A Perfect Avocado

Always a delightful surprise to slice into a perfect avocado. I think they are so photogenic. 

Annnd that's all I have to say relating to the title and picture. 

In other news, there is only a week and a half of class left this semester. We are not having a blizzard right now as I had hoped and I can't wait for this week and next to be over at work. I turned in all the stuff I needed to for my nursing checklist which is a nice feeling. Things are moving right along. I need to start studying math for realsies because I have 3 math tests to take before class starts in January and then a legit math test I have to make 100% on the first week of class. Do you want to know a secret? I hate math and am terrible at it. It's so third love. 

Anyhow, I should be snowboarding this weekend and I am ex-ci-ted. We went last weekend and it was great. The light was super flat but the snow was el primo. I guess I'll stop here. Bye!

20 lbs and counting

Update: I wrote this post yesterday. I feel better now. =)

These are half of my textbooks for next semester. 20 lbs. of get your smarts on material delivered yesterday.

As this semester winds down with my one measly nursing class I am, inevitably, starting to panic about the real thing. I got stuck inside my head Sunday evening and thought too much about "life" and if my expectations were unrealistic and how at almost 27, this is not where I thought I'd be. 

I feel like I've become complacent. My priorities are out of order and I'm not sure how to get them back in line. I don't feel as though I'm on the right path to get to where I want to be.

I thought I would have more adventures under my belt. I thought I'd have a bachelor's degree aced. I thought I'd be living in a different country by now. 

This quote by Anais Nin keeps running through my head and I feel like I am turning into who she is talking about.

" You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book, or you take a trip, and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous & might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children and then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, & it awakens them and saves them from death. 

Some never awaken. " 

I need to wake up.

Winter Scenes

Some Thanksgiving Snacks

Happy Thanksgiving!

Late Sunrise Over the Mountains

No Rhyme or Reason

Sunset Wednesday evening.

One of my favorite quotes.

I made this at work yesterday and hung it up. Tutorial  here.

Got it.

I am the proud owner of an iPhone 4S. I can finally take pictures again because I have free room on my phone! So I did. Of my cereal with fresh blueberries. Good stuff.

This will take your breath away...

I Believe I can Fly ( flight of the frenchies). Trailer from sebastien montaz-rosset on Vimeo.

Watch full screen for sure...

Tidbits

We went to the Aces hockey game Saturday night and while we were stuck in the parking lot traffic I rolled down my window to take this picture. I haven't fiddle with it it at all. The parking lot lights and snow clouds mixed for a strange orange glow. Kind of fun.

I just registered for my spring classes i.e. nursing school! I'm excited and nervous and there are all sorts of thoughts racing through my head but that's another post for another time.

Hope you guys have a wonderful day. I'm out!

HOLY COW

One of my photographs made it to the front page of Etsy! How exciting!

Hooray! AFortunateEvent has been featured on the Front Page recently!Featured Item Inspiring IciclesAt 11:30am EST Monday November 14 2011Item Views 377Item Hearts 37List made by Pliersandwiresdesign

Here's to a hopefully happy Monday...

I finally got the greeting cards photographed and listed in my shop. So check them out if you are so inclined.

Tata for now.

11.11.11

I kicked myself for not changing my lens yesterday morning as I snapped pics of the moon rising. I used my fixed 50mm and couldn't zoom. The moon was stop you in your tracks beautiful although it felt rather odd to still be working while the moon was rising right before my eyes. The view from our office is awesome and we have the whole floor = 360* views. So after I took this picture, I went to the other side of the building and took a picture of the sun setting. 

How can you not like Alaska?

Happy Friday peeps.

P.S. Please do not figure out the location of my work place by this photo and come kidnap me. Just want to throw that out there since you can never be too safe on the world wide web.

Pipe Dreams

We've been getting lots of snow the past couple of weeks and I couldn't be more excited. It has me thinking of all the snowboarding adventures that lie ahead. We dropped off our boards on Sunday to get waxed and sharpened and in my case a chip on the edge filled so we should be ready to go soon. The mountain officially opens November 23 (or 24?) so I've been perusing photos of old adventures. I love snow! 

Random Things in No Particular Order

I am wearing those stretchy black headbands that are meant for athletic people - to keep their hair from falling in their face when they are dunking. I have no blood going to or from my brain but I am fully committed because it's not something you can take off once you put on. They are new and definitely too tight. Also, I'm wearing 2 of them. =|


When I opened the garage door this morning there was a big dark thing in the driveway that scared the bajeezus out of me. It started running and then I realized it was a moose. Eating all my plants! I scared him though and when I left for work he was eating the neighbors rose bushes and not ours anymore. 1 point for me?


No, a hurricane is not hitting all of Alaska. It is the west coast of the state, more precisely, Nome that is getting the brunt of the storm. I hope the people there stay safe. 


That's it, that's all I suppose. Speaking of That's It, That's All - TRAVIS RICE was on Conan last night and I missed it. Sigh. I love Travis Rice.

Evergreen

Still holding steadfast in the face of winter.

Black & White: Winter Scenes

Craft Bazaar!

AK Brewing bottle cap earrings - fun!

Greeting Cards soon to be in my shop

Stained pallet display

Guess who took blurry pictures of pictures at the craft bazaar? This girl. I didn't notice it on my camera preview - my apologies.

Anyway, this is my set up. I liked it a lot. I know I mentioned in my last post that it went pretty well, but I must say, I'm still pumped about it. I did so much better than last year and really think all the extra time I spent on some things paid off. People were a lot nicer too. Always a plus.

Not a bad weekend. I got some monies to put towards my tuition for next semester and sold a lot of photos - I have nothing to complain about, especially since I woke up to a ton of snow! Woot woot. =]

Wow.

Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.

The craft bazaar went absolutely splendid today. Just got home and stumbled across this video. 

UNBELIEVABLE.

I had to watch it more than once. The perfect finishing touch to the day.

P.S. Happy birthday to my sweet sister. =]

Timing is Everything...

I had a dream about a bear the other night. We were hiking up a trail with woods on both sides of us and I saw the cutest little bear cub off to the right. The first thought that crossed my mind was where is the mom? I looked to my left and she was at the edge of the trees, staring straight at us. She was massive. A sickening feeling of helplessness washed over me. I knew we were in trouble. Separating a cub and a momma is never good, even on accident. I couldn't tear my eyes away from hers as she lifted that gargantuan front paw in her first step toward us. 

Then I woke up.

I actually relayed that story to my boss this morning and quipped at how unfair it was to be having dreams about bears now that it's winter time and should be safe to be outside. 

Then I read this.

The timing seemed uncanny. Gave me goosebumps.

Not So Wordless Wednesday

See the plane? 

The wind last night and this morning was ripping. I had a hard time shutting my car door yesterday at the grocery store. Do you know what this means? It means it is unbelievably cold out. Yikes. Winter woke up on the wrong side of the bed.

I have nursing orientation today. I am excited but pretty nervous - what are they going to tell me? Does it matter what I wear? Are we going to be walking around? Will I get any swag? My mind, it's been racing all morning with these thoughts.

I also have to get my finger prints done today and then I can mail my application for the background check. Tomorrow I have an all day CPR course and after that's completed I will have some major bullets marked off my list. 

This Saturday is the craft bazaar! I am ready to do it so I can see how it turns out. I almost have everything ready, so I'm sure I will be busy with that Thursday or Friday evening. 

I dont' know what I'm going to do with myself next week. It will seem boring compared to this one. I like being busy though, especially with this kind of weather about. We aren't that close to Valdez, but the winds are terrible here too.

The Snow Beat November

It snowed all day yesterday! Light, little flakes that took until the evening to really accumulate. It was beautiful and instantly transitioned the season to winter. Funny how one day makes all the difference - I feel as though I went to work yesterday as usual and when I left, every last remnant of autumn had vanished and there was no turning back.

I don't mind the winter. I know it's long and come February I'll probably be complaining wishing it were over, but for now I will enjoy the fresh snowfall, make my winter wishlist of activities to accomplish and try to catch some daylight when I can. That's really the hardest part, missing the brief hours of light stuck in the office. 

Winter is here, right on schedule. Nice to see you again.