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i’m a brunette. it’s not that i hate the red (my mother lamented “red is sooooo you…”) - i just need change. so it’s back to brown. i’ve been a blonde before, but it’s been four years since i last played that card and i think it’d be a bit [...]

five years can change a lot. this hits me hard today - a day that has become a background benchmark of life happenings whether i like it or not. i’m amazed how much can be lost and gained in the blink of an eye.
i got a d300 today. last one in [...]

a perfect storm of boy distraction has hit my household and i’m sitting on night seven of jeromy leaving/not being home. quakecon was last week, so from wednesday through saturday, he was off in downloading/gaming heaven. then i guess the fishing gods have been tugging at his soul, as he has been answering [...]

i pulled a five-year-old move this evening and accidentally touched the hot stove. the fingerpads on my right hand are not feeling so well as a result. this does not do much to improve my image in the kitchen. jeromy said that we need to mandy-proof everything. i’ve been a mess [...]

a string of updates which will probably take up the leftover energy i have from this week. heh… not really. i’ve been trying to take it a bit easier lately. treated myself last weekend to some much needed hang out time with the friends. saw the new batman flick and LOVED [...]

my daddy got laid off today. he had no clue that it was going to happen. it comes at a bad time for my family (i guess there is never a good time to lose the only income for a household, but still) and it’s a blow to us all. dad has [...]

you know what i saw last saturday on tv? beakman’s world. it’s a science show for kids and i was a religious watcher of it back in the day. i still remember all sorts of stuff from that program and i’m sure it was a contributing force in my interest in science [...]

my bridal pics (taken by Littrell Photography at Lake Grapevine after our wedding) are in. Below is a selection:

it was fun to go out to grapevine lake with jeromy all dressed up - it’s such a special place to us so it seemed logical to do a post-wedding bridal session out there. jeromy [...]

just a quick post before i head off to a bridal session over in rockwall…
this week has been just as mega-crazy as the last few. work was busy monday through thursday, which has become more and more of the norm.
on monday night, jeromy graduated from the hurst citizen’s fire academy. mom [...]

this week has been full of work. i’m still at the office, actually - my mind just needed a break. ’tis been a relentless cycle - early mornings, long days, evenings filled with red brick work or real-job work, bed, and repeat. the next two weekends are chuck full of red brick [...]