Sedona with my mommy

Having fun with my mom

Bill had a great game!

199 awesome!

freezing cold

So I am down town at school studying and watching the end of the bears game... not a good game for chicago.

School is a bit crazy right now and I don't know why I can't focus as much as I need to. I think I have this problem every year at the end of January. Life keeps marching on no matter how cold and ugly it is outside. I just need to find some reserves of energy. I have midterms in two weeks and I need to be in a better place by then.

Anyway hope you all had an nice weekend.

Corgi yoga

Complete with exercise ball

Snow

The snow is falling in fluffy bunches

it is new and clean

yet as old as the earth

it tangles in my hair

sigh I am sicky and tired and don't want to go to class

More productive

I need to be writing up a memo on my case I just read, but I think that the act of reading entitles me to a bit of a break. I think that is where my studying always goes wrong. It is like when you try to lose weight and you do 30 min of exercise and you think that entitles you to half a tray of rice crispy treats.

Anyway I had a lovely weekend how about you?

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First week back to school

So the new year ushered in the new quarter, which began on Monday. While I am only taking three classes this quarter I am already busier than I was last quarter. My classes seem like they should be hard but really good. I am taking Competitive Strategy (basically the economics/game theory of real world industry), Financial Statement Analysis (how to use and interpret the accounting stmts to make decisions and predictions), and Social Entrepreneurship (a "lab class" that entails working for a social startup while learning about social ventures in a class room setting). I am also doing a project with a group for a local non-profit board, which seems like another class.

In other news, Bill and I got Just Dance 2, a dancing game for the wii. We had played Just Dance at Erin's over Christmas and thought it might be a fun game to have. My idea is that when you get home from class and it is too late to go work out you can play this for a half hour and at least get a little activity. It is actually a lot of fun, and if you like making a fool of yourself dancing you might like this game.

I haven't done a lot of cooking recently - I think I have the January blues. I did break into a jar of my halved tomatoes and used it in some yummy chilli last weekend, and I am steadily going through my garlic. I think i have enough garlic to last until spring as long as it doesn't start sprouting. (I maybe needed to put it in a colder part of the basement.)

That is all that's fit to print.

some recent pictures