Happy 2010, tomorrow

This is a random [but funny] way to end 2009/bring in 2010:

gets me every time.

Impressive

My friend Emily emailed me this video to let me know that our old high school, Shorewood (in Seattle- also Dave Bazan's alma mater, by the way), is taking part in creating some fun "lip dub" videos. Apparently lip dub means: lip singing to an entire song in a single take. Shorewood is battling with its rival Shorecrest (Rainn Wilson of The Office's alma mater) to create the best/most original vid. Shorecrest made a video to Outcast's "Hey Ya," which is pretty cool, and then Shorewood responded by creating this video, to Hall and Oates' "You Make My Dreams Come True." In reverse. !!

Check it out:



Read more on msnbc.com

Finishing Strong

It's December 29th! That means there are only TWO DAYS left of December, which means there are only two days left of Dressember! Since I still haven't repeated a dress yet, I'm going to finish strong without repeating.

From Christmas, holding the front of Adam's wrapping on his gift for me (he spelled out recipients' names with construction paper on the front of white paper-wrapped gifts. clever)
oh, and J bought me that dress for Christmas <3

Wearing the dress J's mum gave me, while seeing how long my bangs are,

early morning backyard photoshoot,
first day back at the office after the holiday- we were a bit blinded by the light,

and today,

Belated

This year, I wrapped all my gifts with yarn and the pages of an atlas,


and here's our family photo:

Hope you had a wonderful Christmas- fun and low-stress. :]

Dressember Catch up, days 19-24

I haven't posted Dressember pictures for several days, so I have a bit of catching up to do. The past week has been a whirlwind, really. Finals, press week at The Gazette, then I shot two weddings this weekend with Shannon! And then Christmas prep on top of all that? Yikesies.

I want to take a moment to point out my dedication to Dressember: Even though I shot two weddings, I kept in the dress-wearing spirit.

Wedding 1:

Wedding 2:
Amy and I decided to take some jumping pictures on Monday. We have fun at work.

I was willing to let Jen and Amy receive partial credit for their skirts on Tuesday,
(by the way those sweet pinkish purple tights were an early gift from Jordan! Great positive reinforcement for my wild tights fetish...!)


With Sara and Amy at our office Christmas lunch,
(Sara, if you're reading this, sorry there's a palm tree sticking out of your head! You can blame Jen...)
Christmas eve! Notice my spiffy new kicks from Jordan! Recognize them? I've posted them before!

To read my original explanation of Dressember, click here.

Merry Christmas eve, by the way!

12 Days of Gazette Christmas

Today at work I put together a blog post on The 12 Days of Gazette Christmas.
I'm pretty excited about it.





See the rest on The OC Gazette blog. !!

The Union Line at the HOB, 12/11

Some colorful shots for ya (click to enlarge):


They got a trumpet player and a trombone player (Spencer and Bob, respectively) to play with them! Sounded so cool!

myspace.com/theunionline

Dressember, days 16-18

It's really hard to tell, but my tights were actually quite bright blue:

I picked this next one (out of several from our mini-shoot) because I have no idea what's happening in it. Is Amy winking like a pirate? Am I River Dancing?

Notice the socks I took a bit of flack for wearing ("Are you going to a sock hop later?" was one noteworthy joke at my expense). Mark my words though: you'll be seeing more socks popping up in the coming months- from anklets to knee highs. Embrace it.

Today, tired and unphotogenic,

Have also had to put up with stares and comments for those floral leggings. I will admit that at first glance, it looks like my legs are covered in tattoos.

I came into the office unexpectedly the other day, and caught Amy in pants. Pants! Am I the only one dedicated to Dressember?? Sigh. It seems that make be the case, but that only makes my purpose more resolute, and my dedication that much stronger! ;)

I forgive you, Amy. I really do.
As heartbroken as I am. ;)

Dressember, days 14 & 15

My sis is getting in the spirit of things,

If you think of me around 5pm PST tonight, pray for me, I'll be taking my gross Linguistics final.

FINALS...

....if only the metaphorical brick wall were this beautiful.

Jasper

I miss you, little Jopper.


I never noticed until right now that he has a spoon. A SPOON. crazybabycakes.

Dressember, days 11-13

at the House of Blues for Jordan's show on Friday,


at Priscilla's Christmas Tea party/luncheon,


in the living room, tired of having my picture taken every day,

This week will probably bring a repeat...I'm running out of dresses...
Even though it wasn't the original point to wear a different dress all 31 days, I'm trying to avoid boredom/redundancy. We'll just see what it comes to.

Any new participants I don't know about yet?

Dressember, day 10

See my post about Dressember on The OC Gazette blog!

By the way, still not too late to jump on board...

Dressember presses on

I haven't posted any Dressember photos in a few days because I thought it might be more efficient to post a bunch at once. Well, here's the last week's worth:




I got Amy to join in, as I mentioned awhile ago, and now we've successfully coerced Sara too! Jen, you're next...


(click on any photo to make it much bigger)

For an explanation of Dressember, click here.

Fantastic

I finally saw Fantastic Mr. Fox this weekend!


I am glad Wes Anderson made this movie. I think he did a fine job.
Usually I have to be in a certain mood to watch his films though because, in my opinion, he focuses a lot on cinematography and character studying, which is great, but not always quite enough on plot. For my liking. Here he is now,


Nicely done, Wes.

Look at that- 2 film recommendations in one week! And after all that talk about never feeling like recommending movies...

Oh! and you can read a more detailed review of the film by Sara on The Gazette blog.

Share the Wealth

I love that Chronicle Books has a Friends and Family Sale twice yearly. !!
Check it out for great gift ideas for everyone on your list. :]

In my dreams,

I'm in Stoughton, playing with a couple wily little boys on a blue slide...