Published at December 17, 2007
in Savitri.
If somebody ask me what I want as a gift, I want all handmade stuff OR tools to make handmade items. Ok, I don’t want just any handmade stuff, I want cute and well made handmade stuff or really yummy homemade dishes.
I’ve gotten a couple early Christmas presents or just goodies in general and my favorite items this year are marshmallows from my co-worker Holly and my friend’s, Guenevere, sugar cookies. Actually the cookies Emma and Guen made together. I’m sure the little one had very little to do with the taste but she did help 
Oh, I almost forgot, I got some hot cocoa mix from church for volunteering at the St. Nick’s workshop, and that mix was delicious!!! I’ve also gotten a few cards and my favorite is from Kathy — not sure if she made it but it looks handmade and I love it. She has lovely hand writing too.
Continue reading ‘What I Want for Next Year’
There’s not much to write about.
We’re so busy.
Drew’s swamped with school and upcoming test.
Savitri is finishing up a class and getting ready for two spring ones.
Emma think Santa is going to come tomorrow.
We’re quite happy.
The family’s doing great.
The pup is learning and growing.
The dog and cat plays.
I’ve got Christmas stuff all over the living room.
Not motivated to finish decorating.
Can I just sit and not do anything? 
I have this obsession, or desire, to move or at least check out Vermont. If you read the previous post you would have read about the different states that I’m interested in. I have no stinkin’ idea why or how I got to VT but I really want to go there. I looked at houses a few days ago, in Stowe. There’s this one super cute one for $299k. Love it!
Continue reading ‘Vermont, Ring, Yuppiness, and $632 on Ebay’
Published at October 29, 2007
in Savitri.
I think buying a diamond is one of the hardest thing to do, especially a cushion cut diamond.
I had a ring, or two actually, and lost both of them within a few months of each other. I felt really bad, still do, but Drew has allowed me to purchase another one. This was months ago — actually even before I lost the rings since we were going to redesign them anyways — the rings were a bit too big for me). The first thing I did was looked for styles. I couldn’t decide if I wanted to go for the slick modern look (which was the look that I had for my previous ring, a cathedral style ring with an eternity ring) or some something more antique, which I’ve been falling in love more and more (just antiques and old stuff in general). After looking and looking and looking (and looking… Drew’s sick of me looking already), and going on our trip, I just couldn’t get over the antique look.
Continue reading ‘In Search of a Cushion Diamond’
Published at October 17, 2007
in Savitri.
I never thought that I’d be in Warrensburg for almost five years (end of Dec. is the five year mark). It’s a small town and I never thought that I’m the small town kind of girl. But, despite the size, it is not far from KC and I thought I’d list the likes and dislikes of living in and around the two cities:
Continue reading ‘Boise vs Kansas City’
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Before getting to Max, let me get to Emma first.
Yesterday, while Emma was rummaging through the closet looking for some footwear before school, she found a penny. We then had the following conversation (more less):
E: Mommy, look what I found!
M: Cool, Emma. What are you going to do with the penny?
E: I’m going to put it in my purse.
M: Em, you can bring money to school. Lets just put it in the piggy bank for now.
E: I just want to put it in my purse.
M: Ok, but leave the purse at home.
E: Ok, but mommy, I need more money for my purse.
M: Mommy doesn’t have any money Emma.
E: If you go to work, you can make me more money.
M: (speechless)
Ahhh… now I know why she lets me go to work :\
Continue reading ‘Max, Training the Lhasa’
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The one liner below is a reply from Drew…
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You have to be kidding me.
—–Original Message—–
From: Savitri Wilder [mailto:my email]
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 3:03 PM
To: Wilder Andrew - his email
Subject: max
Take Max out, please.
When you get home, don’t let him out right away.
Just ignore him and give him a good 5 minutes.
Get some snacks.
I have some chicken in the fridge.
It’s only for SPECIAL training.
Like the below.
Continue reading ‘Was I Too Much? Potty Training our Lhasa’
Well, after one week, Max has improved quite a bit. He doesn’t piddle anymore. When we first got him, he’d piddle when somebody picked him up and before he was let out of the crate. Now it’s “piddle no more” He’s also more comfortable with his crate. When we got him, he was crate friendly, meaning he’ll stay quiet in the crate. But he wouldn’t voluntarily go in there. Now, with a Kong, he can go in there happily, not even look when I close the crate and be a good pup until I let him out. He is also learning to not be so excited when I open the crate door. He still gets excited but not as much and he’d back away from the door (he used to scratch at it a lot more before I open). So the excitement is still there, still some scratches, but better. We’ll work on that. He also doesn’t bark or whine when I come home or just plain show up. He’ll wag his tail now but doesn’t expect me to open and let him our soon after I come in to the room he’s in.
We saw the person from Fury Pals Refuge, Carla, the other day and she said that Max is looking so good. He’s more confident and the noticed the no piddles too. She commented on how well he stays calm in the crate and she gave me the whole history on Max.
Continue reading ‘Max, week 1′
Published at September 28, 2007
in Dog and Savitri.
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The new addition to our family and mostly my dog. He was a rescue pup and I adopted him from Furry Kids Refuge.
I’ve been looking for a dog after Kato left. It’s been a while since I obtained a dog so I had to do some research on which type I like and would be good for our family (with a young child and a dog). Before I left for our vacation, I was very interested in a Maltese or a mix of it (I was only going to adopt, so really whatever that I like that I find) because of it’s nature and I must just like hair dogs. They’re super cute too. But after emailing different rescues, none wanted to let me adopt one because of Emma’s age. Which is understandable but wish that it was more on a family basis… check out the kid first before deciding. So, I still didn’t want to buy a pup, just didn’t seem right. So last weekend, I told Drew that we’d just go to the city, visit a Petco or two, maybe a few shelters and see what they had.
Continue reading ‘Maximus Monk - the Lhasa Apso’
Well, despite all the discomfort, the visit was nice. It was great to see Emma and my parents together for the first time. Emma was grandpa’s little girl. Not too crazy about my mom but she loved Grandpa Swan.
I got to see my brother and his wife and also got to visit Malang where I visited my high school and uncle’s family. I saw many of my past teachers. Of course many couldn’t exactly remember my name (I wasn’t the brightest or the naughtiest) but those whom I was very fond of remembered me. It was very nice. Seeing the rest of my cousins and aunts and uncles were nice too. Many were still so young and now they’re close to getting married and having a family of their own.
Continue reading ‘Indonesia, Conclusion’
Published at August 13, 2007
in Savitri.
That’s my beloved grandfather’s name. He passed away at the age of 84 on Saturday the 11th at 11:50 p.m. Indonesian time so that’s about 11:50 a.m. Saturday my time. He was a wonderful grandfather to me, a brilliant entrepreneur and author.
He’s one of my most favorite man in the world. He was the best person to talk to and spend time with. Since I was a little girl he would take me all over the place and every summer vacation I would spend a few weeks to a month with him. He might not be everybody’s favorite person because of his characteristic but he was always special to me and I love him in every way.
Continue reading ‘Joseph Tulus Swandjaja’
Wow, four years and we are still going. For this year’s celebration we decided to do movie and a dinner night. For the movie we chose Transformers and Harry Potter. Great movies, huh? Maybe not the most romantic of the bunch but they were both what we wanted to see.
We watched Transformers first. It was good. I can’t remember anything from the past on these characters so I just sat down and watched the movie. I must say, quite good on the CG, and the storyline wasn’t so bad. It wasn’t all action and I was entertained. Drew of course was super psyched about the whole deal. He was a kid again those few hundreds of minutes. He said it was worth the $14 we spent.
Continue reading ‘Fourth Anniversary’
Published at June 6, 2007
in Savitri.
Hmm… to like or not to like, that is the question. I have been so swamped at work. Between developing two sites, on in ColdFusion and the other in PHP, and the new Office 2007 training next month, I really have no time to really get into the SL developers group or even look at Linden Scripting.
Continue reading ‘SecondLife’
Published at November 18, 2006
in Savitri.
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Like the past semesters, we go to culture night each time it’s held. Why? It brings back some college memories. Different of course since I was in Idaho but it’s better than nothing.
I had a lot of fun in college preparing for Intl’ night, Chinese New Years, and African Night. We had about 750 people for each event and the food and shows are alway great. At Idaho State University we had the luxury to use Sodexho’s kitchen. So we’d select 12-15 dishes and cook a large amount of them. We always have volunteers from the high schools so the whole preperation event was a very cultural experience in itself.
We were very good. By the time I left we had a food, transportation, public relations, donations, cleanup, entertainment, and a few others set up. So yes, once the show is over, we all can go home. It was great! I was always the food leader - maybe cause I use to work at Sodexho as a cashier and they thought I had connections. Either way, it was all good. Food was abundant and we always started on time. That was the biggest complaint from the previous years.
So here’s Emma in her little Chinese outfit. She was the only one dressed up. I have nothing appropriate to wear
Published at November 14, 2006
in Savitri.
Ok, so here’s my first podcast video… It’s an old video but once this work, there will be more. I’ll be working on my work test site too so if you want geek-cast, check that site out!!
I think I want to start podcasting sometimes soon. On what… dunno. I just need to practice for work and I don’t want to do work all the time.
I have been making cards, Christmas cards, and have been trading too. I have enough to send out to special people. So if you get one of my handmade card, then you’re considered special!!! I’m going to do more between now and Christmas so that more people can feel special I love making cards. It’s been really fun making them together with people who has the same love.
I have not a lot of scrapbooking. I want to but I really need to focus for that project. I need to have a day to myself. Maybe when Drew’s not busy I’ll do something.
Oh, we have grass!!! No pictures… Well I have some but not downloaded yet… but we have grass!!!!
Published at July 11, 2006
in Savitri.
Can you forget a conference that you have to go to and present? Well I did so I’m working my buns off this week to get all my crap ready. I have to leave Thursday after my class and my presentation is Friday afternoon. I got the website portion up. Now I just need to get some slides and other samples… least enough to bs for 45 minutes. URGH!!!
So that’s it. I’m glad I can work from home on this!!
Published at May 17, 2006
in Savitri.
Current Mood: 
Bored
and I can’t go to sleep. It’s weird, I have no homework to do and Drew’s been working. So I’ve been online a lot after Emma’s sleeping. I haven’t browse the net much, not motivated. Just been working on the websites, to get the all running. Got the photo gallery going. Hopefully soon it’ll be integrated into this system. Somehow right now it’s still pointing to my old hosting company and I can’t find the fix. I changed EVERYTHING! So I’ll look somemore. Continue reading ‘It’s Midnight’
Emma at 14 mo: 
Gnight: 