I like to photograph things

Hey blog world!  It's been a little while. I've pretty much given up on consistently blogging while I'm going to school.  There really is just no time for it.  So why am I on right now you ask?  Because I've had just about all the structuring of molecules I can take tonight and I've hit a brain block with my English paper.  Therefore I'm blogging!  Some of you may know, and some of you may not know, that over the last couple months my passion for photography has been growing immensely.  I'd have to say my dream job is to be a photographer but I still have leaps and bounds to go.  Right now I just pretend.  None the less, here's just a little sample of my favorites.

Alright... So there's more than a few here... But any who.  Here they are.

Sad husband...

I'm currently sitting in the waiting room at TOSH. Why are we here? Poor Stephen is getting surgery today. Sad face.  He has 2 cysts in his knee and they aren't going away with steroid treatments, therefore, they're coming out. Hopefully they won't grow back.

*update* the doctor said they got everything and they hopefully will not grow back. Now I'm on my way to the recovery waiting room.

*update* I'm officially a bad wife. I got distracted on my way to the waiting room and stopped at the gift store. The whole reason the gift shop exists is so that you can buy a GIFT for the patient you're visiting. Is that what I did? Nope. Instead I bought decorations. :S  At least the house will look prettier while he's stuck in it..... wait.... I think we actually can consider this a present for Steve.. He does always say he likes a decorated house... ah I found a loophole. :)
But no, in all seriousness I originally went into the gift shop with the intention of buying something for him. There's just one little problem. He's impossible to buy for. He doesn't like candy, he wouldn't read a magazine, and he wouldn't appreciate flowers... My Steve is a simple man.  Give him a book a dog and a meal and he's happy.  Plus there's not a whole lot of guy stuff to choose from in the gift shop... Hopefully he'll like the decorations...

Stephen and Katie's week of fun!

As I said in my last post, it was our anniversary last Sunday.  Since we're both in school we decided we were going to have a staycation rather than go out of town. It was simply delightful.  We took a whole week off work. Saturday-Sunday we went camping.  I haven't been camping in a really long time and it was really fun to go again. We took our sweet Maggee with us and she got to play in the lake. She loves the water.  She's such a cute dog. She got to sleep between us during the night.
At one point she even stole my pillow and sleeping bag.




I don't know why it's sideways.  Sorry...



Monday we went to Park City and shopped in the outlets.  Side story.  I love J-Crew so much.  I want all their clothes in my closet.  What I do not love however, is their prices.  Not one bit.  In case you didn't know, they have an outlet in Park City :)  I was thrilled.  I only ended up buying one item there because it was the first place we went and I didn't want to spend all the money we had budgeted for shopping in one store.  I got a Navy pencil skirt with white polka dots.  It is now my favorite.

We also hit up the Banana Republic store and I got a pair of sweat pants there that have back AND side pockets and are sooooo soft.  I want to wear them every second of everyday.  Oh, they also roll into capri sweats... They're the whole package.
After we went shopping we went to the Waldorf Astoria.  Oh. My. Goodness.  That is the nicest hotel I have ever stayed in.  I just wanted to stay there in my sweat pants for the rest of my life.  We had one of the resident rooms.  We had 2 bathrooms, a balcony, a kitchen, and a living room.

 

 We spent a bit more than we planned on shopping (that always seems to be the case doesn't it) so we decided we'd make up the difference on dinner.  We ended up going to the coolest little Japanese house.  You get to cook all your food in a little pot right in front of you.  It was WAY more food than I could eat and so so much fun.  It was also very well priced.  Might I add that it was incredibly tasty?

We came back to the hotel and spent some time in the Lobby.  We felt out of place there because we didn't think we were fancy enough. (After all I was in sweat pants.)  We played a mean game of chess, which I won, then went out back and roasted some marshmallows :)

They had a spa there that offered aerobic classes.  I got up at 6 the next morning and went and worked out. (I get up at 5:30 every morning for work so it wasn't too bad.)  Afterwards I went back to the room and fell back asleep.
Before we came back from Park City I told myself that I needed to use this week and spend a lot of time on homework.  I think I spent one day on homework... fail.  Oh well.  I was in vacation mode.
We started a Harry Potter marathon.  I say started because we both suck at watching movies... It took us 2 and a half weeks to watch all 8 movies.  :)  I also worked on some crafts.  I made this cute door hanger.

(please excuse our unmade bed and really random cord...)
The highlight of my week however was getting a new mattress. Yes, it was even better than Park City.  If you don't know I have some fairly serious back problems.  They're very annoying but I won't complain to you about it.  Well our old mattress just made my back feel worse than it was.  It slanted down on one side (Steve and I switched off on sleeping on that side) and it was way too soft.  There were so many nights that Steve and I didn't get very much sleep.  Even if we did get 8 hours of sleep we'd wake up feeling exhausted. This sucks when you're working full time and going to school.  You really can't afford to not be getting adequate sleep.  So we went mattress hunting.  We went to this little furniture store around 33rd South called Bradley's Furniture.  We laid on just about every mattress they had and ended up getting a memory foam mattress.  I am in love.  I don't think I will ever go back to a spring mattress.  It's firm, yet soft.  It's supportive in all the right places and cushy in all the others.  It's like this mattress knows me.  It knows just how to caress me to make me love it.  *love sigh*  It was the perfect ending to a perfect week.