie in her stroller, and Loren with a backpack, our large luggage bag with our toiletry bag attached, and our smaller luggage bag, attempting to maneuver the populated airport. :) But we finally made it to our shuttle location and loaded up. We used Shuttle Express and they were great -- very personable and helpful. We headed out to our hotel . . . we were warned we could hit some traffic as the Seattle Seahawks game started in 45 minutes, but we didn't really have any problems. We made it to our hotel (Red Lion on 5th) and checked in (early check-in -- yay!). Loren and I were starving so we decided to hit the streets and see what we could find.
Our venture led us to the Pike Place Market where we explored the many shops and vendors, and finally settled at restaurant called The Islander. The food was good, but we had a bit of sticker shock with the prices -- which we came soon to find out was the norm for Seattle.
Addie's beanie kept sliding off (it's a little small) -- Loren thought she looked like an angry pope.
We spent some more time down by the market, and discovered the hills of Seattle. I have to mention that my favorite part of the market were the flowers. They were gorgeous! And cheap! I told Loren he's lucky we don't live there or he'd be expected to buy me flowers on a weekly basis. :) Silly me did not, however, get a picture of them. :(
We had to get a picture with the pretty horse. :)
After we made it back to the hotel, Loren decided to check out the pub downstairs and brought back some dinner. Later I decided to treat myself to a delicious, although expensive, indulgence from The Cheesecake Factory and then we called it a night.
Monday: My day started promptly at 8am with the AHIMA (American Health Information Management Association) convention's general session. We were welcomed by the mayor, heard a nervous president's address, and then enjoyed an amazing speaker, Chris Jordan (see previous blog). We also heard about personal genome services, which sound rather interesting -- you can purchase a kit to spit into (yes, spit) and mail in so they can run studies on your genome to see what diseases you are susceptible too. It's the new wave in personalized medicine. But I think she said it's $450 or so to try it out. I then headed back to the hotel (a 2-block trip that I became VERY familiar with) to feed Addie and hang out with her and Loren until lunch. We wandered down to the library, apparently a Seattle "must-see" -- it's a strange building, a bit awkward, but quite the sight. We didn't go in, just walked around the outside.
Once we got back to the hotel I then trekked back to the convention center for an Assembly on Education luncheon. It unfortunately turned out to be rather unimpressive -- the speaker was uneducated on his audience and the material was quite irrelevant. Oh well. After doing my 4-block roundtrip to feed Addie, I attended two more sessions in the afternoon -- one on MS-DRGs (part of inpatient reimbursement) and one on ICD-10 (the new coding system that is DESPERATELY needed). Both were slightly disappointing -- the MS-DRG one just wasn't applicable to the classroom and the ICD-10 one covered the same things we heard time and time again. While I was at the convention, Loren took Addie back down to the waterfront.
That evening I was exhausted, so just wanted to grab something to take back to the hotel to eat. I had seen a place called Bowl-o-Rama by the library that sounded good, so we headed that direction -- about 5 blocks away. The day had been overcast, but no rain yet. It waited until we were 5 blocks from our hotel (at Bowl-o-rama, which was closed) and started pouring. "Now this feels like Seattle!" :) We ran back to the hotel and were already drenched. While Addie and I dried off (well, actually just me, because Addie miraculously remained dry), Loren braved the rain to run over to the mall to get us some food. We ate and decided to call it a night.
Tuesday: With Seattle being an hour behind us, I found myself waking up early in the morning with nothing to do (trying to be quiet for Addie and Loren). So on Tuesday I decided to head to a complimentary breakfast at the convention. This one was for current HIM professionals who were interested in becoming faculty -- I was there to share my experiences as faculty. It turned out, though, that most everyone that showed up was faculty -- so it turned into a faculty networking breakfast instead (fine by me). :) I then headed over for the general session, where a physician was discussing the future of medicine and the challenges we're facing. It was interesting, although I missed the beginning and thus was a bit lost throughout. When that session ended I booked it back to the hotel for yet another feeding. Because I was already missing the next speaker I decided to skip that session and the three of us headed out for a late breakfast. We read that the breakfast at Lowell's in Pike Place was "legendary" so we tried them out -- they were definitely good, but I probably wouldn't use the word "legendary" myself. But tasty nonetheless. :) We wandered more around Pike Place and checked out the waterfront.
Our first family photo (and Addie's not looking)!
I wanted to get a picture with the whale, but Loren wasn't too keen on it as there was a bum sleeping in very close proximity. But we got our pic.
I decided to grab a piroshki from Piroshki Piroshki! just to try to out, as well as some chowder from Pike Place Chowder, on our way back. The chowder was delicious . . . I wasn't as impressed with the piroshki. The piroshki itself was good, but the chocolate hazelnut filling was very bitter. With my overly full belly I trekked back to the convention center to attend a session on RACs (they're a new Medicare regulation that audit facilities' Medicare claims) and mosy around the exhibition hall. The exhibition hall is where all the vendors set up and overload you with free pens, notepads, etc. while trying to get you to enter drawings for prizes, mainly so they can get your contact information. I'm not really into getting a bunch of junk and filling out my name on form after form, but my mission on this visit was to find reusable bags I could use at the grocery store. I was a little late -- it seems most were already given away, but I did get one (a cool one from Fujitsu that folds and zips closed). Loren and Addie went to the aquarium while I was gone.
I then made the all-too-familiar trip back to the hotel to feed Addie, and then back to the convention center to finish up the day's session. I finished with a session on E-health/telehealth, which was interesting, but I was a little lost as I arrived late, and finally one on Health Information Exchange (HIE -- it's about developing systems to electronically exchange data between facilities -- crazy to me that we're just now thinking about this). For dinner that night we decided we absolutely had to have sushi. There was a place right by the convention center -- a decently long wait, but delicious! I think you just can't go wrong with a caterpillar roll . . . (dreaming of sushi as I type this) . . . For the convention that night they were having a President's Celebration at the Experience the Music Project (by the space needle).
I originally hadn't planned on going since extra tickets (for Loren) were $90, but I was able to get a free one from a friend, so we thought we'd check it out. Well, it was much more of a party than expected. We rode the Monorail (overpriced) and found the party was hoppin'! Not really a place for a baby. I'm talking live band, people drinking . . . not conducive to a baby in a stroller. But I told Linda we'd stop by, so we weaved the stroller through the crowd and found an enclosed area where the music wasn't so loud. We stayed for one drink and then rode the ever-so-exciting Monorail back.
Here's Addie on the Monorail after her crazy night of partying.
We put the baby to bed and called it a night.
Wednesday: I started the morning with another convention breakfast -- a networking breakfast for professionals interested in research. It was a little hard to network, however, when nobody sat at the table I was at. Oh well, free breakfast (continental). Then I went to another session on HIE, which was good, but ill-prepared (speakers went over time and still didn't cover half their slides). The next round of sessions included about 3 different ones that I wanted to go to, but decided on one about recruitment of quality HIM professionals. I thought it would be a good session to report back to the students -- what are these facilities looking for in "quality" HIM professionals? Well the session ended up being much more about the recruitment piece . . . not what I wanted, and had I not decided to sit front and center, I would have ducked out and went to another session. This actually ended up being my final session because after the trek back to feed Addie, I just didn't have it in me to go back. Instead, we packed up our room and checked out. Now, this wasn't perfect planning on my part, but when I originally set this up I wanted to make sure I could attend the complete convention, which didn't end until 3:30pm that afternoon. Our flight left at 7:50pm, so the shuttle was picking us up at 5pm. Well, check-out was at noon, which I was able to delay 1 hour, but that left us 4 hours of killing time outside the hotel. We decided to head back down to the Market and waterfront to kill the afternoon until we could catch our shuttle back to the airport. We originally planned to ride a ferry, but had a hard time finding the ferry schedule, so we just wandered. We did see a huge cruise ship up close, which was pretty neat. Other than that we just wandered around.
Here is the pig at the front of the market. One of those popular attractions that is hard to get a pic with when every kid going by has to jump on it.
We had stopped to get the camera out to take a picture with this statue, when a man and his mother came and started taking pictures themselves. We didn't mind as we were still digging through our bags looking for the camera. It turns out the mother was from Italy, visiting her grandchildren. They were very sweet and insistent on taking a picture of the three of us.
We knocked out a couple hours and decided to head back towards the hotel. I was starving so we stopped at the mall and grabbed a bite. It was pretty windy that day and I just wanted a place we could get Addie warm. It was also time for her to eat by then, and I had been scoping out discrete places to nurse -- essentially finding none (I was amazed at the lack of parks in that part of Seattle -- the only ones we found were part of apartment complexes and were private). As we sat in the mall, exhausted from walking all day, I noticed a Motherhood Maternity store upstairs. Great, looks like a baby friendly place -- they kindly let me nurse Addie in their dressing room. After eating we mosied back to the hotel, still with about an hour to kill. And guess who decided to poop themselves . . . with no bathroom available because the only public restroom was in the bar downstairs and it was flooded. Normally I wouldn't mind changing it in the lobby, but there was a big group gathering and I didn't think they'd enjoy the smell of Addie's poopy diaper. We headed across the street to a little mall to check their public restrooms -- which were all the way upstairs on the 3rd floor. No changing station. Fine, we just changed her on the nice benches outside the bathroom (nobody was around). Thankfully it was a contained poop, so no clothes changing was required. We headed back to the lobby of our hotel and patiently awaited our shuttle. It came right on time, we packed up, and headed to the airport. Check-in was uneventful (thankfully) and we found ourselves with another long wait of over an hour (I wanted to get there early just in case -- I didn't know how the Seattle airport would compare to Boise). Addie hadn't eaten since the mall, so I attempted to feed her -- twice (again, in public, hiding in unpopulated areas of the airport) -- but she wouldn't have it. We watched the presidential debates and then boarded up. Addie fell asleep as we waited -- about 20 minutes -- to taxi (they were missing equipment because the previous flight had a medical emergency), but was up and ready for take-off. Loren and I worked on a crossword puzzle, as Addie tried to grab it and eat it at every opportunity. :) We picked up our bags in Boise and Phil (Loren's brother) picked us up. Addie and I got dropped off while Loren took Phil home (Phil had our car since we needed the carseat) and we got ready for bed. Ah, it was nice to be home.
Amazing Artist
http://www.chrisjordan.com/
I had the privilege of listening to this artist speak in Seattle on Monday and he is amazing! His art is about exposing the mass consumerism of America. In his "Running the Numbers" series he takes pictures of a representation of something -- for example, soda cans -- and uses Photoshop to create a graphic representation of a statistic -- he used the soda cans to recreate a Seurat painting that depicted the number of aluminum cans used in the US EVERY 30 SECONDS!!
Although his presentation was hard to watch (some of the numbers are just disgusting), I found myself motivated to reduce my consumerism and to help educate those around me.
*For those of you who want to check it out, I must warn you that some of his work is a bit graphic*
I had the privilege of listening to this artist speak in Seattle on Monday and he is amazing! His art is about exposing the mass consumerism of America. In his "Running the Numbers" series he takes pictures of a representation of something -- for example, soda cans -- and uses Photoshop to create a graphic representation of a statistic -- he used the soda cans to recreate a Seurat painting that depicted the number of aluminum cans used in the US EVERY 30 SECONDS!!
Although his presentation was hard to watch (some of the numbers are just disgusting), I found myself motivated to reduce my consumerism and to help educate those around me.
*For those of you who want to check it out, I must warn you that some of his work is a bit graphic*
Friday, October 17, 2008
First Blog
Well, technically this isn't my FIRST blog -- I have blogged on MySpace before. But it is my first blog for this new site. I'm hoping this will be a nice way to keep friends and family updated on the latest happenings of our lives and a place to, of course, share the many pictures of little miss Adimus. :) Here she is in the laundry basket -- I needed somewhere to set her while I grabbed something and she just fit perfect!
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