Yipee! It’s the Weekend. Here’s a little randomness from my week:
1. Yesterday was Pi Day — did you partake? I made Pecan and Cherry Almond pies for our little party at work. I found this pie crust idea on Pinterest (aka Cute Idea Mecca). My crust is wonky due to the almond glaze, but, oh well.
2. And, in keeping with the “day” theme, today was Match Day! (Every year on the third Friday of March, 4th year medical students across the country learn where they’ll spend their residency. It’s the exciting peak of all those years of hard work. I think schools probably do their programs a little differently, but here, each student is randomly called to receive their envelope. They can choose to open their letter privately, or open it in front of everyone and announce their exciting news (usually with their spouse and children by their side). Another fun part of the tradition, medical students place $1.00 in a container as they announce their results. The last person called gets to keep all the money as a reward for patience in the face of high anxiety.)
Our family has been beside ourselves with excitement this week! The festivities started at noon today and TheManoftheHouse and I tuned in to the live streaming video right on time. Which was a good thing, as TheFirstChild was the very first student (out of 300+, I think) to read the big news. He got his first choice for residency — WOOHOO! He’ll be about 8 hours away for the first year and then only two hours away for the following three years. (Look out Gurney, he’s headed your way.) We’re SOOOO excited for TheFirstChild and SweetiePie!!!
3. Like a lot of you, I was surprised by the news about the demise of Google Reader. I’ll be looking for a replacement. I’ve read a little about Feedly and Bloglovin’. Any other suggestions? (Random Snack of Choice Picture.)
4. Becky at Piece O’ Cake posted a link to this interesting article the other day. It’s all about manners in this new age of digital media and it’s a good read. Digital media manners are a whole different animal to societal manners. The one that really caught my attention is that it’s considered rude to send an e-mail just to say thank-you, because it causes the other person to waste time opening up and reading the e-mail. I’ll be thinking hard on that one and will probably try to improve my manners. Which means if you leave me a nice comment, but there really isn’t much to say other than “thank you” — well, I probably won’t reply anymore. That way you won’t be wasting your time. Sound good?
5. Yoyos: 658, Me: 210. (Note, safety pins have now replaced the basting gun. ;-D)
Have a GREAT weekend!!!
XOXO,
Anna
kudos to theFirstChild!!!
your little quilted yo-yos look like meringues to me! LOL!!
have a great weekend dear anna!
Congrats to TheFirstChild, and Yeah for you and your hubby!!! I totally forgot it was pie day :(
Congrats to FirstChild! But you opened a can of worms for this dinosaur on the digital manners thing. You’re talking to a dinosaur here. I believe in saying “thank you.” I believe in talking to people and leaving messages. I don’t have a phone to carry so can’t text/tweet/etc. and I’m totally disgusted with people who don’t return messages when you DO leave a message (on a phone or anywhere else.) I am also disgusted with watching people glance at their phones constantly while having a so called face to face conversation. It makes me feel like the time spent with me in conversation is not as important as the person who is on the machine in the hand. (Just as when I am a customer who takes the time to go into a store be dismissed by the clerk who answers a ringing phone and helps the phone person while I’m standing there…abandoned.”
Manners are manners and they are completely lost with this digital thing. I dread where we’re going.
But then….you did ask!
If someone takes the time to read my blog and comment and the only thing to say is “thank you” then I WILL take the “time” to thank them for stopping by and taking the time to comment.
Congratulations to your son! I’m sure y’all are very excited for him!
Thanks for the link to the digital media manners. I’m not sure how I feel about all of them though! Certainly gives us “older” tech savy folks something to think about!
BTW I love the yo-yos. You are certainly ambitious !
(I won’t be offended if I don’t get a thank you for my comments! Just think of all the time you will save so you can sew more yo-yos ! LOL)
SOOOOOOO excited for the first child and sweetie pie, and the parents too! Must be a relief to have that part over with,
La Pies look delish, yumyum
what about using roxannes glue for the stars/? have a great week end
Congratulations to your son. You must be so proud.
And as a math fan, love the pi pie.
As to reader, do look into the Old Reader. It is more Reader like than the others, developed by Google guys that left when Reader started going social media. A bit busy these days with the migration but I think the best fit if you are used to Reader.
Congratulations to your son. The pi pie looks great, as do the yo-yo’s, but then you know that already. I do not agree with the “etiquette” article. I couldn’t even finish reading it. I shudder sometimes wishing for kinder gentler human beings.
Congratulations to your son Anna!
I’ve switched to bloglovin for the time being. Really don’t understand why Google reader is going to stop. I so love the ‘next’ button in my browser’s bar.
Happy weekend!
love the pie!
I don’t agree with the article either, there were several things that actually made me truly cross. I think everyone deserves a thank you, and the time taken to open an email is nothing at all, if someone doesn’t want to read it, it’s their choice…. and more fool them. Perhaps in business this might apply, but blogging is being part of a community, and is nothing without interaction. If we all didn’t bother to comment because nobody was saying thankyou any more, then blog conversations might go very quiet….
still love the pie!
I’ve just read this post through Feedly and simply clicked ‘visit website’ to come and leave a comment. I guess like anything new, it’ll take a while to get used to. It is a nice glossy format though, not a dull list like Reader (athough I always used the Reader bookmarklet).
I’m staggered that some people might feel that they are deemed too busy to read a thank you!
Way to go FirstChild and Sweetie Pie – that is good news. And the pie with the numbers looks great.
I am off to a knitting event in Edinburgh today with some friends – weather forecast it horrible….but we shouldn’t need to stay outside for too long. But perhaps we will get to see some interesting yarn and then have late lunch/early dinner in Edinburgh! We’ll raise a glass to all our Scottish lovers!
It wasn’t pi day over here because we don’t do our dates the way you do. Our Thursday was 14.3. Maybe we could have had an upside down pie? :oD
As for manners in the digital age – I’m with Denice. How can saying “thank you” be deemed impolite? Weird!
Congrats to your son Anna. Love your new banner, I’ve been going a bit banner crazy myself, love them!! Your yo yo quilt is going to be so nice, what a labor of love. I hope you’re going to use it and not put it in the closet….lol
I saw on the news yesterday about the Match Day here. So happy they know where they will be for the next couple of years! Close is good! I also am unhappy about Google Reader! I checked out Feedly but hadn’t run across Bloglovin. Will have to check that out. I’m too old for change! LOL! Have a good weekend! Sounds like you are plugging away on the yo-yos. Going to be a wonderful quilt! Hugs!
p.s. THANK YOU for a wonderful blog! This world needs to slow down a little and return to a kinder, gentler time. I, for one, will continue to say thank you and enjoy hearing it! Like I said – I’m too old!
Woohoo, congrats to your son, that is awesome! I, too, don’t agree with the manners article..well, at least with what you have said about saying ‘thank you’. That’s one of the first things I teach my children say please and thank you. It’s polite. And as others have said, it doesn’t take any time at all to write it or open an email and read it :)
A big congrats to your son and sweetie pie! That’s wonderful he got his first choice!
I clicked over and read the manners article. But the author kind of lost me when he said he wouldn’t listen to numerous voicemail messages his own father left for him, because “nobody listens to voicemail anymore”. He doesn’t seem especially qualified to determine what is rude and what is not. lol
Congratulations to your son! I love Pi. Thanks for reading.
Congratulations to your son for getting his first choice. My son is in his 3rd year of medical school and he called me yesterday and mentioned that it was match day. I thought it was his so I was a little confused at first. That then led to a conversation about how the matching is more important than the actual medical school that you go to. We live on the west coast and he has been on the east coast since 2008 so we are all hoping for a match that is closer this way since once he hits residency we will see him less than we do now. I am constantly amazed at how much effort it takes to become a doctor and know that you have the right to be so totally proud of your son.
Oh and as to the article about manners I totally disagree with it. Are we so busy that we cannot show a little courtesy to people? I think that is just one persons opinion and hope that most people don’t feel that way. I actually heard a radio show that I was listening to recently that businesses are going back to sending letters and thank you notes to their customers because it is more personal. I hope that is a trend that continues which would prove this guy to be wrong in his opinion. I think that anyone appreciates that little bit of extra attention that comes from a personal note.
Yea!. . . Congratulations to TheFirstChild!. . . (& congrats on being so brave to read it out loud in front of a bunch of people!)
. . . as for the digital age article… it gave me a tummy-ache, & made me quite sad. The older I get, the more I understand my Mom, in her later years – she didn’t really care if she was ‘with it’. And, if this is the new being ‘with it’ – I’ll keep the old-fashioned politeness & caring about others more than ‘my time’, & not having to figure out as to whether stopping long enough to accept someone’s gratitude is worth my time. *sigh*
xo, Bren
I’ve heard all throughout blog land that Google Reader is going away. I have absolutely no idea how that is going to affect me. Should I be doing something? Oh, this technology!!!!!!
Congratulations to your son, Anna! I work with residents and medical students and so enjoy them….our next generation of physicians are a good lot, I tell ya. As far as no thank you….I’m ok with it, but I will miss the added communication. Now I’ll just have to ask more mundane questions in my comments when I get a hankering to “talk” to you :)
xoxox
Amy
Oh my, what a happy accident that I just happened to stumble onto your blog. What beautiful photos and sewing. I’m in love. I’m also your newest follower, and it doesn’t even matter if you comment me back. ;) Happy day!
Debbie
P.S. Congrats to your son on a great match. I remember when my hubby went through Match Day…we had been dating 6 weeks and I was terrified that his match would mean the end of our brand new relationship. Lucky for me he didn’t go far for his internship and we were engaged by the time he left for his residency a year later. That was 23 years ago. :)
If you have a Mac, NetNewsWire is a perfectly good reader. It’s what I use.
God bless the FirstChild and SweetiePie. So happy for them and for you!
Congrats to TheFirstChild !! That is good news.
Ok You have opened a can of worms haven’t you?…I’m with Denice on this one. I love getting a response to comments I’ve taken the time to leave even if it is to say thanks….it courteous. When one reads a comment and nods their head, the person that left the comment can’t see that so an email reply is the only way you can say thanks I appreciate the time you took to go to my blog and find the comments box and write a comment and sign into google and fill in the captcha and tell me your thoughts… I think that deserves a “thanks”…Ok rant over :o)
As for google reader…so sad…really sad, but there are alternatives. I looked at bloglovin and feedly. Bloglovin I think looks and feels like google reader, but their app apparently isn’t very good for the tablets..feedly is quite different to google reader, but has a nice app..though both variations are taking some getting use to. I’m still trying feedly out and I’m hoping as the support of it is booming the changes to make it more comfortable will come from the users. Feedly have a separate forum just to accept questions and suggestions from new users as they are aware they have a lot of new users to please. We’ll see :o)
Wow! Congratulations to TheFirstChild!! What a clever lad. Hope he enjoys his time at those locations. Better go and read Becky’s article, but it’s nice to have your comment acknowledged and know that it’s been read…..it’s not hard to open an e-mail for a one line or one word comment. Go go on the yo yo’s!
You have surpassed yourself with the pi(e) this year Anna! Congratulations to FirstChild – that’s great news :o) But I’m surprised to hear that it is considered rude to send a thank you email – I don’t do it all the time but I do try and probably still will – even if I’m late doing it! Lucy xx
I love your PI pie – you are so clever and fun.
congrats to you son, what great great news!!
I have the same thimble – I just bought another one for hand quilting. The bee matches my tatoo, lol.
I guess I won’t hear back, lol
that is fine and there is something to it I suppose.
I think the best way to respond is to comment on others blog.
No pie here! Huge congrats to TheFirstChild but that reveal system sounds like torture!
And by the way, while I dont think anyone should feel obligated to respond, I love receiving email contacts from blogpeople, even if they are “just” a thank you. I am sort of stunned that anyone could ever think it was rude to email responses to comments – seriously? Who are these people who are too busy even to open an email??
I am obviously far too old for this lark.
Well, Miss Anna, you must be very, very proud and rightly so. Congratulations to your son and to the folks who did a fine job nurturing his ambitions.
There’s just no ‘splainin’ modern manners or the lack thereof. WHO are these know-it-alls, anyway? (who cares? *giggles*)
I think we should all have a great week whether we are allowed to or not!
YAY!!! Yay for your entire family! Now get back to work on MY yo-yo quilt! ;p
So much to say. And no you do not need to say “thank you” ever to me. I’m ok with not responding to all my commenters unless I feel it is warranted or I like them and want to say hi just because or something. Monica once said something like “You visit me and then I visit you” and that is how she responds to comments. I thought that was a good way to do it, too. I always think of you on PI day. You always do the pie thing. I love that. I never do but Shelbie and Dave always comment about pie day and things that happen sometimes at their work with engineers and PI. I’m so super happy for you and your family. It is great when the kids are close (er). It is wonderful he got his first choice. We thrill for our kids when they do well. And for our friends when their kids do well. Nicely done mom.
Great news for FirstChild and SweetiePie….so very, very exciting. Oh that pie looks so very yummmmmmmmmy!!!!
Good morning and I never heard of Pi day before, but yours sure looked yummy. Congrats to you and your son on his wonderful achievement.
Woot Woot – congratulations to everyone in the family – so exciting to be getting to this part – it’s awesome and hey that pie – yummmmmm. Good things happening in Thimbleland :)
Hugs – Mrs. Farmhouse
Congrads to the first child! Quite the accomplishment. So relieved that I do not have to reply to every comment. I do feel social manners are important! Thanks you so much for clarifying that! As for pi day! Yea, of course we celebrated! Cheers!
Congratulations on your son. My son is still working on his first year of medical school. He’s got a long way to go. I’m very impressed with your machine quilting and now all your yo yo’s . It will be a master piece. My latest project…we are starting a letterpress business. So much to learn. I haven’t been doing any sewing but have been digging out my sewing room trying to get to some projects.
Congratulations to your son! I remember “match day” well. My oldest is a physician, board-certified in both pediatrics and tropical medicine. Exciting time for your family. Loved all the pics too!
Congrats to your son Anna. I know your happy that they will be close to home.
That pie looks amazing!!! Cherry pie is my favorite!
Ps. You don’t have to reply with a thank you! lolol
I love the pi pie! LOL. I also love the frosted animal cookies. Yum Yum.
yay first child!!! what a huge relief that he won’t be too far away. so… back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and i stumbled upon your blog admidst the sea of quilting blogs i was finding – and thought i might actually like you… i thought that i, too, would make a pie on the pi days to follow. it’s never happened. i’m just not as good as you. i don’t even know why we’re still friends. and btw, if i comment and you decide to stop emailing me back, i’m flying to indy and letting a family of rabid squirrels loose in your yard to let them devour patio furniture at their leisure. your yoyo quilt makes me wanna barf. hahahahahahaa. okay. i really have to go to work now. i’m trying to tell myself things i love about my job this morning. i love the people that work in my building. speaking of which, i better run down the hall and wake one of them up.
have a good day anna banana.
I think you should do what you wish…I could never ever think Ms Anna was rude. You are so fun and probably the most prolific artist, worker, gardener, wife, daughter, mother, friend, gifter, blogger,(did I miss any)person I know who makes me laugh. have a good day and a wonderful weekend. Dear sweet Melly and I are trying to have a lunch together soon. I miss her lots too.
BIG hugs!