The Blog is Back!

Okay, it's been an insanely long time since I've posted anything on my blog.  My excuses are pretty standard: busyness, laziness, forgetfulness, and partly due to the fact that I got tired of taking pictures.  It became rather a rather cumbersome task with my old camera: a big ol' digital SLR that, yes, took fantastic pictures, but also was roughly the size of a small Volkswagen. 

I decided to sell the beast, mostly because I'm poor and need the money to get me through this last year of school.  As it turns out, I'm enjoying my replacement compact camera thoroughly (even more so, if that's possible).  And I find that I'm taking it with me wherever I go...something I never did with the SLR.  Here's one of the first pictures I took with the new camera (looking out of my window...by the way, I switched rooms and I like the new one better!):

I won't attempt to summarize all of what's happened since my last post, since you would probably get bored very quickly and I most certainly would.  But the second year of school at Cobalt is in full swing.  This week we're having our second-year lettering and sign-painting seminar.  I'm really enjoying it.  We also have a total of 8 guests staying at the house right now (in addition to the 4 students), which makes me feel pretty claustrophobic.  But on the plus side, I'm motivated to stay in my room and get a lot of reading done :)

I've also been taking more pictures in and around the house and studio, something I found I never really did much of last year.  So here's a few:

Outside of class, things have been going great.  Halloween was awesome.  Scot's birthday (the big three-oh!) was on Friday the 29th, so we celebrated first at the house.  I made a flourless chocolate cake with chocolate raspberry ganache frosting.  It tasted better than it looked :)  But for a first attempt, it wasn't bad.

We then donned our costumes and went out to a local bar, The Dancing Cat.  Scot, Sarah, Amy and I all dressed up and had a great time.  The owner of the bar even bought us a round of drinks because she loved our costumes so much!  Amy and I decided to be Ten Dollar Superheroes...  Naturally I decided to be the Turd Burglar, and Amy was Captain S*** Magnet. 

Well that's all for now.  I intend to update more regularly now that I have some motivation back to take pictures!