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Counting weeks for titles is easier then coming up with names. So not much to report. School is keeping me busy with exams and such. We have another midterm as well as a quiz this week.
Today was the first time since I started school that I my body actually knows today is sunday and that I also don't have school tomorrow. It's been super hard for my brain and body to get used to having mondays off. It's just so different from what I'm used to. Even with work this summer I normally only worked monday to thursday, school was the same last year. But this year we go tuesday to friday. Same amount of hours/days but just having mondays off throws me for a loop.

I did a photo session with my classmate Anna and her adorable family yesterday in a beautiful park that's pretty close to school. I still find myself being a super HUGE critic of myself. I also really don't have practice photographing young children. I have practiced my godkids but Anna's kid are the about the same age they are, and well I haven't gotten a ton of practice photographing them lately. It's a quick on your toes kind of shooting. And click a ton. It's super different from couple sessions. Even when one in the couple isn't wanting to be photographed anymore they normally suck it up. But when you have a 3 year old being photographed right next to playground equipment it's kind of hard. They tend to loose focus after 30 minutes. Which I need to learn how to manage my time when they are focused better. I think experience will also teach me what to start with as far as posing. Next time I should start with the sitting and standing holding hands one first and then move to the mom and dad holding them near the end. Then they can more or less corral them while holding them. Overall I know I got some killer shots, not as many as I wanted but I'm being greedy. I also am glad it's someone in my class, she knows work load from school is kinda heavy right now and she understands if I take a while to get them done. So that's awesome.

Other then that, Walking Dead was on tonight. Was pretty good. I didn't watch talking dead like I wanted to... decided to try and be somewhat responsible and do some studying/reading.

Onto pictures!

So the day finally came... my external hard drive filled up. But I have the bestest fiancé in the world and he went out and picked me up a new 3tb external. :) *crossing my fingers for no problems*

 Don't look mom! 
This is another student life picture. I didn't have any small cups and I wanted milk and cookies.... so I used my measuring cup. It worked perfect! The things they don't teach you at home.

 Another mom don't look moment. 
I was mock drawing this up on myself. Kind of what I want. Of course my artistic skills in drawing really suck, my line work is atrocious and I want the flower to be more artsie looking with hardly any black and way more white in it. I do like the concept of the surrounding design though.

  Thanksgiving long, Chris and I going out to hang with my cousin Carrie and her family. I also picked up the new Samsung Galaxy S4.

 Took this picture with my cars hood symbol and my ring :)

 My car likes to waste my money. Point in case here. The gas line came off. Mostly because cold claps and lines and I had trouble with is this summer too. Hoses and clamps are getting old. Little story on this though: so I go to leave for the drift event and pull my car out of the garage, but not before unloading some tires from the back. So I pull forward and then I see dad checking out the puddle, I walk over and have a smell. "ahh damnit! not again!" was my response. Go and take a quick look to confirm my suspicions that it was same problem again. Yup it was. Turn it off. Dad grabs screwdrivers and I take a look. Yup, exact same clamp/hose, bottom side of the filter. So dad comes over and tries to reach under and its a tight fit to get my hands in there, and dads are bigger then mine. I go "want me to try and get at it?" "no no I got it" as he says this he goes to pull the filter out of the side clamp that holds it. I go "umm I don't know if you want to do that..." as he already pulls it off. "I got this" was his response, "Okay should be good to go" he says after he puts it back into the clamp. I start it up and I hear "ahh dang, turn it off". I think in my head, yup, that top clamp and line came loose, just like it did before when I pulled it out of the clamp. I walk around the front, and dad goes "damn top clamp/hose came loose", my response "yup same thing happened to me when I did this last" Father like daughter? lol

 
Spent some time with my goddaughter. You can see how she colored the wall for her mom here. Lol I asked her about it, she doesn't even deny it lol 

 New phone comes with pano option. SO COOL! tried it out in Chris' truck

 

Chris and his niece feeding the puppies 

 Pano of my room. Yes it's messy.. I know.

 Jenna and I always watch Ellen. It's like surround sound in our apartment. This past week the Swiffer commercial couple was on. They are so cute!

 Thats them!

 Maybe I do go to Hogwarts... Dumbledore appeared on campus last week, hair and beard and all

 Hair do! First attempt at this

 Before exam lunch. Bananas are supposed to be a natural anxiolytic (anti anxiety), eggs are supposed to help you remember/concentrate, and a classmate had a hash brown from Tim Hortons right before lunch so I was craving them. I burnt the eggs... I didn't know you could burn eggs. Well let me tell you, you can. And they taste awful. They don't look that bad but let me tell you they were horrible.

Last but not least I found this song today and I am not obsessed. I think it's the harmonica in it. It has a different feel to the beginning that I like.