You know that feeling after you haven't blogged (or journaled) for a long time? That feeling where you look at your most recent entry and realized all the stuff you've done since then? Being completely overwhelmed at the thought of writing all those painful play-by-play descriptions of life events that will, inevitably, take hours to accomplish? Procrastinating the inevitable blogging for that very reason?
Yeah.
Luckily, technology has provided a useful tool for blogging procrastination: the digital camera. With this handy device, you can take pictures of everything you do, storing these photos neatly on your hard drive and telling yourself that this makes up for not writing about said life events....because look at all the pictures you have!!!
I looked at a picture on my computer the other day, and I had no idea what it was of or why I took it. The only indication I had of its identity or value was the iPhoto album it was in, and that wasn't much help. Cool, huh?
As far as record-keeping goes, Katie's writing > Katie's picture-taking.
I realized this morning that I have been fastidiously updating my other blog and leaving this one woefully neglected. So, utilizing my pictures (ha), here is a recap of the last month:
We went to Philadelphia!
The weekend before we left for Florida, we drove Ricky's car up to my parents' house to leave with them until my dad can drive it down to FL on Labor Day weekend. While we were up there, we decided to visit Philadelphia! (SUCH a good choice.)
Ricky had a cheesesteak! (I had a gyro. I'm unconventional.)
We met up with Angela! :D (In line for the Liberty Bell...)
We saw the Liberty Bell!
Ben Franklin's grave!
The churchyard was closed, but when has that ever stopped someone from taking pictures through the gate?
We waited in a super long line to see Independence Hall!
We saw Independence Hall!
And the inside!
These are the stairs from the musical 1776, which happens to be the BEST MUSICAL EVER. A security guard was eying me suspiciously as I snuck away from the tour group to take this.
George Washington's original chair! (Excuse the blurry--there was some crowd jostling.)
We saw Valley Forge!
We saw a free "Shakespeare on the Green" play (Much Ado About Nothing) at the Washington Memorial Chapel at Valley Forge! (And it was awesome!)
And this, at the Washington Memorial Chapel used bookstore. HAHA!
We took pictures with these right before we left BV for FL:
Really, we were driving the moving truck out of town when we stopped to take these. How could we not? And yes, I am wearing the same shirt from Philadelphia, but all my clothes were packed!
We moved to Florida!
And man, is it beautiful or what? You forget what the sunset looks like when you've had mountains in the way for three years. Cameras never do them justice.
Whew.
Again, I know pictures don't do my life justice, but that's a whole lot to catch up on. I'll try to do better from now on. :) In the meantime, Ricky's first day of law school orientation was yesterday (yes, I did take a picture of it) and my first day of grad school orientation is TODAY! Hopefully it'll mostly be students my age, because so far all the people Ricky and I have met are a lot older than we are; surprisingly enough, all the law students that we go to church with are in their 30s...plus, they all have at least one child, so 24-year-old Ricky feels pretty young, and 21-year-old me feels practically like an infant.
While we're on the subject of Floridians, Ricky and I are also trying to find someone who understands our sense of humor. Just one person would be great, really. All the married-with-children couples here kind of smile politely when we, the Jensens, start some sort of verbal banter that the dear Bagleys or Ondriceks (or any of our VA friends, really) would pick up on. It's like playing Wii tennis when the other person can never reach the ball in time to hit it back.
In the meantime, I'm in the process of refinishing our dresser and finishing the apartment decorating. And by "finishing," I mean "putting up stuff we already have," which isn't a whole lot. Further decorating will come when I find a job, hopefully at a Books-A-Million or Barnes and Noble or Borders or something equally up my ally, and have a little extra money. Between law school books, grad school books, and buying off doctors to give me prescription medication (a.k.a., spending $130 to sit in the room for five minutes, tell them what's wrong with me, and have them sign a piece of paper), we're not too eager to spend any more money. Unless it's on dark chocolate ice cream, because I could REALLY go for some of that right now.
4 comments:
Katie, I love you and this post....but I think my favorite thing about it are your subject tags at the bottom.
Good luck with orientation!
btw my word verification for this was preoflas. I think they need to rethink the "word" bit.
First off, I'm insanely jealous that you had the privilege (which took me several attempts to spell correctly) of being in Angela's presence. It is currently something I aspire to get.
Second, I want that specific copy of Emma. (Though, is it bad that when I read Emma that I could really relate to her?)
Third, I can't remember if you kept that white dresser I left. Is that dresser you're talking about? Or did you get rid of it? Just curious.
And last, I miss you and Ricky a lot.
With Love,
Kaitlyn
Kaitlyn - I TOTALLY related to Emma when we read it in Dransy's Jane Austen class, and I was about to open my mouth and confess it to everyone when Logan Davis said, "Man, Emma is SO ANNOYING," and everyone else agreed. Needless to say, I didn't get my confession out.
And it is indeed your dresser! I'm painting it tan and changing the handles. Right now it's almost the exact color of our walls, which bothers me, so I'm giving it some color. :)
She and Elizabeth are the two Austenian heroines I feel like I'm the most like. Mix the two, and you have me. I hate that people hate Emma. She's adorable. And ends up with the sexy old guy. Who wouldn't want to have that?
I'm glad you're putting that dresser to good use. There's your wedding gift from me! And I know what you mean about wanting some contrast. I was happy that the walls were that tan color in the BV apartment because then I didn't have to paint it.
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