Photojournal - continued

I got my hair cut and the color evened out, and my hairdresser blow-dried it straight. The first time I've ever had straight hair!


It was cute, but took her almost 30 min to do, so I don't think I'll be doing it myself! Ben liked it once he got used to it, but when I first walked in the door, he almost didn't recognize me!

We were supposed to go to a Christmas party tonight, so I baked a cake I will hereafter refer to as a Chocolate Ridiculousness Cake:


Yes, it has a layer of a creamy peanut butter icing topped with chocolate ganache dripping down the sides. Ridiculous!

But the party was canceled! So now I have a huge crazy cake we have to eat!


Ben and I split a slice, or at least that was the plan. He claimed the cake was much too rich as he finished the last of the icing :)

7 more days til Christmas break!

The Shuttle flew over JSC! It's on its way from California back to Florida, and apparently when they fly over Texas, they circle JSC a few times, to let us see how cool it is. It's very cool!



I still can't believe that it's transported this way, it's crazy! Awesome-crazy though, not crazy-crazy.

I love seeing stuff like this over lunch. Totally worth standing outside for 20 minutes in the pretty-cold to see.

It snowed!

It snowed! In Houston! And stuck to the ground, more or less! We got about an inch over a few hours. When I came out of work my car had snow on it, for the first time ever!


Luckily it didn't really stick to the roads, at least where they're not elevated, so I was fine driving my mile home after work.

Some people made a snowman than must have been 6 feet tall in the field next to my apartment, which was pretty impressive for an inch of snow on the ground! And when I walked into work, I walked over the grass and heard the crunsh crunsh crunsh sound partially melted and refrozen snow makes when you walk on it. I haven't heard that in so long! It made me remember trying to follow my dad's footsteps through the driveway after a snowfall when I was little, jumping and turning to try to land each foot in his footprint. Someone also built a little snowman next to my building, when I have no idea, but it's so cute!

One more Sunday

I only have to work one more Sunday and then I will be done! I will have all the comp time hours I need this Wednesday, then next weekend/week I am flexing one more day, and then I will be done! I can't wait to go back to having 2 day weekends! I didn't mean to work the last 8 Sundays in a row, excepting travel; I wanted to spread them out more but then we got a hurricane and it ruined everyone's plans. But it will definitely be worth it.

I also can't wait until I am down with class this Friday. It was a long semester for one that was broken up so much by the aforementioned hurricane and a decent amount of travel by my professor. It was an interesting class, I like orbital mechanics, but it was hard to follow when it seemed we were out of class every other week with one thing or another. Next semester I am taking two astronomy classes, which I am very excited about, I like OM but I love astronomy. One class is on the origin of the universe and one is on the evolution of the solar system. I love having classes like that!