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Facebook2009 in review
2009 was, pretty much without a doubt, the best and craziest year of my life. It wasn't the easiest, but I had ridiculous amounts of fun living it. Snapshots: I acquired a number of colorful shirts while playing on several kickball and dodgeball teams in the winter, spring, and summer. . Early April found me on the slopes, taking pictures of a coworker's son →
Rome Day 7: Last Day in Rome :-(
I figure I'll get the announcement about who won my blog giveaway out of the way before I write up my last day in Italy, just because Brittney nagged me about it. ;-) I swear this contest wasn't rigged, but the winner is my mom, with her guess of 1,974! The total number of pictures I took was 1,989, putting her →
My niece, amused by the other baby in the window (her reflection.) :-)
My niece, amused by the other baby in the window (her reflection.) :-), originally uploaded by Kari_Marie. I took this yesterday on Christmas, when I was playing with my niece. I loved watching her fascination with the "other baby"--she was giving it big, sloppy kisses on the glass! I missed getting a picture of that, but at least I did →
Italy Day 6: Rome, again
Note: for some reason I was light on pictures on this day. I'm not sure why--I know it was a low-key, but I still usually manage to take a ton of pictures. Oh well. Day 6, Friday, started early when Joel! had to get ready to leave for the airport. :-( All of us went to eat breakfast coffee and an →
Italy Day 5: Naples, er, Rome
Day 5, Thanksgiving, dawned quite a bit earlier than any of us had planned. I woke up around 3:30 and discovered that John had quietly been getting sick since before midnight. I gave him some Tylenol I'd brought (as he had a fever) and some saltines, but without getting too graphic, he was no better at keeping those down than →
Italy Day 4: The Amalfi Coast
The fourth day started out quite wonderfully. Why? Well, for the first time the whole trip, we slept in. Ahhh, sleep. We were up and out the door by around 10:00 though, so that we could catch a bus to Positano and then to Amalfi, to see what neat things there were to see. As it turns out, it wasn't →
I caught you a partridge, but I eated it
In case you don't get the reference in the post title, it's this internet meme. A veterinarian friend of mine is holding a 12 Days of Petmas roundup on her blog, and I volunteered to take Day 4 (4 calling birds, in case you don't remember the song.) So this evening I decided to take some pictures... I'm not sending her →
Italy Day 3: Pompeii
I'm going to try something somewhat different in this post. In an attempt to not flood you with quite as many pictures as I'd like, I'm going to try linking to some of them instead. If you hold the mouse over the link but don't click on it, it'll tell you if it's to Flickr (a picture) or Wikipedia (some →
Facebook made me do it
I have to have a privacy policy and Terms of Service to be able to use their comments integrator, so here goes: . . Privacy Policy I promise I won't use anyone's information for any malicious or nefarious purposes. I solemnly swear that I am up to no good. . Terms of Service By commenting here, you are agreeing to have everyone else who reads this read →
Italy Day 2: Colosseum, Roman Forum, St. Peter’s Square and Basilica, and the Vatican Museum
As always, there are more pictures in the Flickr gallery for my trip than I've actually posted here--I'm trying to just cover the highlights here. :-) I think my biggest complaint about anything this whole trip was the hotel beds. On our second day in Rome (our first morning), I woke up and announced to John and Joel! that I thought →
Kari's cheap travel tips (aka how I travel so much on a charter school teacher's salary)
As I was writing up the post for day 2, I started to write a list of cheap travel tips. After I'd finished, I took a look at it and realized that it was really long enough to be its own post, so I figured I'd post it as such, and I'll get the day 2 post up later today. Incidentally, →
Italy Day 1: First Day in Rome
This is my first blog post on my trip to Rome--my goal is to do one a day through the end of the week, and try not to bore anyone with pictures. :-p Therefore, if you go to my Flickr gallery, you can see more pictures there--this is by no means all of them (scary, I know.) John and I left →
My first ever blog giveaway contest
This is my 100th post!! :-) And in honor of my 100th post, I thought I'd do a silly giveaway, just for the heck of it. It's not anything REALLY interesting--more something I thought would be fun. Post a comment on this post guessing how many pictures total you think I took in Rome (NOT how many I'll actually be uploading →
Trying out a new lens on my living room
Because I like to play, I opted to rent a wide-angle lens to take to Rome, as I don't own one, and I remember feeling frustrated in London with lots of large buildings and things that I couldn't fit entirely in my lens. You might remember last spring when I rented Canon's 10-22mm lens, and while I liked that, I →
Leahy concert in Modesto last night
So I should be leaving for work, but I wanted to get this video uploaded. I went to see Leahy in concert last night (second time I've seen them!) and it was SUCH a great concert. They really do put on a fun show. :-) This one is actually the six-year-old son of the fiddler in the blue shirt in the →