happy new pictures!

happy new year's eve everyone!



happy new pictures!

everything i know about love

everything i know about love, i learned from my dog



1. sometimes you'll feel like chewing up the carpet. take some midol; i'll just deal with it. things will be better in a few days and there's no point in letting it bother me now.



2. any healthy relationship requires exercise. if i don't take you out and let you chase a frisbee at least once a day you start pacing around the house, whining, and you won't stop harassing me until we go somewhere. i can't afford arby's every date, sometimes you'll have to settle for krystal.



3. i can recognize subtle hints. i used to not catch the looks and not-so-blatant suggestions, but by golly, now i can! i know exactly what facial expression says "i really need to go outside and poop now."



4. teaching you to walk on a leash takes time. i'll be patient. you have to learn for yourself to not pull against the choke collar.



5. commitment is a lot of work. it requires a lot of quality time, praise, plenty of shoulder rubs, and the other little things like flea medicine. but in the end all the sacrifices are worth it. it's a lot easier to prevent the fleas than to get rid of them once they're in my sheets.

who does that?!?

i cut my nose shaving this morning... who does that?!?



today's a big day: happy birthday katie!



oh yeah, it's christmas eve too. merry christmas, y'all.

my big head

i've been in milledgeville for a couple of days. katie came up and we did our little christmas thing. one of the things she got me was an augusta national hat. this is really cool cause you can't buy them at the masters or anything so it's a pretty exclusive gift (her mom works there). go ahead and laugh: even though it's adjustable, the thing doesn't fit. like i can loosen the strap, but my head's so tall that it looks ridiculous and doesn't stay on so well. so yeah, i felt bad cause she put a lot of thought and effort into getting me a pretty unique special gift and she felt bad cause... i mean, what do you say to someone who can't wear a one-size-fits-all cap? i kept it and am going to give it to my dad, but it was still just... weird.



Sweet 2614: haha that's funny

Sweet 2614: i thought your head was just big in the metaphoric sense

Sweet 2614: but apparently physically too





(this was the biggest big head picture that i could find.)

cabin fever

i haven't updated since i left school. finals came out alright. i got a B in one of the classes that i was worried about, and it was well-deserved 'cause i was lazy and stupid. in retrospect i should have put at least an ounce of effort into one of two graded assignments, but what's done is done and this is the last i'll say about it.



my trip home to athens has consisted of a lot of looking at a lot of sites listed through www.photoblogs.org, and not much else. i worked the after school program my first week here. yesterday (sunday) we had christmas on my dad's side. i took about a roll of (hopefully) cool pictures of the farm, was given a desktop cd organizer, and got some money. my brother's driving has gotten worse so i attempted to sleep through it unsuccessfully. got some good shots of eric sleeping in funny positions though.



the gifts that i ordered for kris and katie got here today. they were a day behind schedule, but i guess i can't complain with the holiday rush. i did the shopping sitting at home, didn't have to deal with any saleslady badgering me, and i'm happy with the results. hopefully they will be as well. i need to go atl to see kris and mr. and mrs. henderson sometime soon. i'll try to go tomorrow, but if that doesn't work out, i have to go next week.



i get to see katie on wednesday! we both need to get out of our parents' houses. she needs to get away from her clothes folding job at rich's and i need to get away from myself. i'm super excited. her birthday's on christmas eve so i had to do double duty shopping. hopefully the stuff i got her will make her laugh. i got an array of stuff. it's like a stock portfolio, at least one thing that i give her is sure to perform.



and for all of you haters out there who know my history and never let me live it down, our first date was on halloween and i haven't freaked out once!



went downtown with eric today. got my oil changed, had the worst meal i've ever had at the grill, bought some gloves at masada, and a few random things at junkman's. i was wearing my boston hat, and the cashier at the grill goes, "i love your hat." i said thanks and put my change in my wallet. then she adds, "that's the best braves' hat they ever made." i just smiled and left. some things are better left uncorrected.



(sorry, no photos on this computer. i finally splurged and ordered a macro lens saturday, so expect some extreme closeup pictures shortly. i also bought a camera a junkman's that takes 4 pictures per frame, dividing it into 4 frames and tinting each frame a different color. we'll see how they all come out.)

i love my dawg

blue caught the frisbee for the first time today. i was one proud papa. even better than that, he started bringing it back. it's like he understands that it's more fun to chase a frisbee than it is for me to chase him. while that game is fun, chasing the frisbee and getting rewarded when you bring it back is more fun. i've read that border collies have this insane desire to please, and i'm starting to see that.

i've also just about trained him to walk beside me instead of pulling me. we even managed to walk by a flock of geese without him getting distracted. when they flew off he got sidetracked, but still, that's a huge improvement. i've decided he learns really fast, i just have to find the right motivation.

one more final and then a month of nothing!

urge to art

i went to bed artistically frustrated. i was in an artsy mood, but couldn't come up with anything to create. i read most of the latest issue of spin, listened to bob dylan (something i never do) and listened to elliot smith. i started a song but didn't think much of it because i was exhausted and it didn't feel like it would amount to be anything special. there weren't any artsy movies on my 5,000 movie channels, only jerry bruckheimer blockbusters. i fell asleep at like 8, woke up at 10, walked blue, and went back to sleep. woke up this morning at about 8 and finished the song. it's great, my new favorite. but i guess that's the point. keep getting better and better. i really want to start a band, something i've never done. i've got some guys in mind down here, and i think they're all willing, so hopefully i'll pull something together on my christmas break and maybe get up the guts to ask my camp owner for the money to go into the studio. he's offered so many times, but i couldn't ever ask him for it. maybe i'll pitch it as an investment opportunity to him and that will make me feel better about it. the only problem with that is i have no business sense. i've always enjoyed working with a friend of mine on recording projects, but seeing as he never gave me the final mix of the last one, and it was like 2 years ago, i'm not going to work with him anymore. he had his shot and treated me with terrible customer service cause we were friend and i guess he thinks he can do that. if any of you ever talk to him, i've still got the money waiting for him as soon as i get the cd.

i pulled an all-nighter thursday, so i took a nap at katie's while she packed and did stuff she had to do around her house. when i woke up i helped her load her car then we made our relationship "official" and she made fun of my commitment issues.



i've got a lot of pics scanned, so expect a lot soon.