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a happy afternoon with the lensbaby :)

although i wish it was slide film.  i should have my sister pick up some velvia ... or portra ... while she's in missoula this weekend.

... but i love what spring does to the big sky.

slogging through the long, depressing winter is so worth it when the sky starts to do this in early spring.  although my poor little cell phone camera doesn't quite know what to do with a sun flare (have i mentioned i totally dig my lg dare's camera?  3.2 megapixels, baby!  heh) ...

i hate winter.

i think march is going to come in like a lion and go out like a lion too.  stupid weather.  it was stormy and 50-ish degrees all last weekend, tried to rain around midnight last night (i was still awake because i find it difficult to sleep when the wind is gusting to 40 miles an hour), and then around 8:30 this morning it started snowing big fat quarter size flakes of snow.  by four this afternoon we had a good six inches on the deck.

facebooking @ work = work on facebook

So I will be the first to admit that I am a terrible model for the rest of my age demographic when it comes to social networking.  I don't consider myself lax when it comes to my personal profiles and managing my online identity -- but I'm definitely "lax" when you compare the amount of time I spend on sites like Facebook, Myspace, Flickr or Instant Message services to the amount of time spent on those sites by your average 20-something.  I just don't have the patience for them -- if I have something short and sweet to say, sure, but the back and forth of instant messages drives me crazy.  If you want to have a conversation with me, CALL ME.
However, I love blogs.  I adore them -- there are probably two or three dozen various journalism, photo, or arts'n'craft specific blogs that I lurk on.  I'm not good at commenting or announcing my presence with link love (I know, I know, bad me.), but people who track their stats will probably notice that my IP pops up as a visitor to their site two to three times a day.  I use Bloglines to get RSS for most of my faves, but once I see that somebody's updated, I like to read their post on their site -- it feels like more of a visual experience, and there's more personality.
Anyway, what this is all getting at is the fact that I have spent the past three work days pretty much exclusively on Facebook -- a fact I think is worthy of blog-mention.
No, I wasn't micro-blogging status updates everytime I sneezed or somebody said something within my hearing range.  Nor was I uploading photos from my December trip to Georgia with the Carroll College football team ... although I do need to get on that.
I was building a "fan-able" site for the newspaper I work for!  Check out the page and fan us!

sushi love

have been on an asian food kick the past week or so -- below is the plate of sushi my baby sis and i shared at the wok'n'roll in helena -- whodathunk you could get such tasty sushi in helena, montucky?  and yes, we were brave and got actual sushi -- it's not all california rolls!  although my sister still swears that the red stuff in the center of the plate (crunchy spicy tuna rolls) is salsa, not raw, red tuna meat.  heh.

i *heart* vuvox

so i can't remember how or when i stumbled upon vuvox, but i remember for sure that it rocked ... but i had nothing cool to play with at the time.  enter new years, enter me having nothing to do last week, hello vuvox!  from browsing through some of the other presentations on the site, i know this piece just scratches the surface of what vuvox can do, but i think it turned out pretty slick for my first foray ... happy browsing!

Mmm ... homemade crab rangoons

banner for new carroll site ...

getting ready for carroll's 2008 football season, and am finally satisfied with a banner for the top.  you can check out the finished site here.

success!

Testing my stupid chocolates ability 2 post pics