Me and DD

Yeah so we really like the pool toys...what can we say....but you can find her blog on my links about the adventures of brown mouse....

The Moogster, Me and CLC in the hammock

I am posing as Bug Girl, Moogster stole the Duck from Duck Dude and CLC is in his usual spot....

My parents and their crazy dogs....oh and zach

They do so enjoy the beach!

back home safe and sound

so......i am back in CA...overall the trip was excellent.

of course my family was on very good behavior so CLC will think I just make things up...

We did have an exciting adventure in Durham....CLC really wanted to go to a cracker barrel...I don't ask questions...so we took him saturday morning....well first thing he finds is a john deere t-shirt that says country boy...so of course he needs it...right...but they don't have his size. So he finds this salesperson and she is trying to convince him the medium will fit...so she is holding it up to his back, and of course he can't see it...so she then decides to make him go try it on....so he comes back with the t-shirt on, and the woman asks his "wife" what she thinks....signaling to DD...and we all starting cackling....it was just comedy....then we managed to have a conversation completely in code....about how gay the t-shirt makes him look.....

Then CLC managed to order more food than I thought was possible from the menu in his quest to eat traditional southern food....all i can say, is that I seriously need to detox...after a week of fried foods, and lots of alcohol....it is all about fruit for me....exept that i am totally craving pizza....but I should prepare as I am headed to Dallas on Friday for a friend from college wedding....

pictures will be posted shortly

Mini Golf and Jewlery Draft

So...yesterday...primarily b/c I am a burnt muffin...I took ClC to play mini golf....I am amazed at how consistently people congregate in too large of groups and it ends up taking forever....but we did make friends with Wyatt the 5 year old behind us and his PeePaw as he referred to him....Unclear if it was dad or grandfather....

After dinner we had the great Jewlery draft...my grandmother had sent this stuff down and it is ridiculous crap...needless to say...I took things primarily to dress up in costumes...I do think the highlight is the indian goddess necklace that I am thinking of making into a belt buckle...when Dr K sends me the photos I'll will post a few....

Today we head off to Durham for a night with DD and CLC gets to meet the durham crowd...this should be interesting....

It will be good to get back to cali....I need some rest.

Adventures of the Blue Dolphin

Somehow that phrase always gets me in trouble....the original story goes back a few years ago when my friend Ann and I were obsessed with this item in the Adam and Eve catalog called the blue dolphin...if you care to find out what this is, you can look it up yourself....well we were playing taboo several years ago and we used some clues from the Blue Dolphin to get Dolphin. So then the idea is put to rest....UNTIL.....My parents inform me in their renovations to their house, they have created a bar (which is odd, Dr K doesn't drink) and they have named it the Blue Dolphin...OK...that is funny enough....but then Dr K informs me that Dr T (my dad) has procured her this lovely light up dolphin....to go with the bar and there are lots of mirrors...etc....needless to say the tackiness quotient on this product is high....So remember when I was telling you about our adventures in the walmart...well clc and I saw the so named light up blue dolphin. So at dinner at a really bad mexican restaurant (don't eat mexican food in the outer banks), we told Drs, K and T that we saw the blue dolphin at Walmart...and Dr K was crushed....she thought it was really classy...yeah really KLASSY....Which of course led to massive laughing as my mom started to describe how classy she thought this thing was...but all anyone else could remember was the original blue dolphin story....which Drs K and T still don't really understand what it is.....someone might have to just get them one of those original oh so tasteful blue dolphins...

random happenings

so we went on a mission to buy the lil' muffins a game cube....and we ended up at k-mart to find them a game. But we were given raffle tickets upon entry...which turned out to be essentially a qvc like sale....but curtiss did win the raffle and is now the owner of delightful silver bracelet...it is so fugly...it is amazing.

last night we decided to go for a walk....well, clc and dd and me...which resulted in clc daring us to go into the ocean....which of course we did...b/c dd andI are tough. well we were completely sopping wet and had to trudge back from the beach and promptly hopped into the hot tub....only to be told we are retarded by the littlest muffin..

we became experts at the spongebob game....after a long day at the beach...i am now thoroughly sunburned....we returned home to spend some quality pool time....aka frolicking about playing spongebob and drinking fruity cocktails.....well somehow littlest muffin got very intoxicated and became a WWE wrestler and was throwing down challanges...needless to say almost littlest muffin and I kicked her butt...Then we had a parade of pool floats...I rode the bug, dd on the tiger and littlest muffin on the brand new oh so exciting duck....if you are lucky you might get to see the vide of my parents jousting on the duck and bug....pure comedy.....

Delightment

So over the course of the first few days we have invented a new word--Delightment. Which is based loosely on Dr Tom's frequently use of the word delightful. I decided since he frequently is delighted by things, it is clearly important to quantify this concept. I feel that is a composition of several individual scale items. Clearly exploratory factor analysis is necessary to figure out the factor loadings necessary for a correct index. But an argument did develop between the sociologists and the psychologists here....is delightment a trait or a state....as a sociologist....I am opposed to traits...so I am going with a trait....as some things clearly add to ones fleeting sense of delightment.

Batman Begins

So...we saw it last night....fairlyamusing...but the question I am pondering is why the hell does christian bale's voice change when he is batman....it is bizarro....

i just don't know....

Day 2 and no one is dead...

So...we have gotten this far and no one is dead...although i think curtiss and i may have broken a land speed record getting to the obx in less than 4 hours....we speed and we love it.

other than that...nothing exciting...although curtiss did go to the church shaped like noah's ark...i was not convinced to join him...in case you were wondering. or aware that he might try to convince me.

The dogs are insane as usual, but not as allergy inducing....which is definitely key....

but everyone got here safely....much fun is being had....we are going to see batman tonight...especially since i haven't seen a movie since literally last year...it will be good to see something on the big screen.

A

off we fly into the wild blue yonder

so...clc and i take off today....hopefully we will not kill each other....nor will i kill any member of my family....but if they fight with each other...I certainly won't get in the middle of it....hahahahahahaa....

so we are taking off for 8 hours of flying and then 5 hours of driving through rural nc....oh boy!!!!

so keep your eyes open for more posts!

Getting Ready for Vacation

So on friday clc and i leave for vacation....we are headed to the outer banks with my family...the entire gerbil clan...hopefully no one will die....i guess i'll title this trip when gerbils collide....it can be scary... but keep your eyes open for posts....

Update from the basement

So, actually I have been hiding at home instead of the basement.....but here is the good news....all of the data entry is done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All of the questionnaire recoding is done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The binding negotiated exchange recoding is done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Only 4 more conditions to do.....I am hoping to have that all done by Monday.

Nothing else really exciting to report....although you might want to check the MAD, MAD, MUFFIN WORLD....i'll post about our adventure in the city last night....

updates from the basement

so...i have spent the past few weeks coding my behavioral data....i know my life is fascinating....

but today while finishing up the reciprocal cooperation condition I realized something really cool (ok it is actually only cool if you are a sociology dork).....I had assumed that subjects would reciprocate only to the partner from the trial immediately preceeding....well it turns out, they actually have a longer memory than that....they will look like they actually defect to the preceeding trial and are reciprocating from multiple gifts from a trial 2 earlier...so you may ask why this is fascinating....well actually it is cool, because it supports work by Malinowski from the Kula ring, that once you receive a gift you must discharge that debt, it doesn't matter if it is immediate, but you must do it in a timely fashion. In addition, it is super cool, because it supports my more complicated view of the norm of reciprocity (and Gouldner's) that receiving a gift obligates you to return it, even if it is not immediate and that actors actually try to reduce this feeling of obligation....once I combine the behavioral and the attitudinal data, I will see how this will impact ideas of trustworthiness....which will be cool....but what it does in fact do, is really change how I think about commitment...which will have to be another entry....b/c i am way too pooped....