UGH

We have an auction at G's school every year. As 1/2 of the room parent of her class, I am partly responsible for gathering one game from every family in her class, which will then be put in a basket with all the other games and then it will be sold at the auction. Most classrooms collect the stuff in a box or plastic bin. I had yet another one of my brilliant idea (rolls eyes) and I decided to glue game boards and game pieces to a box. I thought it would be cool and different, and I THOUGHT it would be fun. Between finding the pieces at various Goodwills, and glueing everything on, this stinkin' thing took me at least 40 hours to make. I'm not kidding. It turned out stupid, and it's a little over the top, and I'm embarassed to bring it to school tomorrow.

Below are some pictures. It took two bottles of Elmers Glue, and 3 bottles of Mod Podge. It's so heavy that I decided it needed to be on wheels. A special thank you to Lise for screwing the wheels on the boards for me! Now if you'll excuse me, I have a bit more Mod Podge to put on.

 

Front 

 

Side 

 

The back. 

 

Side 

 

The inside.

Note: The glue around the dominoes is still wet. Once it dries, it will be clear. 

Crazy cat ladies

So I used to always think that crazy cat ladies have lots of cats because they are crazy. I've recently realized, with the help of my 4 cats, that crazy cat ladies start out as normal people. For various reasons, they end up with a minimum of 5 cats, and it's the cats that make them crazy. I still only have my four cats, but I'm right on the edge of becoming a crazy cat lady. One more, and that's it for me.

Hi Connor!

Hi Connor! This is Gillian. I have my own blog. It is horsegirl08.blogspot.com. Please go there and check it out!

  

  

 
 

 
 

I just remembered something else that I really like about the iBOT. I was taller than Gillian! She passed me in height a year or so ago.

 


Up on two wheels! It actually can go even higher, but I don't have a picture of that. I was going along, with him walking beside me, and instead of looking up to him, I was looking straight at him. Not that anyone other than another wheeler would understand why that was so cool, but trust me, it was awesome. 

 


This was one of the things I was disappointed in. I had to lean this far back to go from 4 wheels to 2. I didn't feel like I was going to fall, but it was just kinda odd. 

 


Here I am going up a curb. It was the first time and so he was doing the controls. After this one time though, I was able to do it completely on my own. Pretty darn cool. Sure beats cracking my head open when I fall off the curb in a regular chair. 

Darn it! I tried to post pictures on me test driving the iBOT, but it didn't work. Grrrrr!

So anyway, on Tuesday I got to test drive the iBOT. The iBOT is a wheelchair that can go up and down stairs, through sand, and can raise the person so that they are eye level to a standing adult. I was able to take it up and down some stairs all by myself, and that was super cool. Maybe the coolest part though was when I was up balancing on two wheels instead of 4, and for the first time in my entire life, I was looking at a standing adult eye to eye. That was... bizarre. Bizarre in a good way. Bizarre in a great way.

Anyway, if I were given an iBOT, I would be thrilled. But, at $26,000, I am going to wait a bit. I was not impressed with how the chair looked. I thought it was ugly, as well as made out of cheap materials. For that much money, I expect them to use titanium, not plastic! And I want the design to be more sporty, or sleek, not so clunky.

My hope is that they will improve the looks of it over the next few years, and the price will go down as well. I don't want to buy a Ford now, and then 2 years later have a BMW available at a lower price, you know?

I'm highly impressed with what it does. I'm excited for what I'm hoping will come out in the near future.

I'll try to post the pictures again. I look stupid with a dumb hat I'm wearing, but I'm trying to grow out my bangs and at the awkward stage they are at right now, I had to cover them.

iBOT

 

Gillian lost her other tooth in her sleep last night. Will the tooth fairy come 3 times in one week? 

 


Gus blowing a raspberry. Picture taken by Gillian 

 


Gillian finally lost one of her two front teeth! It's been loose for about 6 months. The other one that looks crooked is just hanging there. She lost a bottom one two days ago that had been loose for about 8 months. The bottom tooth all of a sudden fell out while she was wiggling it with her tongue, and the top one fell out when she was eating chips. Gillian and Shannon have been sick all week, but are both starting to feel much better. Gillian thinks she will be losing her other front tooth soon. Shannon thinks the tooth fairy is going to be tired coming here night after night. ~Gillian and Shannon