Grey Days...

...bleh.

It's cold and grey.
I'm getting sick of it.
I would love some snow to brighten things up!

Don't these pictures just scream dreary?!

Dinner Love!

Mix a few spices...

Rub them on a chicken...

And put it in the crock pot...

Done and delicious!!

Daily Posting

I'm trying to post something daily.
Not because I have that much exciting going on in my life...
...because I don't.

But just because its the new year and I feel like making an obnoxious amount of resolutions that I will never see through.

No...not really that either, but that does happen each year.

I just want to try and take pictures daily - and record them somewhere.
I think I tried this sometime last year...
But this year I am MOTIVATED by my new camera.
Here's a cool blog I'm going to add to my reading list called Mostly Lisa.
I'm scared though that I might want to start to BE her after a while...

Anyway!
Hold your breath - here's my post!



THIS is all that was left of the nasty rotting bananas that I featured a few days ago.
I made some muffins in the morning (12 of them) and by 7:30am, only one remained!
Let's do the math shall we.
11 muffins divided by 5 people means 2.2 muffins each.
That .2 part was hard to figure out to make it all fair.
Ha!

What I like the most about this picture is the "bokeh"
A new favorite word!
It's that beautiful soft blur that you get in the background of some pictures.

Here's another example of pretty Christmas light bokeh...
In this first shot, I underexposed the image...

And in the second, I overexposed it...

In both, the aperture was set at f5.6.
I zoomed in (67mm on the first picture and 100mm on the second) and set the angel fairly close to me while keeping the Christmas tree far off in the background.

Now off to read photography blogs get something productive done...
:)

Cat's Crib!

This is what Pounce looks like when I find him in his hobo house super fly crib in the morning.

He's got wall to wall carpeting, so all he needs now are some black lights and tunes!

Random!

Better get to baking bread today or these babies are going to actually dissolve soon...bleh!!
To add chocolate chips or not...that is the question...

and on a completely different note...

Isn't this a cool 'almost teenager' room?
Hannah got a new carpet from Santa and while she already had the lamp, Donald bought some colored bulbs for it..
Super fun!

Ahhh...

...back to school!
There are a few reasons why I say "ahhh".

One is that I can clean the house and it will stay clean - for an afternoon at least.
People aren't in the kitchen all throughout the day (who invented lunch anyway?)

But the main reason I'm glad that school has started again is that there has been way too much of this sort of thing...

I can see brain vapors leaking out.

A New Year

Maybe that's what Pounce was contemplating yesterday on New Year's Day.

He's probably like the rest of us...

...wondering where 2011 went and what 2012 holds in store.