by Kay~Kacey on 5/25/2008
Deja Vu…well besides being the name of a great bar when I was in college….
I was having a deja vu type of week last week while visiting the campus of Mizzou. I went to college at Mizzou (Go Tigers!). When I went back there a few years ago with my son when he was registering for classes, it was like waves of memories washed over me…twisted in with the realization I had walked these streets everyday for 4 years. The same streets my son was soon to walk every day. It was like our lives had folded together and our paths had interwoven in some weird way.
Mizzou is a pretty campus…even more so now than I was there. They’ve done a great job prettying up the campus. They’ve also done a great job with their expansion projects, tying them in to the existing older architecture. Mizzou has a “red campus” (old red brick campus) like this shot of Jesse Hall–their administration building and a “white campus” white limestone buildings.
Here is the student union, the “entrance” to the white campus. This pretty walkway up to the union used to be an old torn up street when I went to school there.
Here is the “landmark” that Mizzou is known for. The Columns in the quad.
This is all that is left of the original Academic Hall at Mizzou. It burned down in 1892.
My Great Aunt Verena (love and adore the name Verena) went to Mizzou. About 80-90 years ago if I’m doing the math right. One of the few women on campus at that time. I have an old black and white photo she gave me of the columns back from when she went to school.
It just seems a bit weird, in a good way, to think of the history of this college and our family. SuperGuy went to Mizzou his last two years of college too. So we have a lot of history wrapped up in it. Now, in August, my youngest one, The Impish One will start college at Mizzou too. I sometimes get in a weird place when I’m walking around the campus now. Trapped between two worlds. For just a brief flash, I’m 20 again and reliving my college days.
by Kay~Kacey on 5/24/2008
You know, I’m really loving this stage of life. Really. There is time to be me. Without the guilt of “I should be doing this for that person.”
I can’t imagine any other stage of life where I would have had the time to invest in learning photography like I have now.
I’ve taught myself quite a few new things in the last 5 years or so. Knitting (love handknit socks!), web design, web site optimization. Well, and of course, photography. Which then led me to learning photoshop.
Don’t get me wrong. I loved being a mom. Well, I am still a mom. :rofl: But I have time to explore all these things that interest me now.
(these sunset photos brought to you by the commercial breaks in Grey’s Anatomy on Thursday… 🙂 )
So, now that you have more time, what are you learning to do? Or even if you don’t have time now, what new things are you trying? Okay, and if you have a bazillion toddlers and have no time what so ever…what would you LIKE to learn to do? 
by Kay~Kacey on 5/23/2008
Really, do you think this is normal? For a twenty-something male to have an apartment that looks this nice?
I had an old plaid couch and milk crates in my first apartment. This is The Photography One’s apartment. We’re over in Columbia at his apartment this week. SuperGuy works over here two days a week, twice a month. So he, or we, come over and stay at The Photography One’s apartment.
I’m thinking his girlfriend had a bit to do with picking out this pretty dining room table, though the Ansel Adam photograph you can see in the mirror, I’m sure was picked out by my son.
His shoes neatly placed by his apartment door. (for the record, they are still left in the middle of the family room floor when he comes home…)
MY kitchen never looks this clean!
He does have some guy decorations though. His wake board, and a skim board on the ledge above the kitchen.
Okay, now this is male. A massive TV and stereo and Xbox console. Yep, that’s very male.
So, SuperGuy’s work load has increase over here so that he’ll be coming to Columbia more often. So….get this…starting in July we’ll be sharing a larger apartment over here with The Photography One for when SuperGuy comes to town to work. How many of you have moved in with your kids??? :rofl: It will probably be about 6-8 nights a month, depending on SuperGuy’s work load. Luckily The Impish One will be over here at college starting in the fall. So I should be able to bug, keep an eye, visit with him too.
The Photography One likes to shock and amuse people by telling them his mommy is moving in with him this summer. People who don’t know us are appalled. His friends who do know us are excited….see, SuperGuy cooks for everyone when he’s over here. 🙂
I’m a bit worried though…because our shared apartment over here might look nicer than our house back home…
