Kelley Bromley

Changed the sidebar so the archives are now in a drop down box in the style of the theme instead of having each month listed as a link. With time the list would just get too long! I’ve also added a calendar with links to the days which have posts, and I’ve fixed the double bullet that was appearing in the double nested pages listing (in front of 13-week-plan).

Well, today Lionel and I started week two of the 13 week plan. The worst part is I leave for Quebec for a week next Sunday, and we did week one, then Lionel’s parents visited for two weeks, so our schedule is kind of screwy, lol. We’re going to do week two, and then when I get back redo week two again and continue with the rest of the plan.

So here are the stats:
5 min warm up and stretching
11 sets of run 2 min, walk 2 min (44 min total)
Time: ~50 min, 6.25 km including warm up
Average Speed: 7.5 km/h
5 min cool down

Cardiovascularly I’m really improving I think. I could still have a conversation with full/half sentences, but by the 7th set my legs were jello. Lionel told me to slow down, but I told him even if I slow down my body won’t get any lighter, and it’s the pushing motion with my quads that was giving out, lol. We finished though! Today was the hardest session for this week’s training, but we’re going the uphill route on Monday!

This used to be placed on the sidebar, but it’s getting a little long with all my posting, so I’ve moved it here.

When you are in the gallery, you can click the link “Download full size photo for printing” under the picture to see the full 1024×768 photo. If you click the picture itself you advance to the next picture in the gallery.

If you want to download a bunch of large versions of photos it’s much easier to scroll to the bottom of the page beneath the picture info and click “Add photo to cart,” then you can select a few photos from each gallery to download. Now, if you’d like to have the whole album, just click “Add album to cart” on the bottom of the album view. Do this for as many albums or pictures as you want.

When you’ve added the last album/picture, click the drop down box in the upper right of the cart view and say “Download as Zip” and you’ll get a zip file containing the large pictures for all the pictures you selected! Enjoy

Today was the first session of our 13-week training program which builds you up to run a 10k race. We won’t really be officially starting because we’re going on vacation soon, so we’re just going to repeat the first session over and over when we have the chance until we’re home again. In either case, we ran 1 min, then walked 2 mins, 10 times for a total of 30 minutes, for a distance of 5 km. We were supposed to do 12 laps, but I had to meet with Weihui to play frisbee at 7:30, and I played for about 45 minutes with a bit of running.

Hello mommy, this is daughter,
I will call you, cause I oughta!
Life is very, very busy,
All the experiments are making me quite dizzy!

Tried to call you, tried to ring you,
But the fact is, it wouldn’t go through!
I want to wish you, a happy Mother’s Day,
But instead the busy signal took my voice away!

I was thinking, you’re quite lively,
Perhaps you’re out, going jiving!
You and dad make, such a scene,
When he’s spinning you around from floor to ceiling!

How’s the weather? I hope it’s nice,
I bet you’re still chipping, at the ice!
It’s so lovely, here in Vancouver,
It’s so hot out that I cannot even hoover!

Who am I kidding, St. John’s is better,
Who cares about, the weather?
I want family, and Sunday supper,
But instead I do a PhD and suffer!

But dear Mommy, fear not distance,
Cause I’m coming, home for Christmas!
In the meantime, you’ve got daddy,
And we both know that he can be quite handy!

Miss you!

Out with the old and in with the new. I’ve gotten rid of the original wordpress smilies and have replaced them with these cuter ones, hehe.

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Thanks to Ars Arena you now have access to all the smilies on my sire with a click of a button. If you want to leave a message to one of my posts, just add a comment and you’ll see all your available smilies. Just click to add!

I’ve also made it so you can login from any page (instead of just the main page) and the links to individual posts are now permalinks, so direct linking to posts isn’t as ugly. Now if only I can get links working in my gallery! Guh!

Lionel and I were going to go to SuperStore today but since we’re leaving for about a week on Wednesday it wouldn’t make much sense to buy fresh things now. We had to get out of the house because they shut off the power from 8am to 8pm for maintenance. Lionel had hot water, but it was cold when I got in! Yikes! And almost no water pressure…

Well, we got off at Sasmat to bring back the books to the West Point Gray library, then we went to the Tea store on 10th. It was great! They had all kinds of tea, and you could buy either 50g or 100g quantities. The prices were better than the store on Broadway as well. We got Jazz Vanilla Rooibos (100g) which is LOVELY - it’s got vanilla and bits of hazelnut in it, and it tastes like dessert even without sugar. FANTASTIC! We also got 50g each of creamy earl gray, which has more bergamot oil than regular earl gray, and also some Irish Breakfast which is made with Assam black tea instead of Ceylon black tea like English Breakfast, so it’s supposed to be stronger. It cost $2 more per 50g for decaf, so we just went with caffeinated.

Then came the horror… we walked down 10th Avenue. 10th Avenue with its 20 foot hedges creeping onto the 3 foot sidewalk and HUNDREDS of hornets the whole way! Lionel had to coax me forward. I was soooo scared…. stupid phobia. I felt like I had an exam that I never studied for… you know that adrenaline rush? Shaky all over… quite embarrassing. To get past some really bad places where they were hovering all over the ground and on the hedges I had to close my eyes and Lionel led me through. I don’t think he liked that much, heh. He made the observation that I didn’t get stung once on the way through, and I seem to be able to walk through all the buzzing if I have my eyes closed, so maybe I’m getting used to it. I wouldn’t want to do it again though! I felt shaky and sick for a few minutes afterwards, heh. I’m such a wuss.

Anyway, after that we had a nice walk down Broadway and had lunch at Adeleas, a Mexican restaurant. I had pork enchiladas and Lionel had a chicken and mushroom quesadilla, but of course we split both so we could both try it, heh. They both had ancho sauce on them, which I didn’t like at first because it’s an interesting combination, but in the end it was quite good. The meal was mostly meat and cheese, some vegetables would have been nice, but I liked it. It came with an appetizer of freshly fried nachos - WOW! SO GOOD! Very thin and delicious… and freshly made salsa. Yum!

After that we walked to Granville to get the 98-B-line to the central library downtown, for a total walk of 5 km :) The library architecture was breathtaking. I should have brought my camera. There were 6 floors and everything you could think of, although I don’t think I’d go there again because it’s just too big… it’s so hard to find things! You can order 50 books/year free of charge to be delivered to the nearest branch, so I think I’ll do that. I thought looking through the shelves would be nice, but there are thousands and thousands of books on many floors! Impossible! I got some books on card making because the scrapbook books weren’t very good, and some books on how to start running. Lionel looked up some computer graphic books but didn’t take them out in the end.

We then head back home and stopped at Blenz to get an Iced Mocha - wow, rich and delicious. I hate to think how much cream went in it, LOL. After we were home for about an hour the power finally came back on! We read a little then headed off to bed. Overall a good day I think…. except for the hornets 8O

Today Lionel and I walked from 10th Avenue to granville at a strolls pace, looking at the shops. Got a nice tan though :)

Well, today was rough. Tried to get up to go into work early, set the alarm for 7:15am, but just couldn’t get up… I was exhausted. Last night I spent 3.5 hours doing laundry and hanging it up and folding…. ugh! Six loads of laundry in the washer and 4 dryer loads! But now everything we own is clean and the towels are fluffy…. and I’ve finished the sixth book of the Wheel of Time :D

It wouldn’t have mattered had I gone in early anyway because I didn’t want to risk sing my EDTA to do sequencing again because my sequencing didn’t work last time, so I was going to borrow Weihui’s, but he doesn’t get in until 9am. I finished up the sequencing around 10:45am and head over to NAPS to run. I should have the results tomorrow… this is my last opportunity to try to get the promoter region sequence in time to submit an abstract to the SFN conference! Hopefully it works, I was very careful! In the Monday afternoon lab meeting I was told some ideas for primers, I designed them on Monday, they were done on Wednesday afternoon and I ran the sequencing PCR overnight, and then today I finished it up *crosses fingers*

It was a long day though… I didn’t sign up fast enough for the PCR machine, so I had to run my samples from 1:30 to 4pm, then start the gel extraction, which took me until 7pm. I’ve got the digest started, so tomorrow I can purify it and ligate, on Saturday I can transform the E. coli, screen the clones on Sunday, and on Monday I can have the miniprep done VERY EARLY, like be in the lab by 6am, heh… and I’ll have the data in time. What a rush!