12-24-2010

It's Christmas Eve! Nicole made us a delicious and festive lunch of Tofurkey and cookies. Then we went exploring on the planet Hoth, added to my growing fancy booze collection, and went to church with my parents. Mushroom demanded to know where her presents were, so we let the cats have their new bed/house/scratching thing present after midnight.

12-23-2010

Nicole looks very excited that Christmas is almost here. Here's something very Christmas, and something not Christmas at all.

I took holiday pictures of all the creatures living in my house.

Red
Green
Snakeskin

Film is more fun. Look at this.

12-22-2010

Random mysterious deserts spontaneously appearing everywhere and begging to be eaten is one of the best/worst aspects of Christmas time. Today, a giant tray full of every kind of baklava ever showed up on the free counter at work. At first, I dissected bite sized bits so I could try a little of all of them...by the end of the night, I was pretty much eating by the handful.

This is what presents see.

12-21-2010

These pictures probably belong more for yesterday than today, but whatever...it's my blog and I do what I wanna. Last night/wayyy too early this morning, I set multiple alarms to wake myself up throughout various stages of the night to see the "big deal, once in the last 372 years, most amazing thing ever" solstice lunar eclipse. After dragging myself out of bed multiple times to sit in the snow for hours waiting to see the total eclipse and watch the moon magically turn red, I really just found out what a solid cloud sky looks like at four in the morning when you can no longer feel your legs.

P.s. I know there's a good Twilight joke about waiting all night in the cold to see a big let down called Eclipse in here somewhere, but I'm too bitter about the whole situation to make it funny.

P.p.s The obsessive organizer in me wants to group these moon shots with the other ones I took on 1-29 and 10-20.

12-20-2010

In 2010, Amazon.com is the North Pole, Santa Claus ditched the sleigh for a big brown UPS van, and I get little kid excited coming home to neatly wrapped (cardboard) boxes in my driveway.

Here's another seed pod update (see 11-22). I thought it was buried and gone from the snow plows, but it's still hanging in there.

12-19-2010

We went to dinner with my parents, and I reclaimed (stole) some more of my grandfather's camera equipment from their house. I can't even wait to use this crazy looking thing.

12-18-2010

We went to see my friend Steve's show opening in a converted (reclaimed?) gallery/studio space that used to be an old warehouse. It was pretty much amazing. I would describe the building as having a lot of character. The basement was even crazier. It looked like the inspiration for a super creepy axe murderer horror movie. I think I could even play the villain. I love it there. I really want to go back to take more pictures sometime.

Here's a far less creepy picture of Sienna because I think it's cute.

12-17-2010

Tonight Nicole and I went to go see Clemens, a band made up of people we went to high school/college with. We used to go to their shows all the time, but it's been about five years since the last time we saw them play. To make it even better they were opening for Hawthorne Heights, a band I developed an embarrassing fondness for, again probably about five years ago. Both bands brought back a bunch of good memories and were a lot of fun to see live. Here are some of my favorite pictures from the show.

Hawthorne Heights
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Nine

Clemens
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12-16-2010

Nicole and I are really going for it this Christmas. We got all dressed up to make a snowman, but the snow was too powdery and wouldn't stick together. So we made these instead.

12-15-2010

Nicole decorated the Christmas tree tonight. Since this is our cat Mushroom's first Christmas living in our house, she was eager to help while Sienna just watched. The skunk that lived at our house last winter has his very own ornament, but we're glad he's not living here this year.

12-14-2010

12-13-2010

I got a text this morning telling me to work from home today since outside looked like Antarctica. It's in contention for one of the best texts I've ever received. I'm not even complaining that I had to work extra hours tonight since I got to wear my pajamas all day and hang out with my cats.

After "work," I took it as a perfect opportunity to stay home and drink scotch since the snow had us buried alive. Now if you're familiar with my eating habits, you know that I eat like a 12 year old with no parents, but tonight was extra inspired. We made V For Vendetta-esque eggs in a basket...with hot dog buns. Don't laugh too much though, they were delicious and we totally had a party.

12-12-2010

All good things...

R.I.P. Handlebarz
10-17 - 12-12

12-11-2010

The gallery show that I've been painting for opened in Columbus tonight. I did a horrible job documenting because I was too busy actually being involved in what was going on and being kind of freaked out and drinking way too much coffee. Here are a few shots I collected while walking around though. Kanye West bicycle (All of the Lights get it?). I'm attracted to clusters of things like this collection of hot sauces. Have you ever wondered what a bar full of Santas looks like?