Thursday, January 29, 2009

Day 28


Day 28
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Here are our wedding rings...it's a little cliche, but I like it.

Day 27


Day 27
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This is my work laptop's keyboard. I like the little blue button...

Day 26


Day 26
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It's a heater great....it keeps us warm.

Day 25


Day 25
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Yeah, I don't love this, but it's all I got.

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Day 24


Day 24
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this is from a church door downtown. I don't love it, but it was so cold I couldn't stay outside any longer to take some other pictures.

Day 23


Day 23
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mmm mmm good.

Day 22


Day 22
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Rachel is finally caught up on Lost, so this picture is honor of that.

Pneumonia

So I guess I have pneumonia now instead of just bronchitis. I was feeling worse by the end of the week...my cough got worse and I could tell I was wheezing more so I went back to the doctor last night after work. They did a chest x-ray and though it looked like it could be pneumonia. He also gave me a nebulizer treatment to help me breathe a little better and sent me home with an albuterol inhaler (I did think it was a little funny that even though he told the nurse I was a pharmacist, she still explained the side effects of the nebulizer treatment to me...) I also finally got a prescription for an antibiotic which is great. I'm also not supposed to work (well can't do much about that when you have to be there to open the pharmacy) and get plenty of rest which I'm planning on doing today and tomorrow. I'm just glad I don't get sick very often.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Day 21


Day 21
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I love M&M's...

Day 20


Day 20
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Day 20 is brought to you by the letter "G".

Monday, January 19, 2009

Day 19


Day 19
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Bella likes to sleep curled up under our curtain. It's adorable, but it gets them covered in hair...

I also found this picture of her I took when she was a puppy...

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Sick

So I actually broke down and went to the doctor today. Most of the time when I get sick, I just suffer for a few days and ride it out. I have been coughing since Friday and over the weekend started getting chills and feeling achy as well. This morning I went in a little late to work and only stayed for about 3 hours. I knew I wasn't going to last on my feet all day once I got there. So I left and decided to go to the doctor because I was feeling pretty awful. I tried calling Jamie's doctor but couldn't get in there til Wednesday. So I went over to the Urbandale Family Physicians Walk-in clinic. Unfortunately I ended up having to wait almost 2 hours before actually seeing the doctor. And during that whole time I was waiting, I gradually felt worse and worse. I had the chills so bad that it hurt plus the body achiness did not feel good. I had a flu shot this year so he didn't think it was the flu. They drew some blood but the numbers came back fairly normal...so the diagnosis...viral bronchitis. No antibiotics, just plenty of rest and fluids. He did say that if I felt worse tomorrow to come back and they'd do a chest x-ray to rule out pneumonia. Luckily I have the day off tomorrow so I can take it easy and get some rest.

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Day 18


Day 18
Originally uploaded by Pierpont Photography
This is the light I built a few weeks ago. It's basically foam core, a clamp light, a 150W bulb (though I'd rather have a higher watt bulb), duct tape and a t-shirt stretched across the face. It works really well for lighting small objects.

Des Moines Community Ed Classes

So Jamie and I were talking about maybe signing up for a Community Ed class, like maybe a cooking class or something like that. I found some rather strange classes listed on their website:

-Advanced Bath Salts-Go beyond just mixing fragrance with Epsom salts!
-All Natural Lotions from Scratch
-Life Collages/Vision Board-Using right-brain techniques, participants will learn to design goals and projects through magazine images.
-Scottish Country Dancing, Beginning-Learn a Celtic dance from the 1700's
-Basics of Cooking and Baking with a Wood-Burning Stove
-Historic Soups on a Wood-burning Stove
-How to Write a Romance Novel
-1875 Victorian Hatmaking-Learn to make an elegant 1875 hat from start to finish just as a Victorian milliner would have done....interesting.
And in case you have a small head....
-1875 Victorian Hats in Miniature

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Lost!

So I'm still playing catch-up to watching Lost before Season 5 starts next week. I've been watching the episodes (starting in Season 1) since last summer and I'm finally to the middle part of Season 4. I did take a hiatus in the fall and winter when life got busy but have been watching and watching for the last few weeks to catch up. I can't believe everything that has happened...the others, people being killed, stories from the future, "time traveling", boats, helicopters, surprises, suspense! I'm not looking forward to having to wait a whole week or summer to watch a new episode! Nothing beats having them all on DVD and watching them one right after another. I think I'm up to Episode 7, Season 4...halfway to go before Wednesday night!

day 17


day 17
Originally uploaded by Pierpont Photography
It wasn't much warmer today. Sure, my face didn't hurt like the last two days, but it is still too cold. On top of the cold, it was pretty dreary, so not great photography conditions. Perhaps tomorrow will be a better day.

Friday, January 16, 2009

Day 16 - New Year's Resolution

My new year's resolution is going poorly...Maybe if Rachel would stop buying ice cream, I would stop eating it...

It's supposed to be warming tomorrow! I'll get to go take some photos outside...very exciting.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Baby It's Cold Outside!

I don't remember the last time it was this cold outside! Overnight it hit -20 degrees F! Jamie worked from today so he didn't have to go outside and wait at the bus stop and I luckily don't work on Thursdays so also got to stay home. I ventured outside to go to the post office to mail a couple post-Christmas packages and then to go to our friends' house for Thursday dinner. When I started my car to go to the post office though, it definitely struggled and it took a couple tries before it decided to turn on.

They canceled school in Des Moines and all the other surrounding cities today because it was so cold too! Bella still wanted to go outside, like usual....she must have forgotten after she came back in how cold it was out there!

Luckily we're supposed to have a warm up this weekend and the beginning of next week...in the 30's! Woo hoo!

Day 15 - Boots


Day 15 - Boots
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It's so stinking cold outside! I'm tired of taking pictures inside, but it's currently -16F. Yikes. The good news is that it's supposed to be up to 36F on Saturday. I'll probably have to break out the shorts...

Day 14


Day 14
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It's currently -16F outside. Brrrrrr. I'm having a hard time finding more interesting things to photograph inside, so here's our cute dog again.

Day 13


Day 13
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it's too cold outside, so I'm confined to our house...Here are some wine bottles in our rack...

Monday, January 12, 2009

Day 12 - Spiral

The theme of the week is spirals...So here is a spiral notebook. I know, very creative....

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Day 11


Day 11
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Took a few pictures of Bella playing in the snow today...She sure does love to romp in the snow.

Tip of the Day: The Dali Chicken at P.F. Chang's is really spicy...the waitress warned me and she was right. It's edible and tasty, but really hot. Be warned.

Saturday, January 10, 2009

day 10


day 10
Originally uploaded by Pierpont Photography
So I love Ticket to Ride. If you don't know what it is, you are missing out. It's a fantastic board game...

my 150W light bulb burned out in the light I built...you can tell her that the 100W I replaced it with doesn't do as well...the light is flat and too low.

i'll be buying a 150W tomorrow so I can do better for days 11-365.

Day 9


Day 9
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Here is day nine...We do love our Starbucks.

We just got home from playing games at Manda's. It snowed like 3-4 inches while we were there. Then when we got home, I fell in the snow and landed right on our Ticket to Ride box. While it's a fun game, it's not very comfortable to fall on. The corner jabbed me in my chest. Ouch.

Lesson: Play Ticket to Ride, don't fall on it.

Friday, January 9, 2009

Day 8 - the new lens

The new lens is here. I got the Canon 50mm F1.4 today. I already had the 50mm 1.8, but this one is WAY better. I'm excited to start using it.

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Rachel's Goals for 2009!

I really want 2009 to be a year of change for the better, so here a few of my goals for the year. Supposedly this will update in real time, so we'll see!

Rachel's Personal Score Badge

Day 7 - HBW!


Day 7 - HBW!
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Day 7 - Happy Bokeh Wednesday!

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Day 6


Day 6
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I know it's kind of boring as it's a lot like yesterdays, but it's a photo...

Monday, January 5, 2009

Day 5


Day 5
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Here is day 5...The theme of the week is food, so here's some food. It was tasty.

Sunday, January 4, 2009

4/365 - Bella


4/365 - Bella
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Day 4...I've had a headache all day, so I wasn't feeling very creative. I have a feeling that I'll have more days like these and I be they'll also end up with a shot of Bella. She's at least a cute dog...

Saturday, January 3, 2009

3/365 - My "short term" reading list

Here is day 3 of my 365 Project. These are the books I'm hoping to read in the next few months...

Friday, January 2, 2009

2/365


2/365
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Here is day 2. A little Christmas light bokeh.

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Jamie's Project 365


Jamie here...

I've decided to start a Project 365. Some of you may be asking yourselves, "what is that??". Well it's pretty straight forward. I need to take at least one photograph each day of the year and post it on Flickr (see http://flickr.com/photos/jamie_murray/). I might take more than one, but I have to choose one each day to be the photo of that day. The idea is that it will help me become more creative and see more opportunities for interesting photographs.

here is day 1