Krys' World (it's not much, but it's all I've got!!!)

Sunday, January 02, 2011

December Daily 2010 - ALMOST

Here are photos of pages from my December Daily book, inspired by Ali Edwards' annual project. I don't have near the talent she does but I'm LOVING that I have a start to finish record of December 2010! Yea, sure, I have to go and fill in two spreads, but the rest of it is D.O.N.E. That's "done" to you and me!!!

Sorry about the 17th - I took the photo in portrait rather than landscape and am having trouble rotating it in Blogger... I'll keep trying, and if I figure it out, I'll remove this advance apology!!!

If you want to see the photos a bit larger, you can click on the individual pictures...

A few more photos...

Thought I'd treat you to a few more pictures of my beautiful great niece. Isn't she the cutest???

We got 25" of snow here at my house. Here's a picture of the lake, frozen over, and they only got 8"-11", depending on the person who measured. LESS THAN 1/2 AS MUCH, only 42 miles away!!! We expected [J] to have to dig a path to the front door of the lake house, like last year, but uh-uh! We just hopped out and walked on in!

Friday, December 31, 2010

My Intentions for 2011

Be a better wife, daughter, sister, friend, aunt.
Eat healthier. Move more. Lose weight.
Find a great dress for G & R's wedding in Cabo in April.
Read more.
Learn to use the settings on my camera - the ones other than "AUTO."
Make my incentive at work every quarter.
And tons more - get the picture? I want to do better in every aspect of life.
Consciously. With determination.
Successfully.

Wish me luck and willpower!

Photos from 2010

Love the different shades of blonde in my hair...

We got a flat RIGHT at the intersection of 80E and 46E. A stranger was nice enough to stop and help J.

C, the neighbor who's determined to teach me Hebrew! During the summer, he and the little girls who live next door are waiting for me to get home from work to teach me a new word!

The hallway at work, leading from my side of the building to the opposite side - conference rooms on the left.

An iris from Presby Memorial Iris Gardens.

Love the lighting in this photo!

Trying a little something diffferent with the camera focus...

She was only three hours old and they let me hold her!

J and I took Mom with us for our anniversary dinner!

A field of sunflowers in Sparta, all destined for birdfeed!

Posted this photo before, but I just can't believe I took THIS photo in OUR town!

The strip canoe J is building, and he's LOVING this project!

A photo of Mom at a party at C's new house. Love the laughter on her face!

Is that what they call a front?!? (LOL)

Part of the Shades of Summer project! These sunglasses were mailed to me, I took a photo of myself in them and emailed it to the woman running the project, and then I mailed them on to the next participant! Those sunglasses traveled all over the US!

One of four weekends I spent frying the eggplant J grew in our backyard. It was SO smooth and full of flavor!

A pink sky on the way home from work...

We saw the boat on the Hudson on the way home one day - the photo doesn't do the lighting justice, but it makes me remember just how the light hit the side of the boat...

Took this photo from my office window..

This is maybe one of my top 5 photos of J - took this in AC this past November.

AC in November.

The wall in our hotel hallway...

The world's ugliest sofa, finally out of my living room and out for trash pickup!

My 50th - I think it deserved a toast, don't you!?!?

THE Coca-Cola Santa truck, in the Acme parking lot.

This was a blurry photo of S and M, but I applied a "glow" in photo editing and it looks like it's supposed to be that way!

Flooding in North Jersey last spring/summer...

Monday, December 27, 2010

My New ^(%)*@#$

I got myself an iPod Touch. Here's a photo or two, as it is right now...

So far I've only downloaded a couple of things - a comprehensive Dan Fogelberg album, an app for Pandora radio, iBooks (just to try it out - it comes with one free version of Winnie the Pooh), Bejeweled, Facebook and Twitter. Apparently, according to friend E, I'll be addicted to various apps, both free ones and some that must be purchased. She's "gifting" a few to me for a b'day present... We'll see what I get from her...

It's fun so far...

Snow, Snow, and MORE Snow!

They predicted flurries on Christmas Day about a week before the holiday.
Then they withdrew that prediction.
Then all of a sudden they said we were going to get hit with a huge storm. But "they" didn't say it very loudly here until AFTER my sister and mom in Arizona called and said the National Weather Service was predicting 8 inches, or something like that.
THEN all of a sudden "they" were saying 8"-12" or 12"-18".
Here's what we got.....

This is the view down the street from our front porch. That's J snow-blowing our neighbor's sidewalk.

That's my car, after J started clearing it out this morning.

This is the scene out our back door, looking toward Sue's backyard. That's my daughter's car on the left; it was totally not visible when J first went out to start cleaning up our property.

This is our deck. That's a normal picnic table with snow up to the tabletop. And there's about 15" on top of the table. (Sorry about the poor photo quality - that's taken out the window over the sink so the screen is making it a bit blurry and dark.)

Here's my car again, with the driveway cleaned out a bit more.

This is Passaic Avenue, heading out with J to go to the doctor. WHICH is ANOTHER story. I called the service and they said the doctor would be there for appointments after 1pm. So, 1:30pm is after 1pm so we went. At 1:12pm. At 1:30pm we were still the only ones in the lot. So I called again and THIS time they said all appointments were cancelled. So I asked why no one called and the service said they probably didn't take the appointment list home, and I said I hoped we didn't have an accident on the way home and the lady said she hoped I didn't, too. Sort of takes the wind out of your sails when they don't snap back at you... But I was annoyed. It's not like I DIDN'T check...

Another view of Passaic Avenue, this time on the way out to finish shoveling Mrs. D's house, and Aunt Em's house.

This is the house next door to Mrs. D. The neighbor won't snowblow straight through to where J finished shoveling by hand. Nice guy, huh? So when we went back J had to dig this out, too, along with the rest of the driveway. See how deep it is?

A close up of how deep it is...

And here's Mom's house, with C coming out the side door. She said the roads near her were full of spin-outs, stuck cars, accidents, etc. Our route there was okay... One car stuck on our street, and one having trouble getting up onto Passaic Avenue.