January 31, 2017


Sunrise.

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January 30, 2017





Took the day off work and went to the Zoo! It was a beautiful day.

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January 29, 2017


Nice day with my friends celebrating my birthday. Lunch on the patio and then we saw La La Land. Very fun!

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January 28, 2017



Birthday silliness.

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January 27, 2017


I keep finding fun picture things to do on Instagram. This one was for #flatlayfriday

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January 24, 2017


This is the look Minnie gives you when you ask her if she is ready for dinner.

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January 23, 2017


What collectible turns you into a magpie? #magpiemonday

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January 22, 2017


New hair cut with bangs- so not used to it!

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January 21, 2017


Finally found baskets for under the fireplace seat.

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January 20, 2017


It's so dear!

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January 19, 2017


Morning sun lighting up the trees.

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January 18, 2017


Lunch at the usual spot.

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January 17, 2017


All the jewels.

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January 16, 2017


Minnie shows off her new snowflake collar.

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January15, 2017


I was going through stuff as I am moving it all upstairs and found these pictures from 1992.
A photography student asked to take our pictures for his class project. He displayed pictures of people along with art works that we had done and asked the other students to match the artwork to the portrait. He later gave us these pictures. Not sure why I have Andrea's picture too - I really need to frame these!

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January 14, 2017


The festive lights are still up at the Broadmoor.

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January 13, 2017


Bengal Green Gasoline.

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January 12, 2017


I really have to get back into the picture taking habit! I forget all day and then scramble when I get home.

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January 11, 2017


Truthfully I don't have anything other than this cute picture of my pup. I have slept so little in the last 3 days due to the wind. She makes me happy.

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January 10, 2017


Who?
My owl light taking the place of all the Christmas festiveness. I think I need to get a few more.

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January 9, 2017



Insane high winds woke us up at 2 this morning and continued for hours. We had a tree go down in the yard and I am just sick about it.

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January 8, 2017


My first Minnie picture of the year! She was doing this when I got out of bed... keeping her eye on things.

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January 7, 2017


I know Christmas is over, but I just got my replacement lights for this super cute tree that Angela gave me. I love the flower shapes on the flocked tips!

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January 6, 2017





I didn't realize that I had this but it is the Owners Manual from my artificial Christmas tree from Sears Model No 728.950290. It used to belong to my Grandparents but I've probably had it for 20 years now and thought that it was maybe 30 years old or so. I Googled the model number and found an ad that was on Craigslist in November that claimed that this model was from 1970 and therefore 46 years old! It still looks great.

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January 5, 2017


Winter wonderland!
I'm glad to be home so I can enjoy the pretty snow instead of cursing it's existence!

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January 4, 2017


Oh no! The last two Christmas cookies. :(

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January 3, 2017



Mocktail for Sober January.

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January 2, 2017


I have such a hard time with Winter. So I will try to celebrate and document the beautiful things to be found in Winter.

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January 1, 2017



Holy smokes 2017!
I can't believe I'm going to be 48 this year. Time really does go by quickly. I'm looking forward to a good year, 2016 was a touch trying in many ways so here's hoping for a better run this year (though it seems like we say this every year).

I took this picture with my new selfie stick that Carl gave me for Christmas. It works when it wants to so I was laughing as I took this.

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