My Favorite Things - Edition #17

Watching my sweet kitty warm herself as the fall sun streams in

(and having a AWESOME camera and EVEN MORE AWESOME husband to capture images like these!)

OH Canada!

I've been wanting to show you some pictures and I finally got around to pulling them off of the camera - so this week you're in for a treat!

We spent a couple days in Canada on our way home from Boston (Oh god, the drive!)

Apparently Frankenstein really likes Whoppers


and I really (REALLY) like candy apples - even though I almost break my teeth off every time I eat one.


and everything is lit up at night in a really cool way


It makes your balls glow


and my adorable husband who carried all of our camera crap and souvenirs so not to burden his pregnant wife.


And even let me hit on an astronaut!


Glow-in-the-dark putt putt ROCKS by the way and did you know that if you are pregnant you are AWESOME at miniature golf? True story. My friend Lydia told me this, and I am amazing at it right now.

Come back tomorrow and see which Resolutions I completed while in Canada!

Hello Kitty

Photography Class!

Remember how I have an *amazing* husband who got me a SLR camera for my birthday? Well our classes are in full swing and each week our assignment is to take pictures and upload them to a shared site where they can be critiqued (yikes!) The instructor and class can comment on what went right and what went wrong and how to make the picture better. Learning curves aren't much fun - I wish I could just click my fabulous red wedges together and already know how to use the camera and which setting will work best for each shot. But, alas, I need to dig down deep for some patience and keep plugging away. Speed reading would come in handy here, am I right?

I like to take pictures of things up close, so husband says we might need to find me a better lens for that. I want to take stylish pictures of things like nail polish bottles (thanks to Dooce(R)!) and I do believe my husband thinks I've lost my marbles.

Here are our pictures for this week.

A fuzzy little caterpillar that we found hanging out on a day lily last night


This annual bulb is almost done - but I snapped a picture just in time


This tree was replanted by husband and my dad last fall - they pulled it out of the backyard with a truck (after yanking on it for damn near two hours) and it's just starting to show signs of life.


And this is what Heidi and I found when we tried to grill out last week. Two days + closed grill = 4 blue eggs (and one GINORMOUS nest)



I think you get the picture :)

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Thoughts for TA-day:

I'm glad my husband doesn't smell like cheese

I'm glad my husband isn't the kind of medical student who kills people

I'm glad my husband bought me that SLR camera because I think photography is awesome!

Also, Skyping with my husband is an incredible turn on...even when he's in the next room :)

Thoughts for TA-morrow:

I will be taking a short break from blogger for a while. Maybe two weeks - maybe a day, but definitely longer than a day. Probably. I hope.

I've noticed my blog traffic has picked up lately (yay!) - yet my comments have not (boo!) I would like to invite all of you shy stalker people out there to leave a message. I always like to meet new people and read interesting blogs. Perhaps you have one of your own? Also, you can see from the map in the sidebar there has even been some INTERNATIONAL traffic. Whuzup witchoo?


(photo, Busted Tees)

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