The year kicked off with Death Star pancakes and ended with buttermilk biscuits, with lots of life in between. Here are a zillion links for proof...
January 2012
Ah, January. The halcyon days when I actually did daily pixels instead of big batches of snaps. |
| Early morning flight to Arizona. The school year started way too early for my taste what with the university cutting several weeks off of Christmas break. Waa, I know. The best part of January in my estimation? Going to Disneyland with my mom and sisters! |
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| Arizona State University. The nerd highlight of January? Defending my dissertation proposal and becoming "ABD" which means "All but dissertation" in grad school lingo. |
#1- Death Star Pancakes
#2- Double date in Half Moon Bay
#3- The Tiki Tiki Tiki Tiki Room, aka the scariest attraction at Disneyland
#4- The Wookie of my dreams
#5- Classic Disney
#6-Winter veggies galore
#7- Vanilla roasted pears
#8- Christmas waffles in January
#2- Double date in Half Moon Bay
#3- The Tiki Tiki Tiki Tiki Room, aka the scariest attraction at Disneyland
#4- The Wookie of my dreams
#5- Classic Disney
#6-Winter veggies galore
#7- Vanilla roasted pears
#8- Christmas waffles in January
February 2012
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| February involved lots of travel for me, including the first of two trips to Albuquerque in 2012 and a really stinky airplane seatmate. |
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| One of my favorite February posts? The case for cooking. |
March 2012
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| After ditch digging for hours last August, I can't tell you how excited I was that my little trees survived the winter. Pictured is one of two chanticleer pear trees. |
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| Life has taken me strange places since experiencing an emergency landing on Southwest Flight 812. In addition to appearing on Good Morning America and the Discovery Channel, I flew to Germany to "reenact" the flight. Pictured is a castle on the Rhine. Next time I fly to Europe, I'm staying for more than two days, dammit! |
April 2012
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| April showers bring May flowers. And snails. Ewwww. I found this fella slurping up my leg while working on my front yard revamp. That experience got me thinking about my "Number one rule of gardening." |
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| A procrastinator's dream fortune. |
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| This Spring I was slightly obsessed with hummingbirds, namely the ones who visited the Back 40. Check out my favorite hummingbird stalking snaps. |
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| The best and worst birthday gift I've ever received? A Cuisinart ice cream maker, thank you sister Emily! The temptation for creamy, dreamy sweetness runs strong with me and I find myself thinking of icy concoctions often. My favorites this year? The no-cook strawberry pictured above, blueberry, and plain-old vanilla. |
June 2012
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| Soooo, I started the front yard garden project in March and finally finished it in June. What can I say? Life in grad school is busy. (Before, during and after snaps here.) |
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| The year's travel highlight? Visiting Alaska, my 42nd state! We did some land adventures on the Kenai Peninsula for a couple days (see here, here and here) before catching a Princess cruise ship and journeying to Glacier Bay (pictured), Skagway, Juneau and Ketchikan. I saw bears(!), flew in a helicopter, walked on two glaciers and turned 30. Pretty damn cool. |
July 2012
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| July featured a boatload of flying- for research, for fun and for this beautiful wedding! Congratulations again Max and Geeta! |
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| The flying for fun mentioned above included my second trip to EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin where Mr. T flew in a 40-ship formation! To see more airplane pictures and learn about KOSH, click here, here or here, or visit the Hopscotch Honeymoon archives here. |
August 2012
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| After a couple cool summers, Sacramento sizzled this year, so much so that I wondered if I'd accidentally brought Cactus Land home with me! |
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| August felt up and down. Dissertation data collection reached a high point (yay!) and I spent quality time with fam and friends. But we also had to say goodbye to some good people including Bud Goodall. Still haven't quite made sense of that yet. |
September 2012
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| Yep, that's Mr. T leading a 16-ship formation of West Coast Ravens in the California Capital Airshow. I felt SO proud to watch the guys fly in the same show as the Thunderbirds! |
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| Birthday sushi! September is a month of birthdays for our family. |
October 2012
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| The sizzling summer continued into October and we found ourselves wearing shorts to an early Fall picnic. Weird. |
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| Despite the triple digits, I busted out the Fall decor. And yes, I, too, caught owl fever. October posts I liked most included this one about advanced directives/dying with dignity (super cheerful, yeah?) and some political confessions. |
November 2012
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| November is always a nutty month thanks to holidays and the annual gathering of the National Communication Association. This year's conference took place in Orlando which to me (a Florida-hater) meant only one thing: Harry Potter World! I visited the park by my lonesome and had a simply magical time. Photos? Of course. Click here. |
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| November highlights included participating in National Novel Writing Month (as a dissertation-writing rebel!) and getting a monster head cold after not following my own rules for healthful flying (see here). |
December 2012
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| Incorporated a little more color in the Christmas decor this year. And spent a ridiculous amount of time hot gluing beads in Christmas tree formations, thank you Pinterest. |
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| The highlights of December? Hanging out with loved ones, of course. |
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