November13th
In 2010 I must have attended almost a half dozen baby showers and in the process found a new hobby. I started quilting baby blankets. I’m not sure I’ll ever graduate to regular sized quilts but here are just a few pictures of all the quilts I’ve made and given away this year.
November13th
Here are a few pictures from the past year. Top to Bottom: 1. Me at the last game at Rosenblatt Stadium 2. Dusty and Marlina celebrating the 4th of July 3. Dusty and Marlina at the Omaha Riverfront Wine Festival 4. Dusty and Andy.
October31st
October20th
This October I ran a half marathon in Des Moines, IA. If you know anything about Iowa it’s that the weather doesn’t always want to cooperate but on the morning of October 17 the skies were clear and the sun was shining. I’d like to say that I’m a natural runner and it was an easy race for me but I’d be lying. It was a beautiful run but it was a hard run and I was happy to see the finish line.
October10th
At the beginning of October we went to a wonderful event where we ate dinner outside with 500 great people. All of the food was locally grown and local chefs and volunteers were prepared and served dinner. It was one of the most humbling events we’ve been to in a long time, eating outside along side the silos with the friendliest strangers from across the city. It really made me proud to say that I live in Omaha. The organization that put on the event was Emerging Terrain, a non-profit that’s goal is to educate people on social, cultural, and economic factors that shape the built environment. This project was a large-scale installation covering silos in Omaha.
October5th
September21st
Dusty and I have lived in our Old Market place for almost 6 years and we’ve talked about painting and decorating since we moved in. When we moved in we essentially started from scratch and have slowly bought things over the years, random stuff here and random stuff there. Dusty met a wonderful interior designer through his work with Silicon Prairie News and after checking out her website I thought she’d be great to help us put a little sparkle into our place. Jessica McKay of Birdhouse Interior Designis so awesome and we’ve also become quite good friends along the way. Jessica came into our place and somehow after talking for maybe an hour she went back and created a great update to our place. We didn’t want to buy lots of new things so she helped us re-purpose a lot of things we already owned that we just weren’t putting to go use. If you live in the area you should check out her studio at the Master Craft building, 1111 North 13th Street, Suite #123. And if you’re looking for someone affordable to help you decorate your place, I’d highly recommend Jessica. Here are just a few pictures of our place before and after.
September10th
I’ve begun to see the light at the end of the tunnel and it’s not too far in the distant future. I started taking classes towards my PhD in the summer of 2008 and I will officially be done with course work next semester. This semester I took two courses, Statistics and Perspectives in Organizational Communication. Both were challenging but worth it. I will take two night classes next semester, one related to intergroup communication and the other on communication and workplace dignity. My plan is to finish up my course work in the spring and then spend the entire summer studying for comprehensive exams. I will take my exams in the fall while working on my dissertation. My goal is to be graduating in spring 2012. The title of this post is called new hobbies and although this is not a new hobby for me because I’ve been in school for so long but the finishing part is new. School is also such a large part of my life that I sometimes think it’s the only hobby I have. I’ve actually started a list called “The things I’m going to do when I graduate” and that list is growing and growing.
September1st
I planted a garden again this year. I’m learning a little each year about planting vegetables and herbs in pots and every year my yield is a little higher. This year I planted a few different kinds of tomatoes as well as basil, hot peppers, green peppers, and banana peppers.
July1st
This year we spent our anniversary at home and it was perfect. Dusty surprised me with a wonderful dinner and my favorite dessert, bread pudding, from a local restaurant that has the best bread pudding. He even solicited one of his employees (and friend) to bring the dessert to our place right as we were finishing dinner. Every year I think to myself how lucky we are to have each other or at least I am to have Dusty. I know at some point life gets more complicated and things get harder but I still feel as though we’re in the honeymoon stage. And as always, here are our anniversary pictures.
