is this thing on?

Ha ha! I have 35 minutes left to complete my catalog of 2011! I will admit I didn't exactly hold up my end of the deal very well but I sort of hung in there for most of it so...not too shabby! I've recently (like today) determined that I'm about a month behind real time. It was just today that I got a hankering to start decorating for Christmas. However, when December 1st rolled around, no way. Don't be surprised if you get some Happy New Year! wishes from me at the end of January. I'm old. I can't keep up. Brian and I were just looking back through our picture file from the year. I realized we did a lot of little get-aways this year instead of one big trip. We did a ski weekend in the mountains, we went to Oregon, Vegas, Pennsylvania, Evergreen, San Francisco, and Washington. And then there was the kitchen remodel which tends to ominously take over the majority of our pictures. All in all: a good year! So, the last two weeks. Here's the rundown: I got new p

Oh my, this is worse than I thought. I thought I had at least made it to mid-October before going AWOL. My goal this year was to post a picture every day and then it evolved to giving weekly updates and then I don't even know what happened in September... but 2011 is almost over and I'm not just going to fizzle out. With that, here's a recap: Brian got older! His birthday present consisted of the tickets to Bumpershoot so it was pretty low-key but I did run around on my lunch break decorating and coloring the pet's feet with markers so they could 'sign' his cards so he could hopefully feel special when he got home from work. He also got the latest Bon Iver album which I'll admit was a benefit to me as well. I think it was also September that we welcomed our new refrigerator into our family. All new additions to a family require some adjustment and this was no different. As in, it was too tall for the alloted space so Brian had to saw off some of the over