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Ringing in 2010 in style

2010-01-02T20:16:35Z

Just not a style that I would like to repeat. Ugh. I've been laid out the past couple days with the stomach flu. A friend put a positive spin on it: I'm getting all the bad juju from 2009 out of my system. (Quite literally!) So that's one wa...

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Christmas day with the family

2009-12-26T02:41:27Z

Today was quite a long day! (And I even got to squeeze in two naps ... yay!) I got up at 6:30 this morning to shower and whatnot before heading over to Andrea and Jesse's to play photographer for their Christmas morning. I got to their place a ...

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Twas the night before Christmas

2009-12-25T05:11:38Z

It's becoming a family tradition that we get together at my sister's on Christmas Eve and enjoy some tasty food, wonderful company and a fun (but competitive) game of Uno Attack. :) Below are some gems from the evening. Ben got so excited abou...

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Today warrants a blog post

2009-12-21T01:13:10Z

Today, I decided to fight all the snow (a historic "blizzard," according to the news) and hit the road for Bama. It had stopped snowing, so I figured it was worth a shot. Despite the 16+ inches of snow on the ground. After a little trouble actu...

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First snow of the season!

2009-12-06T04:41:51Z

Ain't it loverly? It was a little bit of a "wet" snow. (Can you believe that I've lived here long enough to realize that there is a difference between a wet and dry snow storm? Time flies.) But it was still beautiful and magical ... and made me ...

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Home for Thanksgiving

2009-11-25T03:52:32Z

I'm back in Bama for Thanksgiving and I'm LOVING all the family time. I've had to squeeze a fair amount of work in over the past couple of days, but somehow, I've made it work. It's only Tuesday, but I feel like I've already done a lot at home. ...

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Looking at my finances

2009-11-18T04:30:03Z

Supposedly, housing (which includes rent and utilities) is supposed to account for 35-42% of my net income. Well. No wonder my finances are spread so thin at the beginning of the month. My "housing" takes a VERY healthy bite out of my monthly i...

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The Wall

2009-11-09T22:55:30Z

Interesting look at this historic time, through the eyes of a photographer:

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Apple picking!

2009-10-04T23:25:41Z

Today, we took a little road trip out to very rural Virginia ... to the land of wineries, pumpkin patches and apple orchards. Specifically, we journeyed to the Marker-Miller Orchards in Winchester and spent the afternoon picking apples, sipping ...

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Happy birthday, Mom!!

2009-09-30T14:35:30Z

Today, my mom turns 36. Hee hee ... Okay, in all honestly, I'm not sure how old my mom is now, but does it really matter? This is kind of a running joke for me (who knows if other people think it's funny). But since I was 15 or so, I've been s...

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