A quick update

So it's 5:50am and I have to leave for work in about 15 minutes but I wanted to make the first step at getting back on the blogging bandwagon.

School update:

• The entire program I am in focuses on collaboration and group work. It is quite a mixed bag. It is always a pleasure to work with new and diverse ideas but it is also a challenge in practicing patience.
• I am starting to get nervous at the amount of work I am going to have once I start in the actual Transition to Teaching program. Whoa.

Wedding update:

• Completed tasks include flowers, rehearsal dinner venue, photographer, block of hotel rooms, bridesmaids dresses, flower girl dresses.
• Next task is to decide on our officiant.

Dog update:

• Received this text from J yesterday: "on the bright side, Oscar came in [from outside] looking like he was wearing black socks. except they weren't socks. they were black mud." Awesome.

I'm baaaaaaaaack!

So my amazing fiance (pictured here with me as a fellow zombie hunter for Halloween this year) has started an equally amazing blog and in turn has inspired me to start mine back up (be sure to follow his! It's very entertaining to see what he finds on the interwebs!). I've re-vamped the look and new topics will be forthcoming!

Specific topics include:

• Education (both my own as well as my future career in)
• Wedding planning (that's right, I'm gettin' married!)
• Entirely too ornery (and redonkulously cute) animules
• Good books, music, movies, etc.
• Random observations and thoughts that probably I get more enjoyment out of than any potential readers do but I'll share anyway.

Hopefully I'll get back to regular posting. It's a fantastic way to procrastinate! (which, btw, wedding planning is as well. If you need to avoid something you don't really want to do, plan a wedding. It can easily suck up hours of your day).

Random smatterings of stuff and things

The pattern I created from the logo on the website.

Some recent progress on the design.

Monkey adores Lyra when she's not chasing him.

The great snow-in of 2009

Lucy Turns 4!!

A short update

Thanks to Brainy Girl for sending me this article. It's pretty much as true as it gets. The library has been incredibly busy all the time, every day, all day for most of winter. It is a mixed bag. Since the economy is not doing so hot, lots of people are taking advantage of the library's free services. However, since people are having rough times in their lives and we are one of the few free places to go, we often have issues of rude, angry patrons taking their frustrations out on us. It's all part of it and I'm sure that anyone in customer service is experiencing this in one way or another. I am still searching for the best mantra to deal with rude people. I haven't had much luck so far. Suggestions welcome.

On a happier note, we had Round #2 of the Fried Chicken Taste Off. The 4 of us sat down at a fantastic little buffet-style restaurant in Morristown and figured out the exact method of analyzing fried chicken. I will not be unveiling said equation until we have all decided how this information will be used. Blog? Book? Newspaper article? Birdcage lining? Well, none of us have birds so I'm pretty sure we can rule out the latter. We will be enjoying some fried chicken from Nashville in a few months time and hopefully the results will be posted one way or another for all to enjoy.

Cutest. Dog. EVER.

Christmas in the 'Ville

Lucy's Holiday Show

Well it took me forever but I'm finally putting pics up from Lucy's fantastic holiday show!