THESE ARE A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS...

Finals are finally over. The roller coaster that is school has to to a halt for now, and I once again can relax. Christmas is around the corner, and then New Year's. Soon enough most of us will exchange brown paper packages tied up with strings, this is personally my favorite time of the year other than summer, go figure. This year I'll be pumping out a picture of the day of 2008! everyday until Jan. 1st! so keep an eye out, you might very well show up in one. Enough with the future, let's start it off in the present/past.

Somehow I found enough time during finals to spray something, and I'm glad I got to put that monopoly man stencil down from thoughts to canvas. And Lindsay got an early Christmas gift.
Ricardo the writer. Nice tee.
That day I stopped by Weica's on the way to Jenny's in order to pay a visit to a few students hard at work, enveloped in books.
It's Christmas time, and what's Christmas without a shindig? So Matthews B-1 threw a little something together amidst the finals chaos. Baked goods and BJ's barbeque chicken pizza are amongst my favorite things. Another thing that has grown on me is fake tattoos, ever since Rico started embellishing his body with them last year, I've grown to like them. These are especially good as Tiffany is also in love with pirates and the whole International seas crisis.
Some Elf during Ochem couldn't hurt.
Take a gander at that Rosemary bush/Christmas tree....yeah those are our pictures as little kids, and mine happens to be at the top, with little wings. I wonder where the whole chopping down a tree, bringing it into your house and decorating it with shiny balls and popcorn came from? I'll get my research team right on that. My guess is that trees once became so plentiful that we were afraid to let them grow out of control.
Oh my other favorite thing about Christmas other than shindigs and friends is presents! I received some awesome ones so far this year in the form of headbands, chocolate and bookmarks. But I absolutely love my tripod, thank you Jennifer, my photography can reach new horizons now because of you. Soon your D80 will do the same for you, except maybe past my horizons.

Before we went home after finals, we decided to trek around SD one more time, since we were free to do what we pleased. Where better to try out the tripod and camera than Mt. Soledad? Thanson came along for the ride, the more the merrier.
Last year the conjoined twins had this ever so 'perfect' picture of them high fiving on the beach, and it just isn't the same the second try around. They also don't look like they got as high.
I got a chance to shoot this at Soledad, and I'm pretty pleased, it's a good picture, all possible due to the tripod. SD is definitely apart of my favorite things.
Peace and much love, have a Merry Christmas everyone, and keep checking for more photos of the waning year.