wedding season

simple. sweet.

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i haven't really been thinking about wedding things too much.  at first, i had to study for my boards.  then we had to travel around for football games, and thanksmas, and whatnot.  for now, i have a job.  and that job is applying for jobs.  which is supposed to take all of my time.

i had this hope while i was in nursing school that i would get a degree and be qualified for jobs, and not just qualified for applying for jobs.

anyways.  to get myself excited about wedding season, i got a little binder and some organize-y stuff.

meant to be.

since we've been in albuquerque we have been doing a bunch of "spring cleaning."  as soon as i saw this picture of arley, i knew we were meant to be.

real life thanksgiving.

love her voice

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we spent thanksgiving in albuquerque.  it's the first time in a while that mikah has gotten to come.
it was pretty fun.  and adventurous.  and disastrous.  arley and i took parents up the tram.  we had a car window mishap (had to get a rental while it was repaired, which was fun.  but also not fun because no one knew how to turn down the bass).  we went to tent rocks with the "neighbor" family and it was super slippery and icy, so only the very bravest ventured to the top.  mikah and i did the "turkey waddle" supposed 5k, which turned out to be more like 7k or even 8k, which is a big deal when running a 1.6k (1 mile) is still a big deal.  also, mikah got to go to bandolier with us.  the whole thing was a weird mix of snowy and warm.

only snowy on the other side of the mountain up the tram.

blood orange margs on solid ground again.  

little cat nap on the drive to somewhere.

thanksgiving shopping gone wild. 

hippysters?

mama #1 and mama #2.  plus a little "photo bomb," as the hip kids say.

"watch for teeter totters in road"

note the misspelled "amerika" directly over the correctly spelled "america".  good one, obama hater.

the first of 4 ladders, which take you 140 feet up the side of a cliff at bandolier.

how could anyone resist that face?

70 feet up.

the usual.

kitchen fun.

i like this song more because of this

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i like to make hardboiled eggs.  they are good on salads and stuff.  but mostly for this:

mis-taaaake

i used to listen to bonnie rait all the time.  this version isn't too bad either

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i have made a mistake.

while cleaning the unclean-able room, i found a funny little clock.  i stuck it on the desk because i liked it.  but i figured it was broken.

then after i was done cleaning i was looking at it again.  and i found….a winder!  so i wound it up.  really good.  like, a lot.

and it is so. loud.  it is ridiculous.  somehow, you can hear it all over the house.  you can't even hear people talking on the other end of the house, but you can hear the insane overzealous ticking of the tiny little clock.

i'm wondering how long it's going to last…  hopefully not long.  hopefully it will stop before anyone happens to come over for thanksgiving, in oh, about two days...

see the winder?  i'm not really sure what they're actually called...