Photo Uploads – Thanksgiving and December 2006

I finally managed to upload all the pictures I’ve been taking the last two months. I had half of my Thanksgiving pictures uploaded, and finally managed to get the rest online four weeks later. Recent Photo Sets:

Frosting Donuts
Frosting Donuts

Thanksgiving at Grandma's 2006
All the Thanksgiving Photos

And after Thanksgiving, Stephanie and I took a carriage ride, where she asked me to marry her…
Stephanie's Marriage Proposal
Our Carriage Ride Photos

And, finally, all my pictures from December, so far, including Christmas events, the night we got up in the middle of the night because our roof was leaking, and miscellaneous other photos.

December 2006

Dan, Me, Stephanie

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At Home, Sitting Quietly

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I was supposed to go to Valpo today with Stephanie to visit her family, but I’ve been having another bout of pleurisy, and after we got all packed up and got in the car, we realized it was probably a bad idea for me to go because I was having a lot of pain. We called the pulmonologist this time (he’s still doing some tests to figure out what this is, although we have an idea — more on that later) and he prescribed some medication.
So I’m at home hanging out with Spike, and Stephanie’s up in Valparaiso visiting her dad. I’m feeling better and this new medication seems to be doing the trick to knock this out. I’m watching some of the DVDs I haven’t had a chance to see yet – a couple of Hitchcock movies, and soon, Pride and Prejudice.

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All Wrapped Up…

And just ready to have ribbons and bows put on before they go under the tree.
Presents for my girlfriend
But these are just the presents for Stephanie. I still have to wrap the presents for other people. But we’ll work on that together tomorrow.
It’s funny, when I was writing out the tags for the presents, I had to think twice every time, because it’s strange to write my own name for someone else, and I was afraid I’d label the present to me from her. We go by Stephanie and Steph, so people can sort it out in their heads, but we hardly ever actually use our names when talking to each other. We call each other “honey” all the time. Unless I’m writing about her here on the blog, or I’m trying to get her attention in a store, when I’ll use her name. And when we’re talking to my pets, I call myself “mommy” and her “other mommy”, and she does the same except when we talk to Lucy, when she’s “mommy” and I’m “other mommy.” So we don’t actually use different names, ever, but we don’t use our actual names with each other. We are weird people. But it seems to work.

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Wrapping Presents

I’m home today on vacation while Stephanie’s at work, so I’m wrapping her presents for Christmas. Of all the holiday events, I’m not a fan of this one. I’m not very good at wrapping, and I get frustrated easily. I have everything in gift boxes, finally, and I just need to wrap each of them. We seem to have a million gift boxes, but never one quite the right size for that oddly shaped gift. And I suppose it would be cheating to only buy stuff that fits neatly into a box, right? I gave up and put a few things like that in bags instead. That always feels like cheating, though. It’s a lot more fun to tear through paper on Christmas morning and leave a big pile of it for the dog to roll around in.

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