Hi there!

It’s been a while since my update. If you don’t follow me on Twitter (and why don’t you?! I’m awesome on there. And I neglect this corner of the internet too easily), I am now officially no longer a grad school student. I am done! And I’m VERY excited to spend the summer doing next to nothing but enjoying Lex and Thalia. And have them drive me insane.

To keep myself from selling them to gypsies, I know I’m going to need to pack our 12 weeks of summer with stuff to do. It’s better for everyone that way. I have every week planned with activities and themed activities for certain weeks. Let no week go without stuff to do! I want to reinforce all they’ve learned at preschool over the school year so there will be some review of basic concepts. In addition to school review, I made bucket list of activities. I really dislike the term bucket list. No real reason. It just rubs me the wrong way. Same with the term “Honey Do-List” Ick.

Here’s our list of stuff. We will be busy and we WILL have fun. I feel a little like Clark Griswold when I insist on fun. But IT WILL BE HAD!

We’re also a little closer to becoming homeowners again. I don’t want to discuss it too much, because I’d hate to have it all fall through. I believe in jinxes. I also really hate packing.

I’m also crazy excited to dig right back into photography again. I haven’t shot anything worthwhile in nearly a month! That’s far too long. My poor neglected camera. I can feel my skills regressing. My last month of school (EVAH!) was designed to kill us, or at the very least make us whimper and beg for mercy. The degradation rituals of grad school were designed by Satan himself. I’m sure of it. But I kicked ass. It’s what I do.

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If it’s Wednesday, it must be Nearly Wordless Wednesday!

I’m alive. I turn 31 on Saturday.

Happy Spring.

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If it’s Wednesday, it must Nearly Wordless Wednesday! Macro mum edition. I buy flowers from the grocery store to practice my macro (and editing) skills on. That’s not weird. It’s practical! I love shooting macro.

I’m still here. Last week was spring break so I took some time off everything and tried to relax. Failed miserably. But at least I tried.

The house hunting may be over for us. I’m thrilled. No more disgusting college boys. And the house we picked has excellent lighting. It’s important! It needs updating but not major structural work. I am thrilled about this. Chris is less than excited. Of course. We’ll I’ll have to resist the urge to buy all the things because we’re in a new space and first examine how we’ll really living in it.

In our first house, I made the mistake of buying a gorgeous wood dining table and set of chairs. It was modern and square and bar height. I imagined us having dinner parties and such things. None of those things happen. We are just not formal dinner kind of people. And that’s ok. The table and chairs went to guy who was designing a bar in house. I don’t want to make the same mistake this time around. Slow and steady wins the race. Even if every part of me is yearning to tear it all down and rebuild it new and pretty.

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