Day 12

Came back from Stafford this afternoon, went for a walk with my mom to find a Christmas tree without much luck. It was snowing (first real snow of the season!) and the roads in the farm were kind of icy. I fell. The shoes I grabbed while my mom was being all impatient with me are running shoes for the road. I thought they were my trail running shoes. Not so much. Look exactly the same except the tread. These have none. Dumb.

Other than that- I've done nothing productive today at all except a load of laundry and made dinner and did the dishes.

Tomorrow should prove to be more productive and interesting in general.

Day 11

I made some life plans last night. Big time.

Day 11 was Krista's 21st birthday. Kate and I "went to the game", which means we went to Manchester and saw a movie and I had a piece of a piece of the literally worst pizza I've ever eaten in my life and felt sick for the rest of the day, and then went to JTs and I stayed there for like... 3 hours drinking selter and then went to Vernon Lanes to go bowling (super fun- love bowling) and then back up to Stafford for drinks at Mun's. Considering how much time I spent at the bar Saturday (bar at the bowling alley too), it's funny that my total bar tab for the entire day was $20 and that included a bacardi and diet for Kate and a long island iced tea for Krista and a bud light that I bought for myself, but mysteriously disappeared (thanks Jason).

Can't you just feel the love?

Day 10

My mom's dog had mouth cancer- from all the chew- you know? Like the baseball players? Exactly like that- they had to remove half of his lower jaw and now it clicks all the time like he's chewing ice. It's an awful sound and makes me think twice about the eating of the ice.

Anyway- a lot of people have been asking my mom about him and so she wanted to send out a nice Christmas card featuring Willy. So... today's photoshoot will feature my mom's collie Willy with antlers. Later in the day I'll be headed back to Target to get the antlers for Aidan and Grace and since I probably won't be able to get them to sit nicely for the photo... work on photoshopping them into Willy's picture.

This is quite a little project for the novice. Just thought I'd keep you all posted.

P.S.- he doesn't look like he's missing half his lower jaw... He's still a good looking dog. Seems to be pretty happy too- when he's not "adjusting" his jaw.

P.P.S.- I got my hair cut again. I just wasn't happy with the length. So I called at 1:30 and got an appointment for 2:30 and the owner apologized for not being able to take me herself. Whatever! Thanks for taking me at all!

So this is the new length. It's a little shorter than I wanted, but I can still throw the sassy face with it, so whatever!

Day 9

Day 9...

Well it's noon. Last night I watched 4-5 episodes of House and 4-5 episodes of Grey's Anatomy to catch up. I haven't watched TV for quite some time- that kind of TV at least. Prior to leaving Stafford I was generally indisposed during prime time- chitchatting with the phone calls or at JTs or Melisa's or something... most of the shows I used to watch were DVRd so it didn't really matter if I couldn't watch them when they first aired... but now I don't have that luxury. or HBO. So I haven't watched True Blood or Heroes or anything else in a really long time. Been watching MSNBC at night.

SERIOUSLY. I watch MSNBC at night and want to wear heels. I bought a pair of jeans yesterday. I put them on and said- these would look better with heels. I found a pair of heels and put them on and I was right. Then I went online and went shoe shopping. I don't know what's happened to me. I didn't buy any shoes- I'll just stick with what I've got for the time being and see how that treats me. Even with the heels the jeans are too long. I normally get "tall" jeans, because normal isn't long enough... but this is a bit too much. I suppose I could get them altered- but... that'd be too grown up.

Oh- rambling. Sorry.

So... it's time to get the ass in gear and go to the gym. New policy is leave at 12:50 to get there for 1PM or so and watch days of our lives while on the arc trainer. I just tried the arc trainer yesterday... it's like Tony Little's Gazelle on crack. It changes the incline while you're going- like a treadmill... except the part where I didn't realize it was going to do that... good thing I was completely alone in the gym yesterday when that happened, because I burst out laughing.

This picture isn't the picture of the day... just something to prove I do own heels. I admit the only reason for that was to wear to weddings, job interviews and funerals... but whatever.

Day 8

Since I live with my mother at the moment (who hates her photo taken as much as I do) and my cat and her cat and her dog and that's it... it's easy for me to take pictures of the cats. I don't have another subject. Cats or Christmas trees.

Today was cats. Shooting into the sun.



He's very sick of the camera. He's also dusty, and I think the look in his eyes reflects the "please don't document my filth! let me clean myself first!" and then spends the next three days cleaning himself obsessively. at least nobody's told him he's fat lately... he literally goes bulimic for a few days after a weight comment.

I know I promise more interesting photos pretty much every day- but you know... that would involve a more interesting life I think.

Day 7

It was a beautiful sunset today... I took a bunch of shots trying to capture the bright colors- this is about as good as it got. I didn't alter the colors in photoshop, just used the vivid setting on the camera with the saturation and hue cranked up. The photo was more about the colors than the trees, but I can see now that they're a bit out of focus. The sun (obviously) had mostly set, so light was very low there in my yard. This is overlooking the christmas tree field next door.

I took some other pictures too... but now that I look at them, they're very grainy. Obviously I need to reset my camera and figure out why that's happening. Even with the low light, they shouldn't be that bad. It wasn't THAT dark.

I'll try again tomorrow.

Melisa's tinkering with her camera again. Yay!

Day 6

Cyber Monday. I spent $300 today. All on me. After that was done, I made two Christmas wreaths and went for a hike with my dad in Hampton. I also watched Days of Our Lives. And got fish and chips from Classic for dinner.

And didn't take a single picture. Not one.

Update (10:10PM)

Ok- so the first of the month will be my self portrait day I suppose. I took a crapload of pictures for a website to "yearbook myself"- so I took one of those and black and white-ed it and burned the edges. That's about it.



Oh- and if you click on the picture and look at the enlargement of my eye on the left- that's a brown line I have going through what is a mostly green eye. Darrell seemed slightly concerned about it when he noticed it a couple of days or weeks (I don't even remember) ago. After years of friendship.