monday mash up, january 23

Okay, so back when I spent time with people who knew about stuff like this they used to have explainations for times when technology COMPLETELY FAILED ME. Mercury's in retrograde? Something like that? I don't know. All I can tell you is Squarespace is freaking out on my comments, my phone stopped working (See that sweet "no service" message in the center photo? It's not talking about Callum.), and now Picnick is going away? What that monkey?! I don't do any editing there, but all my collages like the one you see here for example, are so freaking easy in Picnick. I'm irritated. And the phone? Don't even get me started.

We actually had a pretty nice weekend. Neel and I had a date night at one of my favorite restaurants on Friday night and Callum had another good basketball game on Saturday. They only had six kids show up for his team so he played all but about four minutes of a 40 minute game. No wonder he's dozing off in front of the playoffs. It was cold and drizzly all weekend so we did lots of snuggling and catching up on our mid-week DVRing. (Erin, I thought the mod dress was totally inappropriate and too goth for Miss Piggy and should have gone home. Just sayin'. And Austin Scarlett's bows were ri-don-culous.) Saturday night I snuck out to a friend's all-girl 40th birthday party. Get a load of her cake! A zombie-tennis-kermit cake. Not one you'd see everyday. Other than that I recharged with a lot of leisurly cooking (Callum made an omlette!) and studied my camera manual and Neel got sick. Winter had come.

monday mash up, january 16

Hi guys! Sorry I'm late! We went away for the weekend and got home late last night. This morning's been all about finishing homework and starting the laundry and hitting the grocery store (still one big shop for the week, alas) and settling back in. Catch up day. We had a great weekend with friends in Eastern PA. Kind of like Emily, we're trying just to go more. These guys used be neighbors, but in a Navy town, neighbors move a lot! They have sons that bookend Callum, one older and one younger, and getting those boys together is a delight. We rarely saw our boy all weekend until we were back in the car coming home. We took a little tour through Doylestown, we (briefly) hit Ikea, we saw the 8th grade basketball team come from behind to win in thrilling fashion. We were well fed. More on that later this week, I suspect. On the way home we stopped off to have lunch with Neel's aunt and uncle and I was given a delightful gift. More on that later too. The drive up to the Northeast corridor takes us up the Eastern Shore of Virginia, Maryland and Delaware. It's a beautiful drive (On our way up, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel was on a wind restriction, and the waves were high!), especially coming home as the sun was setting over the flattening farmland. And those geese in the center picture, just breathtaking. I've never seen so many geese. We're so lucky to live here. I need to remember that more.

I did play with Big Daddy. It's an adjustment, for sure. I shot in JPEG instead of RAW, and that freaked me out a little too. I haven't downloaded any of the pics yet, so we'll see. And thank you all so much for your support of Mark and Fred. It was them on CNN! That Mark, always so attention-grabby. Maybe not this week, but I'll likely write about those guys and how much they mean to me someday too.

So, how's everybody doing? What were you all up to this weekend? Are we going to make it through another week?