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Been a while since I posted a self-portrait…

Addie’s been making the rounds on some related blogs, but this will be her first appearance here 😉 I confess I didn’t take this picture (you’d probably notice it in color uncropped in one of Mar’s first posts on her blog.) But I was tinkering with a technique I was learning in Photoshop and needed…

From a short hike Monday evening. This image doesn’t even come close to doing the sunset justice– there was just this huge band of the most brilliant purplish red going across the sky. I wish I’d had a better camera on me. The SD10 kicks butt at the super macro shots, but for something like…

Dang. I’m ashamed to say it. I ENJOYED this drink today. Of course I’d prefer the real deal… just not willing to blow the calories on it lately (it’s bad enough that it has caffeine). But the fact that I enjoyed it rather than just tolerating it? Kinda bothers me, hehe. Maybe it was that…

“It is not what we receive that enriches our lives, it is what we give.” –George Albert Smith

So I was inspired by another blog on Friday– it had a “daily photo” section. The photo might be of some detail from that day, or maybe a photo from some day earlier. Photos were what originally got me started blogging, and I’ll admit that deciding to do a daily photo causes me to be…

It was Grandma’s 97th birthday last Friday, and she seemed so happy at her birthday party. As I approached her to greet her, someone (I think it was my Aunt Betty Jo) asked her “do you know who that is?”, to which grandma replied with something along the lines of: “of course, how could I…

With as many comments as I got on the last post, I figured I might as well follow up and let you know the results of phase 1. (I appreciate the support!) I only ate Cafe Rio salad I think 3 times, hehe. I bent the rules once or twice when eating chicken (marinade may…

So yeah. I’ve reached my all-time heaviest and the pants are getting tight, so I’ve resolved that not only do I need to keep up at the gym, but I need to reform my diet. I like to jump-start it by doing South Beach diet for a few weeks, the first two weeks of which…

Yes, as you can see… evil. Chocolate, cream, toffee, and chocolate cake… I don’t know if there was some caramel in there or what… but oh my. There were a couple birthdays last week at work, and I heard people coming back to my area saying “did you *see* that cake?” commenting on how pretty…

Following my last final a few weeks ago, i decided to hit up a new “Asian” (Korean) restaurant in Provo that I heard about from Josh. Josh had mentioned going there and being stoked that there was a combination of two favorites: stone bowl bibimbap and spicy grilled pork.

Lately I’ve heard a lot of hype about investing in “gold”. And more recently, I’ve heard people cry that the sky is falling– that there are food shortages (rice in China, etc). I haven’t really done any homework on those issues. I came across an article this morning that suggested that rising food prices are…

Gotta love the weather here. May 1st, and what do we get? SNOW. It seems kinda cruel of mother nature to blanket these blossoms in snow. Next to them, I don’t think Shawn has any room to complain 😉