You Capture - Spring 2.0

Two weeks ago You Capture repeated the theme of "Spring" to try and get us to think outside the box (e.g. no more flower pictures). So here are the pictures I took for it!

Daniela and I saw some fuzzy caterpillars on our spring walk.

Cloud watching is one of my favorite things to do on a nice spring day. This photo I thought was so cool, doesn't it look like the dove of peace?

I did edit these photos with iPhoto. The top photo I added an edge blur and the second I boosted the color (such an awesome blue!).

Bad Blogger

I was doing so well at blogging for a while there. Now I'm down to one post a week. . .boo.

It's not like I don't have things to blog about either. I have some cool pictures I want to post from a walk I took with Daniela and Bailey (they were for my You Capture assignment last week. . .I didn't get any photos this week, bla), we recently purchased a patio furniture set (yay for seats on our awesome deck!), and I had a great idea for a random peanut butter jar rant.

I think part of the problem is I don't like to post a blog without a photo, and I've been lazy at getting my photos edited to the lap top. On a photo side note, I'm also very jealous of my cousin Angela who recently purchased her first digital SLR. . .such a fun expensive toy. Some day I'll scrounge enough cash together to buy one. . . if we'd only stop buying furniture! :-D

So, I'm going to set my mind to it and get at least one more post up this week. Stay tuned and have a great week!


And here is a photo, just because. . .it's a horrible scan (on my old yucky scanner) of one of my all time favorite pictures. Me and Daddy up at the lake.

Four Years

Today Jared and I have been married for four years! I really can't believe it's been that long. Time sure flies when you are having fun.

The Beginning

We've had many adventures in our four years: scary apartment living (moving once every year, ugh), working my way through dental hygiene school, adopting Little Boo (the cat), buying a car, buying our first home, filling the home with stuff, new jobs, taking trips, and of course lots of video games played together.

I wonder what the next years will hold for us? I can't wait to find out!

Debbie Downer

Do you have a "Debbie Downer" at your work? I sure do and it bugs the heck out of me. Debbie is one of the people that every time you ask him/her "how are you?" or "what are you up to after work?" trying to make happy casual conversation; the reply goes something like this "You have no idea how stressed I am" or "I have so much to do I never get to relax" or "I'm feeling like crap today." There was one point where I spoke with a Debbie at work and the conversation went like this.

Me: Yay the weekend is coming! (it was a Thursday)

Debbie: I don't get to relax ever.

Me: Um. . .well. . .at least it's a pay weekend!

Debbie: My paycheck is already spent, I have no money.

Me: Um. . .well. . .at least you have money to pay your bills with, it's better then no paycheck at all.

Debbie: *grumble*

What the heck? Would it kill these people to smile or say something happy? I understand we all have our occasional bad/grouchy days, but these "Debbie" people never have a good day! I've had a least one person like this in every place I've worked, and the down side of working in such small offices is it's hard to avoid them. I try to stay positive and cheery at work, but sometimes it's exhausting around people like that.

Anyway, that's my rant for the evening. :-D

p.s. I did take some photos for You Capture this week, but I haven't loaded them to the computer yet (and it's late and I need to sleep). Perhaps tomorrow?

You Capture - Spring

It was beautiful all week, and then it rained Friday through Sunday (my days off). It wasn't very conducive to taking pretty spring pictures, but then I had a thought.

April showers bring May flowers right? So between the spurts of rain I ran out with the camera and captured some spring showers.

Spring also means having the doors open again. Which Boo is happy about.



And then just for laughs. . . .when I was reviewing all the rain drop photos I took, my husband did a double take on this one and said it looked like Stewie's head (from the Fox show Family Guy). I totally think it looks like him, so I had to include it.


(this week all photos are SOOC) I need to get some good editing software for the Mac. . .any suggestions?

Check out more Spring photos at Beth's!

Sad Slipper Tale

Wanted: rainbow fuzzy slippers.

So here is my short story. I need new slippers. I loved my old slippers. They were fuzzy, insanely squishy (even after 5 years of walking in them), and rainbow (which was just fun). Two months ago my lovely rainbow slippers took a bullet for me. They stepped in a large pile of cat vomit saving my feet from forever gross trauma. My feet were saved, but my slippers were not. The fuzzy nature of them plus the grooves in the soles made it impossible to get the cat vomit out of them. So I had a small service and laid them to rest in our over priced kitchen garbage can.

I'm 90% sure that I bought the slippers at Kohls, so I went the next day to pick up another pair. . .but I couldn't find them. I can't find them anywhere! And what's worse, the only slippers I can find look like they belong to my grandma, and rate about a 1 on the squish 1-10 scale (10 being my old awesome slippers).

So if anybody that reads this knows where I can find a pair of my old amazing slippers, my feet will forever be in your debt.

Wanted:

Distractions

I failed at this week's You Capture theme "sweet." I'm so mad at myself. I had plenty of chances to take pictures this weekend and I didn't. In my slight defense I did have a lot of life stuff on my mind distracting me. Anyway, here is an old picture I took in Minnesota 2 years ago that I like (SOOC, with the color accent feature). It's maybe not sweet, but it's neat.