Our yule celebration this year is now done. W and I celebrate the twelve days of Christmas beginning on Christmas Eve and ending last night. We both had a lot of fun this yule. We played a lot more board games together this year and loved it.
I think my favorite moment from our whole celebration was the moment that W opened his ninth gift. I bought him the game "Dark Tower". It was released in 1981 and shortly after that it was taken off the market because of a lawsuit over who really created the game's concept. W first wanted this game when he was four and, due to its scarcity, has now finally received it (I love ebay). He was so full of joy when he opened it! It made me so happy to see him finally getting something that he has wanted for years.
When I look back on this yuletide I will be able to remember wonderful times spent with the man I love and the excitement I felt, and continue to feel, about sharing my life with him.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all!
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Friday, August 5, 2011
On the Move
What a long trip!
We wrapped over 40 hours of travel yesterday afternoon when we arrived at our motel in Bellingham. We had hardly slept during our two nights on the bus and we had eaten only one meal, so we were pretty beat. We ate, we slept, and we slept.
Now we're up and getting ready to board the ship tonight. This is getting exciting.
So far it still feels surreal. To me, it almost feels like we're watching this happen to someone else instead of experiencing it ourselves.
Today, though, it's starting to feel more real. Sleep probably helps that. So does food.
But perhaps another big factor is the weather. When we got to Seattle, it was sunny and hot — nothing like Seattle is supposed to be. This morning, though, it's overcast and cool. And I feel like I'm really here making this journey after all.
We wrapped over 40 hours of travel yesterday afternoon when we arrived at our motel in Bellingham. We had hardly slept during our two nights on the bus and we had eaten only one meal, so we were pretty beat. We ate, we slept, and we slept.
Now we're up and getting ready to board the ship tonight. This is getting exciting.
So far it still feels surreal. To me, it almost feels like we're watching this happen to someone else instead of experiencing it ourselves.
Today, though, it's starting to feel more real. Sleep probably helps that. So does food.
But perhaps another big factor is the weather. When we got to Seattle, it was sunny and hot — nothing like Seattle is supposed to be. This morning, though, it's overcast and cool. And I feel like I'm really here making this journey after all.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Upsetting Alumni Mail
So I graduated from college with a BA in 2008. I have a diploma and transcripts to prove it. But a while back in the mail I a postcard from my university, addressed to me, which displayed a picture of a person in graduation cap and gown and a diploma - only the person's face was a white blank space that read "your name here" and the diploma displayed these words. The rest of the message on the postcard read, "What's stopping you from filling in the blanks?" I saw this and began to worry, had I just imagined it? Was I lying on job applications? I rifled through my papers to find my transcripts and checked my graduation status online - yes I really have graduated.
Well, two weeks ago I was looking through the alumni directory and thought that it would be fun to see what other people see when they look me up, they had me down as a member of the non-degree alumni. BING! The light turned on and I gave the alumni center a call to set them straight. The girl I talked to said that since I got married and changed my name during my time there my credits probably didn't transfer. I got married really young and changed my name long before I declared my major so I highly doubt that's what happened, but now they at least know that I did fill in the blanks and am an alumna.
Moral of the story? Make sure that when you graduate you talk with the people in charge of alumni stuff at your school so that you don't receive any letters or postcards that could cause a heart attack! ;-p
Well, two weeks ago I was looking through the alumni directory and thought that it would be fun to see what other people see when they look me up, they had me down as a member of the non-degree alumni. BING! The light turned on and I gave the alumni center a call to set them straight. The girl I talked to said that since I got married and changed my name during my time there my credits probably didn't transfer. I got married really young and changed my name long before I declared my major so I highly doubt that's what happened, but now they at least know that I did fill in the blanks and am an alumna.
Moral of the story? Make sure that when you graduate you talk with the people in charge of alumni stuff at your school so that you don't receive any letters or postcards that could cause a heart attack! ;-p
Sunday, July 24, 2011
A New, Small, Addition to the Family
Recently a friend of ours left a comment, similar to the title of this post, on another post in this blog. I have been waiting a while to post this, about a month and a half. To clarify our friend's comment and share the good news I just have to say . . .
WE BOUGHT ANOTHER NOOK!!!
That's right W and I are now a TWO Nook family instead of just a one Nook family and we love it. Now we both can read to our hearts content with our fairly large digital book collection. Welcome the our family my little nookie Nook, you've been a long time coming! ;-)
WE BOUGHT ANOTHER NOOK!!!
That's right W and I are now a TWO Nook family instead of just a one Nook family and we love it. Now we both can read to our hearts content with our fairly large digital book collection. Welcome the our family my little nookie Nook, you've been a long time coming! ;-)
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Great Basin
W and I went to Great Basin the weekend after Father's Day. We didn't hike to the top of Wheeler Peak again during this visit or see the Bristlecone Pine Grove. They had more snow this past year then they have had in a long time and most of the higher trails were too snowy to hike on or find. We did however take another tour through Lehman Caves, which was fun. Tara was our tour guide and we became such good friends with her during the tour that she suggested we take the Lehman Caves candlelight tour and even squeezed us in when the tour list was full. It was awesome to see the caves in a way that the first tourists might have seen them over one hundred years ago. I have some pictures, but I can't find the camera that has the pictures we took in the cave, I'll post those later. (I'm beginning to notice a bad pattern here, one of these days I will find all of my camera stuff and keep it close to my computer ;-) ).
Behold Wheeler Peak!
W built a snowman while we were out hiking at the end of June!
This is a picture of the first campfire I ever built by myself!
More fire!
Check out this cool fungus we saw on a hike!Friday, July 22, 2011
Bryce Canyon
Well before this year was out and before our America the Beautiful Pass expired we went to Bryce Canyon for my first time. We went to Bryce Canyon with my Dad (it was his first time too) over Father's Day weekend and camped two nights! We spent Saturday going all over the park, seeing everything and hiking around a little bit. My dad took lots of pictures and I did too! I'm really going to enjoy them for years to come. It was the best Father's Day that I've celebrated in a long time.
Here are some of the pictures that we took:
Here is a picture of my two most favorite men at Wall Street!
One of my favorite of the amphitheater!
I'm very afraid of heights and this is a trail that we went on that drops off on both sides, the above picture is a picture of my return from the end of the trail and the below picture is one of me going toward the little hill in the top picture. The whole time that I was doing this I was repeating things to myself like "The only ground that matters is the ground below your feet." "Don't look anywhere but the ground beneath your feet." I'm such a wuss sometimes! :)
Me and my dad!
Here's a cool looking Bristlecone!
Same one.
Here's a picture of me with another Bristlecone.
Here are some of the pictures that we took:
Here is a picture of my two most favorite men at Wall Street!
One of my favorite of the amphitheater!
I'm very afraid of heights and this is a trail that we went on that drops off on both sides, the above picture is a picture of my return from the end of the trail and the below picture is one of me going toward the little hill in the top picture. The whole time that I was doing this I was repeating things to myself like "The only ground that matters is the ground below your feet." "Don't look anywhere but the ground beneath your feet." I'm such a wuss sometimes! :)
Me and my dad!
W and I standing next to a young Bristlecone Pine, this tree is probably only a few hundred years old!
Here's a cool looking Bristlecone!
Same one.
Here's a picture of me with another Bristlecone.
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