last day of January!

Done with hell week. Now welcome its sister, hell weekend. I love working weekends. :(

So good news, Mariners are at home the weekend we are in Seattle. Makes Matthew very happy. :)

So my reward tonight? Junior Mints and Chianti!

FREEZING!

So Toledo area schools were closed today. They were not closed because of snow or icy conditions, but because it is so damn cold. So, why the hell do I have to walk across college campus??!! Haha, I love how I feel as though I should be allowed a "snow day," when I could have taken one if I really wanted to.

I cannot wait for Thursday at 3pm. All of my projects will be turned in for this week and my test will be over! Just in time to begin round 2!

I am looking forward to tomorrow evening. I am finally allowing myself the time to go to the gym and work out and then participate in a yoga class. I am very excited. I also have Friday night off. My mom is coming over and we are putting together a surprise for my brother. Bob turns 40 on the 9th of February, and my sister-in-law is throwing a surprise party. My mom and I are putting together the picture board o' memories. Here's a sample: this picture was taken of Bob and me shortly after he got into his accident at the VA Hospital in Milwaukee.


Next would be my image for 1/29/08. Again, another i-Photo booth image. What else am I supposed to do in the Mac lab during class?? :)


Now the image all the way at the top is for (today - kinda after midnight my time zone) 1/30/08. This is part of my photography project. We were given an assignment that kept us locked in a 10x10 space of our choice and we had to be creative with it. I chose the kitchen because we spend a lot of time in there making food. Food has always been an important part in my life. It is a way that you share love in my family. I know that may sound strange, but growing up with a father who was a chef and now having a husband who is one, food has a bigger role.

holy badness batman!

So, I obviously slacked recently. It was not my fault though. I blame the University. Stupid projects and only 6 hours of sleep over 3 days. Luckily, when Thursday rolls around and I am test and critique free, I have this beer to enjoy! Cannot wait!! I love Bell's beer. They have an amazing cherry stout too, and their Oberon is one of my favorite beers EVER (next to some Fat Tire and Newcastle). Only 3 more days ("oh you know I will be coming home to ya darling...")...

TO BED I SAID!! No wait, more school work. Dammit! :P

Oh and it wouldn't be a complete blog unless I showed you Sunday morning's art mess...

the start of my week...

So my work week beings today! Yippie! I wish there was a way to really show my sarcasm here. Since I am back in school my work week went from Monday through Friday to Friday through Tuesday. Working weekends sucks. That's all. I have a lot of school work to do this weekend too. My 100 sketches project is due Monday, my Photo project due Thursday and a test auf Deutsch on Mittwoch (Wednesday). It's all good. I am organized and totally ready to conquer it all! I took a picture of my corner. This seems to be the place where all my crap gravitates.

i-photo fun! and matt's new hair...

So today in Photography class we went to the computer lab and played with the i-Macs. I love the i-Photo program. I messed around with it more than playing with the CS3 Bridge program like I was supposed to... Oops. Above are three of the pictures I took. I was having too much fun with it... obviously.


Yesterday I cut Matt's hair. This is the photo from that, taken with my cell phone (you know it is really not my best camera). I took it yesterday. It was fun, and I didn't screw it up this time. Well, except that he looks a little like Dudley Moore, or perhaps a Beatle (Woooo)... or even a microphone top. Woot.

i absolutely love that this sign is under the clock in the photo department of the cva. it makes me very happy. today i had classes and work. i have tomorrow and thursday off from work and i am very excited. i love my patients at work, but sometimes their negative attitudes are just too much. i can only do so much to keep everyone in good spirits. negativity of others can be very draining. i feel like i am repeating myself from the past two blogs. so i will stop now.

i am getting really excited about my 100 words/100 sketches project. i am taking a really abstract approach to it. it is really cool. all i am going to say is "food for thought." you will just have to wait until it is done.

oh, hahaha, so today at work, before i left, i played a huge prank on my co-workers. i found these jumbo pens in a dollar bin. they are huge, like four normal pens thick and like two and a half pens tall. so i bought enough for all my co-workers and hid all the normal pens and replaced them with jumbo pens. can you even imagine a nurse trying to chart things with a jumbo pen??! i think it is hilarious. anyway.... till tomorrow!

i have a dream.

Happy MLK day. I did not have school today so I worked all day instead. Today was busy with all the patients. Good day though. When I got off work, Matt picked me up and we drove up to REI to look at new packs for our trip this summer. I am so excited. I got a new bag tonight. It is super sweet. It is a Kelty. I like Kelty products. It is nice, durable, adjustable, and a good price. I love REI. It was worth the hour drive. Matt got a new pack too. We really are in the update stage for our gear. We need a new tent since ours was a casualty to the Kansas winds last summer. We have a few in mind. Here's a picture of me with my new pack being a goofball. Love it.



Matt and I also took some photos and this one is my favorite. It is not my favorite because it is compositionally precise, I just like it. Since it was a low shutter speed it caught our movement into our kiss. It is a bit dark, but the lighting in the house is bad. I still think it looks cool.


And here we are just being silly. (hey, I know it is three images not one, but I never made rules that I could only post one. :) So there!)