I have this waiting for me. It can only mean one thing — I’m waiting for something else to come through really soon. So far the ETA is not clear though. I’m hoping for this or next weekend.
I have this waiting for me. It can only mean one thing — I’m waiting for something else to come through really soon. So far the ETA is not clear though. I’m hoping for this or next weekend.
Today we had another ultrasound appointment. Alena and I took a day off from work and went together. They did a lot of scanning (45 minutes) and took a lot of pictures. We saw the face, little palms and feet, heart bit and something else.She confirmed it from 3 different angles and told us that we’re going to have a boy. When I asked if it was 100% certainty she said that they never give 100%, but she gave us 95%. Those are pretty good odds.
Otherwise everything looks great. The heartbeat, the size, perfect. Needless to say we’re very happy. We’re going to have a son.
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says:March 5, 2010 @ 4:20pm
Are you sure that’s not the umbilical cord? 
Congrats, to all 3 of you!!!!
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March 5, 2010 @ 4:25pm
I’m not sure about anything. But the doctor and the technician were pretty sure it is what it is. 
She checked through the stomach and than did “a deeper” scan to confirm from other angles.
We won’t be 100% sure until the birth of course. As we know surprises really happen.
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says:March 5, 2010 @ 4:27pm
Congratulations!!!!
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says:March 5, 2010 @ 5:05pm
Congradulations!!!
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says:March 5, 2010 @ 5:46pm
Mazel Tov its a “”, we’ll have to wait for official word in August, but I hope its happy, healthy, and indeed a boy. 
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says:March 6, 2010 @ 7:09am
Congratulations!!! That’s a great news! 
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says:March 8, 2010 @ 4:17pm
Как интересно И тоже мальчик, и тоже в августе
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says:March 9, 2010 @ 8:19am
Поздравляю!
Будет мальчик – родите потом еще девочку,будет девочка – родите потом мальчика
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says:March 9, 2010 @ 11:01am
Pozdravlaiu . Are you going to remain gender neutral then until August since you can’t be 100% sure?
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says:March 9, 2010 @ 12:20pm
Spasibo vsem za pozdravleniya.
Vika, we haven’t though about it yet, but it is probably a good idea. We’re not planning to buy too much stuff before birth anyhow. I have another ultrasound appointment scheduled in a month — so hopefully it will become even clearer.
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Never posted a note about the 2nd Vaja1 case that we ordered — ivolution Top SP. Alena uses this case on her phone.This is my own personal opinion of the case and since I’ve never extensively used it myself treat it as such.
I think it offers superior phone protection when compared to my case at least with regards to having all corners covered.The leather itself is soft and very pleasant to the touch, much nicer that the shiny plastic on iPhone itself.
The screen is protected really well, but as you can see it doesn’t cover the bezels on the sides of the screen itself, which is a good thing — no issues using the screen near the edges.Originally I thought that it would be hard or impossible to open the case with one hand, but by now I have no issue with that — just takes a little bit of practice.
The phone in the case can not be docked, if that’s your thing.As you can see the wear shows after about 7 months of use, but Alena keeps it in her purse along with all other stuff. The wear however is purely cosmetic.
The cost was $85. There are a lot of color choices for the case itself and for the central stripe. This case gets thumbs up from me. A very good, functional and stylish case by Vaja.- I can’t link directly to the case because Vaja uses Flash on their site. [↩]
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says:March 3, 2010 @ 1:44pm
I like the case a lot — it is so nice to touch, and it makes it easier to find the phone in my huge purse (which is filled with stuff like tissues, lunch boxes, books, lipsticks, pens, keys, wallet, etc. The main bonus of course is that I am not afraid that Shublik will destroy the phone if I left unattended.
Oh, and I think it looks very cool and quite unique too! I did not see a single iPhone case like mine so far — that’s considering that I ride NY Subway and Path train twice a day, and there are plenty of iPhone owners around.
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Весь вчерашний день и ночь, а так же сегодня пол дня шел снег — поэтому я работаю из дома. Вчера же я ехала на работу с Ларой – девочкой из нашего подьезда, которая работает всего на одну остановку Path Train дальше меня. Ехали мы с ней вместе первый раз (надеюсь, не последний), и очень хорошо поболтали. Она-то и подкинула мне идею вчерашнего ужина – пастуший пирог.Звучит название весьма интригующе, а на самом деле блюдо представляет собой фарш, обжаренный с овощами и запечённый в духовке под шубой картофельного пюре. Простенько, но для будничного ужина очень даже хорошая идея (дёшево и сердито). Лара поведала мне рецепт, которым пользуется она, но я еще на всякий случай глянула на интернете — и вот этот рецепт Рэйчел Рэй оказался очень похожим на Ларисин. Read more…
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Этот супчик я готовила где-то пару месяцев назад, и всё никак не доходили руки поставить рецепт на блог. Готовится он легко, на вкус тоже вполне ничего — вобщем, хорошая альтернатива обычному куриному супчику с макаронами.Рецепт я вычитала в NY Times. Естественно, готового бульона у меня не было, поэтому всё процедура выглядела примерно так. Read more…
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I did a couple of experiments with old lenses on the new FX sensor. First of all most of them has gotten into a much “apartment” friendlier range. 50mm acts as one, not as 75mm on DX. So is 105mm macro. I’ve noticed it focusing much faster on the new camera as well.
Wide angle though is really something. It really is a DX only lens, hence the black circle. However 10mm on FX sensor is weirdly impressive. Talk about wide.
All the distortion also creates interesting effects. Here is a mega-cat for you. The camera actually has a DX mode which produces close to 6 mega-pixel images, same as D70 did. Or you can crop the circle out manually, which I prefer to do.
And this one is a great shot. Too bad it’s not sharp. Shublik got extremely close to the camera to “distort” so much, but since it’s not a macro lens it doesn’t focus at such close distances.
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We just finished watching men’s Olympic free skating event. It was a pleasure to watch. I agree that Evgeni Plushenko is special, but I think that Evan Lysacek totally deserved his gold medal. His performance was very clean, very crisp and sophisticated. Yes, he didn’t do quad, but overall he was great. I think that Johnny Weir got a lower score than he deserved, and I liked Takahashi Daisuke’s free program much less than his short one (which I think was very passionate). 1
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February 19, 2010 @ 12:38am
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says:February 19, 2010 @ 12:38am
I have somewhat mixed feelings. Feel bad for Plushenko, but I have to agree with Alena and the judges. He does nice jumps, but every one of them seemed crooked today. And I think Johnny Weir got screwed out of a medal. But then again — I don’t know much about figure skating. 
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