This Week In Photos 1/29/11 aka Pumpkin in my Purse

I was definitely stretching to get photos this week, thus the many pictures of food and dogs, always a good fallback.
1/24/11
The stick plant in the first picture used to be a pretty orchid that I got in the sale bin for $5 now it's just a stick. But I can't bear to throw it away, even though I have no hope that it will ever bloom again. So we have a stick in our kitchen.
1/25/11
We thought we should test out whether Jackson is a retarded dog, to see if he could get a treat out from under a cup. When that proved too easy we tried the old shell game on him, but clearly he's got a few extra brain cells because he found his treat.
1/26/11
When I need to get out of the office, I call Sarah to go to lunch with me at Mama's Pizza. These are some of the best calzones I've ever had. SO tasty and homey.
1/27/11
I tried to take a picture with my cell phone (which is probably from the year 2000) so the photos are really low resolution. But when I tried to get the photo off my online album, T-Mobile said no. So I took a screen shot, because the photo wasn't that interesting anyway. It was just the books on my nightstand.
1/28/11
Friday night, Sarah tried to make us some pumpkin pie, but apparently there's a pumpkin shortage or there was or the guys at the grocery store were making stories up.  Anyway, no pie so we got homemade whipped cream with anglefood cake and berries.
1/29/11
Shopping success!  We found pumpkin at Whole Foods, where I always feel guilted into stuffing groceries into my purse if I didn't remember a reusable shopping bag.  Good thing we asked where to find it.  You will never guess what section it was in....                       Did you try to guess?  Nope not canned vegetables. Of course you'd guess that.  Nope not with the soups, or with the drinks or with the fresh vegetables or near the pies.  Ok, give up?  It was with the dog food.  Makes perfect sense right?

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1/29/11

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Lazy Weekend

I'm pretty sure this is going to be one of my last free weekends for awhile with school getting into full swing, so instead of being productive, I lazed about. On Saturday, Sarah and I went up to Boulder for her Christmas present which was supposed to be a photo class, but ended up being 2 hours in the cold with a couple pictures thrown in. Ok, the class wasn't that bad, but it was cold. Afterwards we went to the Dushanbe tea house (no photos sorry) it was a neat little temple place imported from Dushanbe with excellent food and tea of course. The perfect thing to warm us up.

Sunday, Corey generously offered to give my car its first oil change while I sat inside watching football and enjoying the fire he made. I love the mini fireworks in there.

From 11-1-22

From 11-1-22

From 11-1-22

From 11-1-22

This Week In Photos

School started Tuesday, thus the slow down for the posts. We also learned about whiskey cocktails from a mixologist at a neat restaurant in Denver where they served candy cigarettes as an after dinner mint. They also had a tablecloth/tablepaper that Scott drew me a picture on. The event was a whole presentation on the proper way to mix a Manhattan, Mint Julep, Sazerac and one other drink I can't remember. Apparently those cocktails have been around for a looong time.

The rest of the week there was a little snow, enough to make the commute extra long and to keep Scott in Boulder overnight. I tried out a really long exposure on my camera. It's pretty impressive that I can take pictures of stars.

From January

From January

This is the view from my office building. Not from where I sit, but if I look down the hall I can see downtown Denver and the mountains.

From January

It doesn't help if you read the instructions and they're wrong

Dear Target,
Thank you for having a curtain rod conveniently on sale for me. As much as I appreciate that, I do suggest that you improve your curtain rod installation directions. See, when your diagram shows two little holes and there is actually one hole with a loop thing and one regular hole which has a large impact on how you mark and hang the curtain rod it might be a good thing to mention. Also when the secondary instructions are on the box with the screws, but you firmly glue that box face down into the bigger box so that when you pull it out they are impossibly to read, that doesn't help much either.

Some spackle, a literally antique sewing machine and an assist from Corey the handyman later, VOILA! Curtains in our room.

Decor

I spent the day deep cleaning our bedroom. I can't believe how much dust has collected in such a short amount of time. The sad thing about scrubbing instead of just picking up is that it takes twice as long and only I know that I spent the day cleaning it. Oh well. I also took some photos to go over the bed. I have two 8x10 frames and an 8x8 frame. My semi-theme for the room is natural materials and textures so I took pictures of a few different trees. Like yesterday, I can't decide which edit I like best. More vintage or more clean B&W?

 

 

6:45 AM Saturday

6:45 AM. On Saturday.  That is early.  But I was out at Delaney Farms at 6:45 AM.  It's been proven over and over again, if I don't like something, like the cold or exercise or early mornings, all you have to do is tell me there's a photo-op and all my arguments are thrown out the window - like a Pure Moods tape that your father got tired of hearing complaints about. (I bought him a new one for Christmas.) - and I'm there, lugging my camera up a mountain, down a frozen street or into the morning pre-sunrise.  I also love my clients and couldn't possibly say no when they ask for photos. 

Color or Black and White?  Which do you like?  I couldn't decide which I liked better.

From Delaney Farm

From Delaney Farm

Friday 1/14/11

Oh Friday. It's so nice when Friday comes around and you get out of work 10 minute early, thinking you'll be home in no time because it's Friday, and traffic is light and you're ahead of the game. Then you come to a halt. You listen to the radio and they tell you about "some slowing". Ha look at those people getting off the highway thinking they'll go faster they're going to go create their own traffic jam. Then you sit there some more. You decide that the objects on the side of the road must be interesting. Oh look! a glove! You could probably get out and pick it up if you wanted to, but who wants a mucky glove when there's only one of them? But you could pick it up. Instead you start calling everyone you know and have half hour conversations with them all. But you still aren't home even though it should only be ONE Mr. Ed from work to home. For those of you not in the know, Mr. Ed was a TV show back in the day and that's how I used to mark time in car trips because I didn't know how long a half an hour was. So I'd ask how many Mr. Ed's away we were and I'd proceed to sing the intro song and make up an episode or watch one I'd already seen in my head. Sigh. Eventually I did manage to get home and have some lovely dinner with the roomies. We saw this neat little ice-cream shop building and of course had to stop. The sad thing about little cameras is that they really can't take pictures in the dark, so you'll just have to imagine that you see the building shaped like a milk pail. Added bonus this place was delicious and served generous portions of amazingly affordable ice-cream. I'm definitely going back.

Happy Long Weekend everyone!

From 11-1-14