a funny thing happened on the way to the wedding

So, yeah, I was going to Christina’s wedding.  I was.  I had told everyone at work that I needed their files in to me early so that I had time on Saturday to attend the wedding and account for the 2 hour (both ways) drive.  Then somehow I wrote the time of the reception down [...]

photography crazy

@ church
I’ll be around church snapping away again on Sunday.  We’re in week two of the new sermon series and I don’t want to put off photographing it until the last week like I did with “The Buck Stops Here” (our last series).  So look for a new crop of photos to pop up on [...]

favorite Sunday pics

I took my camera to church on Sunday and just went wild – 750 pictures in roughly an hour and a half. I’m sort of addicted to the hold down the shutter and the camera keeps talking photos feature. 
Here are a few of my favorites (with commentary):
 I love the motion blur on this one, [...]

Jenny

[the replacement dog]
Back in May we went out to Virginia for my cousin’s graduation.  We spent a few days with the family then spent a day exploring.  We got a call which in Baltimore, MD telling us one of our dogs had gone missing from the kennel.  The people were very apologetic and offered to give us [...]

word of the month

care of Melissa Lomax at StillBleeding. I.e. blame her, not me.
prost-i-hobbit (n.) - a hobbit prostitute.  
Origin, early twenty-first century, coined by the Lomax family while listening to Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan (on the LOTR FOTR extended DVD commentary) talk about the weeping of female elves in Rivendell upon loosing their hobbit sugar daddies.
Yes, it’s wrong on [...]

I freaking LOVE WordPress!!!!

It’s amazing.  A couple of clicks and I ported all my pages and blog from pamssmith.com over to this site.  Incredible.  Now I still have to clean up that site, but that’s a piece of cake considering how hard I thought this would be.

Good tidings of busyness and oddity…

It’s a beautiful day today. Freezing cold, mind you, but quite pretty. It’s started snowing a few minutes ago – very light, fluffy flakes that appear to waft through the air with minds’ of their own. Great weather to contemplate the meaning of life.
Which I’m not going to do. Seriously, [...]

Did I mention?

safety glasses must be worn at all times
I bought a domain!  Finally, I know.  But still, it’s exciting for me.  After buying and managing domains for other people, I now have one of my own.  
www.pamssmith.com
At present it redirects you to the Welcome page here, thus my rush to redo this site.  :)

Define "wet," Starbucks lingo + "Sparkle" the magic Zebra

Why is ordering a cup of coffee so confusing nowadays?
Not only do I have to remember that at certain places “grande” is a medium, but at others it’s a large, I’m faced with all sorts of inexplicable coffee accessories: latte, wet, dry, macchiato, half-caf, nonfat, breve, americano, misto, syrups, shots – I’m not even half [...]

Security in America

Since 9-11 we’ve all experienced the joys of airport security – the long lines; random searches of little, old ladies; bomb-sniffing dogs; x-rayed shoes. So when my family and I went to an air show at Scott Air Force Base this September we were prepared for similar treatment. We had good reason to [...]