Big News in the Scoresby Family!!

For what you all have been waiting for...

Joe has hit the big 160 lbs!!!! He is now the buffest man in our house (although he is the only one!!)
He seriously almost hit the roof, when he weighed himself today. We celebrated by eating lunch of hot dogs and chips, so he might weigh 162 by now. And yes, he still weighs more than me and the baby, although barely!! :)










In this picture, he's carrying twins! :)
(Obviously, I'm just kidding on that one)




On a random note, whoever invented rice cookers was ingenious!! I will never burn rice again!! (Well ,that's the goal anyways.)

Mad Science Merit Badges

The Order of the the Science Scouts of Exemplary Repute and Above Average Physique has put together a list of merit badges for science. (Un?) Surprisingly, I've actually earned several of them. Namely, those pertaining to fire and electricity. Various members of the family qualify for several others, including some involving genetic modifications and others that require animal UI gloves.

Don't tell me they aren't real, either.

My badges:

• The “talking science” badge: Required for all members. Assumes the recipient conducts himself/herself in such a manner as to talk science whenever he/she gets the chance. Not easily fazed by looks of disinterest from friends or the act of “zoning out” by well intentioned loved ones.
• The “MacGyver” badge: In which the recipient has demonstrated that his/her science communciation prowess was handy in simplifying a potentially challenging scenario. For example, was able to escape from unjustified prison term, with the clever use of a paper clip and WD-40. You know, that kind of thing.
• The “arts and crafts” badge: Because you can’t have a bunch of badges without an arts and crafts badge. This one assumes the recipient has all manner of “craftiness” with a sciencegeek twist
• The “my experience inadvertantly makes me competent in fixing household appliances” badge: Not necessarily a good thing.
• The “I left the respectable sciences to pursue humanistic studies of the sciences” badge" In which the recipient is now probably having a lot more fun than he/she did before.
• The “has frozen stuff just to see what happens” badge (LEVEL I): In which the recipient has frozen something in the freezer for the sake of scientific curiosity.
• The “experienced with electrical shock” badge (LEVEL I): In which the recipient has had experience with the electrical shocking of an organism.
• The “experienced with electrical shock” badge (LEVEL II): In which the recipient has had experience with the electrical shocking of a human.
• The “experienced with electrical shock” badge (LEVEL III): In which the recipient has had experience with the electrical shocking of himself/herself.
• The “totally digs highly exothermic reactions” badge: Might be best to keep an eye on such recipients.
• The “I’m into telescopes astro” badge (LEVEL I): In which the recipient has used a telescope to view celestial objects.
• The “I’ve set fire to stuff” badge (LEVEL I): In which the recipient has set fire to stuff, all in the name of general scientific curiosity.
• The “I’ve set fire to stuff” badge (LEVEL II): In which the recipient has set fire to stuff, while fully aware of all combustion principles at play.

Dog Warz!!

Abby (the black dog): You think I'm going to let you have this duck all to yourself! Not on your life!!
Cocoa (the other dog): Wanna make a bet! I can eat you for dinner. Grrrrrr......










The battle becomes sore after intense fighting.

Abby: Ahh, my teeth are starting to hurt. Dang the shepherd part of Cocoa!!

Cocoa:Mmmfmfh -my mouth's full. Man, Abby's a wuss. Good thing I'm not part Collie!!












Mmm, stuffed bird guts in the morning! Smells like victory.

(P.S. The white cotton stuffing in the guts!!)











Man, that fight wiped me out. Nap time!!

Baby Pics

In case you can't tell, the head is the circle to the left, the other big circle is the stomach, and the squiggly lines are the legs and arms. So, we had an ultrasound/sonogram on Wednesday. The baby is now officially too big to see with a vaginal ultrasound (it was dancing when we did the ultrasound), and had to do a sonagram (where it decides to lay low in a hammock). It was pretty cool. It's head and stomach are huge. It's definitely an alien baby!! :) I'm not sure how it got the big stomach on crackers and gatorade, but whatever works. We also got to hear the heartbeat. It was amazing!! It was beating at 170 beats per minute. Man, I keep looking at the pics and it definitely looks like an alien.

I had a good day on Saturday and even managed to keep everything down. It was awesome. Today, I keep getting spurts of really bad nausea but it seems to go away after a couple of hours. Hopefully, it will get better. Below is a pic of my prego tummy. Its hard to see but there's a little bump right above my hands- that's my stomach. I'm huge! :)

Random Thoughts

So, I've decided that being pregnant affects at least 75% of your brain cells, maybe more. I really can be the youngest person discovered to have Allheimers or as I used to call it"old timers." It takes me at least 2-3 trips to figure out what I was originally trying to do. But at least eventually it gets done. I also find that I have a hard time concentrating at work, hence the article.

The morning sickness definitely is getting better. I am very thankful for the miracle pill. It seems to help keep things down, even if I still get nauseous. Now I'm pretty much nauseous in the mornings and starting around 4. I'm told its supposed to get better so we shall see.

It's really weird to think I'm almost out of the first trimester. I've almost gained all the weight back I lost so that's good. No worries, I only lost about 7 lbs. I'm starting to show-or at least I have a little tummy anyways. My clothes still fit normally, but not for long! :)

So I think Cocoa was having anxiety issues being in the new apartment, even though its just around the corner. All last week, when I would get home from work, I would have to hold her for like 15 minutes. Her look was, 'Oh, thank goodness your home! I don't know where I am!" It was pretty cute. She was very needy, but is getting better. She seems to be getting used to things. Who would have thought the dog would have such a hard time with the move!

Everything else is same old same old. Life's great in the fast lane!!

Moving Pains

Yes, it hurts to move. It hurts to move all your stuff from one apartment to another, and it hurts even more to move yourself (with or without your stuff) after you've dinged you knee on a corner while you're moving from one apartment to another.

This move's highlights were:

1. Lots of labor. My home teacher, the Young Men, and Young Women all helped, in addition to their leaders and the usual supects (Jeremy, Craig, Dave, Dan, their spouses, and everyone I missed.)
2. Lots of boxes and bags. I was able to use some once-used moving boxes originally from our big faculty shuffle over the summer at work, along with paper boxes (the kind reams come in) and 20 bankers boxes. I have about 10 bankers boxes of just books. I also have about 10 bags of different sizes with all my camping and sports gear in it.
3. The shortest (distance) U-Haul rental ever. when we checked the truck (19.99) back in, we had driven 4 miles ($1/mile), used 1.5 gallons of gas ($2.51/gal), and paid taxes, for about 28 dollars. Best idea ever, except for:
4. The Best Idea Ever: My workbench was built on our deck, so I didn't even think about whether it would fit through the doors. It didn't. If I had cut the plywood in a perfectly straight line exactly as the plan called for, it probably would have, but I cut it a little wobbly and gave it an extra 1/4 inch (give or take) all around it. We couldn't just pick it up and lift it out because we were on the third floor. What to do? I did what any crazy climber-type would do. I got some retired climbing rope, paid out enough to reach the ground on one end, tied a knot around one end of the table, tied another around the other end, and we lowered it, with one guy on the ground pulling it away from the building and everyone else on top, making sure it didn't fall. It was great, and took all of 30 second to do. When we got to the new apartment, we just reversed the process.
5. Cleaning: Our vacuum wins the award for most durable and effective vacuum cleaner I've ever seen. If I was asked to give a testimonial for it, I'd say something like this: It cost us an arm and a leg, but man, it works. It picked up dog hair, more dog hair, nails, bits of wood, screws, dirt, lint, yet more dog hair, dirt, and assorted plastic and metal bits. I like it.
6. Time: It took me, personally, probably 15 hours to do this move, but Tracy did almost all of the packing, so she suffered more.

Cocoa is still getting used to the new place; she doesn't like it yet. We hope after we get all our stuff unpacked she'll feel more at home, but we may set up her kennel and keep her in it until she's comfortable.

Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad!

Today is the 29th Anniversary of my parent's wedding. I'm not sure if Mom will post anything on her blog or not, but either way, pay it a visit at wisconsinscoresbys.blogspot.com. You can also find it, along with all the other family blogs at scoresbyscribble.blogspot.com. If Mom doesn't say anything, feel free to post your congratulations here. She'll see them. I'll make sure.

Anyway, Mom, Dad, Congratulations.

I can draw a map

I think it looks good, too:

















I made this for my Geography 110 class using Adobe Illustrator. There's a few problems, like the fact that my meridians don't all line up at the North Pole, and they aren't perfectly accurate, but the size of the lines covers most of it.

I hate being sick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Someone once said that using multiple exclamation marks in a row is a sign of insanity. Good.

Monday night, Tracy came down with the flu, or maybe it was a cold. Meh. Either way, she had it for three days, then I got it just in time to miss work Friday and the camping trip I had planned with several other couples we know. I was feeling good enough on Satuday to go to the COPE course, participate some in the COPE Discovery Day activities, and get a sunburn.

On the plus side, someone must have told the BYU football team that winning would have made me feel better, because they put on a terrific show against Arizona, and beat them handily. I felt better (until this morning)

Also, I passed another Microsoft Training test, so now I'm just one test away from my MSCA on Windows Server 2003. Unfortunately, the only test left is the hardest one.

At school, my rock climbing class got canceled. Apparently, GMU thinks that 4 students aren't enough to hold a class. I think it's the perfect number for a rock climbing class. My geogrpahy class is going well, but I bought the wrong textbook from Amazon. The class is using the 4th edition of the textbook. I got the 1st. Oops.