51 posts tagged “photography”
I have been reading my vox neighborhood (via google reader) the problem with reading it as a feed as that when I don't visit the site, I don't comment and I don't post. I'm making an effort. I love the theme I am using right now, but I have never been able to keep a solid black layout on anything for very long. I just feel... oppressed.
I have felt really productive lately. I've done a lot of housework, not to mention video games, sewing projects (well, I haven't finished many, but my mind has been abuzz with ideas!), reading, photography. I started in addition to the regular Project 365 deal, the 365 self portraits challenge. Self portraits make me feel silly and full of myself, oh well.
I'm excited about the summer because Shaun is a teacher, Friday is his last day of work, and then we have a whole summer of productivity to look forward to, playing video games, finally getting the house completely put away, editing out great American novels and so on.
Oh my! I need to update more. I'm so... distracted by Animal Crossing! :D It snowed some more today. I took some fabulous photos that I don't feel like posting of my dollies that love the snow. I have to upload off of the camera. I'm so... distracted by Animal Crossing!
I finally thought of my professional blogging niche, aren't you excited? I'm domestic. I domesticate. I sew, I draw, I write and read, I play video games, I cook the mean vegan dishes and I spend a lot of time online, or home alone. I am The New Young Housewife! I really hope it takes off in an upwards direction rather than one of plummeting. If you have a blog on your website, or any sort of professional blog at all, I would love to have a look at it and add it to my blogroll. I'm working the blogging network, yo. I have a whole pile of ideas for posts to write for it that seem pompous when I'm writing for "friends and family" but fabulous when I'm writing for an audience that I want to love and admire me for my many talents.
I'm a goose. I hope you love me anyway.
I am seriously enjoying the addition of groups & the capability to design our own banners.
Without further ado... huge photo overload.
Was that too much? I'm sorry. I need to update more often. I'm enjoying the slick streets way too much to be in here on the computer! That's a lie. I've been playing The Sims 2.
Yay! It isn't much, but there is snow.
I'm a bit behind posting my photo daily here, but I have diligently taken two photos every day this year. I don't always do Clothe Daily, but I take one photo of myself and one of something else everyday.
Clothes Daily for the 2nd to last photo below:
- grey shirt from Gordmans
- purple shirt with dragon from ALLOY
- grey trousers from Alloy
- ballet flats from Target.
We found a really cute little officiant who performed a cute little ceremony. It was really comfortable. In the middle of
We ordered the rings from Amazon.com a few weeks ago and they came on Dec. 26th. We hadn't done any planning at all at that point. I started looking in the phone book and found a promising ad for a Rev. Paul Horn (I highly recommend him if you're in the Tulsa, OK area, look him up!) On Friday, Dec. 29th, we went to the courthouse to get a marriage license. It was $50 and we had it in under 10 minutes. We don't have a phone so we went to Shaun's parents house and luckily no one was there, we called the number for Rev. Horn and he told us to come right over for an interview. By 5pm we had put his fee (another $50) into an envelope, handed him our
How much did the whole thing cost, you ask? $237 for rings, officiant & marriage license.
But it isn't for lack of doing. Right now is a really good opportunity for me to write because I'm procrastinating about taking down the Christmas Tree (Happy Epiphany!) and doing laundry and eating breakfast. Breakfast is probably the most important part. I haven't eaten much aside from potatoes in the past couple of days because I am a forgetful goose.
I've done a picture a day quite religiously for the past 5 days. I haven't done clothes daily primarily because in spite of the fact that I had told myself I would leave a wall nice and bare so that I could take my clothes daily photo there, well, I'm still unpacking, things aren't quite how they will be and it may never happen. I can take them outside, but it's kind of cold, and I don't like the back neighbors poking out their door and blinds at me like I'm a freak. They're the ones with piles of wet carpet on their porch, and they wanted to put a Direct TV satellite on a 5-20 foot pole in our yard, ha ha, no, here's our landlords number but he'll say no too. The government (that is, the taxpayer) is paying their rent and paying way too much, to boot (twice as much as we are for our very nice little house!). Their roof wouldn't support a satellite dish it's so crumbly.
That was something of a tangent, forgive me. Here are my two pictures a day for all of this year, excepting today, which I haven't taken yet:
Seriously, kids, I'm going to try and keep up with this, especially in the new year. Call it something of a resolution I made, partially for a Livejournal community. I need to be kept busy, anyway.
- brown long sleeved shirt (gift from the fashionista niecelings) Old Navy.
- tan tank top (gift from parents) ALLOY
- black trousers (gift from parents) ALLOY
- brown boots (left behind by sister because they hurt her feet, or something, I find them intensely comfy for heels. They make me 6 feet tall! Hott!) Candies.
Here I am posing up a storm. I was being very America's Next Top Model but I kept laughing so hardly any of the pictures were any good. Shaun likes the ones where I am laughing, of course.
Here is a sampling of our Christmas haul. Essentially, these are the combined books, movie and video games that we received this year.
My parents also gave us their old dining room table. It belonged to my great grandparents and is probably from the 1940s, though it could be older. I remember sitting under it when I was a kid and looking at all of the legs of the adults and twanging a spring that is under it that has something to do with the leaves of it. It has two, they don't insert in the middle, but pull out at the ends. We have one out right now and have set Arkham Horror and the Dunwich Horror expansion up. We needed a big table for board gamery, so we're super happy.
This is the type of post I would like to make daily here, but I seem to be so... disorganized, most of the time. We'll see how it goes, I guess.
Here are some more of my Christmas Eve & Christmas photos. If you're curious, there are lots of them in my photos here & on my flickr:
We signed up for Netflix yesterday and should be getting the Disney Hercules and Disc 1 Vol 1 of Dark Shadows tomorrow. Netflix is amazing. I have a queue that is full of TV series and Shaun has one full of Movies. I think this is an efficient system.
On Sunday I went on a synchronized walk with some 43thingers. The gist of it was that all over the world, we were walking together, and taking photos. It wasn't an exact science, if you couldn't walk at the exact same time as everyone else it didn't really matter. In any case, I took an extra long walk with Shaun, from 12:30 to 2:30 pm, so that I was surely walking with someone else since the observed time was 1pm.
We went all over, and I carried a bag of books to release for bookcrossing.com. It was unseasonably warm & perfect for such a long walk.
