Hi there friends. I hope that you all had a good day! I am making a pit-stop here at home. After I finish writing this weblog, I am going to go out and run some errands. I will also run to pick up dinner. We're having a fancy dinner tonight... Burger King! On the way home from work today I stopped by the barber to get a haircut. I suppose that it turned out okay. That is a really hard part about moving. Since we moved to Monticello, I haven't had my hair cut by the same person twice...

Hello there friends. I hope that you're having a happy evening. After work I plowed my driveway. It is good and clear now. I hadn't plowed for a week because I didn't really have the inclination to run to the hardware store to buy a new belt for it. Now that I have, it cuts through the snow like nobody's business. In the evening, my wife and I had to take baby Kenny to the doctor. He has been coughing and wheezing for a couple of days. The doctor said that he has "bronchilitis," (n...

Hello there. I hope that you're having a nice weekend. It is Sunday evening now, what happened to the time? My wife, the baby, and I didn't do much this weekend. We stayed at home. It seems that baby Kenny is a little bit sick. He is congested, in a bad mood, and has a slight fever. We'll bring him in to the doctor tomorrow. I was able to take a few cute pictures of the little guy. He will turn three months-old this week. Kenny doesnft look to be in the best mood today. He ...

Hello there friends! I hope that all of you had a nice Tuesday. My day went by really quickly. The kids at school were good. They got a lot of work done, the seemed to have learned a few things, and I went home happy. They're such angels (in general...) Coming home, I took a few pictures with Kenny. After all of that, I did a quick shovel of my driveway. (I don't have to take a running start to get my car into and out of my driveway like I did this morning and this afternoon.) After...

10/28/2003 Hey there! I am Jamie Burnside. My wife Kazuko and I live in Monticello, Minnesota. I am an elementary school teacher in Minnesota. My wife and I have four hedgehogs, two hamsters, and two aquariums. We like our pets. We will have a son soon. We are going to name him "Kentaro." Kentaro will be born between the 12th and the 19th of November. We can hardly wait! Come back soon for more entries! Jamie

Well, Halloween is over. We had about fifteen kids come over to our house for Trick-or-Treating. The kids who did come were really lucky, because each one got a pretty big handful of candy. The biggest surprise of the evening was that one of our visitors was one of my first-graders from school. He seemed happy to see me, so I felt good about that. I wasn't expecting to see any of my students from school since I live about eighteen miles away from my work. I woke up this morning with ...

Hey there! Kazuko and I just got back from the movies and from grocery shopping. When we got back home, the temperature on our thermometer said 10 degrees (-12C.) It is cold outside!! The movie that we saw this evening was "The Matrix: Revolutions." I enjoyed the movie. It was a lot better than I had been expecting according to the reviews in this morning's paper. (I will have to check Roger Ebert's website to see what he had to say. He is the movie critic with whom I am most apt to ...

It is Friday again. I am surprised at how quickly this week passed. Now it is lunchtime, and I only have half-a-day left. Amazing! Kazuko and I have some plans for the weekend. Tomorrow we will be in Roseville for our friend Julie's baby shower. Her baby will be coming in January (maybe December...) That means that her baby will be pretty close in age to our baby. Maybe they'll have something in common when they are able to talk. Since we'll be in the Twin Cities area on Saturday, w...

Hey there friends! I hope that all of you are having a happy weekend. Today was an ordinary Saturday. I slept in, and then I woke up and thought about what to do next. I decided that I wanted to look back at some of my videotapes from the second season of "American Idol." (After watching the first few episodes of AI3, I seem to have "caught the bug" again.) On the second floor of our house we have three bedrooms. One room is for guests/ our summer bedroom, another room is being groome...

Hey there! Kazuko and I took a trip into The Twin Cities today. Per usual, we stopped at the Krispy Kreme on the way home. I had been looking forward to getting a cinnamon-covered apple jam-filled doughnut. Sadly, that particular doughnut wasn't in stock today. I hope that the apple cinnamon doughnut isn't just a seasonal thing. If it is, I will have to find an alternate favorite doughnut. So I ended up getting three originals. I ate one of them in the store. I will probably have th...

Happy Sunday Everybody! Kazuko and I had a busy day today. Our biggest accomplishment was putting up our Christmas lights. These are some lights that we put on a really tall pine tree in our yard. I wasn't able to reach the very top of the tree, so there aren't any lights up there. Eventually I think that I will have to get a ladder to finish the job. These are some icicle-type lights that I hung from the gutter. I think that these turned out really well. ****************...

Hi there friends! The biggest news is that the baby will be coming tomorrow! How exciting! The time really flies by between the time we found out about it and the time that he arrives. It has been really hard to concentrate on my work during these past two days. An impending delivery is a really big thing to be preoccupied with. I hope to be able to post a picture of the baby on this very weblog tomorrow evening or on Thursday. It depends on when I am around my computer next. I supp...

Hi there! Well, the big news is that Kentaro Burnside was born on November 12, 2003. He was born at 8:20 in the morning. He weighed 8 lbs 3 ounces (3750) grams, and he was 20.25 inches long (51.43 cm.) He is a big boy. Mother and baby are doing well. Kentaro is eating well, and seems to be a very calm and relaxed baby. Kazuko is as good as one can expect after having the cesarian section operation. I am really enjoying the time that I can spend with them in the hospital. The bad n...

Hi there friends. I hope that you're having a happy day. I enjoyed my day. I was able to go into work late this morning. We had a two-hour delay because of the weather. The even better news is that we will have the same delay tomorrow. It is nice to end the week with two grueling six-hour workdays. I wish that my high school would have closed down this often. Snowdays were an awesome break from life on a cold winter day. Now they're time to clear away snow and stay warm. Just bet...

Hello there. I hope that everyone's week is going well. I am coming off of the thrill of watching two consecutive days of "American Idol." Next week there will be three days in-a-row of episodes. I am really looking forward to watching Monday's episode where they show only the good auditions. Then after that, weeding occurs. It didn't seem that there were that many impressive singers in the Hawaii auditions. We'll have to see how they do in the later rounds. In other entertainment ev...