A Morning of Family and Photos

First Floral Arrangement

Ceilings

So I thought this was cool -
someone on apartment therapy had a wood ceiling. On purpose! Throughout his whole house! Very cool. I have been growing attached to our kitchen paneling as of late. I guess it's sort of hip.

"What Do You Have?"

I'm sitting here working, peeling the thin remnant of a sunburn, stretching, waking up a little (chocolate and old coffee), looking at a days worth of notes and numbers, getting ready for tomorrow:
first Floral Design class! and more of the same.

Pictures!

From the 'hood!

News in the Schreck World

Timbers Army broke the interwebs in Puerto Rico tonight, as hundreds of fans in Portland tried to connect to usllive.com - a site which boasted access to tonight's Timbers vs Islanders match. It refused to connect, and fans were forced to keep up with the game via a Puerto Rican fan's blog.
So we watched 12 episodes of Arrested Development instead.

[It was a draw: 1-1]

Ah, Geography

[Update: Sorry for the bad links, they are now improved]
There is some cool stuff on the internet.
If you like photography of sweet places you'll probably never go, check these out:
Sacred Sites
and
TrekEarth

The Weekend

On a sunny weekend in Portland, we might be found doing things like visiting the nursery, sitting out on our driveway, at Costello's, not climbing (taking pictures), out on the pitch, or holding Gray.

Timbers vs Rhinos

2-1 we always win!

Update from the Land of Kaiser

I work in a grey cubicle, under florescent lights. It's warm, thankfully, and not depressing. I have pictures of Josh and I, and now some small speakers for my ipod (compliments of my two Emilys!) to drown out my closest neighbor's voices. This afternoon my most annoying neighbor is out, so I can hear my Amelie, drink my Good Earth, and do my work on my own little pleasant island (not be be confusled with milf island).
I also just found out that white is the new black. Exciting! and hard to pull off.

Stop Signs Around Portland

I took this first picture yesterday, and it reminded me that over the last two years of having a camera phone that didn't work right, I had taken pictures of other "edited" stop signs in town.

I Love Her!

Columbia: A Retrospective

Here are my cameraphone pictures I took last year in South Carolina... the few that I valued enough somehow to save to my old phone - one that refused to send pictures, yet would only hold about 100. ...really forces you to week out the less important ones. You will probably be wondering how these, then, made the cut. I'm not really sure, myself. I just know that every time I had to go through and delete, these stayed.


[1st camilia of spring - in January. Ceiling of the big catholic church downtown.]

[A gecko that landed on my head. A camel leaning out of a trailer on Gervais street.]

[A man smoking a pipe with the windows rolled up. An aisle of grits.]

['60s style bathroom in Gambrell. Parents on campus.]

Unusual, Unexpected

This is our life:
Work
Work
Work...
Days off?
So, this week was expected to be a little crazy: Josh was going to be continuing to work tons all week plus two proms for us this weekend. The proms are still happening, but this week has been... slow? I think? We've found ourselves home - at the same time - two afternoons in a row. It's fantastic! It's like being unemployed again, only minus the no money thing. Josh going to work early/coming home early, and the computer system wigging out at the KP made for some nice, relaxing afternoons. And some overdue errands finally being accomplished. Such as the combining of mobile plans (we're a real family now!) and the purchasing of new phones! This was a rather long process that moved from me staring blankly at a website for an hour, to us hanging out at the Verizon store for another 2 hours. (We also ran into Dave Duke there. Random.) Let me just say how lame phones are right now. No brick phones for Josh. No tiny phones for me. Big phones and Qwerty keyboards. BLEH. However, we came out on top in the end with two awesome phones. It was totally worth taking up 3 hours of our afternoon off.
...Promptly followed by
Friends

Dinner

First Thursday

I Should Have Known

I'm used to little obsessions: I know the opening date of the next Harry Potter film (my 25th birthday - what!), I have watched The Two Towers with cast commentary more than without, I check the Portland Art Museum website almost as often as I check blogs, etc. I am aware of these things and I own up to them.

I'm not used to unknown, or unaddressed, obsessions popping up, almost out, in every day life.
[I am starting to see that many people are pretty obsessed with this, too]
This week I moved cubicles. This is semi-unpleasant, but that's another story. Regardless to how I feel about this new location, there are certain facts about my situation - I sit just past a woman named Daphne. I pass her name on the edge of her cubicle every time I walk to my desk. I do not know her last name, but when I walk by I think "Daphne Farquitt". She is a character in the Jasper Fforde "Thursday Next" novels. I thought it was kind of funny that I thought of that Daphne first, as we have only just this year gotten into Fforde.
But then today Tori mentioned she is reading a book called "Ophelia" - it's supposedly "Hamlet" from Ophelia's perspective. I actually started to tell her that I had read that/knew about it/it's well known, when I realized that I've never actually heard of such a thing, but in a certain Thursday Next book, Hamlet moves in with Thursday's mom and meanwhile, back at the castle, Ophelia messes with the play and it becomes all about her.

[On googling "Ophelia" images, this is my favorite]
So, I guess I'm now seeing Fforde as my measure of reality. If that's the case, I think life might be getting more interesting.

Shortage

I don't blog as much as I used to. It makes me a little sad, as I really enjoy other people's blogs, as well as going back over blogs past.
Not blogging as much I think might be more of a getting-out-of-the-habit thing, rather than a life's-not-interesting thing. Though I do think part of it is that I don't have a portable camera, and I really like posting pictures with my words.
Also, I had thought not being in school, and thus not having tons of writing to do, would mean I would blog more, but it is really turning in to less. Might have something to do with not sitting in front a computer and needing to procrastinate.
I also think it has something to do with not riding the bus.