My Year in Pictures: February 2011

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Day 36: Specialty Shoes

February 19, 2011: The other day at Crossfit, the owner/coach asked me when I was going to get some weightlifting shoes. It made me laugh a little because I have so many specialty shoes. I have shoes for just about every track event (spring spikes, middle distance spikes, long jump shoes, high jump shoes, shot put shoes, javelin shoes and trainers) and when I was "into" spinning some 6 or so years ago I bought cycling shoes as well. Well, I guess I will be adding weightlifting shoes to the collection. The good news is, there is apparently a competition coming up in DC in April and the owner says that I should think about competing. He's good at making me feel like I'm doing something right. This will be the perfect motivation to keep at it. Hopefully some time in April I can post pics with 150lbs over my head :)

Day 35: Newseum

February 18, 2011: Today was a first field trip of the year. For any grade. Luckily, it was for 6th grade. We went to the Newseum which is a pretty cool museum and the kids enjoy getting out of the building. It was also 70 degrees today. So we really lucked out. Here's a pic of the 9-11 exhibit. If you haven't been to the Newseum, I think it's worth the trip.

Day 34: Cat Daddy

February 17, 2011: Today was the Valentine's Day Dance for the kiddos. They seemed to enjoy themselves quite a bit. Middle school dances are still quite awkward but much more appropriate than the ones I remember. Here's one of the students doing Cat Daddy (or is it the dougie??) Oh, btw, I tried to play with editing tools for this one.

Day 33: Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception

February 16, 2011: Here's another landmark I pass everyday en route to work. I've yet to go inside but I've heard it's pretty fabulous. I think I will put it on my summer to do list. Caught another red light and got this pic. Hooray red lights.

Day 32: Capitol

February 15, 2011: My drive from work to crossfit passes along North Capitol with a pretty view of the Capitol. I try almost every time to get a picture, but seeing how I'm driving and all it's 1) not very smart of me and 2) always a crappy shot. Well today I got stopped at a stop light and tried again. Not the best either but after many a tries, this will do.

Day 31: Valentine's Day

February 14, 2011: Happy Valentine's Day. Every day during the past week has seemed to just run together. I wasn't my most pleasant self today because of it. But Thugs still loves me. And I love him as well. Hope you enjoyed your Valentine's Day.

Day 30: Beads

February 13, 2011: I have lots of necklaces despite rarely wearing a necklace. I don't know. Don' t ask. Either way, here's the newest addition.

Monday, February 14, 2011

Day 29: TFA Kool-Aid

February 12, 2011: I drank some TFA kool-aid today. Today was the TFA summit in DC and it was busy. Long day but inspiring. Got to see some folks and catch up and be inspired by people who care about the future of our youth and their education. I tried to take pics of the event but I clearly need to learn how to use my camera better because every single picture blurred. Lame. So there's my name badge. Because that's the best picture I have. Boooo.

Day 28: Frozen

February 11, 2011: I took this picture to show that my computer froze as I was trying to do my work for interim day at 4am. I would have tried to work a little bit ahead of time but we had a parent night the night before and so it was late when I got home. So I went to bed, set my alarm early and intended on getting my work done. Oh, except my f$#-ing computer had other ideas. It wouldn't open any word documents and just froze on this lovely dialog box. Screw you.

Day 27: Gas Station

February 10, 2011: I took this picture because I was intrigued to why this dude parked so damn far away from the gas pump. Perhaps he was creeped out by me and knew I was going to take a picture of him. But really, isn't the object to get your car close enough to the pump so that you can put gas in your car?

Day 26: Love Language

February 9, 2011: Us gals at work have been preoccupied with personality types and love languages and getting to know all of the ins and outs of our personalities. So, after learning all about myself (because i somehow didn't already know that i was anti social, with a dry sense of humor and lack of ability to express emotion -- all of my tests confirmed this "lack" of knowledge btw) I made Thugs take the tests too. He was pretty unenthused about it all but I now know that he, too, is anti-social and has no regard for order and timeliness. (Well maybe it didn't say that exactly) Yep. Two tests and you get to learn all about yourself and your loved ones. Go have some fun.

Me: ISTJ with a primary love language of affirmations
Him: ISTP with a primary love language of quality time

Day 25: Upside Down

January 8, 2011: Totally skipped cross fit tonight. And then felt super guilty. And so, I looked up the workout online and did it at home. There's my 12 minutes of handstand practice.

Monday, February 7, 2011

Day 24: Rotten Onion

February 7, 2011: This onion grew some hair. Pretty foul. I threw it away.

Day 23: Dirty Snow

February 6, 2011: It's Superbowl Sunday. And that is a big pile of dirty snow. I went to the grocery store this morning to pick up some food for the game. This is the pile of snow in the parking lot. There are about a dozen of them scattered around in different places. The last snow was actually over a week ago, but when you pile it all together to clear parking spaces, you are apparently left with a big pile of dirty snow that doesn't melt.

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Day 22: Forget Me Not

February 5, 2011: Sometimes I forget to take pictures throughout my day. There were tons of things I probably should have taken pictures of today. I just forgot. So on my way to bed, I grabbed my camera and took this. My feet in my jail stripped pajamas.

Day 21: Blackorean

February 4, 2011: When I first heard the song "Black and Yellow" I thought they were singing about me. I mean, I am black and yellow. (Big ups to all the blasains out there!) You can even replace the black and yellow hook with blackorean and it fits so very well. I kid, of course. If any of you all read the comments, you know that my ~~crazy~~ wonderful mother has asked me to take a picture of my "asian shrine". Well, there it is. It ironically has no tribute to Korea, the lovely birthplace of my mother. (Hey mom, what's that about?). Apparently, happy cat (a fortune cat) is coming soon to add to the collection. Oh, and the chewy bar is for the Chinese Buddha. Apparently you have to feed him to keep him happy. And no one wants an unhappy (and skinny) Chinese Buddha.

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Shout Out to my Lil Bro on his College Decision

Lil Homie K has decided to go to school and play football at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Yay! See the coach talk about the 2012 recruiting class here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCMe0J-60I4 (Go to 12:10 to see my lil bro).

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Day 20: Spills and Falls

February 3, 2011: This morning when leaving my place, I stepped off the curb, directly on to a lovely patch of ice and completely ate it. It happened just as another person walked by. He asked if I was okay and I shyly said yes, worried that perhaps he caught it on his camera phone and now it's circulating on youtube. Either way, the fall was more embarrassing than painful. You can see that I scrapped up my knee a little bit (right on top of my beautiful ACL Surgery #1 scar). Later in the day, I went to Crossfit to battle with Cindy once again (Cindy is a cross fit work out consisting of rounds of 5 pull ups, 10 pushups and 15 squats for as many rounds you can do). This time we had to do the whole lovely 20 minutes of it. And right at the end, at minute 18 and some change, while I was trying to get off the damn plyo box that I was jumping off to do my 12th set of jump pull ups, to the floor to do my 12th set of 10 push ups, I fell again. Caught my foot, lost my balance and body planted the floor. Awesome. (PS. No comments on the lack of color in my leg, the ashiness of my leg, the roughness of my skin, etc.)