tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4996852012-02-16T04:58:48.539-06:00Taneya's BlogWelcome to my blog. I'll use this space to post random things about my crafts and family life in general.Taneyanoreply@blogger.comBlogger1861100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-5794012620154173562009-01-01T17:36:00.005-06:002009-01-01T18:09:55.413-06:00Happy New Year!
And, w/ a new year comes a new site. My blog has now moved! See me on my new self-hosted blog on our family domain - www.taneya-kalonji.com. For any subscribers, please update your feed readers.
Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-47345843574999966282008-12-30T19:47:00.002-06:002008-12-30T19:50:33.599-06:00For the holidays we went to NC to visit my family. Had a great time, and the kids enjoyed their extended holiday. Click on the pic below to see the album of pics
From Dec 2008Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-54713524552890163652008-12-19T13:09:00.001-06:002008-12-19T13:10:30.077-06:00Photos from a holiday party this week at the home of our day care provider. It was fun and all the kids were so cute opening their presents and running around.
http://picasaweb.google.com/taneya/HolidayParty2008#slideshowTaneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-36836614743907231832008-12-18T14:58:00.003-06:002008-12-18T15:00:53.331-06:00Yesterda at the daycare provider's house, Kaleya and friends had fun making snowmen. Apparently, the red icing was a bad call. :-)
Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-80615683790994123302008-12-11T13:17:00.002-06:002008-12-11T13:17:51.732-06:00Awesome video from UNC where I went to library school!
Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-79882008059165377702008-12-05T12:15:00.002-06:002008-12-05T12:19:29.366-06:00my poor little blog :-) Facebook is all the rage for me now - it's easier to connect w/ my friends and family that way.
The advantage of having this blog though is that it is a wonderful archive of what has gone on in our family, so I come back here to help me remember things. Like, the time Kalonji and I disagreed on whether or not he had been with me to Rainforest Cafe and so I proved it by Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-76869367359344917492008-10-12T13:38:00.000-05:002008-10-12T13:39:28.684-05:00Have been way to busy to post lately, but life is good. School is good, work is good, family life is good. Kaleya's birthday is Thursday; I can hardly believe she will be 4!Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-82923707233492002532008-09-18T23:09:00.003-05:002008-09-18T23:14:45.175-05:00Librarian + Rap Music Aficianado
And what do you get? Me, loving the Search Engine Battle Raps! Three rounds:
Google vs. Yahoo
Google vs. MSN
MSN vs. Yahoo
Note: you may or may not agree with all the lyrics, I myself do not; but I love the concept!
Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-69787953304801005142008-09-06T21:51:00.001-05:002008-09-06T21:52:34.319-05:00The Color Purple was on tv tonight and Kalonji called me down for my absolute favorite part of the movie. I LOVE this scene. Makes me cry each time. :-)
Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-51669222656806699692008-09-03T22:21:00.002-05:002008-09-03T22:49:56.787-05:00While catching up on some blog reading tonight, I saw that Picasa has a new "faces" tagging feature for their web albums. I decided to give it a try and how cool! After scanning all the pictures I have in my Picasa Web Albums, it brings up collections of faces for me to tag. I present to you, the Many Faces of Kaleya. I am very impressed that it recognized her :-)
It even has clustered her Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-84530633654931340632008-08-29T10:59:00.003-05:002008-08-29T11:01:19.719-05:00Check out DH's post on Obama's speech last night. :-)Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-75501078286797141432008-08-10T00:17:00.004-05:002008-08-10T00:24:03.967-05:00
This is a snapshot of one of the bookshelves we have at home. Today, while Jihad was standing near it, I said to him, "Jihad, find the book that has your name as part of the title." Kaleya was standing right next to him and please tell me how she was able to point to the RIGHT book within 20 seconds?
It blew me and Kalonji away! We know she has some pattern recognition going on, but this Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-46068251626228698332008-08-08T18:28:00.002-05:002008-08-08T18:40:17.656-05:00It's been awhile again since my last post, but a lot has been going on!
First of all, we have been getting ready for school. Jihad, my stepson, is now living with us, and he starts 4th grade on Monday. We are all excited at the start of the new year and hope to get a lot from it.
On August 1st, I officially became a student again! I am now a National Library of Medicine-funded Informatics Taneyanoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-55507672351244638502008-07-19T15:12:00.003-05:002008-07-19T15:15:20.066-05:00Signing says "To Kaleya - You Rock! Taylor Parks"
This is what we received in the mail today for Kaleya! Kaleya has been all over Hairspray the past month and she loves Little Inez's part. So, Kalonji found her on MySpace and I requested an autographed picture for Kaleya and she sent it. How cool!Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-90820488530254365702008-07-09T00:20:00.000-05:002008-07-09T00:25:29.992-05:00
We gon' party like it's my birthday!!!!!! :-)
Yep - It's my birthday. July is full of birthdays for us - among both family and friends.
Jihad turned 10 on the 8thI have several co-workers whose birthdays fall within the first two weeks of JulyMy step-father and I share our birthday todayMy mommy's is later this monthTaneyanoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-90929654331799889802008-07-02T22:29:00.000-05:002008-07-02T23:05:01.483-05:00Family Fest - Day 3
Today we went to Fisk and had an incredible day. I have a new appreciation for the history of the institution and all that it symbolizes. We took the kids there so they start to understand the importance and significance of having an education.
We got to campus at 10am and were treated to a tour by a student with an intriguing background - W.J. (we'll call him), is a double Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-39297048130929387662008-06-30T21:54:00.000-05:002008-07-02T09:23:16.118-05:00Family Fest - Day 1 & 2
This week we have all the kids! (I have four stepsons in case you didn't know) for a week of family fun.
Yesterday we had a very leisurely morning - not really stirring until around 9 or so (well, them -- i myself did not get up until about 11!). We headed out to run a couple of errands (including vehicle registration, which if I had only known about the new online Taneyanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-57758376501770470542008-06-29T18:03:00.000-05:002008-06-29T18:08:09.838-05:00
The Davidson County Clerk has re-done their website! Why does this make me so happy??? I don'tknow, I just love the new look and I just learned that vehicle registrations can be done online - whippee!!!!
Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-53096061034521641392008-06-28T18:15:00.000-05:002008-06-28T18:20:32.564-05:00In my last post I put up a video that demonstrates an application that goes with Microsoft Outlook and helps manage the email -- it is called Xobni. I've been using it for about three days now and I love it.
Unfortunately, I'm not at work and I forgot to grab some screenshots, but I am finding it very helpful in keeping track of who has sent me what files and email. I highly recommend it.
Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-41213777822462941632008-06-25T11:28:00.000-05:002008-06-25T11:29:09.859-05:00Will this application be my saving grace for using MS Outlook at work? I just downloaded it and will be giving it a trial over the next few days. I'll report my opinion this weekend.
Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-13359216564262373022008-06-20T15:52:00.000-05:002008-06-20T15:58:09.325-05:00
Kalonji is a college graduate! He just received an email from his school, Liberty University, that his degree has been conferred. We are so excited! Actually, the degree is quite unexpected as he was told that he had one more course to take before he could graduate, but he certainly had the requisite number of credits to graduate.
Yeah!! This degree has been many years in the making for him. Taneyanoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-89154510802333724322008-06-18T01:16:00.000-05:002008-06-18T01:18:50.823-05:00I got three downloads - did you get yours?
Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-69128422545463465682008-06-07T13:35:00.000-05:002008-06-08T12:21:21.577-05:00
Look! A DigiScrap page! I haven't done a scrapbook page in quite a while now. I had a separate blog for it, but decided to let that one go as I don't do this often enough to justify a separate blog. I have plenty other blogs to keep me busy :-) This is Kaleya over Memorial Day Weekend with her BFF.
I was inspired to do a page after one of the genealogy blogs I read posted about scrapbooking + Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-56091510419009474402008-06-07T11:04:00.000-05:002008-06-07T11:06:08.063-05:00
We took Kaleya to go see Kung Fu Panda last night. It was very cute and I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would! Kaleya is so funny; she runs around making hand movements like they do in the movie. Kalonji and I have considered putting her in karate for the past year so we are hoping this movie gets her motivated. The only problem is that most places don't start kids until they are 5 Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-15611069544655971172008-06-01T21:29:00.000-05:002008-06-01T21:34:44.843-05:00Last month, Kelley apparently tagged me to post "6 unimportant things about yourself. " I somehow missed the tag, so let me go ahead and play now.
1. i don't like tomatoes, but i don't mind tomato-based stuff, like spaghetti sauce
2. i like to multi-task
3. during the week, i only sleep about 6 hours a night on average. On the weekends, I average 10+
4. i hate sundays b/c monday is the next Taneyanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-40783833139164797082008-05-30T22:27:00.000-05:002008-05-30T22:39:18.399-05:00You won't believe this -- I am about to actually post a stitching update! Okay, well, maybe I haven't done any stitching, but here is a stitching picture :-) All the work i've done this week for the Cross Stitch Magazine Database & Blog has made me really nostalgic for stitching. I have not stitched in a long time, but I am feeling like it may happen again soon. As part of my self-motivation, I Taneyanoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-20411085801900800672008-05-27T00:10:00.000-05:002008-05-27T10:07:59.696-05:00Could the weekend have been any better?
Happy Memorial Day to everyone out there. I am posting this just a tad bit late, but I had a great weekend and have to share. My weekend started with some house cleaning - I rearranged our bedroom and cleaned up the rest of the house as well. Managed to get the whole apartment except for the kitchen. Then, after resting, turned my attention towards doing Taneyanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-8925695984364883972008-05-19T20:43:00.000-05:002008-05-19T20:59:10.631-05:00Back From Chicago
This weekend was my professional organization's annual conference. This year it was in Chicago. It was a very quick trip, I flew in on Saturday and flew out Sunday evening, but though it was short, I was quite busy the whole time.
One thing I did get to do was meet more of my family. Sadly, my maternal grandmother's youngest and last brother died on Mother's Day. He lived Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-72621892091061355222008-05-13T23:20:00.000-05:002008-05-13T23:27:13.381-05:00What I Do At Work
Shameless plug for my library! Our medical center has a YouTube channel, and recently posted this video about our website, MyHealthAtVanderbilt (MHAV). MHAV allows you, if you are a patient at Vanderbilt, to log into the site and access parts of your medical record (such as lab test results, immunization data) and you can send messages to your physician, access your Taneyanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-22564099404323144182008-05-04T09:46:00.000-05:002008-05-05T10:44:13.834-05:00My sister is now a college graduate! Here she is with her two roommates (who are cousins to each other) after the ceremonies yesterday.
And, here I am with her and our aunt.
Kelli graduated with her B.A. in Anthropology and plans to take a year off and apply to Vanderbilt's Peabody College next year to pursue a Masters in Education. Meanwhile, she'll be moving to Nashville and be working Taneyanoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-9352074263901278822008-04-24T23:43:00.001-05:002008-04-24T23:43:51.559-05:00I am learning how to use Windows Movie Maker, so here is yet another movie clip. This is also from the birthday party this weekend.
Taneyanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-72547356021714796952008-04-21T12:10:00.000-05:002008-04-21T12:15:56.876-05:00
Yesterday was Kaleya's friend's birthday party at Chuckie Cheese - does it look like Kaleya enjoyed herself?Taneyanoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-29531134053727689392008-04-14T22:59:00.000-05:002008-04-14T23:02:12.601-05:00Daddy's on a Website!
My father sent me an email a few minutes ago - he's on the front page of his local bike shop's webpage! You can't tell it's him really unless you know him, but he is the guy in the front in the second picture in the second row. Go daddy!
Taneyanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-8909107864956781942008-04-12T23:16:00.000-05:002008-04-12T23:24:41.097-05:00Last night we had a visitor show up at our door. He is the cutest cat - Kalonji told me it was the same cat that he'd seen before a few weeks ago. However, this time, the cat did not have his collar on. So, being worried about the cat, we decided to take him in and see if we could find his owner.
I've posted about him on several online lost pet sites, and will put up some signs this week. I Taneyanoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-26289548363533977262008-04-05T04:56:00.000-05:002008-04-05T04:58:42.432-05:00On a couple of the genealogy blogs I read, there is a quiz going around testing for your accent. Here are my results. I pretty much agree - I don't have much of an accent. Although, I had a friend tell me once that the only thing that I say with a southern accent is "North Carolina." When you ask me where I'm from, I pronounce it "Care-lina" -- and seem to skip the second syllable completely. Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-55648663795206722542008-03-22T19:41:00.001-05:002008-03-22T23:36:13.730-05:00Happy Easter!
Today we took Kaleya to Kalonji's lodge for an Easter egg hunt and it was fun. There were at least 40 kids there I think and everyone seemed to rake up! Kaleya was looking forward to this for the past several days and she couldn't wait to wear her new dress.
For more pictures click here and advance forward, there are about 10 pictures.
Update -- I had come upstairs to write Taneyanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-64324927866783056732008-03-03T18:37:00.000-06:002008-03-03T18:42:23.787-06:00My poor little blog has suffered these past few weeks. I've been so wrapped up in other things that I have not posted here! A few weeks ago, Kalonji and I kept my nephews for a few days while my brother and his wife went on vacation to Cancun. That was a lot of fun - the boys are so adorable! They are 3 and 14 months and just too cute. Kalonji and I enjoyed them, I do think Kaleya was jealous of Taneyanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-89844819410285884962008-02-09T23:04:00.000-06:002008-02-09T23:06:24.409-06:00If you're looking for the Cross Stitch Magazine Database, don't worry! It will be back! I think the emails I usually receive to let me know the domain is about to expire may have gone to spam, so I did not realize the site was down until a few minutes ago. So, I have renewed it and just await for it to come back online. Thanks for bearing with me!
However, this is a good time to give an update Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-2189477419981391952008-02-03T22:19:00.000-06:002008-02-03T22:20:34.502-06:00Last night Kaleya had a friend over and we took them out for some fun! Took a little video clip as they were playing air hockey. Both girls had so much fun playing it!
Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-66538397549845444212008-02-02T14:17:00.000-06:002008-02-02T14:22:17.552-06:00The Mirabilia/LL/TIAG Gallery is no more.
After about two years overdue, I have finally taken down the Mirabilia/LL/TIAG Stitchers' Gallery. It was an online website I created about five years ago I think? that would let you see finished and works in progress of stitchers working on designs from Mirabilia and those of Marilyn Leavitt-Imblum. Since having Kaleya, the time I devoted to the Taneyanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-70412114141115983212008-01-25T00:55:00.000-06:002008-01-25T01:02:48.290-06:00Can you say "come up for air?" I am so exhausted right now! I am taking the GRE on Monday morning and I have been studying like a madwoman for it these past few days. It's absolutely insane!
Some of you who have read my blog for awhile may remember that just before I found out we were going to have Kaleya, I was making plans to pursue a PhD. That didn't work out :-).. But now, I have another Taneyanoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-30699819610971197752008-01-20T21:45:00.000-06:002008-01-20T21:48:44.775-06:00It's been a movie-watching weekend this weekend! Yesterday, my friend watched Kaleya for several hours while Kalonji and I went to the movies. We went to go see The Great Debaters and Cloverfield. I enjoyed both tremendously though they were very different from each other. Then, last night, I finally watched The Bourne Ultimatum. I have the other two movies and will be adding #3 to my collection Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-64151393917121662792008-01-15T22:57:00.000-06:002008-01-15T23:05:10.790-06:00I'm so proud of myself! I just created my first Java applications! Okay - the code was all of one line, but hey - gotta start somewhere right?
This comes about from the fact that I am taking a computer science course this semester that will teach us how to program in Java. The instructor of the course stresses however, that the course is about how to solve problems using computers. The Java Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-5734525845372886242008-01-06T17:00:00.000-06:002008-01-06T17:05:01.603-06:00Happy New Year!!
Kaleya & her brother Jihad on Christmas Day.
Over the holidays, we went to Indiana to visit the boys, then off to North Carolina to visit my family. We had a great trip and Kaleya really enjoyed herself playing with her brothers and her cousins.
Kalonji and I also celebrated our sixth wedding anniversary over the holidays, we were married on New Year's Eve. I wish I had Taneyanoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-17672726420895835182007-12-14T10:36:00.000-06:002007-12-14T10:37:57.662-06:00Two months later, I finally feel I have something noteworthy to blog about. Life around this household has been fairly mundane as of late. :-)
This past weekend we started potty training Kaleya and she is officially potty trained! Yesterday was her first day of no accidents and she went to the toilet six times throughout the day - each time prefacing it by saying "Mommy, I gotta potty."
LOVELYTaneyanoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-58196759309905014942007-10-29T09:53:00.000-05:002007-10-29T09:56:47.270-05:00
Happy Halloween! We started our Halloween early as you can see. Last night, at the suggestion of a couple that we know that operates a store in our area mall, we went to a nearby church to take Kaleya trunk-or-treating. The church has been doing this for several years and it was a lot of fun. They put on a short play, provided food, and then kids go from car to car to collect candy from peopleTaneyanoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-73565630350721044592007-10-23T20:10:00.000-05:002007-10-23T20:12:13.550-05:00October is full of birthdays around here! My grandmother's birthday was yesterday, today is my sister Kelli's birthday - HAPPY BIRTHDAY KELLI! Sunday was my nephew's birthday and tomorrow is Kalonji's step-sister's birthday. I'm going to be birthdayed out pretty soon!Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-2849067247469155002007-10-16T21:12:00.000-05:002007-10-16T21:17:31.463-05:00Happy Birthday Kaleya!!
Today is Kaleya's 3rd birthday (well, the day's almost over now...) and I'm sure she had fun! She had some cake and ice cream with her friends at the babysitter's and I was able to get a short video clip of her blowing out her candle and some play activity.
When she woke up this morning, I gave her one of her presents and she continued to get them throughout the day. Taneyanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-29948950380488934642007-10-12T23:22:00.000-05:002007-10-12T23:33:02.461-05:00
This map (which I found from an online exhibit from the National Library of Medicine), is of Nashville in 1873 that shows a Cholera outbreak. Why do I post this? Because today I had a history lesson on Cholera in Nashville.
Today, a group of coworkers and I went to Traveller's Rest, a plantation/museum here in town that was the home of Judge John Overton, a prominent figure in Nashville Taneyanoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-89764482216608645912007-10-06T22:57:00.000-05:002007-10-06T22:59:30.075-05:00A couple of days ago, I said that I would share some information about the revamping of the cross-stitch magazine database site. As promised, I have some info to share! Very brief though.
As part of the new site, I will have a blog just for it. For now, that blog is hosted on the wordpress site. When the site is near completion, it will be moved over, so don't get to attached to this URL. You Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-65795476071938436332007-10-04T00:13:00.000-05:002007-10-04T00:18:40.151-05:00Dear Google,
You may be losing me as an AVID customer! I have now converted two of my blogs over to Wordpress b/c it's just easier to use than blogger (i converted my genealogy blog and my digiscrap blog). I am also becoming quickly addicted to Zoho for their Word-like and Excel-like program. Come on Google - you can do better!
I have posted before about how much I am into Google, but I find Taneyanoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-18454122555973148832007-10-01T19:48:00.000-05:002007-10-01T19:49:11.903-05:00And another baby!
My cousin had her second child today - a girl named Jamison. I can't wait to see pictures, but now my mother and her brother have grandchildren with October birthdays!
I'll post a pic once she sends them my way.
In other news, we are all moved in now. Getting settled and putting everything away is another story.Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-78545506554213537602007-09-25T07:35:00.000-05:002007-09-25T17:08:31.163-05:00I finally signed up for Second Life yesterday. Though I've been reading about Second Life for more than a year now, I had not yet explored it. So, in order to learn more I signed up. It is very interesting.
My avatar it Taneya Kumaki and I'm still learning how to do things like change appearance, even move around properly. I still have not yet learned how to fly. I took a visit to some of the Taneyanoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-59090490062831074692007-09-24T00:27:00.000-05:002007-09-24T11:00:59.328-05:00Happy Birthday Miles!
Sept 24 is Miles' birthday. He turns 11. We went up to visit the boys this weekend to help celebrate his birthday. Kaleya understood that it was his birthday too. We had a taco party and had a fun time. I'm so tired now and cannot wait to go to bed. Kaleya's birthday is next and then Kalonji is done with his kids' birthdays for the year :-)
The cake was Spiderman and we Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-44680122893105800242007-09-18T15:43:00.001-05:002007-09-18T16:42:30.142-05:00We're mostly moved! today we had the cable and internet installed (wireless baby!) and I'm ecstatic! I could easily get distracted going online and not put things away like I need to :-)
While I was waiting for Comcast to arrive, I watched the beginning of a series of lectures on DVD that my supervisor ordered for us as professional development. The series is called Change & Motion: Calculus Taneyanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-17973759323058247922007-09-06T22:04:00.000-05:002007-09-06T22:05:13.719-05:00We're MOVING!
Haven't posted in a couple of weeks, but I'm still here. We are preparing to move to one of the suburbs of Nashville, so have been busy with that. We are so excited! I'll take some pictures this weekend and share more. We are going to go over and do some painting.Taneyanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-37124374082237739492007-08-15T12:45:00.000-05:002007-08-15T12:47:45.481-05:00Happy Birthday To You!
Happy Birthday To You!
Happy Birthday Dear Kalonji!
Happy Birthday To You!
Today is my husband's birthday and he's not even here so we can celebrate :-(
He's down in Florida playing soldier for a week (He's in the Air National Guard reserves). I love you Kalonji and Happy Birthday! See you when you get back home!Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-33922729759420727972007-08-14T12:27:00.000-05:002007-08-14T12:37:33.632-05:00"If Any Letter Defines Modern American Name Style, K Is It" - this is the headline of a blog post I just read about baby naming trends and how K is becoming extremely popular as the first letter of choice in baby names. Nancy writes a brief summary of a New York Times article by David Brooks on naming conventions. I found this interesting because we have a K phenomenon going on in our family. It Taneyanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-27240383030804798322007-08-01T19:11:00.001-05:002007-08-01T19:16:35.663-05:00Since my last post, we have come back from out of town and left and come back again :-)
The family reunion was wonderful! It was a lot of fun and I got to connect with more members of my stepmother's family. It also spawned more work to do on her family tree! I've been blogging about that over on my Genealogy Blog.
Then, this past weekend, we went to take three of the boys back home. We have Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-33026949604428440592007-08-01T19:11:00.000-05:002007-08-01T19:16:09.025-05:00Since my last post, we have come back from out of town and left and come back again :-)
The family reunion was wonderful! It was a lot of fun and I got to connect with more members of my stepmother's family. It also spawned more work to do on her family tree! I've been blogging about that over on my Genealogy Blog.
Then, this past weekend, we went to take three of the boys back home. We have Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-54040120830994639302007-07-20T22:53:00.000-05:002007-07-20T22:59:11.183-05:00Family Reunion Time!
It's family reunion weekend. We are in NC right now for my stepmother's family reunion. It started tonight with a meet and greet session and festivities continue tomorrow with breakfast, a picnic in the afternoon and a dinner/dance in the evening.
My father, Kelli & Kaleya
Taneyanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-54278052807380762772007-07-15T22:03:00.000-05:002007-07-15T22:08:58.420-05:00I am amassing quite the library for Kaleya; it started with my boss giving me many books that her daughter has outgrown, plus, my mother is now collecting books on her behalf and sending them to us. My instructions to my mother: pretty, colorful pictures.
Tonight, I read one of the books, The Eleventh Hour by Graeme Base. It was a great read! I saw one of Graeme's other books at the bookstore a Taneyanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-24226432602230551372007-07-14T16:57:00.001-05:002007-07-14T17:00:30.869-05:00Finally... my cross-stitch picture! I was able to stitch on her quite a bit last weekend. I think I may be able to get in several more hours tomorrow. This is the only project I've stitched on in like a year, but it had been about six months I think since I last touched it.
Taneyanoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-48088187336824357652007-07-10T12:09:00.000-05:002007-07-10T12:11:15.665-05:00Still no cross-stitch picture, but I'll try to get it up soon!
But, we have cake pictures! My birthday cake and Kaleya helping me cut it. Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes!
Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-56200702741844079832007-07-09T08:31:00.001-05:002007-07-09T08:35:34.942-05:00Birthday Season
July is birthday season around here. Yesterday was my stepson's 9th birthday. We went to Alabama to visit Kalonji's family and had a small celebration for him there. I learned of a new tradition too. Apparently, if you pin money on you with a safety pin, people know it's your birthday and give you money. Jihad collected over $50 yesterday! Too funny! Of course I have pictures up,Taneyanoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-54927061447991508482007-07-06T10:03:00.001-05:002007-07-06T10:06:00.081-05:00To my stitching buddies...
I am stitching again! I stitched some last night and plan to do more this weekend. Will upload a picture later.
But, I also have an idea. Since Kaleya was born, I've mulled over what to do about the gallery site and xsmagdb.com. I've left them up as is for those that still use them, but they are no longer scalable for me. So, I'm drumming up an idea for a way to Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-80501115071932344992007-07-02T20:49:00.000-05:002007-07-02T20:51:45.719-05:00We interrupt this blog for a geek post - I made my first mashup today! Well, maybe you can't call it a mashup proper, but I was able to make a Google Map using my own data. I'm doing an experiment for a lookup tool that I think would have most benefit if the subject of the map could be looked up geographically. I won't give all the boring details, but the site I used is MapBuilder.net. Cool. i Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-4273869945499137902007-06-30T21:38:00.000-05:002007-06-30T22:03:51.591-05:00When we were in Florida, we took studio pictures and my mother picked them up today. I'm still working on formatting some of the like I want, but I absolutely LOVE the picture of me with my brother and sister :-)
Me, Rashid & Kelli
More pics from the session are here.Taneyanoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-72864269670877099682007-06-29T21:29:00.001-05:002007-06-29T21:30:49.450-05:00LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD!
I went to the movies to see this tonite and it rocked! OMG, I so LOVE Bruce Willis - he has always reminded me of my father. Even my mother agreed :-) The movie was a lot of fun- a constant ride. Great special effects, funny lines, and I almost think I need to see it again.Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-83923085386418517982007-06-20T20:32:00.000-05:002007-06-20T20:37:00.637-05:00I'd hope to add even more pictures from our Florida vacation to my Picasa site by now, but I have some pictures that I'm not able to get off the camera yet, so they'll have to wait. The picture below was taken by my brother and I absolutely love it! I was picking Kaleya up to jump waves and I just kept picking her up higher and higher.
The rest of the pictures are here.
Over the past few Taneyanoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-91384210556951972472007-06-11T22:58:00.000-05:002007-06-11T22:58:47.008-05:00
Family vacations are exhausting! I don't have time to make this a long post, but here is a quick pic from our family trip. We spent the past four days in Florida visiting my mother. My brother and his family were also there and we had a grand time! More pictures will be coming of course :-)
Though Kaleya was very wary of the baby (and any attention I'd give him), she had moments where she Taneyanoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-32200897500007539282007-05-30T17:26:00.000-05:002007-05-30T17:27:20.430-05:00We have the boys! Over the weekend, we went to Indiana to pick up my stepsons. So, we'll have a full house for the next couple of months. I am looking forward to a great time as I love having all the kids together. Kaleya loves having her brothers too.Taneyanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-90990562001981508522007-05-26T10:46:00.000-05:002007-05-26T10:49:38.963-05:00Now that it is Memorial Day Weekend - it officially feels like summer to me! My trip to Philly was quite productive. I was able to see friends I hadn't seen in awhile and catch up on some of the things going on in the medical library world. Work this week went by in a blur we are so busy - but that is to be expected.
We are getting the boys this weekend and will have them for the summer. Chaos!Taneyanoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-64180799009986175162007-05-19T20:33:00.000-05:002007-05-19T20:37:52.180-05:00I'm in Philadelphia this weekend on a business trip. It is that time of year again - time for the annual conference of the Medical Library Association! This is an annual conference that I tend to attend fairly often. Kalonji's holding the fort down and taking care of Kaleya.
Yesterday upon arrival, we had lunch at Reading Terminal Market and while I don't usually eat Philly cheese steaks - when Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-43683459766785736692007-04-29T13:31:00.000-05:002007-04-29T13:37:21.517-05:00Spring is here!
I am so glad that it is finally beginning to feel like spring. I have been busy this weekend cleaning up the house and packing things to take to Goodwill. We have so much stuff!
As for all that is going on with us, all is well. I have a business trip to Philadelphia towards the end of May. Kalonji enrolled in a Brazilian Jujitsu school, so he should enjoy that. Kaleya continuesTaneyanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-79250824000364643292007-04-08T20:09:00.000-05:002007-04-08T20:14:09.238-05:00Happy Easter!
We went to my friend's house today for lunch and some easter egg hunting. Kaleya had a grand time and played to exhaustion. As you can see, she collected a lot of eggs!
As for the stitching - I still haven't finished it, but I'm close. So, I let the mother-to-be know that it would be getting to her soon.Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-7147314970204158042007-04-01T18:09:00.000-05:002007-04-01T18:12:23.302-05:00I just put away half of my winter clothes. I hope that I never have to wear them again. This is my declaration.
We joined the YMCA today and if I'm going to pay $90/month for a membership, I'd better get my act together and start exercising. Losing weight is of course a lifestyle change and since I've had Kaleya, I've never quite really regained my motivation to lose weight. I was doing so Taneyanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-2335892650060180762007-03-31T13:58:00.000-05:002007-03-31T14:08:14.258-05:00That nasty headache that I had kept me out of work on Monday, but it finally went away. A co-worker of mine asked me if perhaps it could be sinus problems, but I've never had sinus problems that I know of. However, I realized on Tuesday morning as I went to my car that the pollen count had gone way up (car was practically yellow), so perhaps that did have something to do with it. Who knows. In Taneyanoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-25665771278654346402007-03-26T00:46:00.000-05:002007-03-26T00:49:07.082-05:00We had such beautiful weather today that I got to put a summer dress on Kaleya!
She still continues to amaze me. We went and had breakfast and I ran a few errands, then I started to get a bad headache. Here I am online 12 hours later (after sleeping for 12 hours) and my headache is still not going away. So, I'm going back to bed.Taneyanoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-65200105643877022712007-03-17T09:53:00.000-05:002007-03-17T09:57:44.678-05:00I've been so busy posting on my other blogs, that yet again, I've neglected my main blog. In the past few weeks, life has been continuing as usual. I have gotten back into doing some digi-scrapping, so if you'd care to see some of the pages I've done recently, just look to the right and click on my Digital Scrapbooking Blog. I have also been active in my genealogy work too. And, in the past Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-69925713894063915742007-02-25T21:18:00.000-06:002008-02-02T14:23:05.015-06:00My Cross-Stitching
This post is for prosperity's sake. I am beginning the process of phasing out our main website in favor of my blog, so I needed to make a post about my stitching so that I could link to it from my blog sidebar. Some of you will know all this already, but perhaps this will be new for some.
I began stitching when I was 17, the summer after graduating high school. My mother Taneyanoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-32599751973173984242007-02-17T10:02:00.000-06:002007-02-17T10:03:36.730-06:00I am slowly starting to use LibraryThing. Does anyone else use it? Let me know and I'll look you up! We have so many books, that it would be cool to use the site more as it lets you see who has the same books you have and you can read reviews, etc. Here is my very short beginning of my book catalog.Taneyanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-48764451011779950892007-02-06T17:13:00.001-06:002007-02-06T17:16:06.352-06:00A co-worker of mine sent this video to me and I just had to post it. At work last week, I shared with my colleagues information about Web 2.0 and where the web is going these days. This is a good video to demonstrate some of the changes that are going on with the web. I am all about web 2.0 and for me personally - removing myself from dependency upon any specific computer for my work/personal Taneyanoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-63863649334918456102007-02-02T07:41:00.000-06:002007-02-02T07:43:52.661-06:00We've got snow!
It snowed here in Nashville last night. It's pretty to look at - though I hate when it's so cold. Unfortunately, this means that daycare is closed too, so it looks like half a day's work for me and then Kalonji will pick up the other half.
Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-34375212518899324532007-01-26T14:04:00.000-06:002007-01-26T14:07:00.611-06:00Would you like to know what I do at work? A paper we wrote was just published this month in our association journal. One of my projects at work is described. Essentially, Vanderbilt has an online website that patients can use to interact with their healthcare providers and within that site, our library provides links to consumer health information.
See - librarians don't just sit and read all Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-42514949219835317942007-01-17T17:55:00.000-06:002007-01-17T17:59:48.670-06:00It has been forever and a day since I last posted, but I'm still here. Have had a combination of relaxing/hectic few weeks - hectic during the week, but very relaxing on the weekends. New Year's weekend we went to go visit the boys. Had a great time and my sister was even with us, so she got to see them again too.
Hobby wise, I still continue to work some stitching in and am still working on Taneyanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-16852818050573993322006-12-26T19:42:00.000-06:002006-12-26T19:42:40.193-06:00
Would you believe that I have actually spent the last three days in a row STICHING! I got the urge on Saturday, ran to my LNS to get some thread colors I was lacking and Sat night started on my project again. It feels so good - I have got to do this on a more regular basis again :-) Anyway, the last time I posted about my stitching was back in September. I have not stitched since we moved Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-15356286683642032072006-12-24T17:55:00.000-06:002006-12-24T17:55:29.277-06:00
Merry Christmas Eve!
Hope everyone is enjoying the holidays. Just wanted to post this picture of Kaleya opening her first Christmas present this year - this was from a co-worker - it is a Dora book and it is great for naming things. You'll see Kaleya in this same outfit tomorrow though - gotta get as much out of it as I can!
Taneyanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-55096245324205207122006-12-18T17:27:00.000-06:002006-12-18T17:28:32.715-06:00Kalonji just made me SO happy! He sent me an email link to the preview for the next Die Hard - Live Free or Die Hard. I LOVE Bruce Willis and the Die Hard movies and I had no idea they were making a 4th. I know what I'll be doing on July 4th!Taneyanoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-89061580658445433672006-12-17T22:36:00.000-06:002006-12-17T22:38:33.941-06:00Kaleya used the potty!
This is officially the second time she's done it, but the first time was like MONTHS ago when we first bought her a potty seat. Well, she's been consistently asking to use the potty for weeks now but each time nothing happens. Tonite, she actually used it!
i know - the little things in life are what count right? :-)Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-28935879882481595772006-12-10T08:18:00.000-06:002006-12-10T08:26:53.604-06:00INTRODUCING -- KEON AJANI KOONCE
Say hello to my newest nephew, Keon. This is my brother's third son and he was born yesterday evening in Tampa, FL. He is so gorgeous! He was 7lbs, 12 oz and 19 inches long. Hi Keon! Your older brothers Alijzah and Izjan are going to have so much fun with you!!!!! A few more pictures here, but I will be adding more as soon as my mother downloads them off of Taneyanoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-17130124687154260092006-12-09T19:22:00.000-06:002006-12-09T19:30:58.310-06:00Well, as my cousin has pointed out to me, I am horribly behind in updating my blog. Why does it seem I can never find the time to do this! In any case, here is an update on what's been going on the past few weeks:
- We are in the holiday spirit big time! For the first time, I purchased a Christmas Tree! We have it up by our front window and it looks so nice all lit and decorated! Kalonji's momTaneyanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-90318133433867756572006-11-25T21:43:00.000-06:002006-11-25T21:47:19.389-06:00busy, busy, busy, busy -- describes me the past couple of weeks. My last post was made while I was in the DC area for a business trip. We had a great finish to the trip and I even managed to take a few pictures of the National Library Medicine (i worked there for a year, just out of library school, back from 99-00).
I returned home on Friday night the 17th, and got up the next morning to go to Taneyanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-33174429265331181132006-11-14T23:25:00.000-06:002006-11-14T23:29:30.431-06:00Tomorrow morning I'm headed to Baltimore. We are visiting a library there. I am hoping that I get a chance to go to HarborPlace tomorrow night afterwards. I need to buy some souvenirs.
The conference continues to go well. I had lunch at an Italian place up the street, Anna Maria's and had gnocchi. It was good, but I think I really wanted pasta alfredo and I really should have ordered that. Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-1163371307171295022006-11-12T16:35:00.000-06:002006-11-12T20:54:56.131-06:00Washington DC! I thoroughly enjoy this city! So far, the conference is going well, I've attended a few different sessions now and been to a workshop on XML. There are two more days left now, and I hope to continue to learn new things.
While here, I am also meeting up with friends/family. Yesterday afternoon after my class, I met Shalini and her family. Her son, Mehul is SO ADORABLE!!! We had a Taneyanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-1162868335032570582006-11-06T20:54:00.000-06:002006-11-12T20:54:55.990-06:00Kaleya just said the longest phrase she's ever said. I was just looking at a Pottery Barn catalog and said "oooh". She yells "Let me see it!" okay - too grown. She's been saying "I see it" but this was the first time she's said a complete real sentence like that!
Not much else is going on. I am going to DC Friday for a weeklong business trip. I am excited about the trip, but sure will miss Taneyanoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-1162534599276634592006-11-03T00:08:00.000-06:002006-11-12T20:54:55.887-06:00Okay, so i'm like 2 days late posting this, but Happy Halloween! We had a great time taking Kaleya to the mall to do her trick-or-treating. This was her first time doing it and I think she enjoyed it. We dressed her up as a fairy and she was too cute!
Other than the trick-or-treating, I've been super busy both at home and at work. At home, we got a new set of bookshelves that we found at a localTaneyanoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-1161554026897121652006-10-22T16:53:00.000-05:002006-11-12T20:54:55.775-06:00I love it. You all have to read Kalonji's post about The Backyardigans!
Taneyanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-1161035702107585442006-10-16T16:39:00.000-05:002006-11-12T20:54:55.653-06:00Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday dear Kaleya -- Happy Birthday to You!!!
Today is Kaleya's 2nd Birthday and we are all pooped out after this weekend's celebration. It was so much fun though and I no longer feel guilty that we did not do a celebration for her 1st year. I think she is more able to appreciate it now :-)
We had a great time! We went to Evansville so Taneyanoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499685.post-1160540764465851182006-10-10T23:16:00.000-05:002006-11-12T20:54:55.527-06:00We are back from the underground!!
Oh - I am so happy to be back up. Tonite, our phone is on and we got the DSL up and running. Without having internet access for the past week and a half, I have felt so unconnected from the world. However, that has been good for me in the new place b/c last week I had nothing else to do but unpack.
The move went well. Our belongings were picked up on the Taneyanoreply@blogger.com1