Saturday, January 12, 2008

Bainbridge

It has been a long time. I haven't blogged in a while, and I haven't
been to Bainbridge Island to see my aunt and uncle since last
semester. Now I find myself on a bus out to the city with some lame
(;D) Rod Stewart cover playing over and over in my head, so I find
myself in the mood to reflect. That is, to reflect as well as one can
via a phone that has been made harder to type on by the bus's handling
of an uneven highway.

Crossing the bridge over lake Washington is always interesting. On one
side of the bridge (the right, if you're approaching Seattle) the lake
is quiet and calm, and on the other side the lake is full of small
waves, as though in preparation for a storm. It fascinates me how,
under perfectly standard Washingtonian weather conditions, this lake
can appear so simple and serene if one were to look at it from one
direction, and yet so worried and full of anxiety if one were to look
the other way.

That's all the time I have for now. More later =]

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Shit!

Yes, that's right, horse shit! Immediately after opening presents, as
per Joel family Christmas tradition, it was off to the barn to shovel
horse shit for an hour. What a way to end a beautiful morning ^^
actually, it *was* a pretty nice day outside..

..as my father likes to say, "a family that shovels shit together, stays together." There you have it =]

To Conclude..

All-in-all, I think we could all agree that Christmas was a success.
To top it off, this is probably one of the happiest pictures I've ever
seen of the three of us.

The Christmas joy, however, was far from over..

Post-carnage

The Christmas tree just doesn't look the same without the presents
underneath =\ I guess that's a given though..

Victory

Our work here is done, the carnage complete; there were no survivors.
A very satisfied Joel family looks on =] the remains of our vanquished
foes lay scattered at our feet.

Merry Christmas, Comrade!

My parents managed to find these really campy army snow hats from
Soviet-era Russia. Here's Luca pledging his allegiance to the
motherland =]

Tormented Creature

Finally, Lucy hits rock bottom. She has become totally unresponsive,
and the mere mention of food causes an awkward rumbling noise to sound
from her gut. At least she'll know better next year.. Or not.