On a weekend of Holiday Adventure

as usual...
larger (and more) photos can be found here

Otherwise, enjoy the show!!!!!

Welp.
it all started with...
with getting groceries.

(that's Maria, my [real] roomate)

Then with the purchased ingrediants
we made our very own
SNOW ice cream!!!!
Josh collected [clean] snow during the day...


(thank you josh)

It was actually very tasty!!!
Tasted Just like ice cream!!!

Next, we
covered the table with aluminum foil
(it is an all purpose material in our house)
and began creating





The next evening
Jessica arrived in town
we had a gathering of wonderful folks that night
and a few people made a few more creations
davy made a snake...
eventually a baby wound up on it...riding it

davy looks scary there - sorry davy...

We had a Wonderful dinner

that consisted of...
i don't remember...OH! spaghetti and and...uuum
salad and
josh brought pie!!

and bread...I see bread here:


Then Maria tried picking up davy

it didn't work out so well...

AND JOSH MADE THE ANGEL FOR OUR TREE!!!




she's SUCH a beautiful angel!
:)



Then after making MORE ornaments
(for our 2 foot tree......)
we started the REAL decorating!!




....*shrugs*

then we took a picture with our angel!!!

what a WONDERFUL group of folks.
:)

And this is our tree allll done


and another family photo
(yes, we're full of ourselves)


Then i left to the Folds' residence
where they, too were having a holiday gathering....
...............it was....
............it was much more.....'grown up'????
but still nice.

Anywho, this is plenty long!!!
take care everyone!!!
I'll update you even more soon
since this was from the weekend, and its wednesday
sooo clearly even More has happened between now and then!!!

On vacation

three weeks, guys...
three weeks.

if I lose my fingers to frostbite...I wonder if i will still be graphic design capable....
probably.


I went to work today
and was supposed to take some pictures for out at BECON
(biomass energy conversion facility)
uuuuh but the group I was to photograph never showed...
which is fine
I got paid ...to sit and wait.
And take some pictures




in the words of alanis morissette...errr actually...Seal...
"but we're never gonna survive...unless we get a little....crazy."

On Ears

my ear hurts.
making my head hurt.
making my attitude hurt.
which means that i'm hungry.
which makes me thirsty
and the more i drink, the more i drink.

ergo.

sad ear = happy drinks?



in other news
for the first time in
8 months
i had the thought of
...i don't love my job.

its just all of a sudden gotten really
really...
more stressful than I've been used to
on top of being finals week...
oops.

I need some golden arches in my life

On a 'dead' week

well well
what a crazy time of the semester
I suppose that is why they call it "dead" week.





In my digital photography class,
I haven't gotten below a 95% on a project.
I suppose part of that is...welllll its a 200level class
aaand open to all Art and Design majors....
Being a senior graphic designer gives me a smidge of an advantage.
Safe to say that...my latest project was...another hit.
The prints were Amazing.
at 36" wide a piece and some really vibrant colors
that...turned out much better than I had actually expected...
I think i ...guarenteed myself an A for that class.



Another project that I need to present on
(on this coming Thursday night...
to the actual client)
is for a general studio class.


*shrugs*
what can I say?
Sometimes the inability to sleep is a blessing...especially
when it comes to...needing to add just a bit more
to show that you didn't allow yourself to just get "bored"
once you finished the project.
We had mandatory individual meetings with our instructor (Lisa F.)
aaand after 5 minutes, it was concluded that...mmm
I am done.
OH and that...she's waiting on final approval of
an environmental design grad program
the first of its kind in the country...
And since I've taken wayfinding, exhibit design, And 470...
it would only be a +1 year program for me.
.......hmmmm. something to think about.

what else what else...


i don't have pictures of anything else...
The end is near,
the end is near!!!

On a song

On work

I was researching a bit for...information design
for the Annual Report I'm designing at work.
I cam eacross this:
aaaand....felt that ....it just Needed to be posted.

On dead week

almost done, y'all

two art works due tomorrow
meeting about video tomorrow
meeting with Lisa fontaine tomorrw for final reviews of Bay City Cycles proposal
aaand
work ...8-1. gross. ...even though I love my job...i could Really use that morning off... hmmm

yes ma'am, I can.