Sorry for the lapse in posting. I am blogging from work today! Yes, I am working on a Saturday trying to get a handle on some very big projects. I am hoping that my ultra busyness in May will lead to a nice and mellow summer full of days off! We'll see! My day started out with this:
Isn't it gorgeous. I loved the bright purple and green colors in contrast (it looked even better in real life). This was a spinach smoothie for me and Greg (hence the pitcher instead of the blender cup) which included blueberries. I wanted a shot before the bright green spinach made it kind of brown. It actually became kind of eggplant colored but it was so pretty before. Still loving these and am having about 4 oz of spinach in mine each day. So cool!
We have been spending all our free time lately watching our new flat screen TV! It came almost 2 weeks early which was a huge surprise. We don't have cable so we were skeptical about how good TV would look on a big screen especially since it looked pretty bad on our little screen! Well Greg went out to Radio Shack and got us a new antenna that can receive digital signals over the airwaves. HOLY COW! The picture is amazing. Here is a before using the analog signal (totally grainy and sometimes warbly)
and an after shot using the digital signal.
And this is without cable or a roof antenna. Can I just say we couldn't read words on our TV before! And little did I know that there are extra channels! NBC for instance has NBC 1 which is the high def version of the regular channel plus 2 more channels. One that is all weather all the time (so handy!) and one that shows random other stuff. We are in heaven. I am sure everyone who gets digital high def says the same thing but we sit around saying stupid things like, "did you see that? Did you see that bead of sweat? I bet we wouldn't have seen that before!" or "whoa, look at Tina Fey's shiny hair! It never looked that shiny before!". Pretty pathetic. And my husband who is never into really "guy" things was supposed to go into work late on the day of delivery but ended up taking the entire day off so he could set-up and play around with the new TV. He went to Radio Shack twice to get special cables so that the DVDs would blow my mind too. So cute! We felt kind of guilty about spending money on a new TV when our old one still worked but it was 12 years old and only 19". We don't feel bad anymore!
It features our logo and and the guest's name like always but this year I cut out a little smaller arch and stuck it on top with foam tape for a little 3D appeal. 
I think they turned out really cute. Too bad the only creative play I get these days is for work!
The Brooklyn Bridge turned 125 years old last Thursday and there are summer long events to celebrate. In our almost 8 years in the city neither of us had ever walked across the Brooklyn bridge on the pedestrian walkway.
Well, it was pretty crowded probably because it was a holiday. 
The view was really nice but you are just a few feet above the cars which are pretty noisy but it was a nice way to spend the late afternoon in the setting sun.
How am I spending this beautifully sunny holiday weekend? Working of course. I was in the lab all day on Saturday putting the finishing touches on the project you see in the photo. My boss signed on almost a year and half ago to edit a book. That means that I got to edit a book. 31 authors contributed and at times it was like wrangling cats to get them all to keep to the schedule (which they never did since this book is a year over due!). Then it was up to me to do all the technical editing on the 500+ page manuscript. Saturday I finally had all the chapters and contracts in and edited and was ready to paginate and print the whole thing. The publisher is a British company so they required the whole thing be printed on A4 paper which I had to buy special for the project. I am really glad it is done and will be in the mail on Tuesday. Of course it will be back to haunt me as a proof needing to be indexed. I'm not sure how I will get out of that one!
Well I did it. The application just went in with 25 minutes to spare! Greg and I both probably have ulcers from that one. At 6:30pm tonight my mentor called me from her car to say that she thought the essay we had been working on all day was boring and that I should go with a genomes and genes angle. That was my original idea that I had abandoned because it wasn't coming together and now she wanted me to start over and incorporate it with only a few hours to work! Well i did and it turned out so much better than I expected. I didn't end up doing a scrapbook like I had wanted (no time) but I incorporated some cool illustrations to make it a little more interesting than a plain essay. My friend Suzan helped me come up with the illustration of DNA to use (above). So many people helped make this application process happen. Thanks to you all for your help and/or your prayers. I wish I could say I was done but I have one last application due on June 1st. This time I have learned my lesson and will get it done early! I am heading off to bed before midnight for the first time all week!
Isn't it gorgeous. I loved the bright purple and green colors in contrast (it looked even better in real life). This was a spinach smoothie for me and Greg (hence the pitcher instead of the blender cup) which included blueberries. I wanted a shot before the bright green spinach made it kind of brown. It actually became kind of eggplant colored but it was so pretty before. Still loving these and am having about 4 oz of spinach in mine each day. So cool!
and an after shot using the digital signal. 
And this is without cable or a roof antenna. Can I just say we couldn't read words on our TV before! And little did I know that there are extra channels! NBC for instance has NBC 1 which is the high def version of the regular channel plus 2 more channels. One that is all weather all the time (so handy!) and one that shows random other stuff. We are in heaven. I am sure everyone who gets digital high def says the same thing but we sit around saying stupid things like, "did you see that? Did you see that bead of sweat? I bet we wouldn't have seen that before!" or "whoa, look at Tina Fey's shiny hair! It never looked that shiny before!". Pretty pathetic. And my husband who is never into really "guy" things was supposed to go into work late on the day of delivery but ended up taking the entire day off so he could set-up and play around with the new TV. He went to Radio Shack twice to get special cables so that the DVDs would blow my mind too. So cute! We felt kind of guilty about spending money on a new TV when our old one still worked but it was 12 years old and only 19". We don't feel bad anymore!
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