Josh and I completed our move to Yuba City, CA, and then Josh readied for his first trek to western China. He partnered with a buddy from REI, Josiah, and Josh, Josiah, and Josiah's wife Hillary are trekking in China!
He left on Oct 15, and 21 hours later, he arrived in Hong Kong to stay for one night at my family's dear friends - "uncle" and "aunt" to me - before meeting up with the others and heading to China.
In our first attempt to podcast together, we recorded this interview in which I asked Josh questions about his upcoming trip and what he did to plan for it. You'll hear a shameless plug for REI and getting equipment there. Enjoy!
The thumbnail is a picture that Josh took during his trip. It looks like the beginning of a video, but it's just a picture.
Saturday, October 17, 2015
Thursday, September 24, 2015
New Adventures in California
Well, here we go again. Kimberly and Joshua are on the move!
Kimberly has taken a job as a product development manager at Lundberg Family Farms, a farming company based in Northern California that specializes in organic rice and rice products.
For the past year, Kimberly has been traveling back and forth between Seattle and Sacramento. She would get back to Seattle at least monthly, because there were business trips to different parts of the nation, and it was as convenient to fly through Seattle as it would have been to travel through San Francisco.
Joshua has been working at REI for the past several years, and over the past year, he has been working to transfer to Sacramento's REI store. He will be transferring to the Roseville store.
In addition to the moving adventure, Joshua and Kimberly are going to spend a little bit of time in Asia.
Joshua is heading out on a trek to China on October 16. Kimberly will join him in HK for Thanksgiving. We're really looking forward to it!
Kimberly has taken a job as a product development manager at Lundberg Family Farms, a farming company based in Northern California that specializes in organic rice and rice products.For the past year, Kimberly has been traveling back and forth between Seattle and Sacramento. She would get back to Seattle at least monthly, because there were business trips to different parts of the nation, and it was as convenient to fly through Seattle as it would have been to travel through San Francisco.
Joshua has been working at REI for the past several years, and over the past year, he has been working to transfer to Sacramento's REI store. He will be transferring to the Roseville store.
In addition to the moving adventure, Joshua and Kimberly are going to spend a little bit of time in Asia.
Joshua is heading out on a trek to China on October 16. Kimberly will join him in HK for Thanksgiving. We're really looking forward to it!
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
SAM Remix Fri June 7
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**I love supporting events from the Seattle Art Museum, even when I can't attend. This upcoming event announcement is directly from their website.**
SAM Performs
Illuminate the park after dark: first 50 in neon get in free. Tickets: SAM members $12, nonmembers $15, students w/ID $12. This event is open to guests age 18 and over only. Here are details to assist you in your evening planning: - The entrance to SAM Remix at the Olympic Sculpture Park is at the corner of Western Avenue and Broad Street at 2901 Western Avenue. All guests with print-at-home, Will Call and blue Remix tickets should check in here. - Please bring your ID and SAM membership card (if applicable) for Will Call and print-at-home tickets. Drink wristbands for guests 21+ will be distributed just beyond the event entrance. - The Olympic Sculpture Park garage will be closed. Parking is available on the street and in lots adjacent to the park. - We will party rain or shine! Be sure to dress for the weather, as most activities and beverage tents will be located outside, throughout the park. - SAM Members: Present your membership card and photo ID at the Member Table to pick up your drink wristband, one complimentary drink coupon and member lanyard for entrance to the “Members Lawn”. Complimentary beverage is redeemable in the “Members Lawn” bar only located in the Gates Amphitheater. - Sorry, no pets will be permitted at SAM Remix (with the exception of service animals). - There will be beverage areas in the PACCAR Pavilion as well as two tent areas throughout the park. Please keep the park clean and keep all beverages in the fenced-in areas. See new installations and celebrate summer at the Olympic Sculpture Park. Experience art, performances, talks, dancing and more at this late-night creative explosion!EVENT SCHEDULE 8:15 PM Seattle Percussion Collective provides a sunset soundtrack in front of Richard Serra’s "Wake" 9:00 PM Houston-based artist Trenton Doyle Hancock discusses his brand new installation for the PACCAR Pavilion 9:15 PM Truckasauras rocks the party with an explosive lo-fi live set. 9:15 PM Susie Lee presents a dance, music, and digital drawing project 10 PM Writer Amber Flame responds to the work of Trenton Doyle Hancock 10:30 PM The band Library Science rouses the senses with aural and visual delights * Enjoy SunTzu Sound’s cosmic blend of urban cultures and organic rhythms. * Collaborate with visual artist Mandy Greer using recycled materials * Dance under the stars to the global beats of DJ Manpreet and R.I. Productions of I Heart Shiva. * Contribute to a massive collaborative comic drawing with the Bureau of Drawers * Try this spontaneous one-line poetry form derived by Allen Ginsberg from haiku * My Favorite Things Tours with artists Jenny Heishman and Jesse Higman, writer Michael Dylan Welch, Seattle Weekly's Victoria Ellison, art critic Jen Graves, The Stranger's Pick Lucas Deon Spivey and others. SAM members enjoy priority access at Remix, ticket presale and more. Not a member? Join SAM today. SAM is proud to have American Institute of Architects Seattle, Arcade, Artist Trust, The Bernard Apartments, Bumbershoot: Seattle's Music & Arts Festival, I Heart Shiva, Jack Straw Productions, Out for Sustainability, Pacific Science Center, Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), Seattle Works, Sustainable Belltown, Sustainable Seattle, Sustainable Style Foundation, University of Washington School of Law's Advocates for the Arts (AFTA), and Washington Rare Plant Care and Conservation as our August SAM Remix cohosts Members: $12.00 Adults: $15.00 Students: $12.00 | ||||||||||||
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Memorial Day
Memorial Day comes and goes each year, and most of us observe it by having a three-day weekend packed with events, BBQs/burger burns, sporting events, and other fun activities. We might take some time to observe flags flown at half-staff or pause on the PBS broadcast of the Memorial Day Concert from Washington. But that's usually it.
As the years pass from the brief time I was in the Air Force, the more nostalgic I feel. I watch "my" Airmen as they gain rank, adding stripes and fancy titles, and "my" NCOs as they prepare to hang up their uniforms for the last time. I celebrate marriages and births and grieve losses with them, and I try to focus on the reasons that I trained to be a leader and officer rather than the reasons that developed for deciding not to stay in.
2012 and 2013 have been pivotal years for Josh and me, and we are starting to feel like we're back on track of plan A, though I admit that it's more like Plan A.99.b. or something like that - it almost resembles plan A, since we are living in a city, near one of our families, and we're doing jobs that we have both studied, albeit after our undergrad years.
In other ways, we have also mourned some losses this year, losing some of our connections to the oldest generations in our families. My dear grandmother, my dad's mom, passed away at Thanksgiving time. Josh's grandfather, his mom's dad, passed in January. Both of the grandparents were foundations in our families, and we feel their losses strongly at family gatherings and in our weekend habits.
This Memorial Day, we remember the path that we took to get to the points we're at -- not to say that we've arrived but to acknowledge what as occurred in order to have the opportunity to sit and blog about it. We remember the friends and family with whom we were close when we lived close by, and we thank you for the time that we overlapped.
I hope you're with friends and loved ones this time, and if you're not, I encourage you to seek ways to build close relationships with those who are around you. You might surprise yourself, like we have in every place we've lived, by the kindred spirits you find who are walking similar paths to yours, even if briefly.
Happy Memorial Day.
Thank you to the men and women who put on uniforms, thank you to their families, and thank you to the citizens that have supported them. Remember, you're never in this totally alone.
As the years pass from the brief time I was in the Air Force, the more nostalgic I feel. I watch "my" Airmen as they gain rank, adding stripes and fancy titles, and "my" NCOs as they prepare to hang up their uniforms for the last time. I celebrate marriages and births and grieve losses with them, and I try to focus on the reasons that I trained to be a leader and officer rather than the reasons that developed for deciding not to stay in.
2012 and 2013 have been pivotal years for Josh and me, and we are starting to feel like we're back on track of plan A, though I admit that it's more like Plan A.99.b. or something like that - it almost resembles plan A, since we are living in a city, near one of our families, and we're doing jobs that we have both studied, albeit after our undergrad years.
In other ways, we have also mourned some losses this year, losing some of our connections to the oldest generations in our families. My dear grandmother, my dad's mom, passed away at Thanksgiving time. Josh's grandfather, his mom's dad, passed in January. Both of the grandparents were foundations in our families, and we feel their losses strongly at family gatherings and in our weekend habits.
This Memorial Day, we remember the path that we took to get to the points we're at -- not to say that we've arrived but to acknowledge what as occurred in order to have the opportunity to sit and blog about it. We remember the friends and family with whom we were close when we lived close by, and we thank you for the time that we overlapped.
I hope you're with friends and loved ones this time, and if you're not, I encourage you to seek ways to build close relationships with those who are around you. You might surprise yourself, like we have in every place we've lived, by the kindred spirits you find who are walking similar paths to yours, even if briefly.
Happy Memorial Day.
Thank you to the men and women who put on uniforms, thank you to their families, and thank you to the citizens that have supported them. Remember, you're never in this totally alone.
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Wondering about the Schaubs?
Well, much as we would have enjoyed staying at the Bed and Breakfast longer, we did come home.
I went to Chicago with the Modernist Cuisine team and cooked a fancy meal at Charlie Trotter's Restaurant for his final few weeks. My contract expired at Modernist Cuisine, and I changed jobs at the end of August. Read more on my food blog, Peas on Moss.
Josh has started working with New York Life as an financial services professional and is really rising to the challenge. He has been studying for a few exams and meeting with clients. The financial industry is new - and we're so impressed by all the training that New York Life provides their new team members - but the art of counseling, seeing clients, and maintaining a client base isn't especially new to Josh. The topic is a little less emotional than perhaps his other MFT work, but financial stability and future planning are vital in healthy relationships. It's easy for me to see how well financial preparedness contributes to family relationship health.
We've been spending time with family and friends and even took a family-friends vacation to Las Vegas, courtesy of Brittany's airline connection and Spencer and Aminda's time share. This time we left all the kids home and enjoyed a three-couple weekend. We went dancing and dining, and it was really fun. The girls bought fancy dresses for the dancing, and we all went out in style.
This year was my second year as president of the Seattle Waves Pepperdine Alumni Association. We had our fourth annual Seafair Celebration, and this time we reserved a yacht for alumni that sailed to Lake Washington to watch the Blue Angels fly directly above us. That was pretty cool.
We celebrated Josh's birthday at cousin Tracey's house. Tracey and Pete's daughter Grace is three, and she's so cute. It was a luau themed party, so Grace went around greeting guests and giving them little flower leis or shell necklaces. She also hula danced with me just a little. She's growing up so fast! Our nephew Everest grows taller every day and develops some new (pesky) talent, like opening doors. It has been a joy to watch him as he explores the world.
Our friends' kids are growing up so fast. We are loving being aunt and uncle to so many of them. We've welcomed two more baby boys into our Pepperdine alumni circle, and we had a beautiful niece born to Brittany's sister at the beginning of September.
Lots of transition and change at the Schaub's with jobs, and it's been a little topsy turvy adjusting to new schedules, deadlines, and tasks. We moved to some apartments in the International District of Seattle -- at the south end of the city next to Safeco and Century Link Fields. I love it, because we live right above a well-stocked and well-known Asian grocery store. It's so convenient!
More later.
I went to Chicago with the Modernist Cuisine team and cooked a fancy meal at Charlie Trotter's Restaurant for his final few weeks. My contract expired at Modernist Cuisine, and I changed jobs at the end of August. Read more on my food blog, Peas on Moss.
Josh has started working with New York Life as an financial services professional and is really rising to the challenge. He has been studying for a few exams and meeting with clients. The financial industry is new - and we're so impressed by all the training that New York Life provides their new team members - but the art of counseling, seeing clients, and maintaining a client base isn't especially new to Josh. The topic is a little less emotional than perhaps his other MFT work, but financial stability and future planning are vital in healthy relationships. It's easy for me to see how well financial preparedness contributes to family relationship health.We've been spending time with family and friends and even took a family-friends vacation to Las Vegas, courtesy of Brittany's airline connection and Spencer and Aminda's time share. This time we left all the kids home and enjoyed a three-couple weekend. We went dancing and dining, and it was really fun. The girls bought fancy dresses for the dancing, and we all went out in style.
This year was my second year as president of the Seattle Waves Pepperdine Alumni Association. We had our fourth annual Seafair Celebration, and this time we reserved a yacht for alumni that sailed to Lake Washington to watch the Blue Angels fly directly above us. That was pretty cool.
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| She thinks cousin Everest is nuts |
We celebrated Josh's birthday at cousin Tracey's house. Tracey and Pete's daughter Grace is three, and she's so cute. It was a luau themed party, so Grace went around greeting guests and giving them little flower leis or shell necklaces. She also hula danced with me just a little. She's growing up so fast! Our nephew Everest grows taller every day and develops some new (pesky) talent, like opening doors. It has been a joy to watch him as he explores the world.
Lots of transition and change at the Schaub's with jobs, and it's been a little topsy turvy adjusting to new schedules, deadlines, and tasks. We moved to some apartments in the International District of Seattle -- at the south end of the city next to Safeco and Century Link Fields. I love it, because we live right above a well-stocked and well-known Asian grocery store. It's so convenient!
More later.
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