Rustling Thoughts

I'm braindead for an interesting title, so this will have to suffice. *slowly resurfaces* Hello, yes. I am alive and well, thank you for noticing. Oh boy. Three months' worth to recap, and all busy! So. I was just going to keep it at May/June, but decided that it would just be way easier as I remember things to also add July. Happenings: 1. This actually bridged the end up April and the beginning of May, but I didn't put it in the April Recap because I didn't get it fixed until May. But anyways. My hours at Rosegate were significantly reduced due to finances and the fact that their stable hand could do the work they needed me to do, so there was really no need for me except on Saturdays. I am a college student. I have expenses, but not a whole lot of money to make sure those expenses are taken care of. Moving from three days a week to just one was not going to work for me. They did give me a week notice, so I was able to work through various conn...

Ah, January. The first month of the year. *totally did not almost write '2014' on one of my assignments, shhh* *is proud of self for having a header pic for every recent blogpost* Stats: Entry Pageviews United States 796 Russia 449 Singapore 79 Ukraine 47 Germany 18 France 14 Canada 5 Indonesia 5 Italy 4 Poland 4 Happenings: *opens blogger to write about the month* *brain instantly forgets everything I wanted to write* 1. College classes started back up again. I have two online and one on campus, but I only have to go in one day each week, so that's nice. Lydia has a class as well, but the class times are off just enough so that we can't go together (though, she has to go in again on Wednesdays). 2. We hosted two families after Church on New Year's Eve. We stayed up late playing taboo (all the quieter people against the louder people ends up with a very clea...

This is very very long, so if you would rather skip over it, that's fine, or if you'd rather wait until you have more than five minutes to read blogposts, that's fine too. You have been warned. :) Back in *flips through calendar* November, I dragged Lydia out into the foggy morning for a photo shoot. Yes, it was a bit cold. Yes, the grass was wet. Yes, she did  have shoes on. Yeah, ok, all those shots are kind of dramatic-looking-ish, but do you have any idea how hard it was to get those? For example: I'd have her sit down, like so: Then ten seconds later, she'd look up at me like this: Here's a more recent group: I finally figured out how to do this without it being all grainy!  Love the cloud formation here: I'm so happy with this one, normally he doesn't hold still long enough for me to even think about aiming my camera at him. Morning ...