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so i know i cried around yesterday about not getting any blue berry muffins for breakfast. well, this morning, johnathan went to safeway and got some mix and made me blueberry muffins before i even woke up.

so awesome to wake up to the smell of baking muffins!

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we went fishing today. got up at an ungodly hour of 7 am... ;) we shouldn't have stayed up so late last night. we knew we were getting up early to go fishing. i was sooooo tired that i told johnathan to just go without me. he pulled me outta bed and he didn't even have muffins made! he took me through the drive thru at mcdonald's for breakfast! fyi: i'm not a big fan of mickey d's breakfast.

anyway, we took roxy with us. poor dear was so hot! she didnt want to get into the water, i finally just threw her in. but she used us for shade the whole time since we didn't get into a spot with trees.

she and i both agree that it's so handy having johnathan around. so here's another use for him...

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so i kinda went through my bag of stuff i brought home from my desk at work. it's just been sitting on the couch then moved to the office for the last week and a half.

found a valentine's day card that i had gotten for johnathan back in the beginning of february. i remember i had to run to walmart and pick some stuff up for work and i picked up a v-day card for him while i was there. since johnathan has a nose for sniffing out any surprises i have for him (and in effect, ruining the surprise), i kept the card at work. i meant to give it to him when v-day rolled around but i must have forgotten all about the card.

anyway, i gave it to him today. it was a nice surprise, but of course men just don't get as sentimental about what the card says as women do. more's the pity since i thought this card really said it all.

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so... my first complete week at home is coming to an end. i've come to a realization that i've only before guessed at.

i can not stay home.

i remember when i was in college the first time. i remember johnathan telling me i needed to get out and do something or that he couldn't wait for school to start during my breaks. because, he'd say i was "going crazy". stir crazy. cabin fever. you name it.

i only have another week to go before my classes start. i ventured out of the house today. i'm so glad i did. there's nothing to do at home. it's a very beautiful home, but there's nothing to do! i stopped by this quirky little antique place on the way home today. they had some way cool stuff there. what caught my attention, and i snapped a pic of it before i thought better, was this bird cage. i never liked the thought of caging birds. it just seemed deeply wrong to me.

guess there was a reason after all why i chose this picture above all the others today.

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we went for a walk to safeway to return some movies to the $1 kiosk there. we cut through the softball fields to make the trip faster and there were games going on. i think these were middle school girls cuz they didn't have the fierce competitive-ness of high schoolers.

anyway, it was still exciting to watch even if only for a few minutes.

it amazes me that i was able to do this when i was in highschool. now, i'm so scared of anything flying at me that i freak out. guess that's the result of a cracked cheek bone from a flying softball.

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so our neighbors property can look kind of trashy all the time. actually, it is junky. they have these old junk cars all over the place. i dunno how they stand it.

we went for a quick walk up to the mailbox yesterday and as we were coming down the hill i saw this and knew i had to have it for my picture of the day.

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so i really meant to make navajo tacos for dinner tonight... (the road to hell is paved with good intentions) BUT on the plus side, i did wash the dishes! it's been quite some time since i've washed the dishes. i would daresay over a year. i know, i know, i have a husband who spoils me. i'm kind of stupid like this, but i washed the dishes after i gave myself a manicure. now my nails are all chipped. DOH!

so we went to wonderful house tonight. our one "night out" for the whole week. we made a deal that we would only eat out once a week including the weekends. so no eating out this weekend, since we spent our "night out" already. this is gonna suck. johnathan was trying to say that we would only eat out once a month!! preposterous!! i told him that if we were gonna try cutting costs since i'm not working anymore, and we're gonna do it by not eating out so much to at least be more realistic about it. so we decided on once a week.

i dont know if it's just because i'm sick, or starting to get over being sick, but food is just not tasting right to me. the texture and taste. like... everything almost tastes soggy to me... *shrugs shoulders*
dunno.

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johnathan and i went for a walk the other evening and saw a hummingbird. then i saw another one flying around the window last night.

this is another one of my favorite pictures because of the setting sun in the background. love how it comes out... i'm getting good at it.

i need to get some hummingbird feeder stuff... i also really need to clean the yard. dang, i cant believe the week is just flying by! i dont know why i feel like i'm running out of time. i mean, i still have like a week and a half before classes start and besides that, i'm only taking one class which runs from 9:40-11:40 so it's not like i'll be gone all damn day. (okay, i ended that sentence... you may now take a breath). then i'll have a few weeks off before august rolls around and we go on our vacation.

i'll try to get around to everything i've been saying i dont have time to do.

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so everytime we go to albuquerque, we always go to the disney store and get a mug or cup. came back the other week weekend with kermits' drawers. i really like this cup cuz i think it's the cutest thing ever.

i always liked kermit. i always like miss piggy a little better though. i just thought kermit has so much patience to put up with her but she was still my favorite character. now everytime i drink outta this cup i gotta do the miss piggy voice of screeching "KERMY!" at johnathan.

=)

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so we had a birthday party for my older brother's lil guy saturday. he's turning three this year and is also gonna be a big brother come september!

we picked up his cake when everyone was picking up their graduation cakes. they actually put "congratulations alex!" instead of "happy birthday alex!" they ended up scraping it off and re-writing it for us.

another year older... wow. really. has that much time passed already??

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awww.... SUMMER TIME!!

this has me so freakin excited! i love summer, it's my favorite season. it was so nice and warm today that i broke out my shorts and flip flops. okay, so maybe my flip flops never got put away

(the coloradans are rubbing off on me

BUT i have not gotten to the point where i'm wearing them in the snow!).

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i went to a funeral today for one of my grandpa's. my grandma's little brother passed away over the weekend. he was in the navy and was in WWII. the chapel the services took place at was so crowded that people were standing in the lobby through the whole thing.

i'd never seen how the graveside services were for a veteran besides on tv, the real thing was something to see. they had all older navajo veterans do the gun salute and the folding of the flag. i wished i could have taken pictures. i had my camera in the car and actually debated taking pictures but i thought it would be construed as disrespectful to a lot of people there, especially my real traditional navajo relatives.

i've posed this question before: how do i balance the need to photograph everything with my more traditional side? there have been pictures that i've taken that i felt iffy on and in the end i ended up not posting it because it was too much of a question for me about whether i should even be taking pictures of that certain something or not. one such pictures that i actually posted but still question is the picture of the ants (picture 23) because of traditional reasons.

so i wish i could have pictures of this day. that i could have captured the somber air when the guns were being shot, or when the winds picked up to blow the flags that stood behind the navajo veteran as he offered the prayer before the casket was lowered, or my grandpa's wife as she lovingly tossed the rose on his grave and the heartbreakingly real grief on her face (they were married 63 years), or the tears that ran down his sister's weathered face knowing she's now the last of her brothers and sisters.

another question: why would i want to take pictures of this? because it happened.

so while i struggled with this emotionally and spiritually and tried to come to a reconciliation on it, i struggled physically to overcome this stupid illness i've contracted. i think it's strep... bleh. i'm actually starting to really like the way nyquil tastes. johnathan calls me a glonnie because he says i'm in it for the alcohol but seriously, it's starting to be that if they made an alcoholic beverage that tasted like this- i'd probably be a fan!

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ugh. my first day of being free and i can't even enjoy it! i think i may have strep throat but i feel so not good. i've been in bed all day guzzling this stuff. i hate drinking it cuz the alcohol really makes me feel fuzzy.

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it was my last day at work. well, technically friday was my last day but my boss had already told everyone that i would be gone wednesday (for a funeral) and that i wouldn't be back into the office after that. she was determined to get me out of there asap. no skin off my nose since i'll be getting paid for it without taking anything away from my sick and vacation hours. i'd almost be insulted if i wasn't so happy to be leaving.

anyway, they got me a cake and some flowers as a going away thing. they invited everyone in our office over and it was nice saying bye to everyone. there are people there that i'll miss. kind of bittersweet because i did make friends with a lot of good people all over the organization and a lot of people were sad to see me go.

but the cake? either they had an illiterate write it or they forgot to add a "t" to it...

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so i actually took a different picture today. took a picture of my resignation letter. it came out pretty cool. i even edited it and everything but when i went to upload it to the internet, it just wouldn't take.

i snapped this last minute as i was walking out the building at work. made my car pool guys wait for me in the heat. one of them was like "come on michelle, you can take pictures of weeds at ron's house" meaning the driver's house.

i dont know why this just stuck with me. even on the way home when i was thinking about my picture of the day, this picture stuck out in my head more than my resignation letter. something about it i just really like. looked up what dandelion means and it came up "love's oracle".

i must ponder this more...