Mother's Work

These are not fabulous shots I realize. I'm out of practice with the zoom, and trying to be quiet  and still so as not to scare away the mommy bird proved to be a bit of a challenge for me.

I Took a Picture Today!

Finished up my last assignment for the Spring semester last night. Now I have a Whole! Week! Off! Before the summer semester starts. The summer semester should only be a month long, so that takes some of the sting out of it. I should be maintaining my 4.0 unless I really screwed something up with the last assignment. Let us hope that does not happen.

Since this is the first weekend in about 3 weeks that I had no homework, I decided the perfect way to spend some time was to start hacking down the jungle that is our backyard. We sadly had to have our dog put down at the beginning of the year. She has had the run of our back yard for the majority of the 11 years we have lived in this house. So we have never really done much with the back yard except keep it mowed. Mostly. Needless to say it needs a lot of work. We started that process today by getting out the clippers and starting to cut down the brush. I think what I really needed was a machete. Anyway as I was snipping, cutting and pulling away, look at what I discovered!

I am so excited about this little nest of Robin eggs! It was in a small bushy-tree something or other, and a perfect height for me to peek in to.

Now I am officially on bird nest watch duty. I am hoping this perfect little nest will give me some great photo opportunities in the coming days and weeks. It at the very least will be a lovely bit of distraction from this awful grind of work all day followed by homework all evening.

Things I Would Like to Take Back

Or thing, rather.

That would be my decision to take two classes this semester. Oy. Big mistake. I am keeping up the grades, but it is sucking my time away in a fashion that leaves me grumpy and seriously burned out.

So, if any of you are left to even read this thing, I don't expect the infrequent updating of  this blog to end any time soon. Maybe mid June. I'll do what I can, but that ain't gonna be much.

Sorry. I hate to disappoint even two people, but I suspect that was done long ago.

Second Go 'Round

So here we are back at January 1, and I have decided to give Project 365 another go. This time I won't just hold myself to pictures taken with my DSLR. I will allow iPhone pictures too. Sometimes I get a good one and hey a picture is a picture. So here we go. Seeing it is the first I decided to take a picture of the first thing I noticed when I went to get my camera.

(unspent iTunes giftcards)

These were sitting on a shelf just below my camera bag. Haven't decided what to buy yet. Music? Apps? Wait and use them for the new season of Mad Men? 

Sometimes gift cards stress me out.

Photographic Proof

Got the SD Card issue fixed, so here is the proof.

So I Can Remember That it Really Happened

BH and I just finished wrapping Christmas gifts. All of them.
All. Of. Them.
I think the last time we were finished this early was back in the days when we lived in California and all of our family and friends lived here, so we had be done early or no one got gifts.
Typically we are still wrapping (or on a really bad year just beginning to wrap) at about 11:00 PM Christmas Eve.
I am not sure what to do now.
I may feel very lost Christmas Eve when we return home from our family gathering and only have to set out the presents from Santa.
Maybe I will wrap an empty box or something just to keep me right.



Well, I was going to add a picture, but my computer is refusing to recognize my SD card for some reason. So I guess the photo proof will have to wait.

What's 5 Months Between Friends?

So I guess I took a little hiatus.

Blogher Ads dropped me about ohhhhhh...... 5 months ago. Which is OK because in the several years I was with them I think I made $25 total, and truth be told I was beginning to dislike the idea of ads on my blog anyway. They dropped me because I was no longer posting on a weekly basis. No real sadness here. The only thing was, their posting rules did keep me posting far more regularly than I have been since I go the ax. Oh well.

So what has been going on since July 1?

School for me continues. Classes are going well. I am getting good grades. Still no school counselor job yet, but then again I didn't really expect to have one at this point and time. I have interviewed a few times. So that is good I suppose. Except for the fact that I would rather stab my eyeballs with a fork than have to sit through an interview. Just finished up my fall class today. I am taking two classes this spring. We'll see how that goes. One was kind of challenging, but September through December are always very busy months for us, spring semester months are a bit less so, or at least that is the delusion I am choosing to believe. I moved into new office space that I really like, but now that I no longer share an office suite with several people, I feel more isolated than ever. So here's hoping for a school job offer soon!

The girls are doing very well. #1 has adjusted very well to high school. She is maintaing her 4.0, getting involved in theatre, and becoming more social. All good things. #2 seems to enjoy 6th grade more than 5th, has tried her hand at Tae Kwan Do, wants to do more roller skating, and is making plans to audition for a show next month at a local community theatre.

BH continues to be an imparter of golden wisdom to his high school students, directed a successful musical production, and is excited that in 2014 he will be able to do his work in a brand-spanking new theatre! The first time in his teaching career that the stage won't be in a cafetorium. Very exciting!

My photography project really began waning in the spring, and pretty much went dormant over the summer. It was just too hard to keep up what with school, children, being a wife, and all that. I think about it a lot and sure hope to make time to get back to it soon. I'd like to think I could do something with it while I am on break from school, but truthfully I feel I have a lot of catching up to do with things that I have let go while the school thing has been going on.

I have been a pretty dull girl these past several months but....I have put too many years in to this blog I guess and I just can't bring myself to let it go. So I will post when I can, and hope that both of my readers will continue to check in from time to time.

Til the next one!