I'm trying for the life of me to get familiar with dusty plasmas. It's not so hard to understand; I'm just having a hard time focusing on the relevance of investigating them on the space station. It's part of a set of charts I have to have ready for an upcoming Flight Readiness Review. These FRR's happen with every launch of humans to the space station, and so my charts are supposed to give a status on some of the cool research that's happening up there. Dusty plasmas are cool, but I'm supposed to talk it in a way that others will see that point too...
In other news, today a film crew and reporter (Tom Zizka) from Houston Fox News 26 came out to film us at Kroger to do a piece on the Grocery Station. Before Thanksgiving I had submitted a press release to the local news stations to see if I could drum up interest in a story. Fox contacted us and in less than 24 hours they were filming! This will air tonight all over Houston at 5PM. When I get a link to it, I'll post it here. I think the filming went well...my #1 shopper, P, was filmed while shopping an order, and our friend L came with her daughter as the customer for pick-up. They even interviewed CP, the Kroger store manager, who was really nervous in front of the camera. In fact, Kroger has a strict policy in when they let cameras into their stores period. So in a pinch yesterday I had to sweet talk the Kroger PR lady to give the camera crew access in a quick turnaround. She voiced her concerns, which I was sure to cover in the interview, so I think all the right things were said. In all we spent about 1.5 hours with the crew. I got to ask Tom how the heck you get a reporter's voice like that, (to which is cameraman giggled), and Tom said he was born with it :) Destiny! He also shared a few reporter secrets about his job, which I thought was awesome and could come in handy with my NASA interviews. Incidentally, when I do NASA interviews, there's usually some NASA PAO rep involved for the sake of our own protection. So today I felt a little naked out there without a pro, but then again, it was also kinda freeing in that who the heck could I piss off (other than Kroger)? I'M THE BOSS! Anyway, I'm hoping it comes out well tonight!!! AND you'd think it would generate orders. I guess we'll see now, WON'T WE? On that front, business has been slow but steady with repeat customers. Slow but steady. Not enough to sustain our shoppers for real where pay is concerned, though. MORE MORE MORE ORDERS, PLEASE!!
As I was wrapping up with the film crew, Paul was meeting with the owners of a new building right around the corner from his current location. All the discussions he had with them today were right on target with what he wants, so who knows, this may be it! It's an empty space in a new building and they really want a medical facility there. So they're working with Paul and the terms seem nice so far. We'll see....
As I was pulling back into the parking lot for NASA today, I got a text from TJ in that she passed her first round of major certification-crazy-you-don't-ever-get-to-do-acupuncture-DAMMIT-if you-don't-pass-this exam. This was exhilarating for HER and ME! Woooo-hooo! TJ hates these exams but this go 'round she totally grabbed this Texas Bull by the horns and tackled it. No messing around. There is much celebration to be had!
In Anna news, she is beautiful, happy, and smart and sweet. We love her to pieces and enjoy spending time with her. She's at the age where you can reason with her with no freak-outs, you can answer her thoughtful questions and ask her tough ones, and just darn-well talk to her like the little person she is. A few weeks ago we brought her for an eye exam and they had to put eye drops into her eyes. While I had to hold her down for the Flu Mist a few months ago, the eye drops were a freakin' piece of cake! Who knew? She still gives us the spontaneous I LOVE YOUs and "you're the best mommy in the whole wide world" and all that stuff. She's also learning that if mommy says no, maybe she should try daddy! At this point, it's not a manipulative thing directly; it's more of heck, why not give it a shot? I know, I know, this is how it starts. We're aware.
Also today she told me that daddy said "shit" and he shouldn't because that's a bad word. She had asked me about this a few weeks ago: "Momma, is shit a bad word?" The word "shit" coming out of a 4 year old's mouth is well...freaking funny. Sorry.
She's also learning to lie, and when we bust her it breaks her heart she disappointed us. If we're too hard on her she melts into tears and apologies. Dang, this child is SO SENSITIVE! Love her tons.
I will be applying for the astronaut corps this go 'round, since the opportunity is open until sometime in Jan. I haven't really done much to get my application together yet, since I'm keeping pretty busy otherwise. But I'll get it in.
Teaching is officially done for the semester, woo-hoo! I get my Monday nights back until mid Jan. No Disney trip this year (lamenting, seriously lamenting), but we run the Houston Half marathon mid Jan. I ran my fastest 5k this weekend. Mile 1 was a 10:07 pace (HOLY COW!), Mile 2 was a 10:37 pace, and my overall for the 5k was a pace of 10:54 or something. That's a sub 11 minute pace, which I think is a record for me. And I felt GREAT! I could have gone faster.
Anyway, that's us in a nutshell. What a great day! At the same time the Grocery Station was being filmed, Paul was looking at a new building, and TJ was passing her major exam. LOVE THAT when that kind of energy aligns! Wonder what Anna's day was like? I bought her a whole bunch of neat stuff from a book fair I ran into today. She'll love that! Life is good!
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Wohooo! Good day. And I made the blog!!
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