Christmas was a blast. We spent the day with my parents at their house. A huge snow storm moved in the day, so my brother and his wife couldn't make it down on christmas, which was sad. But they came down a little later. My Aunt Della made us all Utah Jazz scarfs that are nice and warm and very cool. I need to get a picture of Daryl in that scarf since he isn't much of a fan. :) Daryl got his electric razor that he has been begging me for, for a very long time. He also got an awesome new robe that is really warm and comfy, he wears it ALL the time. I also got him a lot of Kansas State stuff, like key chains, magnets, a pen, a sign that say #1 Wildcat Fan, and a Kansas State mug you put in the freezer. He didn't get as spoiled as me, but he got plenty of things. He seemed very happy with everything that he got.
I of course, got my car, books and games from my parents, and a tripod from my sister in law, which I absolutely love! It comes in real handy and I don't have to borrow one from other people. AWESOME!!! It turned out to be a really fun day. We played this game called Uno Flash and that game is crazy! If you have never played it, you really need to. There is no telling who is going to win. You each have your own button and you have four seconds to lay down a card and hit your button, or you have to draw four cards. You don't get to choose who gets skipped, the game does, and you feel on edge the whole time. Its TONZ of fun. I had a blast with it. Its kind of an expensive game, so I'm waiting for my birthday to get it for myself. :)
The Monday after Christmas, I came home from being out and about to find a very sick husband. Daryl ended up getting really bad food poisoning that stuck around that whole week. I felt so bad for him, because he was really sick. On New Year's Eve, which was also my older brother Will's birthday, I came down with a cold. We ended up spending New Year's Eve with just the two of us, hoping that we would make it to Midnight. We barely made it, but as soon as twelve oh one hit, we were already in our bed fast asleep. It wasn't a very fun day for us.
School started back up for me on the 5th of January and I've been going ever since. I only have three classes but they are jam packed. I have my Senior Capstone class this semseter and this is the last class you take when you are done with your major in sociology. You spend the semester doing a research project on something that you find intersting. It is not easy. First you have to decide you topic, then its a lot of research, survey questionnaires, more research, and a lot of writing. Its tough, but I have an awesome professor to help me through it. My topic is on gender and behavior. I'm basically looking at Men's perception on how they fell they should be treated by women, and vice versa for the women. Its kind of interesting.
They other hectic class is my photography class. We get to work on one body of work throughout the entire semester AND we have to apply to three different art shows. I'm really scared about the art shows, because I have yet to do that. YIKES!!!! But it will be really good experience for me. I originally went back to an idea I did a year ago with Body by Candlelight, and I wanted to do it all in color. Well after the first pictures came out, I wasn't to happy with them and a little lost. My professor gave me some artists to look at that work with low light and I found some very ineresting that involved light movement. ANyways, Daryl and I got the idea of glowsticks and went out this past weekend hunting them donw. After we did, I spent an evening, with the help of Daryl, and a few friends, and we came up with some great pics.
In this pic, we took glow sticks and tied them together with string, then let them spin. Our friends son, Christian is the kid in the pick reaching for the glowing world.
In this pic we cut open a glow stick and put the liquid in water, then let it swirl around. It turned out really good and Daryl says it looks like the galaxy.
Daryl calls this one the autopsy of an alien. This was when we just started having fun with the glowsticks. It actually turned out really interesting and my professor told me today that he is very intrigued by it. So I'm EXCITED!! Now I have tonz of ideas flowing through my head and I can't wait to see where we go with this. Its been lots of fun.
Anyways, not much else is going on. Daryl is waiting on word to see if the union goes on strike at the refinery. If that happens, then he will be working seven days a week, twelve hour shifts. Not something I'm hoping for. Plus his parents were talking about possibly coming out here next month, so I'm hoping it doesn't happen. The money would be nice, but I would hardly get to see him.
I guess thats all that is happening now. OH, one other thing. This past weekend we spent the day with our friends James and Michelle, because saturday was Michelle's birthday. I got to decorate a gingerbread man and I made him in Daryl's image. Tell me what you think. Oh and by the way, the green candy is his sideburns.
TOODLES!!!
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BranDee those pictures look AWESOME! I can totally see those being in an art gallery. Keep up the good work!
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