a walk on a pond

It is cold. So cold, in fact, that I walked across a reservoir with my buddy. The melting and freezing of ice around objects left partial skins of ice hovering around rocks and logs. One stone had thawed and frozen a space around it in the ground.

Reena and I poured packing peanuts between the screen (where the storm window is missing) and the window in our middle living room window in order to help insulate it and block a bit of the wind. We'll see how that works when we get a windy day. It looks cool, though.

These photos are taken with my camera phone and are not the greatest quality, but it is convenient for taking quick snaps.

Social Butterfly, Sick Puppy

I've been both recently. School party with awesome food, dinner out with friends. O.k. the list doesn't go on for ever, but that is more social than normal.

On the reverse side of that coin, I got a touch of the stomach flu that is going around again. Not as bad as Jan 1, but enough to make me unhappy yesterday. I am through with all the stomach upset!

Do you remember what it looked like when leaves were on the trees?

Here are some very fancy cupcakes that are sold at a diner close to my school. They look so great that I can never eat one for fear of the taste not being as good as the visual.

Jay

Yep, convinced the guy to come visit so I could blow off my three day weekend and enjoy myself. The best medicine in the world. Had a small gathering last night. Friendships are gold, one of the most valuable things in my world.

doing better

My nose seems to have passed the major healing state and is on the vaguely irritating once in a while stage. Much relief. I am breathing through my left nostril in a way that I don't remember doing for a long time. Much joy!

Jay is coming to town this weekend. Much more joy.

bad start

Well, 2007 started with nausea at 3:30 and finally tossing my many fine eats from the celebrations at around 6:30. Still up. Sucky way to start a new year, but it can definitely go up from here.

a big year

This certainly has been a big year. Marriage and moving the school building stand at the top, but it has just been a long year with teaching. The recent nasal surgery is my first surgery besides wisdom teeth.

I am looking forward to next year hoping to regain a bit of bounce. So, raise a glass to the possibilities of a new year. I know it is just a continuation of what has been, but there is a psychological break and feeling of starting fresh.

Cheers.

Kaleidoscope Krazy

Yep, I have officially gone kaleidoscope crazy! Patterns, my Cafepress store, is testament to that. Here are a few more of my favorites shown on various products since the images are smaller than my source images.

Kaleidoscopes

I just started playing with a kaleidoscope plug-in for Adobe. What fun. There are quite a few examples on my cafepress site, but here is one of my favorites

nose job

Having not been able to breathe well through my nose for quite a while and not having any success with diet to change it, I decided to see an ENT. Deviated septum and thick turbinates led to a surgery yesterday. This morning was no cake walk, but I am doing better.

No pics with this post!

Yep, that is me in a tux! Hasn't happened since junior year in high school!

funky website kaleidoscope

check this one out! This is an image from our honeymoon that has been kaleidoscoperized.

Internet secured!

I did it. I moved the server and associated little boxes of blinking lights over to the new building, and it all works. Yay. A process started August 1 is now over, and I can move on to other things.

honeymoon pics

Honeymoon pics are up.

School on the horizon

The new building is coming together. It looks beautiful. The new year is fast approching, but I am not getting excited as I usually do. I have not spent hours developing curriculum or reviewing what I have already developed. I don't know what is holding me back, but I am sure when the kids hit the room that I will be energized.

On another topic, I have started editing my novel again. A group of friends have signed up to help edit and revise with me. This is a great way to keep the pressure on to continue doing it.

Reena and I have joined Netflix and we are seeing how that works to get some movies in the flow that were not coming in from my voracious appetite for buying movies.

busy day still going

Today was a very errand-running type of day. Actually it started off with my making a huge push to get the revamped freedmanriles site off the ground. Pretty successful with some minor issues to deal with. I am in the process of editing the pages Adobe puts out for a website of photos to resize the images on the page but not to actually resize them. Some wedding shots are ready. The site still needs work, but it is functional.

Then, I had a 1.5 hour, deeply-needed massage. I feel so much better. Ready for camping next weekend.

I then tried to send a bottle of wine through the mail. Oops. Can't do that. I deposited the marriage lisence in the safe deposit box along with other essentials that we don't need at hand (like passports). Next I stopped by school to get the next year's calendar and chatted with people including Alicia. If you read this A, congrats on the new kitty.

Off to Framingham (a 20 or so minute drive) to pick up a tent that can house both Reena and me this weekend. Luckily there was a FedEx next to the REI, so I shipped my package of glassware.

Back home to work on cleaning and straightening the house. Bedroom is now uncovered. This means that everything in there that had to find a room in my study is now crowding my already-crowded space. Tomorrow is going to be clean study day.

Tonight, after running a few more errands, is get back to revising story night. I have started, but must get through some more notes before I am ready to send out to the readers who will be checking, reading, or just ignoring it.

Oh, and I gotta get dinner.

new shirt

Here is my new fractal shirt!








Check it out in my store!

Back to norms

Normal is too many things to do.
Normal will be prioritizing those things-all of which are very interesting-and doing things that must be done and things that I really want to do.
One of those is writing.

In the mean time, here are a few picts from the honeymoon. More to follow!

Wedding Wear

Here is what I will wear for the wedding. For the many guys who have asked, "What shall I wear?" here is my answer. Hope it helps you.
This shirt in natural color.



























These pants. Hopefully not as wrinkled.


















These shoes. I will be wearing socks and undies, too, but I don't think I need to share those with you. All clothing is organic, natural colored, and sweat free labor. Changing my wardrobe over to these types of clothing has been a goal of mine, but this clothing is usually too expensive to buy regularly. I decided to do this for my wedding.

In the midst of report writing madness, this link made me laugh. It is rated Adult, but I did not see anything that would make it so.

I was the


bunny

Procrastination Station

Woot! The ultimate procrastinator. Here are my entries for the contest to rename the "Bag of Crap" that they put up once in a while to rid themselves of junk. It costs one dollar and ships for five. What a bargain, and it sells out in about two minutes! Before this, BOC was turned into Bulgarian Olympic Committee and regularly named Bride of Chucky by wooters.
Boat of Cheese, Bevy of Calligraphers, Battle of Crumpets, Bodacious Otherworldly Curves, Boiled Octopod Confection, and one I am not going to post here. Which one is your favorite? All told this was probably 5 hours of work.