holiday goodness...

it hasn't felt like christmas to me yet.

and then i made cookies and ate them when they were warm while i looked out the window at the snow-filled streets... it's started...

still here...

i have NOT fallen off the face of the earth, although with this weather it does feel like i am not on this planet (i'm an AZ girl through and through!). school has just been super busy, work the same, and life has just kind of gotten in the way again. my computer has another virus (or something of the sort) and my last day of organic chemistry is TOMORROW! the weather's been crazy-- 20 below zero and more at times and my car is fighting with me in the mornings to start... so here are some pix to catch up a little bit.

all bundled up. mom would be proud - wool socks up to my knees, long johns, thick gloves and four different layers on. and yet it is still cold!

nalu with all his toys lined up in a row... now which one to choose?

i love his snowy face!

dancing my way to the door.

dancing again at the hospital holiday party... yeah, i'm wearing a wedding dress. i went with a group of girls who get REALLY fancy because, as one of the nurses put it, we basically wear pajamas to work!

...if your wish be to close me, i and

my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,

as when the heart of this flower imagines

the snow carefully everywhere descending...

-e.e. cummings