So there is the teeniest mention of Rotten Musicians in the Salt Lake Magazine. It's an actual magazine that you can buy a subscription for and that they sell on news stands. Pretty cool eh? See an online version here.
Friday, January 23, 2009
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Compean and Ramos
All I can say is finally. It has made me sick for so long that these poor guys got screwed over for doing their job. They acted out of self defense and to defend the rest of us in their country. There was so much crap withheld at there trial and so much shady dealing on the freaking government's part with this whole thing. There are SO many facts for why it was flat out wrong to throw those guys in prison. And it's kind of gross and obnoxious that Bush waited until the last moment to make things right but at least it's fixed kind of (commuting their sentences is not the same as the pardon they deserve, they still have 3 years of probation and fines) . I hope their families can recover from the terrible thing that has been done to them.
All I can say is finally. It has made me sick for so long that these poor guys got screwed over for doing their job. They acted out of self defense and to defend the rest of us in their country. There was so much crap withheld at there trial and so much shady dealing on the freaking government's part with this whole thing. There are SO many facts for why it was flat out wrong to throw those guys in prison. And it's kind of gross and obnoxious that Bush waited until the last moment to make things right but at least it's fixed kind of (commuting their sentences is not the same as the pardon they deserve, they still have 3 years of probation and fines) . I hope their families can recover from the terrible thing that has been done to them.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Needle Fun for Daniel
So you know how Daniel has been having fun times fainting with needles this year and needing an IV and ER trip to recover? Well he found out that he had to get a TB test and has been putting it off and being anxious about it. So out of the blue he decided to go this Wednesday. And as most of you know when you get a TB test you're supposed to return to the doctors to get it checked. Well today with a group of his friends he remembered out loud that he forgot to go back in to as he put it "get his results". Well the rest of us just stared at him and started laughing hysterically since apparently he didn't understand that the results must be read off of his arm and being that Monday is more than 48-72 hours technically they'd probably have to do the test again. His arm is fine and hopefully he can convince the doctor guy that he doesn't have TB but it was one of the funniest things when he realized that he would probably have to take the test again.
(I was going to add a picture of a needle but daniel squealed saying "ahhh get rid of it" yeah we'll see how TB test number 2 goes)
So you know how Daniel has been having fun times fainting with needles this year and needing an IV and ER trip to recover? Well he found out that he had to get a TB test and has been putting it off and being anxious about it. So out of the blue he decided to go this Wednesday. And as most of you know when you get a TB test you're supposed to return to the doctors to get it checked. Well today with a group of his friends he remembered out loud that he forgot to go back in to as he put it "get his results". Well the rest of us just stared at him and started laughing hysterically since apparently he didn't understand that the results must be read off of his arm and being that Monday is more than 48-72 hours technically they'd probably have to do the test again. His arm is fine and hopefully he can convince the doctor guy that he doesn't have TB but it was one of the funniest things when he realized that he would probably have to take the test again.
(I was going to add a picture of a needle but daniel squealed saying "ahhh get rid of it" yeah we'll see how TB test number 2 goes)
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
What 28 Looks Like
...well not this exactly but today in yoga I just sat there thinking this used to not be so hard. My king of dancer was wobbly with my foot no where near my head. Sitting in pigeon with my foot bent up reaching over my head towards, but no where near, my toes stretched way more than I thought it should. And there's my split. I once was able to stick my foot on the couch and get that split to the floor, now I'm in the gym yoga class hovering over the ground. Oh well.
And speaking of yoga I'm so sick of Angie reading the Tao Te Ching # 44 at the end of class, and now that I look it up to whine about it I realize that she hasn't been reading the last paragraph (and sometimes not even the second paragraph)...even more weird. Anyways this is what's she's been reading to us
Fame or integrity: which is more important?
Money or happiness: which is more valuable?
Success of failure: which is more destructive?
If you look to others for fulfillment,
you will never truly be fulfilled.
If your happiness depends on money,
you will never be happy with yourself.
I don't know I just think the first part is totally retarded. You don't have to chose between fame and integrity, or money or happiness, or success or failure. And really doesn't it really matter what the content of the success or failure is that makes it destructive or not? okay end rant.
...well not this exactly but today in yoga I just sat there thinking this used to not be so hard. My king of dancer was wobbly with my foot no where near my head. Sitting in pigeon with my foot bent up reaching over my head towards, but no where near, my toes stretched way more than I thought it should. And there's my split. I once was able to stick my foot on the couch and get that split to the floor, now I'm in the gym yoga class hovering over the ground. Oh well.
And speaking of yoga I'm so sick of Angie reading the Tao Te Ching # 44 at the end of class, and now that I look it up to whine about it I realize that she hasn't been reading the last paragraph (and sometimes not even the second paragraph)...even more weird. Anyways this is what's she's been reading to us
Fame or integrity: which is more important?
Money or happiness: which is more valuable?
Success of failure: which is more destructive?
If you look to others for fulfillment,
you will never truly be fulfilled.
If your happiness depends on money,
you will never be happy with yourself.
I don't know I just think the first part is totally retarded. You don't have to chose between fame and integrity, or money or happiness, or success or failure. And really doesn't it really matter what the content of the success or failure is that makes it destructive or not? okay end rant.
Friday, January 02, 2009
We been up to some relaxing, cinnamon roll making, lots of delicious food eating and harry potter playing which by the way is one of the worst games on earth. But my love for all things harry potter keeps us going in spite of daniel's constant yelling from legitimately frustration control issues and mindlessly silly tasks in the game. We also did some fun dancing with Mark and Kelli on New Years eve. Oh and recipes for my families traditional Christmas wontons and my new favorite roasted garlic and potato bread are up on the raegun blog.
We'll be playing with Hot Parents one of my new favorite acts in Utah. Here's a clip from their silly show from last time we played with them. Note their perfectly Utah County lyrics of "look at these mother effing arms these mother effing arms wide open" and "stop don't tough me there this is my no no square" -my type of humor. Come by the show if you're around. And yes that is a shadow screen that they invite concert goers to dance behind. Come to the show for them or for Rotten Musicians between the two (and I hear purr bats are too bad either) you'll have fun craziness overload.
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Saturday, December 20, 2008
A Year in Review
So, I've got a pile of Christmas cards to mail off (late I know) that promise a year in review slide show here. I've been (mostly) good about keeping the blog up so if you haven't been keeping up and want to know more of what's been going on just scroll down.
Let's see what are the big things that have happened?
1-2. Daniel cut 2 new albums this year. One for Rotten Musicians and one for his Fisch Loops project. Yes that is my Ba Gee (lovely aunt that passed away when I was little) on the cover of the new Fisch Loops. Daniel and I both really loved that picture of her.
3-4. We took a trip to Vegas, stopping at thrift stores looking for records for daniel, and quilt stores looking for fabric for me. See this blog post for more pictures of that trip.
5-6. I became obsessed with making bread from scratch. I've got a tupperware full of dough in the fridge even now.
7-9. We made a music video. Let me teach you a new word "larp" live action role player. Well, they are basically people that dress up like characters and act out dungeons and dragons games with swords and "spells" and shields and all that. If you haven't watched the music video, either click here or on the right hand column to see it.
10-13.5. My RaeGun store has really taken off, so much so that I've purposely limited the number of orders I take so I can work on the dissertation properly. I still love making the baby clothes for sure but I know I need to get this dissertation done. I do update that blog A LOT if you want to check that and I've sold a bunch of stuff through one of the local boutiques and a good number of them around the country and even in Singapore. It was really hard to find the balance between this and school but I think I did it.
14-19. This year Daniel added me and Kelli (Mark's girlfriend) to the Rotten Musician show. It's loads of fun for all of us. In addition to the normal music we've got sesame street style spell-a-longs, dancing and even bubbles. Practices have been in Josh's garage -good times.
20. I entered a dress (commissioned by a friend) into the state fair and won second place. I'm excited to really work hard on something for next year.
21. Daniel has had some fun times with needles this year, putting us in the ER twice and giving him a fun 24 hour EEG (yeah that freaked out the boys at the pizza place). He's fine but for some reason his body just can't recover on it's own after he faints. The doctor's say this kind of thing just happens so hopefully laying down and hydrating before doing needle stuff will prevent any more ER visits in the next year. Although I believe Daniel intends to do everything to avoid needles, I'm pretty sure he's supposed to be getting a TB test.
22. I've had the absolute best class (teaching-wise) ever. They were all so pleasant, smart, eager and well prepared. I think I'm spoiled for any future students, they were that great.
23-24. Daniel has gotten some press in the local papers. Here's the link for the web version of one, another, another, a podcast interview, a write up about Julio Child project (my personal fav) those are all of them that I can remember.
25-28. We watched Tanya's Tiraya grow into the spitting image of her mother -sadly through Tanya's blog and not in person.
29-32. We welcomed a new baby niece Lanna (another from Tanya) into the family. We're hoping she and the rest of them will be living close by very very soon.
33-35. We'll that's about all we've got for you. Hope you all had a good year too.
So, I've got a pile of Christmas cards to mail off (late I know) that promise a year in review slide show here. I've been (mostly) good about keeping the blog up so if you haven't been keeping up and want to know more of what's been going on just scroll down.
Let's see what are the big things that have happened?
1-2. Daniel cut 2 new albums this year. One for Rotten Musicians and one for his Fisch Loops project. Yes that is my Ba Gee (lovely aunt that passed away when I was little) on the cover of the new Fisch Loops. Daniel and I both really loved that picture of her.
3-4. We took a trip to Vegas, stopping at thrift stores looking for records for daniel, and quilt stores looking for fabric for me. See this blog post for more pictures of that trip.
5-6. I became obsessed with making bread from scratch. I've got a tupperware full of dough in the fridge even now.
7-9. We made a music video. Let me teach you a new word "larp" live action role player. Well, they are basically people that dress up like characters and act out dungeons and dragons games with swords and "spells" and shields and all that. If you haven't watched the music video, either click here or on the right hand column to see it.
10-13.5. My RaeGun store has really taken off, so much so that I've purposely limited the number of orders I take so I can work on the dissertation properly. I still love making the baby clothes for sure but I know I need to get this dissertation done. I do update that blog A LOT if you want to check that and I've sold a bunch of stuff through one of the local boutiques and a good number of them around the country and even in Singapore. It was really hard to find the balance between this and school but I think I did it.
14-19. This year Daniel added me and Kelli (Mark's girlfriend) to the Rotten Musician show. It's loads of fun for all of us. In addition to the normal music we've got sesame street style spell-a-longs, dancing and even bubbles. Practices have been in Josh's garage -good times.
20. I entered a dress (commissioned by a friend) into the state fair and won second place. I'm excited to really work hard on something for next year.
21. Daniel has had some fun times with needles this year, putting us in the ER twice and giving him a fun 24 hour EEG (yeah that freaked out the boys at the pizza place). He's fine but for some reason his body just can't recover on it's own after he faints. The doctor's say this kind of thing just happens so hopefully laying down and hydrating before doing needle stuff will prevent any more ER visits in the next year. Although I believe Daniel intends to do everything to avoid needles, I'm pretty sure he's supposed to be getting a TB test.
22. I've had the absolute best class (teaching-wise) ever. They were all so pleasant, smart, eager and well prepared. I think I'm spoiled for any future students, they were that great.
23-24. Daniel has gotten some press in the local papers. Here's the link for the web version of one, another, another, a podcast interview, a write up about Julio Child project (my personal fav) those are all of them that I can remember.
25-28. We watched Tanya's Tiraya grow into the spitting image of her mother -sadly through Tanya's blog and not in person.
29-32. We welcomed a new baby niece Lanna (another from Tanya) into the family. We're hoping she and the rest of them will be living close by very very soon.
33-35. We'll that's about all we've got for you. Hope you all had a good year too.
Thursday, November 06, 2008
Sunday, November 02, 2008
Some Sights from the Week
At the very last minute I came up with Halloween costumes, I'd been bugged for a month trying to come up with something good. I'm quite happy with the outcome. I was an underage Chinese gymnast. Daniel was Bela Karolyi, I had like 8 puffy colorful hair clips and I sewed a Chinese flag to the sleeve. I made grips but of course I left those at home.
We've been super busy (Tuesday's are my only unscheduled weeknight) but here are a few shots of what has gone on this week.
Here's a little movie from Elektra's birthday party. She seemed quite happy with the Fancy Nancy dress and boa we gave her and totally ecstatic over Mark's gift. She actually held it to her chest and said "this is the best day of my life" too bad I didn't get that on film but this is cute too. Oh I also added a little button to my flickr to the right I put a few more pictures of Halloween and I add pics there regularly.
At the very last minute I came up with Halloween costumes, I'd been bugged for a month trying to come up with something good. I'm quite happy with the outcome. I was an underage Chinese gymnast. Daniel was Bela Karolyi, I had like 8 puffy colorful hair clips and I sewed a Chinese flag to the sleeve. I made grips but of course I left those at home.
We've been super busy (Tuesday's are my only unscheduled weeknight) but here are a few shots of what has gone on this week.
Here's a little movie from Elektra's birthday party. She seemed quite happy with the Fancy Nancy dress and boa we gave her and totally ecstatic over Mark's gift. She actually held it to her chest and said "this is the best day of my life" too bad I didn't get that on film but this is cute too. Oh I also added a little button to my flickr to the right I put a few more pictures of Halloween and I add pics there regularly.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Goings On Lately
1. I've been making loads of costumes, including many fancy nancy dresses and costumes for baby lanna (french fries) and tira (pebbles).
2. Daniel's been doing a lot of meetings with different press folks for Rotten Musicians. Listen to an interview here and be sure to pick up this week's City Weekly if you're in SLC.
3. I gave a good presentation at school that hopefully will be turned into a chapter of my dissertation.
4. I've scaled down the store so I can focus on school more.
5. We've had loads of practice for Friday's show at Kilby Court. Please come if you're in town.
6. We had the first snow of the year.
7. I feel like we've been so so busy, but I guess it's just the normal busy of life, work and sewing, not much to report
8. We watched WALLE which we thoroughly enjoyed, we do have a few questions though: what was the dust storm and why didn't it happen when they returned (more of daniel's question), how did they make babies if they didn't move, how did the plant grow in the fridge without light or C02? yeah but we liked it none-the-less
1. I've been making loads of costumes, including many fancy nancy dresses and costumes for baby lanna (french fries) and tira (pebbles).
2. Daniel's been doing a lot of meetings with different press folks for Rotten Musicians. Listen to an interview here and be sure to pick up this week's City Weekly if you're in SLC.
3. I gave a good presentation at school that hopefully will be turned into a chapter of my dissertation.
4. I've scaled down the store so I can focus on school more.
5. We've had loads of practice for Friday's show at Kilby Court. Please come if you're in town.
6. We had the first snow of the year.
7. I feel like we've been so so busy, but I guess it's just the normal busy of life, work and sewing, not much to report
8. We watched WALLE which we thoroughly enjoyed, we do have a few questions though: what was the dust storm and why didn't it happen when they returned (more of daniel's question), how did they make babies if they didn't move, how did the plant grow in the fridge without light or C02? yeah but we liked it none-the-less
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Now Happy Birthday to My Papa
It's technically not your birthday here but I guess you know when your own birthday is. We can pretend that this bread is a cake and that you are actually in the same country as me and that we are having a little birthday party. Lots of birthdays in like a two week span, 3 down 1 to go. If any of you want to read about my bread and my day go here.
It's technically not your birthday here but I guess you know when your own birthday is. We can pretend that this bread is a cake and that you are actually in the same country as me and that we are having a little birthday party. Lots of birthdays in like a two week span, 3 down 1 to go. If any of you want to read about my bread and my day go here.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Happy Birthday (observed) to Daniel's Daddy and Uncle Donald
Although the day they popped into the world to surprise Grandma Mary with the news that she'd be taking home two babies instead of one was Friday, the festivities will be today. So Happy Birthday. I'll try to remember to take a birthday lunch picture to add to this post later.
Although the day they popped into the world to surprise Grandma Mary with the news that she'd be taking home two babies instead of one was Friday, the festivities will be today. So Happy Birthday. I'll try to remember to take a birthday lunch picture to add to this post later.
Monday, September 22, 2008
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Highlights from the Week
1. Thanks to Adam, everyone's favorite dungeon master, Daniel is fixing the toilet as I type, the kit was very inexpensive woohoo.
2. We learned about the dine-o-round earlier than usual and we've already hit one restaurant with plans to go to another.
3. Daniel found a new box of Harry Potter Jelly beans with some new gross flavors including skunk and pencil shavings.
4. I finished (finally) that dumb Plato research.
5. We locked ourselves out of the house and Daniel climbed in through the window and as a result kind of fixed the screen.
6. And the best of all: I found out that jerk from Best Buy got demoted and there is a new geek squad supervisor.
(note: Daniel is now yelling at the directions so we'll see if the toilet gets fixed after all.)
1. Thanks to Adam, everyone's favorite dungeon master, Daniel is fixing the toilet as I type, the kit was very inexpensive woohoo.
2. We learned about the dine-o-round earlier than usual and we've already hit one restaurant with plans to go to another.
3. Daniel found a new box of Harry Potter Jelly beans with some new gross flavors including skunk and pencil shavings.
4. I finished (finally) that dumb Plato research.
5. We locked ourselves out of the house and Daniel climbed in through the window and as a result kind of fixed the screen.
6. And the best of all: I found out that jerk from Best Buy got demoted and there is a new geek squad supervisor.
(note: Daniel is now yelling at the directions so we'll see if the toilet gets fixed after all.)
Thursday, September 18, 2008
It just happened.
We got sucked into Hole in the Wall.
It's so ridiculous regularly, but today I almost choked on a cookie it was so funny and then almost spit up/snorted up milk, all the while as Daniel kept on saying "he's mounting her...he's an adult...they are rolling around on the floor." (They had little people you know midgets on today and one hugged the female host -in her extremely teeny skirt- and wrapped his legs around her body. Her face was utter shock.) We just realized she's wearing knee pads just for them.
We got sucked into Hole in the Wall.
It's so ridiculous regularly, but today I almost choked on a cookie it was so funny and then almost spit up/snorted up milk, all the while as Daniel kept on saying "he's mounting her...he's an adult...they are rolling around on the floor." (They had little people you know midgets on today and one hugged the female host -in her extremely teeny skirt- and wrapped his legs around her body. Her face was utter shock.) We just realized she's wearing knee pads just for them.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Saturday, September 06, 2008
Getting Ready For The Green Desert
After a little pizza at Brewviews and Mark's little Geek podcast we decided to work on signs.
I think they turned out very nice. This part of the show is going to be really fun. 
Here are some pictures. Click here to watch a funny movie I like to call "Don't Film me While I'm Dancing Like a Sissy" that I snuck while we were painting the signs. The festival show is on September 19th kinda far but I think they're planning on playing some more shows (or any shows)sometime soon. So stay tuned and I'll let you know.
After a little pizza at Brewviews and Mark's little Geek podcast we decided to work on signs.
I think they turned out very nice. This part of the show is going to be really fun. 
Here are some pictures. Click here to watch a funny movie I like to call "Don't Film me While I'm Dancing Like a Sissy" that I snuck while we were painting the signs. The festival show is on September 19th kinda far but I think they're planning on playing some more shows (or any shows)sometime soon. So stay tuned and I'll let you know.
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
One of these things is not like the other
This was a real cart that was behind me in line at the market, I had to ask to take a picture.
Life is pretty tiresome. Despite efforts to be responsible Daniel and I continue to be hit by annoyances. We worked really hard to get out of debt and build an emergency fund and it is now depleated. It's just been one thing after another this Summer. Thankfully we don't have anything but the house on payments so we can get by (thanks to Dave Ramsey's influence) but it's just exhausting. It seriously is just bad luck. It's like every (very expensive) thing we've had has died (some more than once) and inspite of research and getting professionals to pipe in on purchases we still have drama. We had a pretty good attitude at the beginning of all of this (hey that's why we had an emergency fund right) but not it's just so frustrating and tiresome now. And really I think we're fine money-wise (we can pay for it all) it's just dealing with everything and knowing that we aren't saving for a bigger place.
I started up school (I really like my students this time around) and I've had a couple of large RaeGun orders so I am extremely tired and Daniel is trying to juggle writing music for other people, getting ready for a show and changes in job stuff.
And I know that in the grand scheme of things we're still really lucky and things are good but it's still tiring and I find myself feeling bad about feeling bad because other people are having to deal with way worse.
This was a real cart that was behind me in line at the market, I had to ask to take a picture.
Life is pretty tiresome. Despite efforts to be responsible Daniel and I continue to be hit by annoyances. We worked really hard to get out of debt and build an emergency fund and it is now depleated. It's just been one thing after another this Summer. Thankfully we don't have anything but the house on payments so we can get by (thanks to Dave Ramsey's influence) but it's just exhausting. It seriously is just bad luck. It's like every (very expensive) thing we've had has died (some more than once) and inspite of research and getting professionals to pipe in on purchases we still have drama. We had a pretty good attitude at the beginning of all of this (hey that's why we had an emergency fund right) but not it's just so frustrating and tiresome now. And really I think we're fine money-wise (we can pay for it all) it's just dealing with everything and knowing that we aren't saving for a bigger place.
I started up school (I really like my students this time around) and I've had a couple of large RaeGun orders so I am extremely tired and Daniel is trying to juggle writing music for other people, getting ready for a show and changes in job stuff.
And I know that in the grand scheme of things we're still really lucky and things are good but it's still tiring and I find myself feeling bad about feeling bad because other people are having to deal with way worse.
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