I toured the Student center today. It is a new building at QF. While we were there, they were bringing up a giant monument in the middle of a court yard. a huge glass sculpture that was raised in front of my eyes… Quite the experience.It was a monumental erection… What were you thiking I was going to write about?
SB600
Jul 1
ok… now I know I have been alone for a long time, but this is the coolest thing ever. I just got Nikon’s Creative lighting system to work with a new flash I acquired… the Sb-600. My d-70 will control the flash and allow it to fire remotely from the camera. Now, I know that this doesn’t make much sence to a lot of you, but the opportunities this provides are remarkable… harsh lighting, soft lighting, creative shadows. I swear this is like a new toy! anyways… I am off to photograph “stuff”
Family is home safe…
Jun 21
Well. first off, we should make sure that everyone realizes home is canada. Jen, kara and the family took off on saturday morning at 1:50 am. the flight to london was uneventful and then heathrow… heathrow where all travelers go to die. Air Canada’s flight to canada was delayed 170 minutes. regardless, jen has to go get boarding passes etc. Jen and the troup were 6 minutes late to teh gate. Air canada told them that heathrow policy states that if you are late, you don’t get on…
the good news is they had 4 flights that day… too bad noon was full, but they may be able to go standby on the 3 pm or 7pm flight…
I think jen must have raised her voice cause a few minutes later they found 4 seats.
They were all met at pearson and there was a big reunion where the cousins were tearing around the terminal… lots of fun for weary travelers.
Happy Birthday to me!
Jun 12
I had one pulled over on me last night. Jen planned a big surprise party at a friends place. Martyn hosted a big party for all our Qatar friends. (both of them). No, there were kids, adults, teenagers, tons of people all gathered for a yummy lasagna, Cesar salad, Jen made a huge cake with the apple logo… It was a ton of fun.
One of the more questionable gifts I received was a bachelor survivor kit. Contents: bottle of Jergens firming hand lotion, box of tissues and a bite guard… seems a bit violent if you ask me! Jen splurged and got me the new Sony E-Reader. I think the only reason I was able to behave at the party and not sit in the corner and play with it was that it didn’t come fully charged(bad Sony)
Thanks to everyone who came. I had an absolute blast.
thanks jen!
19 Days!
Jun 1
Well we are on the official count down to Canada. The kis are SO excited to get back and see everyone… and of course, go fishing!!! Daniel and I had to have a talk about how much fishing stuff he can take in his suitcae. Little dude wants to bring everything back to show his “fishing buddies” (Klaus and Nancy). Thomas is looking forward to getting away from the heat.
We went to the school for Daniel’s birthday a couple of weeks ago. The class is learning about bugs, so Thomas had to wear his spider P.J’s. Of course they are made of polar fleece and long sleeves and pants. Its about 45 degrees out, so I’m walking at a pretty good pace to get him inside into the a/c. Little Thomas says to me “Why are we walking so fast?” I reply “Cause its hot and you have warm cloths on.” His response…. “Yah, cause when I get hot… I whine!!!!” Too true! It was a nice and stifling 48 degrees yesterday. Still waiting for the temp to reach 50!!!
Today is Thomas’ birthday, he’s now offically four years old. It makes me kind of sad thinking about it. The boys are growing up so quick, and I want them to stay little. I’m sure everyone in Canada will notice a big difference when we get home, having not seen them for 10 months.
Anyway, there is yet another cake waiting for me to ice it. Looking forward to seeing everyone back home… 19 days!!!!!
Dinner at the W
May 16
Last night a friend Karen organized a dinner for a few of us at the W… Nice hotel, pretty swank… We had a set menu, Chicken, Sashimi, lamb, hamour, snap peas… Pretty good… The best thing about it was the way it was all served. There were 11 of us in the party, and they just put all the food into serving dishes and put it on the table, so there was enough of each thing for each person to have one. there was a lot of conversation stimulated by everyone looking at the food at a whole, rather than individually admiring each others choices off the menu… Good food, good company, great conversation…
Thanks Karen, it was fun!
Picture Uploading
Apr 24
I have had some people ask me about new photos on facebook… Well, I am trying to keep everything organized on the schellenbergs.com and as such, umm… no.
BUT… all is not lost.
RSS feeds are good things. I have a picasaweb album that I update moderatly frequently. it has an rss feed. If you don’ know about this technology, set up a google account at http://reader.google.com . it’s a great reader that is accessible anywhere the internet is.
the feed for my photo albums is
http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/base/user/schellenberg.ryan/albumid/5317522623217403041?alt=rss&kind=photo&hl=en_US
Here’s hoping you can all have access to the images as I upload em…
Ryan, Ryan, Ryan…
Apr 23
So we went to a kids fair on the weekend. I was lucky enough to win a bottle of perfume from the raffle. When I won it Ryan told Thomas “Mom won bug spray”. I do have to admit that it is a little bit of a strong perfume for me….
I just found Thomas out on the front porch… spraying the bugs… with my $400 (cdn) “bug spray”.
Thanks Ryan!!!
Daniel and his adenoids
Apr 21
Don’t know how many of you follow along in the online photos, but daniel recently had to visit the hospital… He has had hearing loss for quite some time. He was down to about 20% remaining, and it was a constant battle of antibiotics, doctors visits not to mention a sick kid.
We got home from Greece on sunday Night. The flight deserves it’s own post, so… we’ll leave it at that. Daniel was into see the dr on Monday afternoon, and jen mentioned that she wanted him to have the surgery(tubes and adenoids) to alleviate some of the pain associated with not hearing. We had to see the doctor on tuesday to see when we might be able to schedule the surgery. Hopefully for early May.
We went to the dr on tuesday and jen asked if it could get moved up at all… Well, they had an opening the next day. We had to have blood drawn at 6:30 pm, and then there was to be no more food till surgery the next morning. No more food after the banana split we shared…
We got to the hospital at 7, prepared to spend the day. He went in for surgery at about 11:30. 11:45, the doctor comes out and congratulates us. The surgery went well, he was great and will be out in 2 minutes.. Mom gets ready to go in… then he says, Oh, here you go. and hands us his adenoids.(awkward)
It’s now been almost a week and the kids seems to have fully recovered. Today, the final chapter in this episode has completed… Daniel took his skull xray and adenoids into his class for show and tell. Poor ms Swain.