My Project 365

2009-02-22T09:53:00.002-05:00

You can catch more of my photography on my new blog... Back to Nature

Day 365

2009-02-18T20:40:00.001-05:00

And that's it. This is the last photo for my first 365 project. It's been a hell of a journey. I only missed a few days and am really proud at how dedicated I was to this. I want to thank you, however many of you are out there, for checking out the site as the year progressed. I hope you had a few laughs. I already love going back through my photographs to see how this year has been. I love this project so much that I do have plans for another one in the future, so be on the lookout. But for now, the cameras may sit alone for a few days at a time. Or maybe they won't. Maybe I won't be able to break the habit! Anyway, thanks for coming along for the ride. Until next time...

Day 364

2009-02-17T20:05:00.002-05:00

Traffic in scratched sunglasses.

Day 363

2009-02-17T20:01:00.002-05:00

One of the beautiful roses my husband gave to me on Valentine's Day. To all the men out there reading this, women love flowers, even if they say they don't. Surprise her every once in a while, especially if she's mentioned she would love to get some. It doesn't even have to be a huge bouquet. Give her just one, it will say the same thing as giving her 100. But just give her some :)

Day 362

2009-02-17T20:00:00.001-05:00

Rick and Pete recovering the next day. I think it's pretty evident that the boys stayed up until almost sunrise.

Day 361

2009-02-17T19:58:00.001-05:00

Rick! It was so great to hang out with him for 4 days. After 2 years of not seeing him and him going through such huge life changes, it was great to reconnect.

Day 360

2009-02-13T21:54:00.002-05:00

This might be the best Valentine's Day gift ever!

Day 359

2009-02-13T21:42:00.000-05:00

Yep, still hot. :)

Day 358

2009-02-11T19:48:00.002-05:00

Since it was like 70 degrees(!!) today, I was able to open the sunroof on the ride home tonight.

Day 357

2009-02-10T20:27:00.002-05:00

Letting the world go right on past me for a few seconds. This was seriously the first time today that I was able to just sit still and do nothing, well besides take the photo!

Day 356

2009-02-10T20:26:00.001-05:00

I didn't realize it was a full moon last night until today. That's probably why I thought it looked so eerie that I had to take a picture of it :)

Day 355

2009-02-08T18:22:00.001-05:00

I found this little guy when I was outside getting a little sun on this gorgeous day! I hate stink bugs but just had to take a photo of him.

Day 354

2009-02-08T18:20:00.001-05:00

Look, the cactus from Vegas is still alive! Whoo hoo!

Day 353

2009-02-06T21:35:00.007-05:00

Have I mentioned how much I like potatoes? And my skillet?

Day 352

2009-02-05T21:45:00.002-05:00

Earrings as artwork. I love these! My mom knows me well, they were a Christmas gift.

Day 351

2009-02-05T21:43:00.004-05:00

My two favorite boys :)

Day 350

2009-02-03T20:52:00.003-05:00

David left his footprints behind this morning in the TONS of snow we got overnight :)

Day 349

2009-02-02T21:09:00.004-05:00

My handsome husband. Trying on one of his 3 new suits. Yes 3 new suits. No one is allowed to get him a gift card to this place next Christmas!

Day 348

2009-02-02T21:07:00.003-05:00

Laid back Super Bowl party. Well, this is half of us, the other half was in the basement watching it on another TV. Check out pretty, pretty princess on the left!

Day 347

2009-02-02T21:01:00.004-05:00

My dad and stepmom came down for a visit this past weekend. We headed out to Alexandria and spent the day window shopping, went on a tour of this place, (where someone thought I was 16! what?! ) drank some Guinness and ate some great food. All in all, a great day.

Day 346

2009-02-02T20:56:00.002-05:00

I went searching through a junk drawer and found these. I can't believe we still have a pack of cigarettes in this house. I quit almost 7 years ago and David quit about 4 and a half years ago. These are some old cigarettes! We both joked that we should smoke them. We didn't, but even after all these years, it's still tempting!

Day 345

2009-02-02T20:54:00.000-05:00

Sleepy Yoda.

Day 344

2009-01-28T21:06:00.005-05:00

I was going to post a photo of the thick layer of ice that covered everything this morning but I've had enough of all that winter stuff :) So, here's a photo of what it looked like AFTER the storm left, beautiful!

Day 343

2009-01-27T20:59:00.002-05:00

It snowed again today! And this time we got a whole 3 inches. Whoo hoo :)

Day 342

2009-01-26T10:55:00.004-05:00

Snow :)

Day 341

2009-01-26T09:42:00.001-05:00

I entertain myself in anyway I can while waiting for the pups to use the facilities at night :)

Day 340

2009-01-25T17:26:00.002-05:00

This was my lunch on Saturday. Soooo good! I love cake batter ice cream :)

Day 339

2009-01-25T17:24:00.002-05:00

I had 2 of these on Friday night. And the hangover was so worth it!

Day 338

2009-01-22T21:45:00.002-05:00

From the first day of this project I have wanted to take a photo of "Dis.ney W.orld" as David calls it. It's so incredibly gorgeous and at certain moments of the day it's breathtaking. Although, every time I see it I am driving (in rush hour) and it's not very safe to try and take a photo. Today I did it though, because there were no cars around me, shocking! It's a horrible photo but at least I can say that I took one before this project ended. Maybe I'll get a better one in the next few weeks.

Day 337

2009-01-21T21:22:00.004-05:00

We are ALL wrapped in blankets here tonight. I'm not sure why we are all so cold but at least we have LOST to distract us!

Day 336

2009-01-20T13:48:00.001-05:00

Yes!!! Finally!

Day 335

2009-01-20T13:44:00.002-05:00

David in a sauna. I'm so glad I brought my camera with me :)

Day 334

2009-01-18T21:39:00.002-05:00

David and I had a busy day of cleaning the house. So we rewarded ourselves by breaking out our ancient gaming system and playing a little Smackdown!

Day 333

2009-01-18T21:15:00.003-05:00

Boo, peeking out right before bed. We've had this little guy for 6 years. And as I type this, he's sitting on my head :)

Day 332

2009-01-16T21:12:00.006-05:00

This is what happens when creatives have too much time on their hands and have access to a lot of po.st-its. If you are interested in watching it being created, click here!

Day 331

2009-01-15T21:28:00.002-05:00

I always spend a little too much time in Pe.tsmart. Usually it's because I want to bring home a cat, or a chinchilla or another parakeet. This time I was tempted to buy the pups a toy. Then I remembered the giant box of toys they already have and the fact that we bought them like $40 worth of stuff for Christmas! Sue me, I like spoiling my pets :)

Day 330

2009-01-14T20:56:00.003-05:00

We babysat Dylan tonight. David loves to get kids to walk on the ceiling and they love it as well. But when Daddy came home, Dylan wanted him to help him walk on the ceiling but before Daddy could grab Dylan he slipped and banged his head on the ceramic tile floor. Now Dylan doesn't want to walk on the ceiling again :(

Day 329

2009-01-14T17:00:00.002-05:00

Yummy, winter strawberries!

Day 328

2009-01-14T16:58:00.002-05:00

This was taken on one of the worst night's I've had in a while. Taking a photo wasn't a priority so I took it of what I hoped would be my savior that night. It wasn't. I went to bed with a killer headache (migraine?) and then I woke up at midnight with my heart racing and wasn't able to fall back asleep. Fun times!

Day 327

2009-01-14T16:55:00.001-05:00

Instead of watching '24' I spent some quality, quiet time upstairs by myself. Then I realized I needed to take a picture!

Day 326

2009-01-10T17:38:00.002-05:00

A lazy Saturday morning.

Day 325

2009-01-09T19:31:00.002-05:00

Another shot of my desk at work. This time at least things are put together. The sun was coming in this afternoon and it just reminded me how luck I am to have gotten a cubicle right in front of a window. It makes the drama at work a little more bearable.

Day 324

2009-01-09T19:25:00.005-05:00

I finally got off the waiting list for the parking garage at work. Whoo hoo! Even though on my first day I was the jackass that clogged up the entrance because my transponder didn't work to open the gate. But I finally got in and squeezed myself into a compact car spot.

Day 323

2009-01-09T19:22:00.002-05:00

Just another night in our house :) Yeah, this is the kind of thing that goes on behind closed doors. I had a turn at getting in those tires as well but there's no way you are seeing those photos!

Day 322

2009-01-06T21:14:00.004-05:00

Taking photos of photos. How lame, huh? Well, the computer that our scanner is hooked up to is dying and I couldn't wait any longer to get some old photos up on fac.ebook. So, I did what I could and now there are a bunch up there, tagged with some of my old friends who now want to punch me. Awesome :)

This one is of me though. Some of my fondest memories in high school are from my 4 years of tennis. Oh, and I wouldn't mind having that body back!

Day 321

2009-01-05T21:32:00.003-05:00

I'm struggling with trying to make what this mug says true. I have no idea how to do it but I'm going to work on it until it happens.

Day 320

2009-01-04T20:30:00.003-05:00

A dirty car and a dirty, empty parking space. We are now a one car family again. The sable was towed while we were gone. You can get an idea of how often we drove it. If you look closely you can see the tire imprints in the dirt.

Day 319

2009-01-03T22:48:00.001-05:00

The road home today. It was a much better drive on the way back, thank god!

Day 318

2009-01-03T22:44:00.002-05:00

Not the best picture but I still love it. We went out to Rochester for the day and on the way back we decided to drive through Lights on the Lake, thinking that it wouldn't be packed. We were wrong and it took us like an hour to get through it but it was still fun.

bonus pic!
Sorry, just had to include at least one shot with actual people that we visited over the last few days!

Day 317

2009-01-03T22:39:00.003-05:00

This is how we spent part of the first day of 2009 and honestly it was one I'll remember for a while. We all went out to the town gym (we had the place to ourselves) and had a blast playing with toys and doing horribly at h.o.r.s.e. Basically, we were just being kids and it's amazing how good you feel when you just let go like that for a while.

Day 316

2009-01-03T22:37:00.003-05:00

I-81 in the snow. Roads like this didn't used to phase me about 10 years ago but we've been out of practice and driving a sporty little hatchback with balled tires kind of makes you white knuckle it until you get to your destination!

Day 315

2009-01-03T22:35:00.003-05:00

Our super deluxe suite at the Days Inn in Wilkes-Barre, PA! (The halfway point to our friends' house) Yeah...it was as bad as it looks but it's cheap and they let us keep the dogs there so we suck it up.

Day 314

2008-12-29T21:36:00.002-05:00

This photo isn't distorted at all. This is how Yoda was sleeping today. Wedged in between David and the couch. His choice, we didn't do this to him, he did it to himself. Quite the funny little dog, always good for a laugh :)

Day 313

2008-12-29T21:34:00.002-05:00

So, I have no picture of us at my mom's house for Christmas. But I do have this shot of the comfiest pajama pants ever that I got as a gift from my mom. I love them! My mom got the "tall" ones so the pants seem to go on forever. Growing up as the tallest kid in the class I get very excited over long sleeves and long pants.

Day 312

2008-12-29T21:32:00.003-05:00

Family shot right before we left David's parents' house. We don't have kids yet so we held our puppies, laugh if you must, we don't care.

Day 311

2008-12-29T21:31:00.003-05:00

David, with our nephew James. This little guy is such a bundle of joy.

Day 310

2008-12-29T21:28:00.004-05:00

Merry Christmas! David and I take this shot every year, with our silly Tigger santa hats on in front of the tree.

Day 309

2008-12-29T21:21:00.006-05:00

We are saying goodbye to our backup car. My grandmother gave us my grandfather's car after he passed away. We got almost 2 years of use out of it but now it just needs too much work to keep it going, so we are donating it. My grandmother loves this car because of the sentimental value, so to soften the blow of getting rid of it we are donating it to help out the fight against breast cancer. My grandmother is a survivor, it's the least we can do.

Day 308

2008-12-23T20:19:00.003-05:00

My manager gave me an awesome Christmas gift today. Homemade cookies, rum balls and jam, yum!

Day 307

2008-12-23T18:40:00.001-05:00

This little guy helps me in the middle of the night so I don't crash into a dresser or wall. I love this little nightlight.

Day 306

2008-12-22T20:44:00.005-05:00

I finally finished my Christmas shopping on Sunday and came home to wrap and watch Christmas Vacation. It finally helped me get in the Christmas mood! These gifts are all for family and friends and I love the way they look all snuggled together under our tree.

Day 305

2008-12-20T14:01:00.003-05:00

A home cooked breakfast on a lazy Saturday morning. I decided to find a new recipe for pancakes and also decided to concoct a recipe of my own for some home fries. (ok, so I used frozen breakfast sausage but the rest is home cooked!) Yum!

Day 304

2008-12-20T13:58:00.002-05:00

Foggy, rainy and cold. This weather is starting to annoy me. Where's the sun?!

Day 303

2008-12-18T21:43:00.003-05:00

One of my favorite ornaments on our tree. Is that weird?

Day 302

2008-12-17T21:27:00.004-05:00

Yoda sat there trying to get something (nothing) from under the couch. He wound up falling asleep there, just like that. This dog is too funny.

Day 301

2008-12-16T20:51:00.002-05:00

Doesn't this look fun? My commute home tonight was a blast. I swear, add one tiny bit of precipitation and suddenly no one knows how to drive.

Day 300

2008-12-16T20:49:00.001-05:00

My first day in my new workspace. None of my computer equipment was hooked up yet and I had to work off of my laptop all day but I couldn't really complain. I mean, I have a view now!

Day 299

2008-12-16T20:47:00.002-05:00

I picked up Brooklyn's first Christmas stocking on Sunday. Having 4 hanging there feels just right.

Day 298

2008-12-16T20:39:00.004-05:00

I cleaned the kitchen on Saturday. And I mean CLEANED. Like took everything off the counters and scrubbed. We had that fridge covered in pictures, coupons, you name it. I got sick of it so I cleared it off. It's like a whole new kitchen now!

Day 297

2008-12-12T21:10:00.002-05:00

Full moon!

Day 296

2008-12-11T21:30:00.003-05:00

We are officially Yan.kees se.ason ticket holders!

Day 295

2008-12-10T22:11:00.003-05:00

Our gorgeous 8 foot Christmas tree. We still have a bazillion ornaments to put up. This seriously is like a 10th of what we have. We have so many ornaments that we need two trees. No really, there's one we put up in the kitchen as well :)

Day 294

2008-12-09T21:36:00.003-05:00

We had the pleasure of meeting Jackson Matthew tonight. Such an adorable baby. He slept in my arms for over an hour...bliss!

Day 293

2008-12-08T20:22:00.001-05:00

It's starting to look like Christmas around these parts :)

Day 292

2008-12-07T22:06:00.003-05:00

I was happily surprised to see that there was still snow on the ground when I got up this morning. I know it's not a lot but it's still exciting!

Day 291

2008-12-06T16:15:00.002-05:00

Can you tell I was excited to get our Christmas tree today? It's absolutely beautiful. It looks perfect all set up. Much better than last year when I was so disappointed with our tree that I cried. Yep, cried!

Day 290

2008-12-06T16:13:00.001-05:00

So long stupid, small cubicle!

Day 289

2008-12-04T21:28:00.003-05:00

I got out of the house on time this morning (yay!) and witnessed a beautiful sunrise. I even took a slight detour so I could get a better look. It put me in a great mood, and that's rare in the morning considering the traffic I have to sit in during rush hour!

Day 288

2008-12-03T21:41:00.003-05:00

This is what my life was like tonight. Working off of 2 computers. Honestly, I went to work today....had a full day of projects...made the 2 hour commute home and then picked up more computers to do more work. Yeah, it was personal stuff but I haven't been able to sit still since before my alarm went off this morning. I'm ready for a break! (I can't even form sentences properly anymore! Apologies for the ridiculous grammar above.)

Day 287

2008-12-03T20:27:00.005-05:00

I love my husband. He sent me flowers at work for our 2 year wedding anniversary. I love daisies, he loves red roses. So, he compromised :)

Day 286

2008-12-03T20:19:00.000-05:00

Yoda being Yoda...not much else to say :)

Day 285

2008-12-03T20:13:00.001-05:00

My nephew. Seriously, how cute is he?

Day 284

2008-12-03T19:34:00.004-05:00

I was asked to do another photo shoot for David's aunt and uncle. This time they wanted a Christmas card photo taken. This is obviously an outtake but I still think it would make an awesome Christmas card. This is Cole having a little spaz attack while repeating "bon appetit!" over and over again. Random, and I love it!

Day 283

2008-12-03T19:31:00.002-05:00

Early morning in Pennsylvania. My dad's yard backs to a nature preserve. If I were a yoga person this would be my go to spot.

Day 282

2008-12-03T19:16:00.003-05:00

Thanksgiving day. My two pups met my dad and stepmom's new pups for the first time. Having 4 small dogs running around the house and following everyone around the kitchen, in the hopes of getting some turkey scraps, was quite entertaining!

Day 281

2008-12-03T19:15:00.002-05:00

I made another one! This time it turned out a little messier but tasted just as good as the first one!

(I'm finally starting to catch up on these photos! Things have been insane here lately)

Day 280

2008-11-25T21:52:00.002-05:00

Everytime we go into BJ's we spend over $200. Even if we go in with a list of 3 items. Oh well, that's the way it goes at a bulk store I guess!

Day 279

2008-11-25T21:47:00.002-05:00

The Christmas tree in the atrium at work. It's 2 stories high. Walking in to see this on Monday definitely helped get me in the Christmas spirit, even though it's still a little early for me!

Day 278

2008-11-25T21:41:00.002-05:00

I helped stimulate the economy on Sunday. Not as much as I would have liked but still, good enough. Oh, and this is just one of the bags, I liked the way it looked :)

Day 277

2008-11-22T14:58:00.003-05:00

It's finally finished! We got the new pieces in and had the time today to finish the buffet/hutch. I love the way it looks in our kitchen nook! Yay, more storage!!

Day 276

2008-11-21T21:01:00.003-05:00

David and I went out to dinner tonight. I won't even get into how the first place we went to had closed down without us knowing it! Ahem, anyway....this is what we came home to. Apparently Brooklyn felt the need to be a good guard dog and protect the house from this menacing scarecrow.

Day 275

2008-11-21T17:52:00.002-05:00

Yesterday I tried to take photos with both cameras. Each try ended up the same. No photo. Why, because all my batteries were dead!

Day 274

2008-11-19T19:06:00.002-05:00

A souvenir from Vegas. Yep, bought a cactus. Actually I bought two. One is for our neighbors that took care of our mail and parakeet while we were gone. Trouble is, I can't figure out which one to keep and which to give away :)

Day 273

2008-11-19T19:05:00.001-05:00

One of the last things I see at night. This fan never gets turned off. Even in the dead of winter.

Day 272

2008-11-17T19:44:00.002-05:00

For those of you out there that have met Brooklyn and thought she was such a cuddly, cutie pie. This is her other side :)

Day 271

2008-11-16T21:33:00.003-05:00

Ok, this is like the crappiest photo I've taken but you try being stealth taking a photo of your neighbors house! Their Christmas tree has been up for at least 5 days. I'm still scratching my head about it.

Day 270

2008-11-15T21:28:00.003-05:00

Before we left for Vegas there were still leaves on the trees. When we came back the trees were bare. And now the leaves have made a blanket on the ground. I'd do something about that if it weren't for this damn cold.

Day 269

2008-11-14T21:55:00.002-05:00

Another night by myself, although this time it's not as fun. I seem to have the attention span of a gnat so I've been watching anything and everything on TV. Including the Wiz.ard of O.z.

Day 268

2008-11-13T22:20:00.003-05:00

I would like to thank this "restaurant" for helping me have a peaceful night at home to order in chinese food and watch whatever I want on TV!

Day 267

2008-11-13T22:18:00.002-05:00

The puppies were a tad exhausted from their vacation. They've been sleeping pretty much since we picked them up.