Entries from January 2008

January 29, 2008

it’s way too early for this.

It’s still only January and I’m already starting to have a touch of spring fever.

I’m starting to daydream about spring flowers — daffodils! tulips!! — and not having to wear gloves, and longer days, and sandals (which require pedicures, of course!) and skirts without tights, and the sound of peepers at night and the smell [...]

January 25, 2008

flickr friday

Yay, it’s Friday!!  It’s been quite a week for me, so despite having to work this Saturday (taking minutes for the Alumni Council at the College), I’m looking forward to some relaxation and quiet time.  Joel is visiting his sister in Boston for the weekend, so there will be plenty of quiet, that’s for sure [...]

January 24, 2008

m.i.a.

Oh, crap…you’ve discovered why I’ve been missing in action:

No! I’m kidding!  I may be slightly unhinged at times, but I haven’t slid off the edge just yet.    Seriously though, I haven’t blogged this week because I needed a short, spontaneous, self-imposed break.  And it was good.  I’ll have you know, I only checked [...]

January 18, 2008

flickr friday

I’m just going to jump right in with the pictures this morning.  First, one of my own shots:

And, yes, all I have are snow shots.  It’s winter in Maine and the only thing that ever happens is it snows.  And snows.  And then it snows some more.  Did I mention it snows here a lot?  [...]

January 15, 2008

top ten tuesday: movies

The fact that I’m running so late with this post is pretty indicative of my day, but I really shouldn’t complain because I got half the day off yesterday — because of the storm (which ultimately dropped about 15 inches of snow), the College closed at 1:00 and sent everyone home, which is good [...]

January 14, 2008

icky monday

It’s snowing…AGAIN.  It’s coming down about 1-2 inches per hour right now — I can barely see across the street — and we’re supposed to get 6-10 inches before the end of the day.  Of course, the College didn’t close, so I’m here at my office approximately 25 miles from home…  Should be an interesting [...]

January 11, 2008

flickr friday

No picture from me today — I’m kind of slacking in the photo-editing department these days, although in my own defense, I recently downloaded 193 new photos from my camera, so it’s not like I’m not taking the pictures, I’m just not finding the time to sort through them all, give them titles, lighten/darken, crop, [...]

January 10, 2008

i’ve got nothing.

Seriously. I’m feeling so drained, so tired, so uninspired… I can’t come up with anything to write about today. Do you ever have those days? where basic functionality is about all you can muster? where anything requiring the least little bit of effort is just too much? On the upside however, there’s [...]

January 8, 2008

top ten tuesday: christmas 2007

I realize Christmas was, like, two weeks ago, but please bear with me through more Christmas content as I finish sorting all my photos.  I’ll get caught up eventually, I swear.
Without further ado, the top ten best things about christmas 2007…in pictures:

10. Yummy treats — these are the espresso kiss cookies I made.

9. It looked [...]

January 7, 2008

monday miscellany

“Monday, Monday — can’t trust that day…”
The weekend was pretty good. Kim and Tim’s wedding was beautiful in their very unconventional way — you gotta love a bride who wears a green silk dress with knee-high Fluevog boots next to her groom who is wearing a kilt and some pretty kick-ass boots of his [...]