Tuesday, June 9, 2009

I'm moving...




MY BLOG!



I did a little research and decided to make a little change


{from blogspot to wordpress that is}

Everything is not perfectly in place on my new blog
(I plan on getting a new header and changing the layout)
but such is life, right?



I don't wanna lose you so please come and visit!



and link up


Monday, June 8, 2009

Theoretical Bargain Hunting

I'm not a regular at Pier One {Target is usually my store of choice. Can I get an Amen?} but last weekend I was lured to the store by the giant 60% Off signs hanging in their window.


Who can pass up a sale? NOT ME {or my friend Cassie}!



I sauntered into the store...and found the a small little shelf with 60% off items that were clearly from last season {as if I truly know when last season ended and this season began, nevertheless...}.



So much for the big sale I was hoping for but I could still wander around the store for good decorating tips {a lie that I wholeheartedly believed} . I told myself that their advertising tactics would not work on this intelligent woman!


I almost made it out of there until I laid my eyes upon this:




Then it was over.

Pier One had another customer.

And if you have to know, my purchase was not 60% off.

See how great it looks...

Saturday, June 6, 2009

They are after me...

Ever since moving to Parker, I have felt as if the animal population here are trying to "get me." Let me explain...

It all started with a little piece of doggy poop on our patio furniture. We currently rent a condo on the bottom floor as we try to find a house up here. So there is a porch directly above ours. Well that owner has decided to allow her dog to relieve himself outside, on her porch. Do you see where this is going? Yes, the poop, from the little wiener dog, falls through the cracks in the wood onto my porch.

Then there was the time that I went out to my newly cleaned car to find not one but two large deposits of bird poop on my windshield.




These two incidents didn't put me on my guard because hey, things like that happen to all of us right? And they don't know that pooping on other people's things is rude.

What really got me thinking was the day I was running along the sidewalk by this abandoned piece of property. Lots of ground hogs {or whatever they are called} live out their days in comfort here digging holes and moving dirt. Well as I am running I trip on some barbed wire in the middle of the side walk...I am sure that I could almost hear those little guys high-fiving and laughing as I picked myself off the ground. Their little booby trap had worked.
Then they must have radioed down the path to the EXTREMELY large snake to scare the life out of me (see this post for that story).
Last week it was the deer population that was after me. I hit a deer with my car. Actually, more appropriately, the deer ran into my car. Yes, I like that way of thinking better. And for all you people feeling sorry for the deer, don't. He walked {trotted} away from the event only having large bruise on his right hip. He {or she} got off easy compared to his/her dead relative that had been mangled by a car just moments before.

See here is a picture of him that I got right after the accident.

My car on the other hand...

...has enough damage to "notice" but not enough damage for the insurance company to pay me more than I will pay to have it fixed.

I don't know what it is with the animals in this town but seriously, I am a nice person!
I DON'T wear fur,
I am NOT a friend of Michael Vick
and I have never been hunting.
But I have been known to, on occasion, kill any and ever spider that ever comes across my path.
Do you think that is it?

Thursday, May 28, 2009

My little fam

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The assignment this week: family
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Well not much photography action this week. I was too busy running, hanging out with friends and working. But a few weeks ago, I decided to break out the tripod (since I am new to the photog world) and try my hand a a family portrait.

Here is my favorite:

See how smart Turbo is. He knew it was in his best interest to look at the camera on the first try... Now that is a miracle!

Monday, May 25, 2009

Who's that?

702 is yours truly
and
701 is none other than my
super-star husband!
This year he ran the Bolder Boulder 10k with me just because he loves me.
And you better believe that is the only reason he woke up at 530 am to run 6.25 miles on his day off!
Little does he know that I plan to make this not only my yearly tradition but our yearly tradition. :)

Here are a few pictures of us after the race:

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Adventures in Running

So last week, I was officially TRAUMATIZED while running on the {concrete!} trail by my house.

I love {d} this trail so much because it is close to our house, each mile is marked off, there are bathrooms along the way, great scenery and lots of people (which makes me feel safe).

So there I was on mile numero 4, jammin to SugarLand on my Ipod and thinking about the wonderful fruit smoothie I was going to make after I was finished when....

I step on THIS!

Yes, I screamed.
Yes, I screamed like a girl.
Yes, I screamed like a girl and started jumping up and down.

I also forgot to mention that it was the 3rd snake I had seen that day (the other two were friendly and much smaller gardener snakes).

So needless to say I have yet to do any running on this wonderful {demon possessed} trail. Tomorrow I am going to give it a go again and hopefully God will protect me from those devils.

Friday, May 22, 2009

Sweet

This weeks "You Capture" Challenge: sweet

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Everytime I stop and stare at this little guy, I smile


He is the sweetest pup. Ever.

I enjoy trying to caputre his essence with my camera.


Most times, he is a little tricky to photograph but the other day,
he was all about posing.

See, doesn't he look sweet?
 
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