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Thursday, January 01, 2009

2008. In Photos. Part One.

I was going to do one photo a month.

Ha.

You know me. I take hundreds of photos a month. Hundreds. Thousands, if I happen to be in Italy.

So pick one photo for each month? Not possible.

January, do I pick the fantastic desert shots? Tess's school winning "All Small and Mighty's Greenest Grade School in America?" Abe's second or third surgery? My favorite Day of the Dead shoes? Or my new glasses?

Right. I pick them all. Here's my January. In no particular order, except my personal favorite is the last and biggest one....

January, 2008

my shoes

Poor Abe. Four surgeries.

Civano Community School, Tucson, Arizona

new glasses!

driving at night

never ever ever kick a cholla. ever.

the Arizona desert. 107 degrees suck, but the desert is gorgeous. in a dusty dry desiccated way.

3 comments:

That Bread Lady2:01 AM
Julie, that is a great photo of the desert! I can't believe it's been a year since Tess's class won that award. And from the other photos of Abe playing in the snow, I'd say his surgeries turned out well. I missed you too last night. I called your cell. Did you get the message?
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zipbagofbones8:28 AM
Awesome photos - those shoes are rockin'. Love me some cactus in the foot.
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Patsy8:47 AM
I miss traveling to AZ for visits. There is a beauty around Tucson that can't be found elsewhere.
Great shots ---
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Okay -- updating my profile because I never removed the guinea pigs from it, even though they have been elsewhere for months.

Um...new obsession (HA) the elliptical trainer in the garage. I hate the thing, but today I burned 395 calories. I know. I so wanted to burn 5 more to make it an even 400, but then I would be at 50 minutes and 19 seconds, so I would have to make that round out to an even 51 minutes, and then the mileage could be rounded up to a more even number, and then the calories would be just a few away from 450, but then I could do just a few more seconds, then another few hundredths of a mile, and so on until finally I would fall off, hit my head, end up in the hospital with another nasty concussion, and gain weight because I am bedridden. It was so much easier to just burn the 395 calories.

We moved from the Sonoran desert of southern Arizona to the almost Arctic of Anchorage. I like the winters of Anchorage better than the summers of Tucson, so far.

Still have three kids, the oldest one is a freshman at the U of Arizona (dang it, now I will have to edit this again in a few months), the other two live on Fort Richardson with me and the dogs and the husband.

Other obsessions...my camera, my IPod Touch, my sewing machine. Fabric. Definitely fabric. Dishes. It's a thing females in my family have, an obsession with dishes. Pottery, and earthenware. Silver, definitely. Not crystal and china though. I am not a big fan of the fussy and overly ornate, and both crystal and china tend to fall into those categories, to me. Plus if I have delicate dishware, then I can't have the kids wash the dishes or put it in the dishwasher.

Other than that, I weigh too much, sleep too little, am very liberal, rabidly pro-choice, find it insane this country does not have universal health care, and think the world may be a better place with Obama at the helm. Oh, yeah, and chocolate. Much much chocolate.