P365: Day 59

Can't eat my, can't eat my,
No you can't my cocoa face, cocoa face ...

P365: Day 58

P365: Day 57

This one could be called "Mrs. Godzilla Visits The Spa." (PS -- Sorry that these have been going up late. I have been forgetting to offload the pictures until I am already in bed.)

P365: Day 56

How you know it's winter in the Northeast: chairs reserving parking spaces. (This is my neighbors' chair.)

P365: Day 55

 

Ladies and Gentlemens: Introducing the January page for the 2011 Cupcake Calendar. Proactivity -- ur doin it rite.

P365: Day 54

Who's a pretty pretty princess in the big girl bed?

P365: Day 53

Shae's new bathing suit, that I was talking about here. I got the color story all wrong -- this is very bright, with pink and green and royal blue, and absolutely no brown -- but at least I got the aqua and the orange right! The brand is Ola Lola by Azul Kids, and the style is called "Orangina," and I promise that if you Google this you will find NOTHING of use to you. But I got the suit at HauteLook, which is one of those online member's only dealies. Love this suit! It's even cuter in person than in the picture (trust me) and Shae will look adorbs in it. But ... her other bathing suits for the summer will NOT be orange.

P365: Day 52

My mother-in-law's boudoir.

P365: Day 51

Teriyaki pork strips and sugar snap peas. Complete with steam!

P365: Day 50

This is officially the longest I've ever kept up with a New Year's resolution. YAY ME!

 

This is just a silly little "advertisment" that I made for our upcoming family reunion in the 1000 Islands. In July a whole bunch of us are going camping -- I KNOW! -- and my cousin and I are "executive producing" our own little version of "Survivor." It's going to be awesome, and I'm not just saying that because I am interpreting "executive producer" very loosely, in the sense of "person who stands around pointing and laughing and drinking while other people do stuff." Hey, it's a tough job, but someone's gotta do it. And since I'm the "Survivor" nerd, it might as well be me.

(By the way: my favorite part of this layout is the crossed marshmallow sticks.)

P365: Day 49

I took this in my car while I was stuck in traffic on the way home from work. My windshield is surprisingly clean.

P365: Day 48

I call this piece "Tango: Bubble Wrap."

P365: Day 47

They don't give us windows that open at work, because if they did, on days like today, we'd all jump out. They're calling for more snow on the weekend, whee!

P365: Day 46

It's snowing. Again. FOREVER. Happy President's Day.

P365: Day 45

(Posted late due to technical difficulties -- sorry!)

P365: Day 44

CoCo Key, of course.

P365: Day 43

All that fuzziness and crazy light? Turned out to be accidentally perfect, because she was all twitchy and awake until the Olympics Opening Ceremony ended. This is the CUTENESS OF UNSTOPPABLE EVIL ENERGY.

P365: Day 42

We briefly escaped the house to get some pizza -- we walked about 5 blocks to this place down the road. I don't even really like their pizza (I got a cheesesteak) but we needed to do something before someone went completely off the rails.

Most of the residential roads around here are an unmitigated disaster, and even the bigger "commercial" roads aren't so hot. We tromped through slush for about half the trip, until we crossed the street and walked along the sidewalk next to the park.

It's hard to take good pictures when there's this much snow -- it's hard for me, anyway, because I am still an amateur at working my camera, and it's been a long time since I've seen this much snow at one time. Fortunately, there were these ducks hanging around, posing, catching the best light of the day.

P365: Day 41

Not much happening creatively, today -- it's very "The Shining" up in here. Also, I forgot that today is my great-grandmother's birthday. Happy Birthday, Nana Agnes! I am celebrating by watching "RuPaul's Drag Race," which is one of the best shows on television, and which would have positively SCANDALIZED poor Agnes. (Which is partly why I like stuff like this -- just to be contrarian.)

P365: Day 40

Still, and AGAIN.

P365: Day 39

Something about this picture, the view down the street with all the cars parked, reminded me of when I was a kid, so I cross-processed the picture to make it look all '70s and stuff. I like it.

P365: Day 38

EFFING EPIC.

P365: Day 37

P365: Day 36

SNOWPOCALYPSE NOW!: Special Director's Cut, Februrary 2010 Edition. 7pm, about 1½ hours after it started snowing.

P365: Day 35

Lights reflected in Manatawney Creek. This is the creek that threatens to make our house float away every time it rains for more than 10 minutes at a time. The lights are streetlights and beer signs from the Ice House, the place where we get our strombolis and cheesesteaks.

P365: Day 34

A total cheat, because this picture wasn't taken today AND it wasn't taken by me. I don't know when Shae took this picture, but I just offloaded it today. It fascinates me because I can't imagine what she was trying to do here -- actually take a picture of the ceiling fan light? And how did she get the rainbow? The mind, she boggles.

Good news, though: this picture did inspire me to finally change the "Shae's Shots" section of the 'riffic blog from "Coming Soon!" to actually there (right under the "Cupcake Cam" link on the sidebar). And I'll be talking about some of those pictures tomorrow.

[Ed. Note -- Because this is Shae's picture and not mine, it appears here unedited.]

P365: Day 33

P365: Day 32

Teriyaki pork strips, sugar snap stir fry veggies, white rice, crunchy chow mein noodles. Tasted better than it looked.