Day 521. February 16. Blurb.

Today I happened upon a wonderful website.

This website takes blogs & turns them into books!!
It automatically takes every post/photo from your blog & imports them onto separate pages of an album. Then I get to design & customize it as I please & when I'm done they print it!

So... I've been working on turning 365 Days in Photographs into a book !!
It's going to take me a while.....

Here are a couple of the pages I've completed so far!
(I'm so excited!)

Day 520. February 15. Addicts.

Matt left his Xbox with us...

It might have been a mistake...

Since this is what we've been doing all day.

(maybe if my Mom hadn't had the "no video game" rule when I was little, this wouldn't have happened)

Day 519. February 14. Valentine's Day.

My Valentine came out to my city for Valentine's Day !!

We spent our day playing Call of Duty with my Roomies, having a delicious dinner at CPK, & seeing Valentine's Day!

Day 518. February 13. Food.

This is us going grocery shopping for the first time in 3 weeks.

I should have taken a before photo.

Day 517. February 12. Loss.

Today Matt lost his wisdom teeth - all 4 of 'em.
(you unfortunately can't tell by the photo, but he has pretty major chipmunk cheeks)


Today my family lost a very close, very dear, very talented friend, very unexpectedly.
It's stunning how quickly someone can be taken from your life without any notice.
I miss you, "Mr. Bill Ross", Nashville visits won't be quite the same,
"Meg-han"

www.billrosspaints.blogspot.com

Day 516. February 11. TV.

My roommates & I don't have cable so my good friend Brittany & I have started a Thursday night tradition of watching Grey's Anatomy & Private Practice at her house. This week we finished our TV party off with McDonald's ice cream at midnight. Don't judge us.

Day 515. February 10. Light.

Manal & I (finally) bought a lamp for our room. This whole year we've had a light switch that doesn't turn anything on.

We happened upon this little black lamp for my night stand at Goodwill & now we get excited every time we walk in our room & actually have an immediate light to switch on. Why we waited this long to purchase one is beyond me.
(and yes, those are reading glasses. I seem to have to wear those now)

Day 514. February 9. Test Week.

I have a brutal week of tests.

Today: Speech & Language Development
Thursday: Phonetics
Friday: Poly Sci

So, in between classes & after my S&L Dev test, I curled up in bed & studied hard for Phonetics....

Day 513. February 8. Rough Draft.

Early this morning I got a surge of creative inspiration & began editing some photos I had long forgotten about.

In my discovery of old photos, I became inspired to design a logo for them. Not sure why my brain was hard at work on this at 3AM, but I couldn't seem to turn it off.

This is the rough draft of the logo I came up with:

(constructive criticism anyone?)

Day 512. February 7. Saddness.

Conversation hearts are my favorite part of the Valentine season. I'm not sure why I love them, but I do. And mostly just the white ones.
Today I found out that the white ones have been discontinued & replaced with BLUE ones (and they don't taste very good).
I'm so sad.

(I realized after I took this that there aren't any blue ones shown in the photo, but if you look hard they're in the back!)

Day 511. February 6. Bear Building & Princesses.

(Austen, her friends, & their matching bears who all received the name, "July")

My afternoon was spent building bears with my 8 year old cousin, Austen & her friends.

Then we joined our family at her sister, Logan's homecoming.
Logan and her best friend, Juliet were princesses!!

(Logan & the Sophomore Prince)

(Juliet & her boyfriend, Taylor: the Junior Prince/Princess)

(Logi & our Papa)

Day 510. February 5. Gun Fever.

Today is Matt's Birthday !!!!

We were originally planning on going to Hollywood with some of his friends, but when plans fell through and the rain storm hit, we decided to have a low key evening instead.

I took him for a feast at his favorite Korean BBQ restaurant for lunch/dinner

then

I let him teach me a video game that he's been wanting me to learn for years...

Given that I'm a girl who has held an Xbox controller probably 3 times in my life, I haven't ever been too motivated to play Call of Duty with him. This game requires shooting enemies & having relatively good control over the buttons & joysticks on the controller...I've never been interested.

But since it was his birthday, I thought I'd humor him...

Of course within 20 minutes of playing this horribly addicting game, Matt soon coined me as having "the gun fever" since I wouldn't stop playing.....

He thought it was a pretty great birthday...

Day 509. February 4. A Helvetica Birthday.

Tomorrow is Matt's birthday so in between classes today, I was busy designing this year's birthday card!
If you know Matt & his love for the font, Helvetica then you'll understand why I made this crazy card for him, otherwise it may just look like a cluttered card full of birthday wishes.
Either way, I'm excited to give it to him tomorrow because for once I made him a card that doesn't have a bunch of sappy photos of us on it! (even though I do love those)

Day 508. February 3. Film Nerd.

This is the newest addition to our photo department & what occupied most of my morning.

It's a handy, dandy bulk film roller....
(that I am SUPER excited about)

If you're wondering what exactly a bulk film roller is...well.... it's a light sensitive container for 100 ft of film (kind of like a movie reel).

When our students need a roll of film to shoot with, instead of being forced to take a roll of 36 exposures or 24 exposures, our students now get a roll with as little or as many exposures as they want.
It cuts on the cost of individually wrapped film canisters and it's eco-friendly since you reuse all the canisters!

Do you think I'm a total dork yet?

Day 507. February 2. Tuesdays.

Hard boiled
eggs for a quick
protein pick-me-up
on my busy day of classes...

Day 506. February 1. Impromptu.

I found this picture of us from 3 years ago on Matt's hard drive.
We're so little!

Day 505. January 31. Kabuki Catch-Up.

My friend (and fellow Speech Pathology major),
Katie just recently moved to San Diego.

She came home for the weekend so we caught up over
sushi rolls about our boys, our lives and our stressful major.

Day 504. January 30. Study, study, study (& it's only the SECOND week of school)

I meant for "A Week in Film" to be a 7 day project, but when I finished the roles sooner than I expected I figured 5 days of film was just as fine. I'm really happy with the way the photos turned out this week -- I didn't edit any of them: they're all straight off the role!

Today, I had the apartment to myself so I utilized the quiet space for studying.
(and I was successfully REALLY productive)

My class load is super heavy this semester (which I'm thankful for because now I may actually be on track).
But, it also means I'm probably going to have to start getting comfortable with libraries because I'm going to be studying A LOT (odd Meghan fact: I hate libraries a lot).

Day 503. January 29. A Week in Film: Friday.

Matty drove to the Valley to visit me today!
It was a great day getting to spend time with him & my Roomies in MY city!

Day 502. January 28. A Week in Film: Thursday.

The rain is all gone.
It was a beautiful day in LA.

I had a full day of classes.
(Tuesdays & Thursdays never end)

Thankfully, I had a few hours to regain my sanity between Speech & Language Development & Hearing Science.

I spent a portion of that time sifting through Trader Joe's flower selection, picking out some colorful additions for our apartment.