33% Disaster - Steph Adamo's Blog » holidays http://www.stephadamo.com Steph's blog all about herself. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:12:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 How I Spend My Day Off http://www.stephadamo.com/2011/12/how-i-spend-my-day-off/ http://www.stephadamo.com/2011/12/how-i-spend-my-day-off/#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:36:07 +0000 Steph http://www.stephadamo.com/?p=889 My company is closed today, so i have the day off work. Nathan is working, so i’m home alone. Here’s how i entertain myself (once i’ve finally rolled out of bed):

I photograph the sugar cookies i made at my cookie decorating party. :)

Merry Christmas!

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In the personal realm of life, Nathan and i have been enjoying the season together quite a bit, despite having opted for Thai food and a zombie movie at home rather than a party on Beggars’ Night. We made a trek to Iowa City a few weekends ago and visited an orchard, picked up some seasonal microbrews, had dinner with Nina & Karl and went to a hookah bar after discovering that the band we had traveled to see had cancelled the show due to van troubles. At the orchard we picked a couple of ill-fated little pumpkins and enough apples for Nathan to double our current stockpile of delicious homemade pies.

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The treasure was a small decorative gourd.

Nibbled
Day 2

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Day 4

Fucking figures.
Day 6

Evidently the squirrels around here have a taste for pumpkin.

More recently, i walked the Race for the Cure with my mom, a thirteen-year cancer survivor. It was quite a sight to see a river of pink filling the streets of Des Moines and all the names written on their backs of survivors and victims alike. It wasn’t quite the feeling of accomplishment that i got two years ago when i ran/walked it, but it was definitely more of a sense of sisterhood. This time it was about relationships rather than endurance.

Autumn has been pretty kind to us this year; we haven’t seen a snowflake yet, but it is getting chillier as the days pass. Most of the leaves have fallen now. It’s time to pick up the pieces.

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Our tree

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Snowman
My little snowman

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The gifts under my tree, most of them for me from Nathan

Ornaments
This is a rather poor composition, but i still like it.

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My cute little tree

New Earmuffs

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