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Netflix is my new favorite company. I just signed up for it, and I'm already enjoying more movies than I know what to do with!

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The pretty sunset as viewed from my car.

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My favorite father drinking his favorite drink (a blended margarita) at our favorite Mexican restaurant (Cerro Grande).

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Our family's Italian-made cast-iron nameplate. I have one for myself, too. I can't wait to have my own place so I can actually hang it up.

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The first (sticking) snow of the season! It was lovely, but bad drivers in this weather are scary. And grown-ups don't get snowdays like school kids do :(

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I don't know how to make rice without one (my water proportions are all messed up) so rice cookers are amazing.

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Yeah, that time of year again. Getting ready to do my taxes, ugh.
Oh, and thanks Turbo Tax online edition!

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This is Matti, the firstborn of my favorite couple, Jason & Frances. He is smart and adorable and likes me! That's amazing, because I'm usually too scared of babies to interact with them at all. Oh, and we have the same birthday!

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Sarah & Amanda are nice enough to play Rock Band with me sometimes. They're getting a lot better, too!

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The best kitty I've ever had. Have I mentioned that Felix knows how to ring the doorbell?

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One of my stranger habits is walking around the house while I'm brushing my teeth.

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Congratulations, new President Obama. Here's the sparkling white wine we finished in honor of his inauguration.

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Kim, one of the sweetest girls I know (and an awesome mommy) made me a care package full of amazing and cute goodies!

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Reagan and I met up to see a movie and to have lunch at Olive Garden. So good!

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These are the drums for the band Kronicles. TMNT!? Fantastic.

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Two of my favorite people in another place that I'm always at (Coffee Quarter). They're probably the best baristas ever.

Part II.

I'm totally proud of having taught myself this much.

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I've been teaching myself to play guitar and I think I'm getting okay! I kind of love this picture, too.

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Construction continues on the first floor of the house. I can't wait for it all to be finished so things are less chaotic around here!

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Being an adult means doing big-kid things like scheduling your own oil changes/tire alignments.

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This is how I get over the mid-workday slump. Sweet green tea and my favorite candy bars.

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I like this picture a lot. This is where Sarah and I spend a lot of our time hanging out -- Starbucks (where I normally get the apple cider equivalent).

Meredith and the beer she loves. Oh, Sapporo!

The American Visionary Art Museum of Baltimore! It's so shiny.

Part of my cheating meant that some days had multiple pictures to make up for the days when I didn't have any :X


Rissa & I pausing for a picture outside the AVAM in Baltimore's Inner Harbor.

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Well, winter is in full swing. It's cold and windy outside and I need to prepare for it!

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Southern Maryland Youth Day planning continues! My view from my seat in the back of the room. Hi, Joanne!

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Originally, I was supposed to be a chaperone for Mount 2009, a yearly retreat held at Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, MD. Because of complications, that's not happening this year, but here are all the forms of the retreatants before I passed them on to Tess for submitting.

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(Because I started a little late, I had to make up for missing days by taking extras on other days.)
I've always had really healthy hair. Even when I was dyeing it pretty much consistently, and straightening it, and blow-drying it, it's never given me any kind of problems. I'd just gotten a haircut and wanted to show off how shiny it was. :)

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My other favorite part of our FL vacation? Disney World. The last day we were there (with our three-day park-hopper passes), we got to see the Disney Dreams Come True parade. I'd claimed a spot on the train station platform a bit before it started and we had an awesome view of everything. I'm still not entirely sure who is my favorite Disney princess, but even if Ariel isn't #1, she's at least top 5! Here she is with Prince Eric.

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Over Christmas break, we visited the ICE display at Gaylord Palms in Orlando, Florida. It was amazing -- thousand of pounds of ice chipped at and colored to make all sorts of things. This was my favorite room: an ice candy cottage with oversized lollipops! I'm pretending to hold one and it's pretty convincing, right? Kudos to Katie and her magic perspective photography.