photos

while i'm feeling completely traitorous and cheating on my website and my wordpress blog, I figured maybe i could post some of the pictures i took with our newfangled digital camera that dad got our family for christmas.

exhibit a: our new doggie, Cooper. he's a red heeler that showed up at my grandpa's around Halloweenish. he was going to give him to the local no-kill animal shelter, but my parents decided it would be nice to have a bit of overlap, since hershey [my other dog, who is getting kinda ancient] is probably not much longer for this world... *sniffle* i love cooper to death.

exhibit b: some stuffed animals that i got for christmas, and in the background, the $25 [wow!] gift card for Barnes & Noble that my friend [or more... *mysterious look*] Austin gave me. more books... =D [if you're wondering what i'm talking about, it's that unimpressive gray thing sticking out of the green box] oo oo, and also i must mention the blue thing in front of the doggy [behind the branch], which is the awesome squshy pillow that my friend Kelsie gave me
[as you can tell, my friends spoil me rotten]. also, not in the picture are the oil pastels and sketch pencils that Bobby gave me. see? i didn't leave anyone out. the "cat naps" calendar is from my grandpa. it's an annual tradition. he sends me a calendar every year. the owl was a stocking present. i actually left out cookies for santa this year [and a posty that said "cookies for santa" - so as to prevent confusion]

in case you're wondering why i'm cheating on my wordpress blog, it's because it wouldn't let me post my pictures without whigging out and making them *freaking huge*. in short, i got pissed and remembered my blogger blog [at 12:00 at night]. also, i <3>wonderful rates - not - 18c a min to talk and 5c a text]. virgin mobile aint cheap. also, i spent some of my christmas moneys on a graphic novel. for my first, it was a good one [i think, anyways, and no one else i know has read it, so i haven't had anyone to shoot me down yet]. it's called "Blood Alone" by Masayuki Takano, and is about a girl who is a vampire and lives with a detective/writer guy with eyes that see truth. that's a really bad summary, but you should read it. good pictures, too. I also chipped in on Superman Returns soundtrack. Mom and I saw it in Imax on my birthday [it was kinda underwhelming because it was in 3D, which looks really bad with fast action], but the movie itself is *awesome*!!!!!!! I never thought i'd be head over heels for a movie centered around a man who spends a fair part of the movie running around in blue tights and red underwear [on the outside of the tights, no less]. then again, i never did get the conventions of superhero fashions, anyways. great movie. great music, too. written by the same guy who wrote the music for the 2nd X-Men movie. that's a good movie, too. and by the same director [Bryan Singer], no less. i never was much one for comic books, but the movies of them have been kicking ass lately [pardon my language]. by "the movies of them lately" i mean Superman Returns and Batman Begins [do i sense a pattern here...?] all the franchises are getting resuscitations. and the CPR techs appear to be doing a good job on some of them [don't get me started on X-Men 3, though - i could complain for hours]. uhoh. is 12:49. maybe, just maybe, i should go to bed. night.
-ann