Blondes have more fun

This afternoon we had time for a cultural outing and went to see the Red Fort. It was amazing and beautiful and I would have loved to have seen it in the glory days. I've never thought of myself as a blonde, but I guess in India I'm relatively blonde. The result of this is that random people ask to take pictures with me- I was happy to oblige, even if it was a little odd.

Not nearly as odd, however, as the moment when I was taking pictures of a fantastic dhalia and all of the sudden I realized that a woman in a beautiful sari was resting her head on my shoulder. She was admiring the flowers with me, "pretty, yes?" "Yes very pretty"

Mahatma Ghandi's gravesite

The Pearl Mosque inside the Red Fort

A lovely collection of ladies in saris

Snow Day #3

So, it kept snowing.

This is the grill on the back porch- the snow is as tall as me.

This is the view out the front door. I did shovel once last night, so it's not as bad as it could be.

So far today, I've watched two movies (Adam and Stranger Than Fiction), crocheted a new hat, caught up on all my work email, and made a new collage.

(it'll look a little more exciting once it's dry)

I take all my snowday complaining back. Mother Nature has certainly dumped enough snow on DC this year to make up for everything. And I never thought I'd say this, but I'd like to be able to go into work tomorrow and get everything ready for my recruiting trip that I'm scheduled to leave for on Monday.

SNOW DAY!!!!!!!!

Thank you snowpocalypse of '010- you have finally provided me with an honest to goodness snow day! The celebration actually started last night because we knew we could stay up late and we watched Emma from masterpiece theater, taking a short break around midnight to make snow angels.

This morning started with a chocolate chip waffle breakfast. Here's Collete waiting patiently to eat her food.

Then we took a clean room/do homework break and reconvened at 1:30 to build a snowman- a must for any snowday. Collette again, this time rolling up the snowman's head.

Then there's me rolling part of the snowman body, it got pretty heavy.

I needed some help lifting it up.

And the end result- Myrtle and Milton of the Marvin Family, shown here with Louise and Collette.

And the snowday is only half over!!!!

Snow Angels

Louise and I made snow angels last night ;)

playlist #2

The snowpocalypse of '010 is decending, (on a weekend, but the university is closing at 12:30 today) and instead of locking myself safely away at home, I'm going up to Gettysburg and going skiing. I never thought I'd ski powder on the east coast, so I'm pretty excited.

I made a playlist for the drive, so I thought I'd share.

1- daylight, matt & kim
2- train song, feist + ben gibson
3- the weight, the band
4- 1901, phoenix
5- magic dance, david bowie
6- can't help falling in love, ingrid michaelson
7- fight fire with fire, isobel campbell & mark lanegan
8- merry happy, kate nash
9- sinning hands, iron & wine
10- true or false, bishop allen
11- afterglow, arthur & yu
12- bracket, wi, bon iver
13- ulysses, mason jennings
14- feeling the pull, the swell season
15- home, edward sharpe and the magnetic zeros
16- hey joe, jimi hendrix
17- the calculation, regina spektor
18- glory bound, martin sexton
19- she's got a hold on me, hacienda
20- make me loose control, eric carmen

http://rhaplinks.real.com/rhaplink?rhapid=6539754&type=playlist&title=Playlist&from=msn

Six Word Memoir

waiting, but filling in the gaps.


just because i was listening to this

what would yours be?

broken record?

I know I've been complaining about this all winter, but it's just starting to get rediculous. We got a bit of a snowstorm last night- not enough to close the school down though, just open a bit late at 10 am. Shouldn't that mean that I get to snooze a bit longer in my super cozy bed? NO!

Today we had a phone conference that my boss didn't want to reschedule. Well, guess what- the boss lives on campus while I live a half hour away. To be fair, it really wasn't hard at all to get into work today. The Utahn in me laughs at the terror the mention of snow strikes in the hearts of the majority of the population here. But that's not the point, the point is that I have yet to get a real snow day.

Snow is in the forecast, but once again, for the weekend.