threads of milk & cool big shades

Konnichiwa! (I'm feeling very Japanese today.) I'm back again, for a bit. You see, when my blood is actually warm and moving through my veins without getting a bit icy, I am so much more creative and lively - which means I might even blog a bit!

Mum thought we should have some iced coffee, and so we did... along with banana bread and some of Sara's yummy lemon pound cake. :)

Coolness.

I was trying to make this look a bit like film - heh - I don't think I really accomplished anything like that, but I liked the composition of the picture anyway.

These are really about a fourth of an inch flowers - they grow all over the yard and are super cute. *digs the macro attachment*

[ Arigatō gozaimasu! *bow* ] @ Jamie, for giving me the sunglasses that make me feel cool and cardigins that are soft and sweet. I dig. :) And I really like saying arigatō gozaimasu... It means "thank you very much" (correct me if I'm wrong, G), in Japanese!

I still need to get my snow pictures up! Poo on toast.

Sayonara!
- caroline

snow :: part I

Salut! It's been a very long time since my last post and I apologize for my lack of attention. My posts seem to be picking up a pattern of beginning with "it's been a long time." I was sick for more than a week - I guess it's something you might call the flu? Of course, this is not the reason I've been neglecting my blog, but it does sound very relevant. I didn't really get out of bed for a week, which was just horrible! All I kept saying was "there's crumbs in my bed!" because of all the toast I ate there.

And, oddly enough, I was all unlucky. Soon after I became ill (teehee) we get lots of beautiful snow that needs its picture taken, and where am I? I'm glued to my bed while it's snowing very gorgeously outside my windows... But fear not, I did bundle up and went out to take pictures. However, there is no argument that a sprite, happy Caroline might have taken a lovely selection of pictures, versus the coughy, sluggish one which had less than any gusto, doncha knoo.

And then the power went out. Along with my voice. Funny how time seems to just drag on without electrically powered machines and vocal abilities. And not only was the power out, but I was also out of Star Trek; a truly sad occasion. We've started watching Voyager from the beginning and Star Trek is so lovely when your sick. Or should I say especially lovely. Ah, well.

Here are half of my favorite pics from the snow days... Enjoy!



Snow is so wet. Especially when it's not extremely cold outside. In order to avoid the complete soaking of Griffin's camera, I cut the corner off of a Zip-Lock and stuffed the camera inside, along with my hand. It worked rather well, except when the plastic slipped over the lens, like in the above picture, and when the plastic slipped over the viewfinder.

I tried and tried to get a shot of the snow that was stopped mid-fall. It was very difficult and I never really managed a shot that I'm all that happy with.

Our lovely house.

This was taken from an upstairs window. I thought it looked so quaint.

I have more pics! I will post them in a minute... :) Which may turn into a day, or it may not.

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Well, golly gee. Another week has gone by. That was awful fast, wouldn't you agree?

I started French I a few days ago! I can now say Je suis m'appelle Caroline! Je suis de America. Which means "My name is Caroline. I'm from America. :D But I can also ask you what time it is: Quelle heure est-il? And even courteously answer myself: Il est trois heures. And then I can thank myself. But I think most people can thank in French. Merci.

On a more randomish note, "thank" is a very odd word. Once you say it a few times.

I don't really know that French is a terribly sensible language to learn - I'm sure most people would have told me to take Spanish, but I don't particularly like Spanish and my only other choices were French and Latin. Having already taken some Latin and knowing how hard it can really and truly be, I sort of... opted for French. *shrug* Who knows, maybe there is some great reason for learning French that I will some day appreciate. Such as accidentally becoming stranded in Paris. Or something. I really want to learn Japanese, not a romantic language. But I suppose Japanese is even less practical than French.

Regardless. I rather feel like a proper young lady from the days of old...


The daffodils are blooming. How sweet are these? I love them, they are miniature, wildish daffodils.



This is Pepper. She's silly.


The Bradford pears are budding! :D That is exciting.



And yay for Netflix. Despite the fact that we finished the first two seasons of Heroes (the second season really fuh-lopped) and now are at a bit of a loss. Well, sort of. :D We always find something. If you have suggestions, though, do share!

I have more pics to post... I will get to this later?

Au revoir!

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Yikes! 10 days have gone by since the awesome Henry & the Naked Legs photograph!

Since then, not much has really happened, except that:

1. I got hooked on Heroes, the show.
2. Mother and I lapped up most of the first season already!
3. I finished one sock.
4. Watched the new "Room With a View," which was absolutely dreadful.
5. Finished the second sock! Whooooohooo!
6. Got to babysit Patat's fantastic new Canon 5D Mark II
7. Knocked the focusing screen out of his fantastic new Canon 5D Mark II.
Oh and...
8. Helped Mom babysit Henry for an entire day, but that should technically be #1 in chronological order.

So. That is what has happened. Here are some pics with the Mark II... It's phenomenal in low-light situations.


Here are my socks! Aren't they pretty? Actually, there are these terrible lines of loose stitching


I ripped these pieces of paper out of envelopes, wrapping paper, etc. that was addressed to me. :) But check out how the camera caught the details and it was SO DARK.

Mum has been knitting Henry a sweet sweater. Again, super dark situation.

And this is Quinn's hat. :)


P.S. Doesn't the title remind you of Lost? Heh heh... 4 6 8 15 16 23... Or something like that. Poo, I never thought I'd become addicted to TV shows! :[

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This made me laugh.

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Meet Mr. Reginald B. Sock. I have named him in fond remembrance of Lt. Reginald Barclay from Star Trek! Anyway, I have quite a bit to go, this is just most of everything above the ankle. :)

[ Thank you, Sarah, for helping me start this project! ]

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Yesterday (when this ought to have been posted), I bought some lovely knitting supplies at Mainstreet Yarns. The red is for a pair of socks that I'm currently knitting, the green for fingerless gloves. Yay! It's very exciting, I will post a picture of my sock progress later!

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This evening was spent shopping at Kohl's, where I actually bought some clothes. Wow! Here is what I bought... not all that exciting, perhaps, but I'm excited anyway.

I know that these aren't exactly flattering pictures of the clothes - they are much prettier in person and on the body and without this whacky light/editing.







Since it was dark when we got home and my ceiling light isn't sufficient, I took my desk lamp (just a regular old lamp with a shade), got rid of the shade, and used the hard light of the iridescent light bulb. I was going for sort of a model-like appearance, as if taken with a Polaroid camera or a cheap film disposable. However, I don't think I really pulled it off... Ah well, 'tis fun to try. :)



And then I snapped one of my slippered feet. "Slippered" is not a word, in case you were curious. Do you see how my right slipper has a messy knot where I tried to untie the leather string, realized that I would never again be able to re-tie it, and tried in vain to make a bow? Mmmm-hmm.

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Squeak! I haven't posted for a week! So much for doing the photo project all the way through the year... Anyhoo, here are three pics that I took today, a bit of compensation for my absence. (It's all Henry's fault, doncha knoo, the little wee(ish) thing is too cute to let anyone do mundane activities.)



This is a wrapper from the best chocolate in the whole. Wide. World.



I signed up for Netflix (did I already mention this?) and we have received, watched and returned our first 3 in our 3-at-a-time plan! We watched two discs of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and a Scottish movie called Dear Frankie. I love how you can watch movies and shows straight from the site, too, it's quite nifty.



This is just a random picture of a Relay for Life bracelet. :D

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Meet my tiny Styrofoam disco ball. The first pic is focused on the reflections of various bits of my walls, the second is focused on the ball... obviously. ;)