Happy Halloween

outside fun

As I wrote yesterday, this is my outside project. I cut down the dangerous part of the dead tree so it wouldn't fall on the house and the greenhouse i've started building. We plan on putting birdhouses on top of the stumps next spring. The green house will be situated more or less where the box of windows is sitting in the photo. I plan on making it entirely out of old storm windows!

shiney new floors

This is what I've been up to for the last couple months of free time. Still have the dining room, office and stairs to finish. We have really nice, warm oriental rugs to add color and keep the feet cozy!

School daze

This is Sky's senior yearbook photo. It's the one he picked out 'cause of the "LOOK".
It's actually just the head and shoulders in the final published edition.

Happy Birthday Dad!

Sorry I didn't call... I'm a bad kid!

Hope you had a good one,
Love
Nathan!

School Days

My first day of school was today, and it was pretty cool. For a first day, anyway. As always, it was mostly introductory stuff and school policy information, all of the boring junk they get out of the way at the beginning.

My classmates all seem nice- we got to know each other a good bit (which is unusual for me in a classroom...) I've never had a class before where having a conversation with a classmate was an assignment! We had to talk to the person next to us for about 10 minutes, and then each of us had to introduce the person we talked to. (That part was a suprise, so hopefully you had a decent conversation). Then we all talked a little bit about why we wanted to get into massage, and why we chose this school in particular.

Today it was about 10 students, all with really interestingly varied backgrounds. Apparently, only 4 of them are actually in my class. (It was 2 at first! The other two came a little late) There is another campus in Marietta (not too far away), and they had both campuses together for the introductory class. Apparently, we also all get together every Friday for the hands-on stuff (so there's more of a variety of people to work with). Kind of sucks for the Marietta people, if you ask me (having to drive to the other campus once a week), but oh well. So, anyway, it's a very small class!

The head of the school there is really awesome- Dr. Bruce, we call him. I really love his attitude towards massage, and the process that he's created. I'm more excited about this than I think I ever have been about school. It's going to be a completely new experience for me, and I'm excited about taking down a lot of walls I think I have put up over my lifetime. I really believe in massage, and its power to heal- I think if I could do that for a living, well, I would feel pretty good about that.