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December 17, 2003 by Jamie Burnside
Happy Wednesday! I hope that Christmas shopping is going well for all of you. Like I had written earlier, I haven't started yet. I intend to initiate the scramble once Christmas vacation starts at school. I hope that there will be good stuff left at the stores! According to the headline, this article is about watching "Seinfeld." Sitting at home tonight, I had the opportunity to watch four straight episodes of Seinfeld (as long as I could change channels at the right times.) Watching ...
December 16, 2003 by Jamie Burnside
Hello there, As you may have read in my last weblog entry, I have been trying to recover from a cold. It does seem that I have turned the corner, and am getting better rather than worse. Hooray for me! All I need is fluids, rest, and time to recover. I hope that I will get better by the time Christmas Vacation starts next week! -It is really hard to be sick on my own dime. I was afforded a little time to recover today. At 4:30 in the morning, my wife received a call from the school...
December 13, 2003 by Jamie Burnside
Hey there friends! I had a happy night chatting with my parents. It was good. Other than that, I don't have much to say. I am awfully happy that it is the weekend! Yay! Christmas Vacation is coming awfully soon! Hooray!
December 11, 2003 by Jamie Burnside
Hi there. Happy Thursday! Tomorrow is finally Friday. Yay! Before I know it, I will be enjoying Christmas vacation. I hope that it doesn't come too fast though. I still haven't started Christmas shopping yet. Like my headline says: it was a pretty ordinary day today. I went to work, came home, had leftovers for dinner, watched Smackdown! and ER, and basically enjoyed the evening with Kazuko, Kenny, and Kazuko's mom. Among the nicer things that happened today were that we got a nic...
December 8, 2003 by Jamie Burnside
Hello there. I hope that all of you are enjoying your Monday night! I was exhausted after I came home from work today. Once I got home, I cuddled up with the baby and slept for an hour-and-a-half. Now I feel a lot better. I have been pretty tired lately. I am thinking that there are a number of factors that are combining to make me tired. The first is that it is dark when I go to work in the morning, and it is almost dark when I come home. It is kind of like that "seasonal affective ...
December 7, 2003 by Jamie Burnside
Hello there friends! I hope that you're all haviong a happy weekend. I am. Today was Kazuko's birthday. We went to Saint Paul to have lunch at the Mirror of Korea restaurant. Kazuko ate Bi-Bim-Bop, I had Bul-go-gi (yakiniku,) and my mother-in-law had some sort of seafood soup. That was a nice lunch for all of us. Besides lunch, we did a little shopping. We went to the Korean grocery store to get a little food and to rent some Japanese videos. We went to Starbucks to show Kenny t...
December 2, 2003 by Jamie Burnside
Hi friends! I am here at home. I just enjoyed a nice dinner of pork chops that Kazuko cooked. She is pretty good at cooking yummy food for us. After dinner, we gave Kentaro a bath. He is all nice and clean now. We dress him up in pretty warm clothes all of the time so he tends to get sweaty, and he needs a bath. Now he will be alert for awhile until he gets sleepy again. (He is sitting in the living room with Grandma right now.) Other than those stories, I don't have much to write...
November 30, 2003 by Jamie Burnside
Hello there! Tonight I decided to make a nice dinner for Kazuko and her mom. I made hamburgers with a green salad, and butter-fried corn. They turned out to be really yummy!
November 30, 2003 by Jamie Burnside
Hello there! I have had a nice relaxing evening. I had a chance to take some pictures of Kenny, Mommy, and myself. Here is what our little friend looks like at the age of seventeen-days: The first picture is one of Kenny with wide-open eyes as he lays on the changing table. (Thanks for the table Isabel!)
November 28, 2003 by Jamie Burnside
Hello there. Happy after-Thanksgiving to all of you! We all went home pretty stuffed last night. It was hard to think about food until this morning came. Right after we woke up today, we brought Kenny to the doctor. He and his mother were due for their two-week check-up. Mom and baby are doing very well! It is nice to hear good news. After the appointment, we went back home to pick up grandma (Kazuko's mom,) and we had lunch at Perkins, and then we went shopping at Cub Foods. At P...
November 27, 2003 by Jamie Burnside
Hi all! Kazuko, Kenny, and I, my mother-in-law, and my parents just got home from grandma and grandpa's house for Thanksgiving dinner. We all came home very full! My plate was full of yummy food. We had: turkey, squash, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, wild rice, pickles, pumpkin pie, and pecan pie. It was all very yummy. The pickles that we ate at the dinner were very good. My grandmother had pickled them herself. I think that I will go to the supermarket to buy some jars, cucumb...
November 25, 2003 by Jamie Burnside
Hey there. I am in the middle of a long day here at the school. I have conferences all day. I am writing during the first lunch break. I can hardly wait for the day to be over because I will have a five-day Thanksgiving vacation. On Thanksgiving, we will be going to my grandmother's house. That will be Kenny's first trip out of the house. It should be exciting! Now my biggest problem for the rest of the day is: am I hungry enough to go to get lunch now, or should I wait for the din...
November 23, 2003 by Jamie Burnside
Hello there! I just got home from taking my father-in-law to the airport. It was so nice that he was able to come to see the baby. I was sad to see him go. He is a really interesting guy. I suppose that we'll meet again when we go to Japan next summer. Driving to and from the airport was really slow and dangerous today. Going there wasn't so bad actually, but the traffic got really bad on the return trip. About five miles from my house the roads got really slippery and i...
November 23, 2003 by Jamie Burnside
Hello there my friends! I hope that all of you are having a happy weekend. I just finished watching the day's sumo matches. Tomorrow's match between Tochiazuma and Asashoryuu will be awfully interesting. I am predicting here that Tochiazuma will win (even though I am a Asashoryuu fan.) Anyway, this is what I looked like watching sumo tonight. It was fun! Today I had an interesting day with my mother-in-law and my father-in-law. The first thing that we did was to drive to Sam's...
November 20, 2003 by Jamie Burnside
Last night I went to play a golf simulation game with my friend Andy and my father in-law. It was fun. We "played" nine holes on a course in Banff, and nine holes on a course in Hawaii. Of course the simulation isn't as good as real golf, but it is as good as one can get in November in Minnesota. Surprisingly I tend to get the same score playing simulated golf as I do playing real golf, so I suppose that the simulation has some sort of validity. Today is Thursday. After work I will go...