Ble rydych chi’n byw?

A Very Very Very Fine House

by the way, this is where we live. It's nice. We like it.

We're in the lower right hand flat.

Not Paintin' by Numbers

I don't know hardly any of my grades yet, but i do know that I'm done with the first semester. Finally. As of January freakin' 19th. What is wrong with these people? Don't they believe in Santa Claus? Anyway, yeah, I finished my last exam on Thursday and have been dealing with the resulting headaches over the past few days. (Not consistently, but definitely related--sitting hunched over a desk writing with pen and paper for two hours twice in one week is a killer for my delicate neck and shoulders) Anyway, feeling better now. Haven't gotten most of my grades yet, but I'm feeling okay about it--think I did well on the exams and the papers were not too bad overall.

Off to Bristol, my favorite English hang-out city, for the day. We're going to see the CREATE Environment Centre and its Eco-Home on Spike Island and then have good coffee at a place that's not Starbucks. Maybe we'll look at the skater
guys for a while.

Tonight is ten pin bowling with my Australian buddy who is leaving tomorrow for his 3 month tour around Europe and won't be back.

Yeeha! It's winter school break!

Ladies and Gentlemen, My Talented Friends

So, when Josh and I had our party at Mt. Rainier to celebrate having gotten married, dear friends and family came from all 'round to spend the weekend. Our friends are talented beyond all fairness and many performed songs and stories. Others made cakes and pies and took photos and recorded things and were generally and variously wonderful. One surprise bit of talented contribution came later, in the mail, here to us in Wales. Ms. Susannah Anderson had been sketching during the festivities and later sent us a gold-leafed book of paintings of the weekend. Here are the pages of that book, because they're too beautiful not to share (please note: I took photos of these and then cropped them down in photoshop and adjusted colors to match as close as possible to the paintings. Obviously they are not perfect and you'll have to see the real thing sometime because they are amazing!):