12-29-2010

Do you remember the commercials where they ate the pizza backwards like that? Advertising works. Nicole and I don't even like Pizza Hut, but we saw a commercial on TV and had to have stuffed crust. Then we started watching this on TV before working some more on the dollhouse (the real one, not the show on TV).

12-28-2010

Microsoft Windows 2000.

12-27-2010

We're on a mission to make my niece Baby Lily the youngest home owner in her neighborhood. We're turning this into this into these.

12-26-2010

I love breakfast. Nicole loves Anthropologie and wasted no time to use her gift cards. I climbed mountains and found a jackalope. The farmer's vegetable stand is closed, and Christmas is over.

12-25-2010

Christmas is here. Snowman version of me is so baller, he has a gold chain with a snowman version of him on it. We woke up and opened presents at our house, then loaded up our sleigh with presents and went to have brunch and spend the day at Nicole's parent's. Then I did a bad job documenting, and a better job participating in the rest of the day's activities.

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.