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Anniversary Cards

Emily — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 01:23:33 +0000

Happy 2nd anniversary to me! and Ryder! Accompanied above by our anniversary cards from our parents…

We’re Engaged!!

Emily — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:57:00 +0000

yah!

more engagement photos

Q: family + friends + summer = ??

Emily — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:58:00 +0000

A: (also known as lots of travel)

A new home

Emily — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:14:01 +0000

At the end of January, a mere 6 months after moving to Atlanta, I packed up all my stuff (again) and schlepped it across town to a lovely new (rental) home that I’m sharing with two great girls from church, Julie and Kate. Any time someone asks me how the new house is, I say “Fantastic!” because it truly is.

click to see pictures of my new house

Advent

Emily — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:37:00 +0000

Nativity set my dad made for me

Christmas Lights

more Christmas-y photos

Being creative makes me happy

Emily — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:21:01 +0000

tree

Something I read once, paraphrased from John Berger, art critic and artist:

Acquiring things is a poor alternative for fashioning objects.

How do I feel after buying something? Momentarily happy, excited about my purchase. But that quickly fades. Creating something, though, gives me immense satisfaction, both in the process of creating and every time I use/look at/wear/share my creation.

my furnished apartment

Emily — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 13:04:00 +0000

The View from the Couch

The View from the Front Door

(see all photos)

a few photos

Emily — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:06:00 +0000

A few photos from around Atlanta.

No offense, Atlanta

Emily — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:30:01 +0000

Drivers here really enjoy running red lights. Now, it’s probably just that I grew up in a city of 40,000, so I’m not used to “big city” driving. Driving home from work (at least until I find an alternate route) requires me to take a fairly busy road (6 lanes) that crosses I-75, the highway that goes from Michigan to Florida, right through Atlanta. Even when I leave work at 6:30 at night, traffic is bumper to bumper the basically the whole time I’m on that road. And, the traffic lights aren’t synchronized, so when light A turns green, light B is still red, so the whole stretch of the road between A and B is packed with cars. So, naturally, the cars waiting at light A pull out into the intersection. By the time light B finally turns green and the cars can pull forward, light C is back to red, so there’s more roadblock. And when light A turns red again, 8 cars are still in the intersection, effectively blocking the cross street traffic from going anywhere. Granted, most of those cars are trying to turn onto the street I’m on, further blocking the intersection. And if a driver is lucky enough to be close to an intersection when the light is changing from green to red, they might as well go through the intersection. I mean, the line of cars is going to move forward sooner or later, right? So they might as well be “through” the light.

I’m glad I only live a few miles from work, so even in traffic it only takes me 15 minutes to get home…

I live in Atlanta now.

Emily — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:05:00 +0000

I’m sorry, I’m sorry – practically everyone I know (well, okay, three people) have been begging (well, not really) for pictures of my new apartment. So, here they are. As you may notice, I’m kind of lacking in the furniture department at the moment… I’m thinking about creating furniture out of my myriad cardboard boxes.