Home: January, week 1

"The shed"
Canon SX40 HS
f 4.5
1/200
ISO400
12/25/12, 4:42 pm
Montpelier, ID

This is the old shed just out the back door at my parents' house.  It seemed old 30 years ago, but as far as rustic outbuildings go, I think it's aged pretty well.  I hadn't really thought about it much until I was looking at the pictures I took of it, but home wouldn't be home without the shed.

not just a monkey with a camera

i think that we've fairly well established at this point that i am not a blogger.  let's be honest.  anyone who can let their blog sit un-updated for 3 1/2 years cannot claim to be a blogger.  I'm okay with this.  there's too much pressure associated with maintaining a blog.  That's not why I'm posting again.  thanks to some idea stealing from Katie Corbin (love her!) and the image posted below, i've decided to take a more proactive approach to photography.

There are two reasons that i don't think i'm a monkey with an SLR camera.  First, i don't have an SLR camera.  Second, i don't think i'm a photographer.  I have two fixed-lens cameras and sometimes take pictures with them.  But i want to take better pictures and maybe brag and show off a little, so i am henceforth posting a picture each week.  I'm doing this for me, but if anyone wants to tell me how much they love my pictures in a comment, it may act as some positive reinforcement to continue with my little project.

Each month, I will choose a theme, and each weekend I will post one picture that has to do with the theme.  I'm loving some of the themes i've chosen, but you'll just have to wait to see what they are. If you have any suggestions for themes, feel free to make them.

school supplies

i'll be the first one to tell you that i'm really happy to not be starting school in just 3 short weeks. i will say, however, that i'll miss buying school supplies. that was always my favorite part, regardless of how much my books cost or whatever. if that makes me crazy, so be it.

the other day, sarah and i were talking about shopping for school supplies, since emery is getting ready to start kindergarten. when i was little, i always wanted the big box of crayons. you know the one. the one with the built in sharpener in the back. i got it maybe one time (it's okay, mom. i understand) and that was a happy year. those extra 16 crayons made all the difference.

today i met sarah in bountiful so she could borrow some of my books. she said there might be a treat involved. she was not kidding! she brought me this:

64 delicious colors of waxy goodness. i couldn't be happier :D

happies

1. alex stayner finally joined facebook!!! i know that means little to nothing to most of my readers. (do i still have readers? {chirp, chirp} that's what i thought). he's been holding out on us for about a year now, and quite possibly longer. my jaw hit my desk when i saw my friend invite from him. i don't know who jamie schram is, but he is now my hero. (he's apparently the one that got alex to cave on the facebook thing)

2. matt moses committed to movie night!!! this is the first time in the history of matt moses friend-dom that matt has committed to host an event that he did not in fact plan. it's a big day. we threatened to just show up at his house tomorrow night and wait for him to come home and let us in. for once our idle threats worked!! movie night tomorrow at matt's house :) yay!! (although i must say that i don't believe that our threats were actually idle. after walking into the frat house to wait for someone to come find us in the living room because no one answered the door, i can actually believe that we would sit on matt's doorstep until 1. he came home or 2. the neighbors told us to leave.)

3. girls night with julia and debbie. i hate it how married friends drop off the face of the earth. i'm glad that we've been able to successfully drag debbie back from over the edge periodically. good times at buca :)

4. the best ever recipe for molten chocolate lava cake. to. die. for. very bad for you, but very like an expensive restaurant dessert. you can thank/curse me later. i'll understand either way.

5. it's friday and i'm going hiking with jules tomorrow :)

yay for productivity!!

yesterday at work i felt like nothing got accomplished. i only scanned about 20 projects in (which is not very many, by the way), had 2 hours of meetings, and then worked on different projects here and there for a few minutes each. i did manage to print off 3 reports (only 3 pages each), but i still feel like nothing got done.

today was a different story! i went through and scanned 60 projects, plus documented the elements of about 12 segments of my one big project. i just have to go through this video that has conference clips, documenting the speaker and the videographer, along with any graphics or artwork in the clips. it's pretty exciting stuff. i'm liking it a lot.

and in other good news, i'm getting a raise. kinda. i was told that while i'm training on the IP (intellectual property) stuff, i'd still get paid my normal rate of $11/hr. today i was informed that i will, in fact, be making $14.16/hr during the times that i'm working on my IP projects. exciting stuff. that'll add about $30/week to my paycheck. i'll take it!

work jokes

having re-entered the realm of the employed, i need a little humor to get me through the day sometimes. they're giving me a break from scanning and i've started working on some real intellectual property stuff. one of the projects that's been assigned to me has to do with the use of a particular font in some sort of training for family history. this video was recommended to me by my trainer.



and the sequel. . .

"i can see russia from my house."

today, as i re-enter the blogging world, however temporarily it might be, i would like to share a link to a pretty awesome montage of SNL clips from the last election. ah, the memories.

click HERE for fun.