Happy New Year. Happy Updated Blog.

I know, I know. It’s been almost a month. It’s Admissions season, which means it’s the season where I have more work than I know how to handle. But we’re back with pictures of my vacation, and now that I have the Internet at my apt, I should be updating more frequently.

I was in the cold for Christmas and New Year’s, and now I’m back with some New Year’s resoluions. Among them? Simplify food. I am sick of planning a meal for every night of the week, and Jeff is sick of helping. So we’ve come up with an agreement–we’ll have themed nights, and work within that theme to cook something up.

So here’s what we decided:

Mix it up Mondays

American Tuesdays

Asian Wednesdays

Mexican Thursdays

Italian Fridays

We basically took the foods we eat the most, and slid them into days. This will work for me, because I will finally start remembering to take things out to defrost, and should work for Jeff since he’ll be able to grocery shop with me  without my brain splattering on the wall from confusion.

Meanwhile, here are some pictures from my journey home for you to enjoy:

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Yes, we carve!

Last night, Jeff and I carved our pumpkin into an Barack O’Lantern. I got the idea when I was thinking of what we could carve this year. Each year, I try to theme my pumpkin. Four years ago, we did a Hanson pumpkin.

This was SS and K’s idea, but I decided it was all in good fun. Sophomore year, we took it to a new place, and carved, “Peace,” “Love,” “& Pumpkins,” and a peace sign.

Then last year, L and I decided to kick it up a notch and do environmentally friendly, and alternative energy, pumpkins. She carved a sun, and I carved a wind mill. No good photo of the wind mill, unfortunately, but there is a good one with L and the sun!

The windmill is the one with the zig zag lines on the left.

This year, as you saw above, we carved an Obama pumpkin!!

Go Obama!!! Who knows what we’ll carve next year?!