3-20-08

First day of spring. My pretty tree out front is blooming. I love that tree. Dan wants to cut it down, but the nice landscape guy said we should just prune it back some. I had a good day. The IRB approved of my research and called it "exempt" which helps. Plus, my bracelet is going to get fixed for free. It was a good first day of spring. AND my Jeffersonia Dyphalia is blooming again.

3-17-08

Yeah! A clean, freshly painted and organized kitchen pantry! At least something is under my control. It rained on my shelves outside, but I rescued them. I got mad at Squirt tonight because I had to go pick him up in the dark in the rain. I don't see well at night in the rain.

3-16-08

OK, so my dissertation is really getting to me again. This time I tackled the kitchen pantry. It's disgusting. I took out all the food and cleaned the shelves. Then I sent Dan to the store to get paint.

3-15-08

All the kids were over tonight- what a treat! Also, the closet is all filled up with coats again.

3-14-08

Today I was really bugged about my dissertation and got really sad. I haven't been sleeping well and have been really anxious. I had a bad dream last night and had a hard day. Dan brought me flowers. This is our pretty living room.

3-13-08

Here are photos of the closet after I painted it with the same paint from Dan's office. Sunny closet!

3-13-08

Here is a photo of a contrail over my neighbor's house.

3-11-08

And here is an after picture. Nice sunny color. See this link here for a picture from last year.

3-12-08

I'm getting really bogged down with my dissertation so this afternoon I decided to paint the hall closet. Here are the before pictures.

3-6-08

Aza and I painted Dan's office over spring break. Here is a before picture.

3-4-08

I'm feeling the weight of my dissertation hanging over me. Jes took this picture.

3-3-08

Dan is getting ready for his backpacking trip. He ordered this little tripod for a camera. It's all bendy. I set it on a basket and took a self portrait of it.

3-1-08

First day of March. Dan and I went for a hike on the trail around town and I saw blooming crocuses! Then we went to eat dinner at my favorite place, Sticks, and I saw the criss cross of contrails out the window of the restaurant.

March

I am currently buried underneath the weight of a dissertation proposal that is marching to a tight timeline. Every once in a while, I take a photo and intend to upload it here, but for the time being, consider my daily photo blogging on sabbatical. Hope to be back in business soon.
Chrissy

2-20-08

Mom's birthday! And a lunar eclipse! Here's my best picture out of like 80something that I took. Jes came over and she and Squirt and I stood outside in the cold watching the moon get eaten up by the Earth's shadow. Dan came outside for a while but he was too cold. Jes was all wrapped up in a sleeping bag, which helped.

2-19-08

It's a pretty day out and I've been working really hard on re-writing Chapter 3. Now that all the Marzipan is gone, I'm going through withdrawals. And feeling chubby! My mom called today because she got my present-- a book I had made for her. She was soooo excited about it. I'll take a picture of it because I had one made for me too.

2-18-08

OK, so like, I ate some marzipan. Well, SOMEBODY ate it. There was 2 pounds on Valentines' morning and now this is all that's left. It's almost gone. Jes must have snuck over here and eaten it, or else Squirt ate it what with his ability to stay up all night and do things we only learn about days later.

2-16-08

We drove to see Aza and she took me to the place where she got her hair done. I said, "Make mine just like hers!" and look- it is! We had dinner at a nice restaurant and Aza had a BLAT-- bacon, lettuce, avocado, and tomato sandwich. It looked awesome.

2-15-08

Today I went to meet with my advisor about my dissertation chapter 3. I found out that I have a lot of work to do and I'm not happy. So I'm going to just eat marzipan and forget about it for a day or two.

2-14-08

Valentine's Day. I made chili for dinner for my "boys" and Dan gave me 2 pounds of little marzipan candies shaped like fruit. I love them!

2-13-08

Squirt turned 17 today. At 6 feet tall, he's not much of a squirt, but I've been calling him that since he was 2 years old, so it stuck. The girls came over and we all went out to a Japanese steak house for dinner where the cook prepared everything in front of us in flames with lots of flash and bang.

2-10-08

Today Dan and I went for a walk around campus. We also stopped in at Brooks Hall where Jes has some photos on display. She did an ethnographic study of a bowling alley through film.

2-8-08

Uncle Raven I and have been friends with each other and with Murph for 30 years. We went to Murph's funeral today and did a eulogy together. He was a pall bearer. We went out to lunch afterwards with the family and close friends. It was a really really hard thing to do, but our heavy hearts were eased because we had our spouses with us, and RavenHawk's new little baby girl.

2-7-08

2-4-08

Felt better today and made plans for going to Murph's funeral later this week. Took some chicken pictures and framed one of K's Buddhist prints. Feeling blue.

2-3-08

This morning my high school friend of thirty years, Murph, died. She died of heart failure while waiting for a transplant. I was actually coming out of my crummy slump around noon when I got the news. Dan took me for a walk by the river, me with my swollen red teary eyes, and I took a picture of the river thinking of life.

2-2-08

Dan and I have been walking different places around town recently. Today we walked around a section called Belmont. It was really interesting. Then we had dinner downtown. I felt crummy though- tired and achy and kinda crummy.

2-1-08

It iced today. Squirt had off school.

1-30-08

This is a painting my mom gave me three years ago, I think. It is an original by a well known artist from her area of Alabama. She gave one to each of her daughters and they are each different. This one has mysterious symbols. The number three, two wine glasses (white and red), a Q coming from the neck, and scribbles on the forehead. Now that I've been having chiropractic treatments to my neck to try and address the pain I have in my forehead, the symbolism becomes very clear. So do the wine glasses, for wine is a major headache trigger.

1-29-08

Today Jes came over with her roommate, a tripod, a black sheet, a big lamp thing, and borrowed my camera to take photos for her roommate's application to music grad school. She took like a hundred photos. This is one that obscures her roommate's identity a bit. They were all fantastic photos. Now she wants a camera like mine to go with all her other equipment.

1-28-08

Breakfast of French Toast at the Tavern, then a walk around the cool old neighborhoods nearby.