December 31, 2007

December 30, 2007

just chewing gum

December 29, 2007

Just a delicious strawberry I enjoyed this evening

December 28, 2007

The pet shop near my office let's folks come in and play with the puppies. You pay $1.00, which is then donated to the Humane Society, and they let you play with the puppies (they supervise, of course, to make sure the puppies are mistreated or stolen). FUN!

December 27, 2007

Some goof put a blow up Santa in the pond at our complex. Here Santa is floating near the shore.

December 26, 2007

Big E holding his squeaky toy

December 25, 2007

Just my sis and her pets chilling after the day of Christmas festivities at my parents' house

December 24, 2007

We open our presents on Christmas Eve as our family tradition. Check out my fuzzy toe socks!

December 23, 2007

This is a music box my grandmother gave me when I was in high school

December 22, 2007

Last minute shopping with my sister

December 21, 2007

My best friend from college gave me personalized note pads for Christmas. It's nice to have a friend that embraces/tolerates your dorkiness.

December 20, 2007

Just a boring picture of the cat

December 19, 2007

Just me and the dogs

December 18, 2007

the drive home today

December 17, 2007

December 16, 2007

December 15, 2007

My sister with our other sister's chihuahua

December 14, 2007

Just the totally awesome shoes and gown I got to wear at the hospital yesterday. My surgery was a flop (my radiation left too much scar tissue to go in the easy way to drain fluid out of my guts), so I am going back in for laparoscopic (or however you spell it) surgery. FUN!

December 13, 2007

December 12, 2007

just a picture of a bird in the sky

December 11, 2007

just a boring photo outside my apartment

December 10, 2007

Just the drive home from my pre-op testing

December 9, 2007

December 8, 2007

December 7, 2007

Just the beast

December 6, 2007

December 5, 2007

This is the historic marker that was unveiled today in Villa Rica, Georgia, to mark the 50th anniversary of the most catastrophic event in Villa Rica/Carroll County history. My mother was in elementary school when she lost her father in this terrible accident. Twelve people died that day. She told me she heard the explosion and said to the girl in front of her, I wonder if that's the factory where your daddy works? After she found out that the explosion actually killed her own father, she said she felt guilty - like her remark somehow brought about this fate on her own father. That twists my heart to think of her as a young child carrying that burden. It twists it harder to think that she may still, somewhere deep down, hang on to that childhood guilt.

December 4, 2007

My grandmother's sewing machine

December 3, 2007

December 2, 2007

just my mouth . . . look at all my fillings

December 1, 2007