A Dog and Her Person

Matt and Dolly enjoyed a little quality time during American Idol tonight.  It’s been a while since she’s made an appearance here, hasn’t it?  It’s certainly not because she’s lacking for attention.

And since we’re on the subject of American Idol…my favorites tonight were Allison, Jesse, and Mishavonna, although I doubt those are the three that [...]

40 Days

I’ve decided to participate in Blood:Water Mission’s 40 Days of Water during Lent this year.  I’ve been thinking for the last few days about what I should give up – it must be something that is actually a sacrifice but practical so as not to set myself up for failure.  Then I stumbled upon this [...]

Fast and Slow

My photography teacher is making us do all of our work right now in the manual mode.  This means that for each shot you have to turn knobs and push buttons to make sure that the light is right and the picture is properly exposed.  Luckily, I’ve discovered that this is actually easier than it [...]

Near…Far

I was informed today by a friend (who was apparently feeling very candid) that my blog has become boring. He then backtracked a bit and qualified that by saying that he was only referring to the frequency of my posting (which has admittedly been sparse) rather than the actual content. Let me tell you [...]

Valentine Schmalentine

I’ve never been a big fan of Valentine’s day.  It’s pretty much a non-event in our house.  Bah-humbug, right?  We did go see Slumdog Millionaire and it was really fantastic.  And Matt brought me chocolate-covered strawberries from Askinosie Chocolate, my local favorite.  I guess I’m just not very romantic – which is a good thing, [...]

Patience

Remember a couple weeks ago when I said that we were “really close”?  Well, apparently we’re still really close…just not any closer.  We’re #3 on our agency’s wait list.  Three weeks ago, we were told it would likely still be “several weeks”.  In my mind, once you pass three weeks (which I would consider “a [...]

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Happy Blogiversary to Me!

Birthday Candle
Originally uploaded by butaho
Today my blog turns one year old! One year ago today, we sent an invitation to a group of our closest friends to come visit our new blog so that we could share our exciting news with them. At first, I thought this would just be a fun way [...]

A Pictorial Review of the Weekend

Picture heavy post ahead – please indulge me.  I got a very nice hand-me-down camera from Matt a few months ago.  I don’t know how to use it.  I’m scared of it.  But I’m taking a class starting this week with a friend.  So, I took an obnoxious number of pictures this weekend in order [...]

Powerful

I’ve seen this video posted on about a dozen blogs over the last week.  I could tell from the picture you see below that I didn’t want to watch it.  I just didn’t have the guts.  So I didn’t – until last night.  I’m still trying to process it.