Wordless Wednesday: NYC Cruise Edition

Wordless Wednesday: Thanksgiving Edition.

ten on tuesday [vol. 27].

This is a photo edition of ToT. Post a photo of each of the following:

1. Your favorite piece of furniture in your home.

Apologies for the horribly blurry photo, but I forgot about it and then everyone was asleep, so I had to be super quiet and fast to take this pic. But this is my piano, which looks pretty even though nobody plays it anymore.

2. Your favorite thing on your wall.

This is the photo collage that my cousin, Lynds, made for me for my graduation.

3. Your bed as it looks right now.

I make my bed every day because I really, really enjoy the feeling of pulling the covers back to go to bed.

4. Your pantry.

Fun facts: Our pantry is actually our basement; my mother has hoarding tendencies; and this is only about half of everything there is down there.

5. Your favorite piece of jewelry.

My Claddagh ring, which I believe I received as a middle school graduation gift, maybe? Once I got to college I started wearing it all the time. There are certain ways to wear it - I currently have it on my right ring finger, with the heart facing me because my heart is taken. I have a strong connection to my Irish roots, so I really love the tradition involved. I rarely take it off - only to shower or wash dishes - and I feel naked without it, especially if I forget it for an extended period of time.

6. Your favorite book.

I don't have a favorite novel that I could think of, but I loved Shel Silverstein growing up and still do now.

7. Your most comfortable shirt.

Mainly this is super comfy because it's the only loose-fitting long-sleeved shirt I own.

8. Your messiest room.

My mom keeps the rest of our house pretty spotless. Our messiest room is likely my brother's, but he was sleeping. Mine comes in second place, although it too is also normally neat. This is the small mess I have near the entrance.

9. Your house shoes.
I don't actually wear shoes around the house, nor do I have a pair specifically for that purpose.

10. Yourself.


These questions are a part of Ten on Tuesday which is run by the wonderful Chelsea of Roots and Rings.

finals = photoblog.

Finals suck.

But in other news, I'm in full-blown Christmas mode (sometimes at the expense of studying.. oops) and I snagged a bunch of awesome gifts for people (and myself!). My favorite so far?



Canon PowerShot, in PINK, duh.

That's for me, of course. New cameras make me excited. I don't get to open this baby until Christmas Eve-ish, but that's probably good because otherwise, I would waste even large amounts of time taking pictures and the like.

Speaking of, here are a random smattering of pictures from the past couple of weeks.


My closest-in-age older cousin, at our younger cousin's confirmation party. He's pretty awesome. But more importantly, look at me, pulling off the Mature But Still Trendy look. I feel like at every family event that Lyndsay (my seventeen-year-old trendster of a cousin) attends, I have this secret urge to try to be as trendy as she is. This ensemble wasn't super hip, but classic and also more age-appropriate. Because I keep forgetting that um, I'm a senior in college. A-heh.


And here we all are. These are all the "kids" on my Dad's side of the family. We're in height order, which is definitely not age order. From left to right - Clancy (24), Lyndsay (17), John (14), me (21), Matt (23), Dan (19). That's mainly because my brother's a giant (he gets it from my mom's side) and my two aunts on my Dad's side are itty bitty, the gene I apparently missed.

Can I mention that we pretty much live for the goofy pictures? It's a tradition, because my Dad's family is silly and fun - after all the aunts and uncles finished taking pictures, they'd actually prompt us for funny faces. And we're still doing it now.


This is me on Thanksgiving. I'm thinking this outfit has just enough trend to kick Lyndsay's ass in our Outfit Showdown (that she is completely unaware of). Too bad I didn't spend Thanksgiving with her.. but I am leaving this up as an option for Christmas. Anyway. The only downside here were the shoes, which are apparently a half-size too big. They were slightly painful to walk in but mostly awkward, because I couldn't walk regularly. I was doing some weird pseudo shuffle back and forth from the kitchen.


I can't remember if I've ever told you that my family calls me a mini Martha Stewart. They do. Now you know why. I baked, iced, and sprinkled these babies, and may I mention that I made a decorative little swirl on the top of each one? Then I wrapped them, made tags, and ribbon'd them. Because who needs to study when adorable baked goods are calling to be made, wrapped, and handed out?! Nobody, that's who.

Hopefully you enjoyed my myriad of semi-unrelated photos. It's all I can really manage with all this accounting information floating around in my head. Because it's really, really important to know how to account for a solid waste landfill. Isn't it?

My very first photo blog

Along with blog-switching, Melissa has inspired me to expand my (very non-existent) photography skills. Without further ado, here is my very first photo blog.


This is a puzzle that, against our better judgment, my mother and I constructed. Doing puzzles is a hobby that runs in my family, so we're no novices when it comes to stuff like this. However. This puzzle took six days, and every day we thought we wouldn't make it to the end. I proclaimed my hate for the puzzle early on, before my mom even tried her hand at it. It only took five minutes before she too was spewing hateful comments towards the puzzle.


I present to you Melissa and Natalie. As you can see, Natalie's leg is happy to see Melissa. *childish snicker*


Somehow I have become one of those girls who is twenty-one years old, yet still insists on owning character-themed items meant for children under the age of ten. Seen here, a Hello Kitty stuffed animal, which I just received for my 21st birthday. What says "Welcome to adulthood!" better than a Hello Kitty doll? Nothing, that's what.

Oh, and leave Dumbo out of this. Disney characters are completely acceptable.


On Thursday night, it snowed! Yay!


A shot of my pool, to show the snow accumulation.


Snow.


Propping open my window with the closest appropriate object I could find so that I could take pictures. And praying I didn't accidentally knock it out the window.


My fierce rain boots. Just 'cause.

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I've started to create my makeshift Stuff That I'm Bringing to School pile. So far it contains my rain boots, my regular boots, a poster, some randomly chosen DVDs, my box of Sharpie markers, and my 3D Cinderella Castle puzzle.

Clearly I have a lot ahead of me.