I'm still here.

 

I've been enjoying the last days of holiday-life in the countdown to new-job-life that officially starts tomorrow.

Learning to play chess.

 
Sewing.

Friend-time with pede-snaps in the cemetry.

Danielle spotted this headstone and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. I love it. I mean, epitaphs are the final word...what would you wish to have put on yours?

Shopping for new clothes.

 

Moving everything in our house around and around.

Chalkboarding.

BabyMicah smiles and cuddles.

Messing around with new tripod and manual focus settings, intentionally and sometimes not so intentionally.

What She Wore

Outfit post!
A few of the combinations I've been trying lately.

For a wedding.

For hanging out at church.

For a low-key date night.

Friend times and photo-excursions.

That one, magical phenomena, The Little Black Dress, styled in a life-saving number of ways for various events.

 

 

Skate-Snap

It's been a game of musical chairs with our internet connection lately. Sometimes we have internet credit; more often we don't, and I'm relegated to the sidelines. From here I look on from the tiny window of my smart phone screen, holding all of the pictures I want to upload forlornly in my hand.

One of my favourite things of late has been a photo-walk (Or pede-snap, as I wistfully call them in my head after many hours of West Wing-ing) that Danielle and I took last week to the skate park.

She blogged about it over here. I love the way I can see the correlations between the pictures; the things I was snapping as she snapped particular shots.

It really is the bestest thing to have a friend like Danielle. Exploring photography with her is excellent, because she lets me ask lots of questions and we find new technological functions together without feeling silly. She has definitely kicked off a fresh B&W phase in my life.

Taking pictures of someone who is also taking pictures is so much easier than watching people try to work out if they are going to pose or not. Plus, it gave one of my favourite images so far, from the brief span of time that I have had my beautiful camera:

I hope everyone gets to experience such wonderful times with the most wonderful of friends.

July

Danny and I've never really been able to find a long-term home for our aging PC. It resided, during semester, at the head of our dining table, but upon graduation, I wanted to change everything. With the movement of all of our furniture, our computer became a nomad and ended up in a jumbled, wiry mess on the tiles, jammed between book stacks and couch. 

This week has been about Serious Productivity. And Serious Productivity meant Resume Fixing, and Resume Fixing led to an above-ground home for the computer. At last!

It's without a doubt the ugliest piece of furniture we own, and currently, the most cherished. That desk is sanity-saving, to be sure.

Things have been hectic, in some ways, and delightful on all fronts. 

Learning to sew.

Crafting, manically. 

Family time. Friend time. Lots with some, and never enough with others.

Weddings and funerals.

Cleaning and moving furniture.

Reading Sarah Dessen like the books could sprout legs at any given moment and flee from me. 

Taking photos, taking photos, taking photos.

Making coffee. Lots of it.

Baby snuggles. Lots of them.

You name it, I've doing it or planning to in the next few days. 

I can't get enough of this free time, I hardly want it to end. But the job hunting has commenced, and I will do it with a glad heart, also.