Jennifer's Journal

Birthday

2008-10-07T11:53:49Z

It's my birthday and I'm celebrating by taking a class with Bronwen Weber!!! Yesterday, we did chocolate cakes and today a witch! This was my birthday present to myself. She is AWESOME and very funny and amusing! Off to class!

Interesting Article

2008-04-24T18:11:49Z

Since I'm having a boy, I found this article very interesting. I do eat breakfast and I love to eat!

High-Calorie Diet Linked to Boys

Here is a little bit of the article:
A woman's diet around the time of conception may influence the gender of her baby, research suggests. The study suggests a high-calorie diet at this time - and regular breakfasts - might increase the odds of a boy.

The researchers say the modern trend to opt for low calorie diets might explain why the proportion of boys is falling in developed countries. The study, by the Universities of Exeter and Oxford, appears in the Royal Society journal Biological Sciences.

The study focused on 740 first-time pregnant mothers in the UK, who were asked to provide records of their eating habits before and during the early stages of pregnancy.

Happy St. Patty's Day

2008-03-17T17:06:41Z

This is quite a fun YouTube Video from the Muppets!

Enjoy!

Muppet's Sing, "Oh Danny Boy"

Random Facts for Today

2007-10-30T15:47:39Z

Taco Bell is giving out one free Crunchy Seasoned Beef Taco to everybody in America today from 2pm-5pm. MLB Web site

Tonight on TV:
8pm: ABC : It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown- 40th Anniversary

DONE!!!!

2007-08-01T23:58:56Z

I'm all done with my MBA at Meredith!!! WOOHOO!!! Thank you all for your support during these past two years.

Time to celebrate!!! Yippee!!!

Summer class

2007-06-24T00:35:23Z

Today I started reading the first chapter of my Project Management book. The Prof wrote saying we should have read chapters 1 and 2 by Monday's class. First chapter was not very exciting, and was about general things about PM. Class starts Monday and is twice a week for the next 6 weeks.

School

2007-04-07T13:19:58Z

Waking up at 7 am because you can't sleep any more on a Saturday morning is yucky. The first thing on my mind has been homework. So since about 7:30 I have been working on my paper. Almost half way through at this point! Yippee.

Well back to the grind! Then off to a school group meeting at noon. Boy, I have an exciting life.

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Cool Pic

2007-02-06T16:15:51Z

Very cool image

Comet Between Fireworks and Lightning
Credit & Copyright: Antti Kemppainen
Explanation: Sometimes the sky itself is the best show in town. On January 26, people from Perth, Australia gathered on a local beach to watch a sky light up with delights near and far. Nearby, fireworks exploded as part of Australia Day celebrations. On the far right, lightning from a thunderstorm flashed in the distance. Near the image center, though, seen through clouds, was the most unusual sight of all: Comet McNaught. The photogenic comet was so bright that it even remained visible though the din of Earthly flashes. Comet McNaught continues to move out from the Sun and dim, but should remain visible in southern skies with binoculars through the end of this month. The above image is actually a three photograph panorama digitally processed to reduce red reflections from the exploding firework.

Cuyahoga Falls

2007-01-13T15:19:21Z

We left Morrisville about 1:30 pm yesterday and drove to Cuyahoga Falls, OH. We hit major traffic north of Winston so we detoured and got around the detour. However, this put us behind in our drive to Ohio.

We arrived in Cuyahoga Falls around midnight.

This morning we had breakfast over looking the falls. It is drizzling outside but we went down to take pics anyway. These will be posted soon. Here is an image of where we stayed, the restaurant juts out over the falls. This is where we ate.

Cake

2006-12-15T19:37:06Z

This is a cake for the son of my former boss. He is allergic to dairy so this is a vegan cake. The theme to the birthday party is magic. This is the fun cake I made for his b-day.

Girl Scouts and Cake

2006-12-03T01:03:37Z

So Friday night and Saturday night have been spent with two junior troops. My friend Janet from Jazzercise, leads two troops. She asked me this past summer if I could teach the girls how to decorate. No problem.

Friday, I taught 5 girls and their leader how to crumb coat, final coat, and pipe. We used cookie cutters for our design and they filled it in. The girls were very creative.

Saturday, I taught 11 girls. They had a blast learning. These girls were so creative and made up boarders and all sorts of things. Some even attemped at writing on the cakes. They were successful!

We had such a good time. On Saturday, I also got to teach a couple of songs to the girls as well! Yeah!

Thanksgiving

2006-11-23T15:04:18Z

Happy Thanksgiving! Have a wonderful day!

Cakes Done

2006-11-14T02:19:21Z

Here are the cakes that we did last week.

First one was Wendy's cousins cake (she turned 40).

This cake is for a baby shower. The theme was frog prince.

This cake is for Kathy's 60th birthday. She loves skiing.
However snowmen don't have legs so they snowboard.

Happy 33rd Birthday!!!

2006-11-03T14:20:57Z

Happy 33rd Birthday to jdorff

I love you!!! Have a wonderful day!!!

State Fair

2006-10-22T00:22:07Z

Yesterday after the DMV, dentalfriend and I went to the Fair. We had a wonderful time. jdorff has made a photo journal of our day

DMV

2006-10-22T00:15:28Z

Yesterday, dentalfriend took me to get my license renewed. Yes, I turned 30 on Oct 7th and didn't get my license renewed until the 20th. I have been driving very causiouly. I have been a bit worried that I would get something wrong on the traffic signs but I flew thru them. The first sign caught me off guard, Steep Incline for Trucks.

Anyway, I have a new license and I'm legal to drive again. :)

Bees

2006-10-16T03:23:33Z

I was asked to make a cake for a man who is a bee keeper.

Dead body?

2006-10-14T18:12:51Z

Yesterday, I entered the journey of discovery (the long loop to get to our parking lot at work) and noticed a woman lying in the pine straw up against some ordimental grasses. I was panicked by this woman's body that I quickly parked and ran inside to grab another employee. I found our new facilities person, Meg in her office and told her we needed to quickly get outside, that there was a body of a woman on our property. This really surprised and made her nervous.

As we were running toward the front door, I was trying to point the woman out. We ran outside, across the parking lot. The woman was not moving. As we approached her, Meg called out to her. The woman turned over and sat up. She told us, she was taking a nap. We asked were she was from, and she mentioned that she worked down at the 55/54 intersection. She still had her badge on from work. She mentioned that she just wanted to nap on our soft pine straw. We kindly told her this was not the place to be taking a nap. After a few moments she got up and got into her car.

Meg and I walked back to the building and watched to make sure she drove away.

She was not drunk or homeless. Just a small asian lady who wanted a nap. This was very scary and very weird. I'm not sure why she didn't just recline her seat in her car. Plus there are bugs, ticks and spiders in the pine straw.

Anyway, very strange. I'm glad she is ok.

Dancing

2006-10-14T02:06:02Z

I have two very different videos on dancing.
This first one is on treadmills.

The second is a new hip dance.

Fire and Explosions

2006-10-06T13:10:24Z

jdorff was suppose to have his haircut early this morning. However, with the chemical plant on fire and petroleum tanks exploding, most of Apex is evacuated, his appointment was cancelled. We are now watching to see if the winds change. We are located north of the fire. Hopefully they will be able to contain it in the next couple hours.

The rain is not helping much.

File Extension and Programming Language

2006-09-30T01:16:24Z

Which File Extension are You?

Which Programming Language are You?

Stress and Music

2006-09-17T01:36:49Z

Ok, its Saturday night and I'm at home and thinking bed time.

9 am I was wide awake and start studying. Interupted by my stomach, I made Jimmy and I pancakes. (These were the most perfect pancakes I've ever made.) Then back to studying. I finished reading 3 papers for Org. Behavior, and finished a chapter in Econ. Done most of the problems for Econ. Just have 3 more chapters for Org. Behavior, and a full chapter in Econ, and 50 pages in another book. Plus have a paper to write for Org. Behavior. This is the typical work load for this semester. So if you are wondering what I'm doing all weekend long, I'm most likely reading.

Tomorrow, Mom is taking me away from school work. YEAH!!!! We are going to the Pops Concert at Meymandi Hall and then going to McDonalds for dinner and then to the Lion King! I'm so excited!!! I feel like a little kid! I'm getting out of school stuff to go and watch musicals my favorite!

PS: Thank you moonfl0wer. I'm feeling a lot better.

Interesting Tests

2006-08-31T13:15:51Z

Do you want to find out your perception on race, gender, age ect.?

Take these Tests and find out your perception. It is very interesting.

Implicit Test
Click on Demonstration
Click on Go to Demonstration Tests
Click on I wish to proceed

These are the tests you can take:
Arab-Muslim ('Arab Muslim - Other People' IAT).
Sexuality ('Gay - Straight' IAT).
Race ('Black - White' IAT).
Weight ('Fat - Thin' IAT).
Asian American ('Asian - European American' IAT).
Age ('Young - Old' IAT).
Disability ('Disabled - Abled' IAT).
Skin-tone ('Light Skin - Dark Skin' IAT).
Presidents ('Presidential Popularity' IAT).
Gender - Science.
Weapons ('Weapons - Harmless Objects' IAT).
Religion ('Judaism - Other Religions' IAT).
Native American ('Native - White American' IAT).
Gender - Career. This IAT often reveals a relative link between family and females and between career and males.

Ant cake and School Bus cupcake cake

2006-08-29T15:46:24Z

I have been very busy with cakes recently. Here are the two most recent cakes that have been commissioned.

Ant/Kank cake

School Bus cupcake cake

New Bern

2006-08-21T01:57:03Z

This weekend we went to New Bern. It was quite a nice time. We stayed at a family friend's house. The weekend consisted of us (Mom, Jimmy and I) touring the town.

Friday, we drove to New Bern. Had dinner at The Chelsea. I had a very interesting dinner, The Cheesecake dinner. It was angel hair pasta baked in cheese and then cut into a cake slice. Shrimp and scallops surrounded it. Yummy! Then we walked around the town and had a ice cream at a Maola ice cream shop.

Sat, we went to Tryon Palace. Mom and I went to see the blacksmith working. Boy it was hot in there. Then we walked around the stables and gardens. After this we got a full tour of the Palace. It was an interesting tour. The interesting piece of history was that the palace was reconstructed in 1950's. It burned down and then a road was put in. Then in the 1950's they wanted to reconstruct the palace. I think they were jealous of Williamsburg. After the tour, we took a trolly tour. We loved this! They talked about houses and how many of the houses were moved from original locations.

We had a treat from a Menonite bakery and an ice cream from the Maola ice cream shop again. Also, visited the home of Pepsi-Cola. Of course we had a Pepsi. After this we browse shops and headed back to the house. We were all feeling a bit ill since we missed lunch. So after a short nap we had pizza dinner.

For the evening we caught one of our favorite musicals on tv, My Fair Lady.

Sunday, we cleaned the house and did some laundry. Then we headed to Cape Lookout on the Outer Banks. We took a ferry out to the outer banks. We walked around the lighthouse and then Jimmy and I walked to the ocean side. We dipped our feet into the ocean then headed back.

We headed back to house finished packing and headed home. It is so nice to be clean and home.

Tryon Palace in New Bern

In front of Cape Lookout Lighthouse

Up close to the lighthouse

Wild horses!