Wednesday is the worst day.

But here is a picture of me to make it better.

Ondella, Ondella Mama V.I. , V.I. Uh-oh!

Ahhh, the champagne of beers...
Rachel loves the Scrod...
When it comes to pictures this is the best Jason has to offer...

The waitress was into cameras. She showed us pics from her phone that she took on a cross country trip. She needs a camera...

John posed for this, as opposed to my typical sniped pictures of him...

J2 called me up for some beers at the VI. Twas a good night. To bad Rachel couldn't pull the trigger on hitting up Mark's hot tub. It was cold and rainy though.

Another new Camera and some other stuff.

My dad is super cool. He has lent me this bad ass old school Nikkormat. He bought in Korea when he was in the army. Full manual. Fully sweet. I am going to jam this mama full of some B/W film and have at it.
I think you will also note the super choice film texture of the camera's image above. I was lucky enough to get the Exposure plug in for Photoshop from Alienware. It takes lame way to acurate digital camera flim-flam and makes it look like lush old film. So Sweet! I love it.
Here is the pic of Mike Steele from below with a little B&W. I am really in love with this plug in.

Five days have passed.

So I have not updated in 5 days. So here is a few snaps of the week. Most notably, one of the acorns that Rachel and I planted at our wedding sprouted, we saw Mike Steele play at the museum with friends, Dottie still has a cone, Sophie is a kitty, I have a new idea to make some extra cash, we looked at old pictures with my parents, and Vyto and I watched Florida pound OSU while Rachel and her mom worked on cleaning out the basement. That's about it. Until next time...

New Year's Eve!

We played some Wii, we ate some super rad grub, and we drank some champagne. I love champagne ( I remember how to spell that by saying CHAM-PAG-NE.) Monk, from Infinite Art Tattoo, came over with his wife and kids (seen above). If you have not met him he is one of the nicest people around and his wife and kids are great. I am glad they came. If you ever need some freakin serious ink call him. Thanks for all the goodness Don.

By the way the next morning my arms hurt from flogging myself playing the Wii. Dick Clark sounded like he was near death and Ryan Seacrest is no replacement, why is that A-hole hosting anything is he a professional host? I kinda think he rides to events on a short bus with whats his face from Extreme Home Makeover.

Christmas has passed and now on with the gray.

Chronologically these pictures go from bottom to top.
We have had a pretty darn good holiday. My folks came to the B's for dinner and my brother and sister in law came over for desert and coffee. Beans and I had a great time at both my folks and the B's on Christmas morning. We have established the tradition of spending the night at Beans's mom and dad's and having a good old fashioned morning and we even brought the dog.
We capped off the morning with a iChat with K & Sus (in England, awesome). Rachel was icky feeling so I went to my folks and later saw Mr. Mishka and the posse for some fireplace. All in all pretty dang fantastic.


I must say though that we as a country need to allot more days to family and the Holidays than the 1.5 that we do. We spend from Halloween to December 24th getting ready and we have the 24th and 25th allowed to us to enjoy our families our gifts and the spirit of the Holidays. That seems like a bit of a farce that we can fully enjoy ourselves and families in that 36 hour time. If you are unlucky enough to work retail then that feels like .0002 minutes before you have to go back to work and get yelled at because someones uncle who came from Florida lost the receipt for this gift that someone wants cash back to put towards their latest hot pink fashion statement not sold where you are and how dare you have a store policy that prevents returns without original packaging and a receipt. What sense does that make? So remember that it is everyones holiday even that disgruntled teen behind the counter. You are mad cause you cannot return that one thing and all he wants is to home and play the Gogillion dollars in videos games he got. So have some heart and just remember, in like a week we can start shopping for bathing suits, while we are at maximum holiday girth.

Gears of War, bow down to you new masters.

Okay so I know that beating the game on the easy mode isn't all that brag worthy but, this is the sweetest game of all time so whatever. We now move on to "hardcore"mode. Wish us luck!
Yes, I know we are dorks.

Jack was a cat.

He was a shit. I don't know that he cared that we existed but I liked him. He was killed this morning when he some how was hit by a car. I thought that I taught him better than that. So now he is gone to kitty heaven so he can chase mice and birds all day every day. We'll miss you Jack...

Holiday Cookies!

We had a super cookie blow out at the Mishka's.
My stomach hurts and well, Jason was drunk and Johan helped.
Special thanks to all those who actually made the cookies while I
ate them and Jason got drunk. He did make a nice fire in the fire place.
He did it with just one match ( and a fire starter log ), he must
have been one heck of a boyscout.