Updates

Maybe I'm not posting as much as I should, but I am making old posts more awesome with crappy pictures! Yay! Check out Ski vs. Snowboard. I'll draw more when I get bored again. It happens more often than I'd like to admit. Especially because I'm trying to write a paper and a thesis...

Bad Dream

A few nights ago, I was woken up by Husband. It went something like this:

Gasp. Convulse.



Gasp. Convulse.




Gasp. Convulse.



I was worried that maybe he wasn't breathing well, or something really serious was wrong.

"Are you ok?" I asked tentatively.

"Yeah. I just had a bad dream."

"What was it about?"

"I got a bad grade."

A tale of two computers

I meant to finish this post in April. Oops. You get it now though, so be happy?

This past weekend, Husband and I attended our third and final event celebrating our wedding. We drove to and from California in three days. It's about 10 hours one way. Husband has been distracted this semester to say the least. That meant that this trip was around 15 hours of dedicated study time (I asked him to drive in California... I'm not used to that craziness). We brought both laptops: one PC and one Mac.

I've noticed some differences in those to operating systems (no surprise there).

Husband began the studying using his trusty PC. As soon as it turned on and realized it was not plugged into a power source, it felt as if we had asked the computer to climb Everest. Without oxygen. When it started to slip away, Husband would turn down the brightness to almost black, turn off any extraneous programs and somehow this bought him slightly more time. The computer trudged through like a trooper for about 3 hours. Then promptly died. "It's like a house cat," Husband exclaimed "Plays with you for a while, gets bored and falls asleep."

He next pulled out my MacBook Air (to say this properly, you must whisper "air"). It had been fully charged before we left.  It turned on (happily I might add), and worked until we switched drivers 5 or so hours later. We then decided my MacBook Air is a puppy. Happy to see you, willing to play long hours, and wears you down before you wear it down.

I'm very proud of Husband. He finished an online business class in about three days and got a B. Not bad for someone utterly distracted by wedding madness.

Archaeology everywhere!

Husband and I got a little stir crazy on saturday. Home just wasn't enough. Luckily we live near mountains! 

We began our hike enjoying the few leaves that are still hanging on, the cool weather and the rock climbers. Up the trail aways I noticed some masonry in the riverbed.

Can you see the aqueduct in the upper right hand corner? Here's a good picture of it.

We followed it. All the way to the end. Sometimes there wasn't really a trail, but you could tell we weren't the only curious adventurers who had attempted this. 

It ended a few paces towards the camera, but the absence of something isn't as fun. 

Feeling fulfilled, we descended from the canyon. As we approached the parking lot near the mouth we heard a loud crack. I thought it sounded like thunder, which didn't make sense. There were no clouds. We looked behind us. One of the rock climbers based jumped. I totally want to try that. 

Pillow project

Husband and I were at a popular shopping mall near by and stepped in to a home furnishing store that blew our minds. We found many ideas and that we loved and the more I looked the more I realized I could make some of those things! The inspiration for today's project are these, these and these. I realize they are all very similar. But we loved the vintage feel and simplicity. Husband served an LDS mission to Chile and came back with this. 

A postal bag

I love the lettering. It's so much fun.

Without further adieu, the finished tiny pillow!

Front of the pillow

I wanted to keep the cooler elements of the bag somehow. I used the metal holes for the back.

On our bed!

A pillow case is really simple. Someday when I don't get distracted by the sewing of something, I'll stop and take pictures. Tutorial style.