cover designs (for brightening my days)

this portrays my feelings on the matter very well.

one for sienna

this photo really is for sienna, yes this is my hair which is getting pleasingly long(er); and not my face because it was 7:30 when this picture was taken and my face had not woken up yet...

man, i love the stage!!

my friend jade, very sweet! she played dream fairy. lovely job

funny picture of my mommy bryce is nice. heh heh!
my cousin jenny with kyrie
finally after 5 months of preparation the big day came. i think the show was a success, not so happy with my technical performance (so to speak) but i really did enjoy myself on stage. man i love being on stage. its the greatest feeling. townsend ladies, thank you sooo much for coming, really girls that means so much to me!! my grandipop and grandimary came too and brought my cousin jenny. i could'nt believe how many people came to watch me, i mean not just me, but really it is so encouraging; i love my family and friends so dearly. thought kyr would have taken more pictures during the performance but she didnt, o well. we had it video taped, hmm, yeah not so sure i wanna look at it again, heh!

we had a cast party at ms. joy's (jessica's mom) after the performance, it was much fun with yummy food; i had this horrible stomach ache while i was there which slightly put a damper on things but if i tried real hard i could get my mind of it. went home and slept like baby, man i love the stage!!
i love dancing!!!!!

baby face jones

sienna, dosen't she have benjamin's eyes?

and mouth?

and nose?

doesn't she look just like him?

i think ben talked alot more.

what i look at everyday

this is my cubicle at school. i've been wanting to do this for awhile. it's where i sit all day and what i look at all day. i know this place very well. it's my little home away from home. how people sit in blank cubicles, i will never know.

i know that the font could not be any smaller but i couldn't get it any bigger!

annie is my cubicle buddy

posted by kyrie

Memoirs of a Geisha

i really want to see this film. i was completely capitivated by a recent trailer i saw for it. this is from photo shoot in vogue. i didn't even know what the shoot was for when i took this picture, just knew i loved how it was taken and the caption to the right of her. this woman's face is flawless! posted by kyrie

the first snow (!!)

the first snow came today; very fast and very hard. i had been sitting at my desk struggling through a rather difficult page of english, diagramming sentences and such, when i hear mr. steve say "check out the first snow guys." snow? where? outside? already? it didn't register to me that when i looked outside i'd see huge chunks of snow hurdling through from a grey sky and a lawn already clothed with one layer of white snow and. but i did see that. and it made me all excited like it always does, though i'm more apt not to show it quite as much as i used to (clapping my hands and jumping around and smiling hopelessly). what is it about snow that cheers one up? it's cold and slippery tends to cancel things and makes things that used to be easy, difficult. like walking for instance or simply stepping outside.

but i like it. i'm sure you do too.

ps. dosen't jember look so comfortable and at ease?
yeah, i thought so too.

posted by kyrie

you've got mail

i love opening envelopes addressed to me and finding an aestheitically pleasing note inside. this one happened to be extremely so. using words experimentally gives old messages new meaning.

and it's from my sienna, which makes the whole thing even more satisfying. nice to know there's someone in africa with whom i can relate so well.

posted by kyrie

Fleurs

i really dont like this picture of me becaues my posture is horrible and my smile is not a good ballet smile and i dont have ballet hands and i should have been turned in more, however, i really love these costumes(im a sucker for pink) and the girls in my class are really sweet and fun to be around so i thought i'd share it with you because -minus me- it makes me smile.

"Fleurs" from the Nutcracker
jessica, sarah gabby, abby
me, jade
posted by chalice

gingerbread gnomes and such.

last night , linnea came bounding out of the dining room holding this "5 talbot" cookie. she said it was for our family so think it's only fitting that you all can see it, even if you can't taste it (and it tastes so good.). she also made the gnome later on when we all sat down to decorate cookies in the shelton dining room.i don't think i'd ever had a home made gingerbread cookie before these ones. the home sweet home cookie is my creation. chalice started decorating a gingerbread man but it ended up as a forest landscape, complete with pine trees and streams and the sun shining down from the gingerbread head:-)
i feel guilty eating these cookies!! so much time spent and then in five bites they're gone forever. there's some injustice going on there. posted by kyrie

all that jazz

i love this picture of hannah.

hot pink.

hot hannah.

yeah man.

-k

"...On the Polar Express!"

donna, me, jade, sarah, emma, gabby, billy-jo and abby
me, jade & abby
thought yall might get a good laugh out of these pictures..i did. it was 'picture day' today at dance. this is my dance group for one of our numbers; The Polar Express. its ridiculously cheesy but still cute and much fun. we are performing next week in the christmas parade and then we have the big recital the following week at csd-excerpts from the nutcracker and other tap and jazz christmas-theme dances. so exciting! love this time of year.... posted by chalice

Together

we arn't three anymore! look--lowen's home! and i am NOT the oldest for three whole days. i'm starting to remember the days of being one of the "three little ones". but it'll all be over and done with tomorrow. reality hits. school and everything. no more running around with the cousins during thanksgiving, getting considerably more bruises and playing round after round of mafia (which by the way, sienna, i was a townsperson for all the rounds!! talk about slow, painful death. and chalice got to be everything. mafia, police, nurse, townsperson and narrorator. ) No more ping pong competitions and eating way more dessert than normal because theres just too many options. note to family: i was on team three this year in the Olympiad. we didn't even do that balancing game. you know the one?? apparently everybody didn't like it. i did! we came in third. the questions were really hard that danny came up with. "how many people a month die of malaria?" "Whose Thomas Anderson?" "Where was the battle of Antietum and how many died?" and " When did dinosaurs exist?" --which i thought was more a matter of opinion. we got it wrong. the answer was 65 millin years ago.
here's lowen talking to you this morning, sienna. he didn't know how to turn off speaker phone.
posted by kyrie

raise your hand if you miss sienna

found this "rummaging" through all our digital photos.
posted by kyrie

november's tuesday

kyrie here.

today was a lot of running around( and around and around) for me. to the point where i started to get that independent feeling. not so much good, just there. i started the day at hannah's in salisbury and drove home early early this morning to be on time for school. i listened to Dido the whole way home and the rain was pouring from the grey sky and i was all by myself and quite sleepy. needless to say, my mood was quite melancholy by the time i pulled up in the parking lot. Her voice music makes me feel like i'm in a dramatic movie.
gym today came early. usually we all pile into the bus and head to the YMCA around 1:25 on tuesdays and thursdays. today we left at 10:00. i don't know which i like better. morning is such a sensative time to me. i like to ease very slowly into my day, taking care not to rush anything or expose myself to anything loud. so running up and down in a very echo-y gymnasium, shouting for people to pass me the ball and running so i was out of breath was a very new experience. and i drew the conclusion that i am desperately out of shape. all these times of playing volleyball has been very decieving. chalice pointed out "in volleyball, you just stand there. and you like move left or right but you don't run". how true that is!
at the end of the practice mr. steve left us with some drill to do. to occupy us or something. i don't know. you've never seen any girls more confused in your life. it was such a simple drill. passing, lay up and then switch lines. we were running around and missing the ball and passing to the wrong person and yelling and everybody was trying to make sense of what was going on. the more frusterated people got, the more i smiled. note to mr.steve: never leave us again.

the day continued on like any other school day. complete with studying so fast and hard that i didn't retain anything and had to leave quite a few blanks blank on my spanish quiz. 20 new spanish words in one day makes me feel unhopeful.
after school came work at the salon until 6:30. and joy! i got my hair colored again. that really is a joy. i am not being sarcastic. when people play with my hair and do stuff with it it makes me so happy and relaxed. my mood automatically lifts 10 levels.
but i am always happy to be free of that place when the time comes. one's own time is so much more precious when one has a job. i'm working and working and working and not accomplishing anything in my own life. When i get home and i can write my letters and read my books and clean my room and do my stuff that i love to do and accomplish things i care about. but i am very appriciative of my work. i'm glad of the job i have and am very blessed with it. Good people to work with and am always kept very busy which i love. i don't think i could have a job where nothing much was required of me. being busy makes time fly.

evening came and with it a wonderful dinner at the salvatores. steak, asparagus and potatoes. i could eat potatoes until the end of time if there was a steady supply of them and butter nearby.
i don't even think a fork is all that necessary.

bed time now! i love bed time! how could i have not liked it when i was little? always avoiding it and denying i was tired. i am tired and i do want to go to bed so very much.
so i will. posted by kyrie

my dear papa

well mom and papa are on their way to John Hopkins right now in the company of Mrs. Lisa, Mr. Chris and Bryce. and i'm here watching mason and pax. i took this photo right before they hopped into the SUV.

This girl will miss him beyond what words can convey. posted by kyrie

the goblet of fire

okay, i've seen it. the beginning scene got my hopes up; with the old man and the Riddle House. they did that one pretty good. wierdly identical to how i had imagined it. exactly how j.k. rowling wrote it down.

i think to satisy my expectations the movie has got to put in all the little details (Rita Skeeter being an insect, the house elf that put the dark mark in the sky, Barty Crouch jr. not being in the Riddle House with Voldermort, and the Veelas from the other wizarding school)and remember to explain things. heavens!! Most of the things i was really looking forwards to seeing were skipped altogether (Harry woke up from his dream of voldermort and wormtail already at the Weasly's house! and five minutes later they were at the world cup) that seriously effected my being able to say i loved the movie.

but hermione was pretty (even if she was spaz). posted by kyrie

Kiera is Dorothy.

oh. this photo shoot makes my day.


even before i got it. i saw the photos on Inside Edition one night and fell in love on the spot. i even told mom something about how wonderful it was and how i hoped i would get the issue. and then, yesterday...i found it on my bed! something about having the classic fairy tale themes to the shoots that gets me. there was that one of the model doing Alice in Wonderland. and then drew barrymore was belle from beauty and the beast (joy of all joys) in another vogue shoot. now we have kiera knightly as dorothy in these wonderfully brillaint (as in color) shots. magic!
















posted by kyrie

so darn hard.

today we went to Ripley's Believe it or Not (which is off the boardwalk in Ocean City) for our quartly trip with the school. this room was whack. have any of ya'll been in it? it's this cylinder room with path going straight across it and the walls around it are spinning. it's all pitch dark except for the dots that show up because of the black light. seems simple enough to walk across but as soon as you step into the room your world just starts spinning and instantly get this dizzy feeling; the kind you got as a kid when you spin around really fast and then suddenly stop. it's impossible to walk across the path without colliding into one of the railings. if you shut your eyes , it's fine and you feel stupid for ever thinking it would be a problem. it's only when you see the thousands of dots circling around you, that your steps become unsure and start feeling quite drunk. never had i known that walking straight could be so darn hard.

papa's a newsie (and i'm just happy watching survivor)

like papa's new hat? he wanted one for chemo so i took it upon myself to find him a cool one. did i? straight from the streets of brooklyn. all he needs is some paps over his shoulder and a couple of good dance moves. whole new look if you flip it around too. it's a kangol hat. the kind samuel l. jackson wears-- so it must be cool.

score.