I really wanted to know what that is an acronymn for but I had to exit before I could tell. (Speaking of which, Valerie, I hope you are loving your new job and that the three letter acronymns are sticking :)
Monday
June 29: like a mack truck
I really wanted to know what that is an acronymn for but I had to exit before I could tell. (Speaking of which, Valerie, I hope you are loving your new job and that the three letter acronymns are sticking :)
June 28: a beautiful bride-to-be!
We through a shower for Becky today and I thought she looked just gorgeous and glowy. The six week countdown begins!
June 27: dandilion in the sky
I'm missing my favorite fourth of July activity this year, going to Lakewood park with Emily and having polar pop. It's really a "This is Your Life" kind of experience with everyone you've ever met from growing up there. BUT, I was pretty excited that the rain stopped in Lancaster just in time and we were able to go to fireworks tonight a few days early.
June 26: traffic jam
It's either a tractor, or a horse and buggy, or in this case two unidentified men running with police escorts ahead and behind them. It always takes me forever to get out of Wooster for some reason! (By the way, does anyone know what was going on here? I was really curious)
June 25: giselle
I've been going through a slight Disney princess phase lately (Belle has always been my favorite, for the record). I think watching Enchanted last week probably instigated all this...Katie called me while I was in front of the beach towel section at the store and I thought this was the most hilarious and unflattering picture on a beach towel I've ever seen. So, I promised her I'd take a picture to prove it.
*** So, I have tried to excercise extreme self-control this year by not typing disclaimers underneath every picture about what I don't like about it, and I think I've mostly succeeded at that! Excellent. HOWEVER, I'm just going to go ahead and type a disclaimer here to say that the last few days and the next few days are, shall we say, the more raw, unartistic, just a "moment in the life" kinds of pictures. Just wanted you to know that the whole picture taking enterprise has been a little rough lately and I'm aware. :)
June 24: matching (remix)
This is more a testament to my brother's girfriend's matching capabilities. She matched up the appropriate golf club head color and ball with our outfits. The natural blue springs back there were just bonus in the frame.
June 23: hail storm
This is what trying and failing miserably at capturing the hail storm off my balcony looks like.
Thursday
Sunday
June 21: picture of the day
I was sitting on my parents' front porch swing explaining to someone about 'picture of the day' and I was like, "I just take a picture capturing a moment in the day, like for example a limosine driving down the street..." *click*. And when I got home I kind of liked it with Jim sitting there in the front yard and my mom's flowers too. It sort of represented the whole day, there was certainly a lot going on!
Saturday
June 20: finding my marbles
I haven't ever gotten rid of my marble collection from sixth grade (somehow marbles swung back into fashion at my middle school just long enough for all of us to go through a phase of playing at recess...I don't think that's normal)....I pulled them out of their cupboard home today...stuff sure has a way of triggering memories.
June 19: fancy
Valerie was kind enough to share some of her fancy hand-painted chocolate with me. I didn't know there was such a thing. It was decadent as you might have guessed.
Thursday
June 18: orni-appreciation
I have not liked birds for some time now. As I may have mentioned before, exactly two years ago I had a bad incident with a blue jay and a psychotic baby bird within the same week and it was just too much. Let's be honest, the fact that they've got an extra dimension on us and can swoop down from on high with that pointy appendage on their face has not helped me to conquer my paranoia. HOWEVER, this has been a good week with the birds and I am hopeful about the future of my orni-appreciation. We had the hummingbird visit, and then today there was this guy. He just sat looking in my living room window (albeit a little wierd, but I accepted it as a friendly gesture) for a whole minute before I decided to see how close he would let me get. I got my camera, and then there was a series of about seven pictures before this as I inched towards the window. He was remarkably peaceful with me standing right there, especially since the door was open and I know he could hear the camera beeping. He stayed for approximately 4 minutes just sitting and looking around. How nice.
Saturday
June 13: fake flowers are forever
That's what I always say, anyways. In high school I'd bring a beautiful basket full of fake flowers to school every valentine's day, sweetest day, and day before spring break and just pass them out to people...That may sound crazy, but it made people so disproportionatley happy to the gift that it was really worth it. Some of the flowers had hot glue drops on them to look like water droplets...my English teacher who was on Jeopardy but may not have fared so well on Survivor actually watered one of the fake flowers I gave her for 3 months before she figured out it wasn't real. That was a sad day. *Anyways* This morning, I stuck this giant gerber daisy that Cheryl gave me like four years ago on our balcony garden. It needed a little color. And, later while I was sitting my couch typing away I noticed something flitting around out of the corner of my eye. It was a sweet and very hyper humming bird. That little buster was so determined to get nectar out of that fake flower that he hung around for about thirty seconds trying away. I felt simultaneously delighted to be visited by a hummingbird and guilty of false advertising. Where did he come from? I am just hoping he didn't fly too far out of his way.
Thursday
June 11: cowboy Joe
The Wooster chapter of the "Cowboy Joe fanclub" got a special visit tonight AND I got a double portion of tollhouse pie by accident which was awesome. (Today's special guest photographer is none other than Katie K)
Tuesday
June 8: my dad
My mom gave my dad this pocketwatch on their wedding day almost 32 years ago. I think it is really sweet the way he always has it with him on special occasions. Today was my brother Dan's graduation from high school and amidst the chaos outside the ceremony I caught my dad winding up his watch.
June 6: paper crane
I have one origami skill: I make bowties out of dollar bills. Fortunately, that's a very handy skill when leaving tips at restaurants. But that is where it stops with me. Here, however, we have an example of a talented artisan named Susan and her paper-folding deftness. Not only did she make a paper crane out of a post-it note, but she made one out of something like a quarter of a post it note. I was dazzled, so I of course took a picture of it. We also sang this hymn this morning and I thought it gave you a nice scale by which to appreciate the tiny crane.
Thursday
June 5: Stephanie
I tried to stealthily take a picture of Stephanie tonight without her knowing and I failed miserably. But, I think this captures her delightful essence quite well AND her beautiful hair too! We've shared so many wonderful acronym memories together over the last four years (I think more than any other person I've been with on staff!)...SLT, RSTI (I, II, III, but not IV which we're still bitter about), CFW, RSC, NSC, ONS, CUP...and perputually FD. Whatever set of letters it is, you can be sure that we are making the most of them and usually Steph is infusing some sort of musical fun into the experience. :)
June 4: Little Mountaineer
I think InterVarsity staff have some of the cutest babies in the world. Here is a perfect example :) Incidentally I was sitting at a picnic table with four pregnant women who are as far as we know are having a total of five babies within the next few months. Which means more very adorable, pudgy, smiley InterVarsity babies coming our way!
Sunday
June 1: taffy
on my taffeta skirt! (incidentally)
P.S. I am going to be out of town at meetings all week and I don't know how often I'll have access to update the pictures, but be assured I will put them up when I can. :)
It's that time again!!!
MAY PICTURE OF THE MONTH
May is over?!?! I can't believe it either.
So, you know how I love your opinions! You can click "comments" to vote for your favorite picture this month.
May is over?!?! I can't believe it either.
So, you know how I love your opinions! You can click "comments" to vote for your favorite picture this month.
May 31: charles
Tonight was delightfully nostalgic. I got to reconnect with one of my favorite people. I met Charles my freshman year of college when he was four years old. His mom was my literature professor and asked me if I'd be interested in babysitting her son. As everyone else in that class could attest to, I was not a particularly stellar student in that class and had a strong and very vocal aversion to Renaissance love poetry (which unfortunately for me was the title of the course). When she asked me to watch him, the first thought that went through my mind was "This kid has got to be an absolute terror...I bet she's asked every other student in this class to babysit him, they've all said no, and now she's left with me!"...but she assured me that she thought that I would be a good friend to Charles and that we'd get along quite well. She was right! (He didn't like Renaissance love poetry much either) The first time I met him we colored pictures of food on paper (normal) and then he started eating the pictures and gave me some to eat to (not normal). This was momentarily a babysitters nightmare, but I quickly figured out it was special edible rice paper and it was one of his favorite things to do. He was an awesome kid! Every week throughout college I spent a few afternoons with Charles. I think he kept me sane all that time. He was also the reason why I ended up taking Chinese (too long of a story to go into here). I loved hearing his outlook on life, it was so refreshing because at school I was only surrounded by people my own age en masse, and professors. It was so great to be with a little kid again for a few hours. One of my favorite conversations was a few days after he turned six. He was sort of gloomy and when I asked him why he said it was because he wasn't sure if things were going to work out with his girlfriend Iris, "Everything was going great. She was 5 and I was 5 and a half. Now I don't know what to do because I'm 6 and she's still 5 and a half. I think she might be too young for me." I didn't even try to explain the math on that, but we talked through it and he decided they should still be friends and see what happened. (She moved to Texas unfortunately). After I graduated, Charles moved away for a few years. But now he's back, and he did NOT want to go to the symphony with his parents on Saturday night so I got to come hang out instead! It was really great to reconnect with him. He's now 11 and has a vocabulary! It's crazy how much a person changes in just a short amount of time. Some things never change though...I was happy to see that he still wears mismatched socks...no matter how his parents tried to change it, he just likes it that way. (These are the reasons why we get along so famously I think) So, anyways, that's a little character sketch on one of my favorite little people. Today, we spent a lot of time blowing bubbles and then trying to stab them with sticks.
May 30: never again
While I did take some pictures today, this one really encapsulates the essence of my evening. Katie caught me staring at my receipt at Baja Fresh wondering why on earth I ever thought it was a good idea to order something with the word "diablo" in it (that means "the devil" in case you don't know Spanish)...It was so sad because I was so excited that Katie and I both had the day off AND it was pay day so that means it's a special night of going out to eat to look forward to. Anyways, my Baja Fresh excitement was gone after only a few bites. I was sort of a weepy mess and my cheeks turned really really pink apparently. (Katie had the exact same thing and was absolutely fine)...I won't be doing that again.
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