Snow!

This storm needs a name. Snowpocalypse was taken last year. How about The Boxing Day/Mary (my sister in law)'s Birthday storm of 2010!

Lame, yes?

Yes.

I opened up the top half of one of our bedroom windows and took a few pictures of the woods. They have all received the Picasa-I'm-Feeling-Lucky treatment.

Stay warm
Stay dry
Stay inside
Happy birthday to Mary.







Gaze in wonder at the awesomeness of the tiny little icicle picture taken with my D90's macro setting. Amaze in awe at the blurred background that even has some of those little dots of light that get people so excited. It's almost as if I did it on purpose! (I didn't, but don't tell anyone... and I am never taking the camera off the macro setting again)

Snowpocalypse 2010!

With only five days left in 2010 we managed to sneak in one final snowpocalypse. It means two things to me this time:

1. My company told us all to work from home, so Jen and I are both working while sitting with each other on the couch. That's love for ya!

2. Today, for the first time as a home owner, I shoveled my driveway. That's one more thing checked off of my things I'd never done before list.

Stay warm
Stay dry
Stay home

Fire!

Trying to light a fire in the fireplace for the first time...



...and failing.

Munchkin is Weird

My step son has a chicken on his head and I just picked up a duck and lost two levels.

Weird.

Roses are Red

I bought roses for my sweetie on Christmas Eve.

Boxing Day Blizzard?

Will the 36 hour storm we are supposed to be getting go down in history as The Great Boxing Day Blizzard?

(can you tell in the pics that it's snowing?)

6:39PM

It's only 6:39 PM?

It feels like four in the morning!
What a long, crazy, busy, wonderful, amazing, Christmas today has been!

HoHoHo!!!

Christmas Explosion

Santa came and the living room exploded!

Merry Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas

Santa Claus Came!!!!!!!

Countdown

Best Present Ever

I already got the best Christmas present ever, about 19 months ago.

Christmas Eve

My parents were just over for some Christmas Eve festiveness. We are thinking that Jen's folks are probably next. Having a really good day so far.

I've eaten so much food that I think I'm going to explode.

HoHoHo!!!

Christmas Eve

So the last minute Christmas Eve Party preparations are underway. I am about to go pick up a lot of food and hopefully I won't eat it before I get it home.

Our house is full of cookies. Sweet, delicious, tasty cookies.

mmmmmmm cookies.

Happy Christmas Eve!

The Big Man Comes Tonight!

HoHoHo!!!!

Where's Waldo?

You've heard of "Where's Waldo?"

Well this is Where's Kitty.

Unfortunate

The sad thing about this traffic jam is that I don't even go through the light that caused it. What a rip off.

Torture

I am a big fat guy. You probably figured that out.

There are about 10,000 wonderful things to eat in this house right now, but all of them are reserved for either Christmas Eve or Christmas Day and I AM STARVING!

This must be some new form of torture.

Yankee Swap Swag

There is a theme... Bathroom reading.



Get it?

One More Photoshop

If I were smart I would have posted the original next to the edit so that you could see how different they are. (Note I didn't say better. Let's clear that up right away.)

So... I did a little messing with the image I use at the top of the page. Silliness

Photoshop.com

I checked out photoshop.com yesterday and played with a few pictures. Because today is Christmas Eve Eve, and my company Christmas party is about to start, I am going to post the ones I've edited. If I knew what I was doing I might be able to make these look good.

Instead...

Sands Bridge in Methuen...


Deer behind the house...


Mary Timony at the Middle East...


The Statue of Liberty from the Staten Island Ferry...


The Chrysler Building from the Empire State Building...


The Empire State Building from Greely Square...


Wasn't that fun??