October random thoughts.

So Thanksgiving was wonderful. Great company, great food, performance art jell-o, turkey and all other manner of lovely things. I had to go to class after though and work on my research paper. Boo!

I had the flu. It was horrid. E was lovely.

I haven't been sleeping since said flu.

Also the smell of food cooking and the act of swallowing...still not so much loving.

I studied for my mid term for a few hours tonight and suddenly got the urge to completely clean/re-organize the office. RIGHT THAT MINUTE.

No idea why I chose to do my research paper on Doubt: a Parable.  After reading tons of research I am thinking that since I deal with a lot of abuse/molestation at work I should have picked the "He's a Good Man Charlie Brown" option.

Our tickets for the National Monument tour came in the mail. Can not wait until March.

The nanaimo bars I made for thanksgiving were delish if i do say so myself. And I do.

Still really loving my punkins. They are pretty and make me happy.

It is Thanksgiving.

Saturday Kimmy and I took Kaitee to the pumpkin patch.
We had literally a trunk full of  pumpkins at the end of the day. Two wheel barrows full (we actually popped the tire on the wheel barrow). One very fun day!

Good dog.

A few years ago I took a black and white photography class, developing my own film and all that business. I really liked it but I had one roll that I just didn't get around to while I was still in class. Not many places develop B&W film anymore so it sat on ym desk for YEARS. I just got it developed a few weeks ago and the whole roll was images of E's dog Sandy.

They had her for 18 years and she was THE BEST DOG. Sweet and even tempered. She got slower these past few years and today they had to put her down. So *sad*.

So here's to Sandy, a really good dog.

Instax Love!

So this weekend was good but Sunday-Monday? Not so hot. I had several cooking disasters on Sunday followed up by a massive migraine that continued into Monday. NICE!
But today there was happy mail waiting for me at the post office! My new baby!
After work i took her out for a spin.

I'm in love with my new instax mini....any name suggestions? She's tiny, cute and from japan!

Polaroid Love

I shot my last few polaroids Sunday. So SAD that they don't make polaroid film anymore...I am hopeful about The Impossible Project. In the meantime I ordered this little sweetie to hopefully fill the gap.

She's a fuji instax mini. Pretty!

NO WAY!

Can we discuss the fact that 10 minutes ago I went into my kitchen and saw THIS on the sink without discussing how i really need to mop. K?

Centipede and scorpion in one night....it's official....my father will never want to visit again and I will not sleep tonight without inspecting every inch of our bed and room.
E is going out of town tomorrow.....I may have to have a sleepover or something....I'm totally freaked out.  He is now checking under the couch with a flashlight. LOVE HIM!

ohhhhhh.....I could check into a hotel!

What? Just thinking of options.

One more.....SERIOUSLY!?!?!

We were innocently watching the office. LOVE the office. love Jim and Pam nugget. Love it.

Suddenly I notice the abster playing with a bug.....OH NO! Not a bug....a SCORPION....that immediately runs underneath our entertainment center. Niiiiiiiiice!

I grab the raid and proceed to have a massive panic attack call the M's across the street for some backup.

E-1, Scorpion-0!

he's mynewt ;)

Apparently this is my week for wildlife :) I was driving my friend Kim home tonight and we saw a skunk....which started us telling wildlife stories. This week alone has introduced us to "Batty" the bat that moved in while I was in class Monday night and stayed until the following evening when E scared him off. *sad*

Then after the FAIR! Where we ate trashy fair food and I WON BLUE RIBBONS and A BEST IN CLASS RIBBON. That's right....i'm officially small town. I was coreced into entering entered my lemon bars some cards and scrapbook pages and won three blue ribbons (1st place),a red ribbon (2nd place) and a best in class (that's like better than first....a special award...for my lemon bars! Officially a hick, I know.

When we got home we met this little guy! He's a newt...


















Huzzah for wildlife!

School is stealing my soul.

School is good. Good but rough. I haven't been in school for a few years now and i'm just out of practice. It is also harder then I remember, when I was in school last time for most of the time I would go to school from 8-3 and work from 3:30- midnight. I do not have that type of energy anymore.
It's also scary....i'm following my dreams and that's more intimidating than I thought it would be. So happy to have an extra day of weekend this weekend FOR SURE!

In other news I'm super blessed. I have a supportive partner. I get to use my brain and learn and grow. I have a three day weekend....thinking i'm going to get creative and make some bread do some atristic stuff. :) We are planning a trip to D.C. in the spring so ideas for what we will do are percolating.

























We had an awesome day yesterday....got out of town with some friends for shopping, thai food, art in the park, and fun.

Runaways!

Just a quick post about all the crazy goodness going on in our lives.

I started school yesterday. As a result free time will be at a premium for the foreseeable future.

As a sort of a last hurrah/E taking his first vacation days in FIVE YEARS! Seriously, I think he once took one day so we could fly to Canada and see my family for Christmas. Anyway, we ran away to DISNEYLAND!

Some adorable little five year old’s we know were celebrating a birthday so we decided to crash the party. I kept telling E that some day we will live somewhere else and a quick weekend trip to Disneyland won’t be happening so we should enjoy it while we can. AND WE DID! We spun like tops on the teacups, drank pineapple juice in the Tiki room, blasted our way through the new Toy Story mania ride and had a romantic dinner at the Blue Bayou. We also loved: the beignet at Ralph Brennan’s, California Screamin’ (e), fantasmic, little miss matched store (a) and turkey legs! E has his first chess tournament this weekend so I’m escaping as well. Down to Phoenix to get in some girl time. But for now…there is an English class calling my name and hundreds of photographs waiting to be uploaded and shared.

long time no blog...

so this video....loving it lots

and these pictures we made in july.....

i really loved taking.....the highlight of e's reunion for me for sure.

i love that i brought the idea and everyone got into it.

work....i'm not so much loving...some days the ugly of it all just really gets to me and it's overwhelming....the sadness and wretchedness of the things people do to other people. sad.

however, i have some super happy things on the horizon and lots of love and happiness at home and overall i am BLESSED.

Stuff!

First off, Love this quote! Happy mother's day to all of you!

"this ability and willingness properly to rear children,
the gift to love, and eagerness, yes, longing to express it in soul development,
makes motherhood the noblest office or calling in the world."
-- president david o. mckay

Worked on this page from a prompt we did on the challenge blog. Head on over to participate in our latest challenge based on Razzle Dazzle from Chicago! Link on the sidebar.

Very inspired by this:


Loved this

Have a great rest of the weekend!

chill

There is something so soothing about adding ingredients, stirring, and making something delicious. E was at the school spring concert tonight and one of the girls in his class, who also happens to live across the street, dropped her baton into the orchestra pit.

I. so. know. how. that. feels.

He called and asked me to whip up something sweet and delish as a pick me up for her. While I was stirring and mixing I started to think about how sometimes the baton feels like EVERYTHING. The most important thing EVER. When really it's so small in the bigger picture. So for tonight. I'm trying to think of the bigger picture.

As a perfect reminder I added this letterpress card from Etsy to my rotating metallic boards this week. Find it here.

I really loathe spiders....

So when we pull up to our house and see a big one like this....it makes me freak out...

Not quite sure how big it was? That's a 2X4...manned by E...my spider killer and defender.


I felt a little better once it was a spot of mush on the end of the 2X4. The right side.

Random part? I was on the phone with my sister wishing her a happy birthday and she used to be my spider killer. She totally remembered!
I really need to learn not to google "large black spider in Arizona"...not a good idea. Ever. Bonus points if you can identify the species. We are thinking black widow as we've had those before but not sure.

Crack....It's an addiction.

I've had this before but I completely forgot how good it was until I saw it on Smitten Kitchen.

That was the beginning of the end. E has found a new love...people at his school are talking about how Mr. F's wife makes good crack. The jokes at the office were endless. I routinely hear things like "They found 500 pounds of marijuana in the car." and "The blood sample tested positive to methamphetamine.". You can imagine the joke potential of a dessert nicknamed crack.

Make it....make it now! Except the Cope's because I'm bringing you some this weekend.
Here's the recipe!

Easter

I miss my family. I miss Sunday dinners. A roast, roast chicken, ham, grilling on the barbeque or even a simple stew. Sunday’s were the one day of the week that we would usually eat together and talk. And Easter Sunday? Time for a feast! Yummy food, many friends who didn’t have any place to go, great conversation, movies and games and yes…a chocolate Easter bunny.

Now E and I are the lost friends who don’t have a place…luckily for us we have great friends. So our Easter plans are as follows. We had dinner with the Parkers et al tonight. I brought rice dressing.

Linda made performance art jello and it was lovely and delicious.

Easter treats for our nieces and nephews are already delivered and probably devoured.

Easter cards have been mailed out to dear people near and far. (a recent goal of mine is to actually mail out more of the handmade cards I make) and that’s it.It’s good. It’s enough. But I miss my family. A lot.

fun at the park!

Had the best day at the park yesterday with Kimmy and Kaitee. Got some fun pictures and had a great time. Enjoy!