time flies while waiting for spring
21.2.12The first couple months of the year always seem to pass by so quickly that I hardly have the time to stop and reflect. It's probably a coping mechanism to get through the long stretch of winter. My days are spent working and attending to household matters (I'm much more of a winter clean type of person than a spring clean) with the occasional evening out with friends followed by frequent dreams of vacations in faraway lands.
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| The sweater, completed during dark January evenings in the company of Bones on Netflix. |
The last part of my Christmas vacation was spent starting to knit a cozy weekend cardigan using the yarn my sister Francesca gave me in our family gift exchange. I was determine to finish the sweater in January so I could at least get some wear out of it before winter was over. I succeeded and was on such a knitting roll that I started a second sweater project and set a sort of half-hearted goal to knit one garment every month this year (all for me with one exception). I expect I'll have to abandon that plan once I start making time to work on the growing queue of projects that others have requested/demanded I make for them.
At the beginning of February my sister Noemi and brother-in-law were in town with my nephew for a short work visit. Noemi and I took in the sights (read: shopping) and had a sister's lunch at Tres Carnales with Alessandra. Tacos were consumed while Alessandra and I plotted how we could steal Lucas' eyelashes.
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| Lucas being super cute! |
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| Marc and Thomas' sets were early. Too early for me to dance. |
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| Fellow ladies Christy and Lauren having fancy lady conversation. |
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| Zach listens as the fancy ladies converse. |
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| Later we added some more gentlemen to our party. Marc joined us after his set, and the gentleman made an appearance. |
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| Hilarity ensued. |
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| An appropriate ladylike response. |
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| It was almost like the camera wasn't there at all. |
I had another delightful opportunity to take more photos when Sable asked me to take some portraits she could use for her choir headshots. I edited a few last night after a Family Day dinner with the gentleman's family.
After shooting a series of simple portraits inside, Sable and I headed outdoors to take a few in the gently fallen snow. The resulting photos have given me a new appreciation of winter.
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