Have a Happy New Year!

Family photos

We took our Christmas photos last week at a local park as a family, with our newest addition, Ms. Roxie Belle Anderson.

Home for Christmas

The semester is finally over, and I made it out with good grades to boot, so altogether I would call the last 4 months a success. I now get to spend the next three weeks loafing, before getting ready for another busy, but not quite as hectic, semester.

Our new puppy, Roxie, is amazing. She is a total spazz, and eats anything and everything including my sister's make-up pencil, but she is just adorable, and has the sweetest face, and loves everyone who walks into the room. I have started calling her shadow because she follows you everywhere you go, and sometimes we accidentally step on her because she is so small, dark, and right under your feet. She is a cutie though.

I got to read a book for the first time in several months, and have watched TV, actual television in real time, not online shows. It is all too bizzarre to live life at the pace the rest of my family has, but it is exciting. I just hope I don't get bored sitting at home by myself this week. Ash will be home part of the time so it shouldn't be too bad, but Chel has finals and Mom and Dad have work so, it may be slightly quiet.

I am helping Ash watch our neighbor Jessica tomorrow, and apparently she is a little hellion, so it should be interesting to see if she is really as bad as they say. Ash says she likes to eat some food, chew it up, and then spit it all over the floor... yippee....

Things are going pretty good, can't ask for much more. It should be a fun holiday season, and if anything, relaxing, which is just the dose of medicine I need right now.

Thanksgiving

Here is the package I shot for Thanksgiving of the Wilcock family. It was one of three thanksgiving dinners we shot, but I didn't post the other thanksgiving pieces. If you want to see the whole piece and today's show, go to www.usu.edu/atvnews

Wild Idea

So I decided to try something radical, something totally off the wall, and so I deactivated my facebook account. It will only be for a brief amount of time, how brief is brief is yet to be determined, but I decided to try it out. So far everything seems to be fine, the universe hasn't collapsed, my pulse is regular, and there isn't a mad mob outside my window, so I am assuming that everything will remain normal.

I decided that Facebook was consuming too many meaningless hours of my life, and that it was completely unneccesary for the time being, so I am going to go cold turkey and see how long I can last.

Don't get me wrong, I realize the merits of Facebook as a networking resource, but there comes a point when you just want a phone call from someone, or a regular conversation, and I am tired of hearing pivatol life moments of people via their status, when it would be nice to hear it from them face to face.

And yes, I realize that when you begin writing a post about the fact that you are disconnecting from facebook, that you are practically broadcasting it to the world that your life is not in the least bit interesting. Okay, so my life isn't boring, it is downright crazy and busy, but it is all work stuff, and no one wants to hear about work stuff.

PS It didn't work because my phone broke and then the only way I had to keep in touch with people was Facebook, and now I am completely devoted again...and so goes the life.