2010: Year of the Tiger -- Rabbit - Astrology.com

2010: Year of the Tiger -- Rabbit - Astrology.com
I'm going to check this link again next year and see how it panned out! In the meantime:

Happy New Year!

Wishing everyone peace, joy, prosperity!

Happy Holidays!

In my little Christmas village, Santa is still handing out gifts and the Richingtons are still out visiting, but here at home we are all holiday-ed out!

It was a great Christmas for our family, I hope it was for all of you too.

That was fun!

I've had a really hard time posting photos here lately, so I've kind of given up! For now anyway! But I did just post my bedroom on HGTV's Rate My Space and that was pretty fun. The link is here if you want to check it out. It's a fun site and I love getting my "decorating fix" there because I get to interact with it and leave comments.

(oh sure...now it works! whatever!)

Orthographic Projection

We had our first presentation today in Rendering. This is my Orthographic Projection. I think I did pretty well. At least, the responses were nice from my fellow classmates. Next week I'll get my grade.

You might recognize this room from photos I've posted here on the blog- yes, it's my room! I wanted to do a space where I could refer to the measurements as much as I wanted.

Next, we're working on Axonometric Projections. To make it easy for us, the instructor has said we can use the same room, but I think I'm going to make it a little more fun by changing up the color scheme a bit!

And below is a gratuitous self-portrait. This is what I wore for my job interview last week. The good news is that we all got hired on with the new management company! I was playing around with the new features on picnik. This is supposed to be me 39% thinner! Yikes! But, it's okay.

The dress is a black and white and the skirt portion is trumpet shaped and I have the cutest wedges in black and white too. Doesn't it look 20's - 30's?

Playin' House

The boys are back in school and I've been enjoying having a home that stays picked up for more than ten minutes! Of course, I STILL haven't painted yet, but I'm sure I'm getting close! I have been stitching up some pillow covers:

And playing with sea shells and hot glue!

It really is true what they say about "back to school"- it's the most wonderful time of the year!

What is it about me and August?

It just is a super long and tiring month.
Sweet Carmen moved away to Tennessee this month with her beloved Jeremy.
Poor little Yoda had to be put down.
My new, wonderful boss found a new job and left me.
My employer is severing it's contract with the HOA I work at, so in about six weeks I may be unemployed.

*sigh*

It can only go up from here. Right?

Time for the "Way Back Machine"!

Awwww....look at those cute kids! That's me and my little brother, Jonathan at our auntie's wedding circa 1971.

Oh my, look at those handsome young people! That's my wedding in 1984.


And now...uhh...well...what good looking, portly middle aged people! This is my brother's wedding in 2003. Actually- he looked good then and he looks even better today.

That was pretty fun, eh? Thanks to Jon and Deb for emailing those top two photos to me. That made my day!