花儿朵朵开

一个暑假转眼就过去了，好快啊。

我们的小学礼拜三开学。明天下午要去看张榜公布的名单，看小朋友会跟哪个老师，哪些同学。这里的学校每年都打乱重分班，好处是，学校里同级的小朋友几乎都互相认识了；坏处是，每年一个新老师，而且家长完全没有选择权。

今年来了个新校长。去年的校长是中国人，可能是ABC，很不错，很年轻有活力。干了一年就走了，据说是拿到了cupertino学校更好的offer。今年新来的校长还没有见过，是个女同学，希望能好。

老大要上三年级了，老二也要上一年纪了。再有三年，老大都要小学毕业了。我的MBA估计还毕不了业 :cry

今年秋天俩人的课外班：

朵朵：
星期一：钢琴
星期二，四：芭蕾
礼拜六：画画。自己有两个小时的课，之外还要做两个小时的TA。一个下午就搭那儿了。

融融：
so far只有一个足球，礼拜二。

我在想给他们报个跳水，不知道俩人敢不敢。要先约个试课看看。如果跳水的话应该是礼拜五下午。

公公婆婆会呆到11月底，这期间不准备让他们去afterschool了。他们走了之后再说吧。

我自己的MBA课，下学期准备上礼拜六的课，目前报了一门，12 - 3pm。上完课正好去学校的gym游泳。反正小朋友们礼拜六下午几乎一个下午都是画画了。还在犹豫要不要上另外一门，早上8点半的，大概不会上了吧，太累了，何必呢。礼拜六成了我们全家的学习日了。

这个lady告诉你，女人原来可以活成任何creature she wants to be.
Jesus christ, she certainly will get on many people's nerves
And she won't give a sh!t.
她可真正当得起"provocative这个字。

Cindy Sherman

One of the most influential artists of our time, Cindy Sherman creates provocative photographs that explore wide-ranging issues of identity and representation. Working as her own model, she deftly transforms her appearance using wigs, costumes, makeup, prosthetics, and props to create intriguing tableaux and characters inspired by movies, TV, magazines, and art history. Source: http://www.sfmoma.org/exhib_events/exhibitions/448#ixzz23pZ6iXfa San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

给一个正常点的example吧


其实人家长这样，多sweet多知性啊


Another brilliant human being.

Forgive me for the English. But this might be the only way, and certainly the fastest way for me to write something here at least.

Today's Monday. A new week. Should be exciting.

Will move back to my own home today. Almost everything should be ready today. The new house is beautiful, well, except one thing: the engineering hardwood floor I bought by myself from Lumber Liquidator. "Red Oak" turns out truly deserves its name. So red, so "oak", with so many busy wood patterns. I didn't go to the house last Friday when they opened the box - well, I was having such a good time in SF - and here it is. I found it out on Saturday but it's been too late. What can I do. Nobody's fault. I cannot blame the lumber liquidator guy because "that's how natural wood looks: random patterns, random color, and it's actually good" - per my contractor. If I was there when they opened the box, I would have it returned and change it to Bamboo or something lighter and much more uniform. I guess it's good to keep it there anyway, for 1) remind me always not take anything for granted unless I see it with my own eyes; and 2) it may be indeed not so bad, as my contractor said, he likes it and the other worker also likes it, and all Americans like it - hopefully. It's just one small room anyway.

Other than that everything else is exactly what I planned, even better.

There'll be still some work left to do this week. Hope my contractor have no other job next so he can finish all the rest.

Bought some furnitures and home deco items over the weekend, in Lamps Plus, TJ Maxx Homegoods, and IKEA. Nice stuff. More to go, less money left. Don't know when I could get all I want, and by that time maybe I'll start another round of renovation. Man how I love to 折腾

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Yesterday when I was driving the kids to ice cream, we were talking about cars and their names. I saw a yellow Boxster passed by and I told them it's a boxster. Henry asked why its name is Boxster. I said they just decided to give it that name, and I don't really know why, but it's an expensive car.

Florence picked up and said: "yeah, it's expensive because it's so cool and so many people want it. You know, if more people want to buy, it'll become expensive. If not so many people want it, they'll reduce the price"

I couldn't believe my ears. Where did she get this theory about how market works. I never told her. She hit it right on the nail. I told her how smart she is and she felt complimented.

We parked on the parking lot in front of BR. Off the car, I told them every car has a name, for example, mom's car is Pacifica. Henry touched the letters and tried to spell Pacifica. He said it should be "Pa-ki-fi-ka" because it's a "c". Florence taught him, sometimes "c" spells "c" instead of "k". We moved on. Right next to us there was a red Jetta. I told them it's a Jetta. Then there is a green Jetta right next to it. How odd, two Jettas next to each other. And right next to the green Jetta was an Audi. So, here was how Florence passed by them:

She said: "Oh, this is a Jetta; oh, another Jetta; oh, and this one is an Olympics"

I couldn't help laughing even when we stepped into Buskin Robbins.

Kids are so great.