Project 365 – Weeks 4 & 5

Just so you know…I’m only behind in posting the photos on my blog. I promise!

January 23rd: Flashlight Fun!

January 24th: Finally the sun makes an appearance after at least a week straight of clouds.

January 25th: The beginnings of dinner…in a variety of colors.

January 26th: My furball regularly takes up 2/3rd’s of the bed leaving me to curl around her…bed hog.

January 27th: Some of my favorite mugs are the giant Gilmore Girls sized mugs that are multi-purpose..coffee, soup, cupcakes!

January 28th: Self-Portrait #2

January 29th: Self-Portrait #3 – in my soon-to-be office.

January 30th: Steph has been randomly creating paper hearts and heart chains for our non-christmas tree.

January 31st: I’m embracing the Valentine’s Day decor…even the sparkles!

February 1st: Do you really think that I would let a little sign stop my camera from taking me behind those doors?

February 2nd: My pathetic furball…always having her space invaded by my camera.

February 3rd: The tree topper for our Valentine’s Day tree…maybe I’ll take it down before summer. Maybe.

February 4th: After having the tree up in the same place for going on 3 months, Mo-dog has finally figured out that she can hide from us by wiggling behind it.

February 5th: Finally a snowfall that is wet enough to stick to the trees!

February 6th: It only took two computers and about ten minutes before she was finally able to get her computer to connect to the internet at our now sad Starbucks (but that is a whole other story).

Project 365 – Week 3

January 16th: There’s nothing like a warm, furry, breathing pillow to make a nap even better!

January 17th: It’s game time…Rock Chalk Jayhawk!

January 18th: A lovely way to start Martin Luther King Day…coffee and a cranberry scone.

January 19th: My laptop, West Wing and a sleeping dog…a perfect evening.

January 20th: Sometimes a little floor time is the only way to sort out all the junk on your desk.

January 21st: Modern art via the construction area at my office.

January 22nd: Everybody needs a little warm chocolate cake from time to time.

A Typical Mo-Dog Day…

Sitting at our feet while we eat breakfast…

Being used as a pillow. Doesn’t she look thrilled?

Having her personal bubble invaded…either by us or by a camera.

Enjoying some cuddle time while enjoying the KU game…

Poor thing is completely unloved.

Project 365 – Week 2

January 9th – Happy Hour… doesn’t matter if it’s 5 degrees or 95 degrees. Sonic Happy Hour is still happy!

January 10th: Whiskers…and I just realized that you can’t even see the single black one that I really love!

January 11th: The little sister has finally reached adulthood because she’s made her first official gravy.

January 12th: Controlled Chaos is what my office has felt like since I the 1st of the year.

January 13th: Self-portrait #1

January 14th: Water, water everywhere thanks to the annoying people above us. At least I’m getting professionally cleaned carpets out of this!

January 15th: My giant furball enjoys her cuddle time!

Project 365 – week 1

January 2nd – I spent the morning coloring a calendar for mom…yes, I’m still a child

January 3rd – Puppy paws in the snow from the 3rd snow storm this year.

January 4th – Nothing says welcome back from your vacation than this. And to think, this was over a holiday!

January 5th – My new office is going to be where the ladder is…once they actually put up the missing wall

January 6th – The view from my “office” this afternoon due to a snow storm…looks suspiciously like my living room.

January 7th – Well, the ornaments are mostly packed away…that’s a step in the right direction right?

January 8th – Snow, Snow everywhere and it’s still coming down.

Christmas 2009 – pt 1

For Christmas this year, we headed out to Fort Collins, Colorado where my aunt and uncle live. Because of the time when we had to leave, we decided to stay overnight in the middle of nowhere Kansas so that we wouldn’t be driving in the dark in snow/ice. On the way to our stopping point we grabbed dinner where I accidentally sat down and took a drink from my sister’s cup. Needless to say, I didn’t like what was in it.

The first part of the drive was fine…a little fog and some snow that was already on the ground but nothing else. The next day however, was a different story. We headed out and found ourselves in the midst of some serious wind which caused some serious snow blowing.

Then a little further down the road, we came to a sheet of ice that completely covered the road. Everywhere we looked there were cars and trucks in ditches. We were following a line of a couple other cars that were all pretty much going around 20 to 30 miles an hour.

Finally we made it to the Oasis…literally. You have to love the irony of fake palm trees surrounded by piles of snow! All I have to say about the Oasis is God bless whoever decided that the middle of nowhere Kansas needed a Starbucks! It was a great place to get out of the car and breathe after driving on solid ice for half an hour or so.

Luckily, after we crossed the state line into Colorado, the roads were great. We made it for Fort Collins and were greeted by my uncle playing with his newest “toy”, a snowblower! He was having way too much fun.

Project 365 – 2010

So today starts the first official day of the closest thing to a New Year’s Resolution that I’m going to make. I got a point & shoot camera for my birthday back in November so I now carry a camera with me 99% of the time. Because of this, I’ve decided to try and do Project 365 for 2010 which is hosted here on Flickr. Some people do the project to better learn how to use their camera, others to make themselves see what’s going on around them each day. For me, it’s a way to make myself take photos on a more regular basis. So, I’m going to have a box on the side of my page that will link to my Flickr page where I will post a photo each day. I’m also thinking about posting a weeks worth of photos in one post each weekend here on the blog.

Since it’s officially January 1st…here’s the first photo. Happy New Year!

Blokus was our family’s “IT” game this year. We took it with us to Colorado for Christmas and loved it!

Merry Christmas…

Christmas #1:

Since we’re headed to Colorado for Christmas this year, we had Christmas with my Grandma (who lives here in town) on Sunday. We had dinner at Bravos (LOVE that place), grabbed coffee and headed back to Beastie and my place. It definitely makes our place feel like an adult’s place since we had a holiday thing here! It was a very kitcheny Christmas for me this year…

The big furball must be the center of attention…

I have a love of elephants…photos or modern-ish figurines.

Can’t wait to play with this after New Years when I’m back in my routine!

Yes?

Bob the Builder…

I currently work in a construction zone. There are two offices in town, one is regional and one is corporate, that are being combined into one this spring. We have two staircases on either end of our building and you can never go from the basement entrance all the way to the 3rd floor in one staircase. It’s not possible…either because workers are hauling things in through them or you can’t get to the door from one of the floors. Right now, I work on the 2nd floor…they are doing work on the basement & 3rd floors…right above my head I might add. It’s just not a great feeling when you can hear loud noises above your head that are causing the floor beneath you to shake.

The bright side to the construction is that I’m photographing the process for our Operations VP and I have just enough of my dad in me to enjoy looking at blue prints and watching walls disappear and then reappear somewhere else overnight. I just finished a slideshow of all of my photos/videos from the last couple of weeks for our office Christmas party last Friday. When I was talking with the VP, who has a great sense of humor, about the slideshow, we were both stumped about the music. So like any good Generation Y’er, I turned to Facebook and put out a plea for help. My office will forever hate the friend who suggested the chosen song. After listening to the ideas, one of the last songs jumped out at me and begged to be used. The next day I asked the VP how cheesy I was allowed to be with the music and his answer “the cheesier the better!” That’s what I wanted to hear seeing as how the song I wanted to use was the full length version of the Bob the Builder theme song.

The office loved the video and no one complained about the music…at least to my face. So here are a few of my favorites so far…

Part of our building is an old house where you can see the original brick walls.

There use to be a ramp here…eventually there will be stairs, although I think they keep putting them off because they think it’s funny to watch me hop up what will be at least three stairs in dress pants & heels (the step stool broke after the first time the guys tried to “hop” onto it).

Because the 3rd floor is what’s being worked on now, the drywall guys decided to bring in the sheet rock through a 3rd floor balcony.

A little photographic fun for my own enjoyment…taken without actually looking through the camera because that is when I do my best work!