I didn’t take a picture yesterday because I literally came home and crashed. I didn’t even care. Tomorrow starts some time off for me, so hopefully you’ll be getting some more and better pictures then my lame end of the work day ones.
6-30-10
Japan Collage
Okay okay, so I missed a day. Is anyone surprised? Really?
I have an excuse for the second day I missed, honest. We lost power, and therefore internet. We got a very bad summer storm that took down trees, destroyed houses, and lucky for us just meant we lost power for 12 hours. So that is why there was no picture yesterday. I have no excuse for Saturday. I was very tired and didn’t even take a picture.
6-27-2010
Moments that matter.
The difference between a girl and a woman.
6-28-2010
Saturday was a very long day of work. I spent the afternoon with Mike. We watched Firefly and Arrested Development while eating Japanese curry udon and white rice. It was a wonderful night of just relaxing.
Yesterday was my sister’s wedding shower. It went very well, but it was so very hot and humid. Luckily the storm held out until we were done with the party. It made me realize how much fun this wedding is going to be and how great it is to see everyone. I also need to get my dress fitted. It will happen.
Two more days of work. Woot!
6-25-10
Different views of my new Serrisa plant.
I daydreamed about my art studio someday. It had a large L desk in one corner, the longer end having a window over it. I would have a wall of corkboard so I could put up anything and everything that inspired me. I would have hardwood floors and one wall of shelves/storage space – creatively designed or course. I would have another counter/tabletop where I could keep my ‘in the middle of projects’ so I could work on more then one. I would have an easel and shadowbox in one corner. There would be some sort of system where my reference materials were better organized, because right now it’s just in a big jumbled pile.
That’s really as far as I got. I’m sure I can add to it, but I’m very tired from my long day at work. So some reading and sleepy time for me.
That reminds me, I just finished the book ‘Butterflies of Grand Canyon’ by Margaret Erhart. I wouldn’t recommend it. 😦
6-24-10
O-H-I-O
The ‘I’ broke. Birthday gift from my dad.
I kind of felt like this today. I girl without an identity. Someone people don’t know, don’t invite to things, don’t remember. It shouldn’t bother me, but it does. Especially at work. My coworkers all hang out outside of work. I’m not invited. No, I don’t want to go downtown and get drunk, but it would be nice to be invited. They have celebrated everyone’s birthday at work so far. Mine came and went, no cake like everyone else got, not even a general ‘happy birthday’. It sucked. I like who I am. But at moments like this, I wish I was more to people, not just ‘that girl behind the camera’.
I got my shoes I’m going to wear for my sister’s wedding. She said I had to get silver. I got sparkly glitter ones because I don’t have any shoes like that. I’m also excited that it’s little heals so I can wear them all day long. Now I just have to go get my dress fitted. Btw, I feel fat. But I blame that on the crappy day.
My seedlings are sprouting. 🙂
6-23-2010
The bike graveyard.
I biked today for the Fuller Center for Housing. One of my friends from highschool organized it and I said I would participate. Him and a few other people are biking the whole route from Niagra Falls to New Orleans. I only biked for a few hours, but I’m glad I did it. If I didn’t have to work tomorrow I’d help them work on a house. What would it be like, to take 50 days of my life and just bike 70 miles a day? Could I do it? Would I enjoy it? What would I learn? I’m proud of him, and the other participants. I wish them a safe and happy month of biking. I hope they raise lots of awareness and money for their cause.
I went a little overboard with the daily picture. But hey, I’m excited.
6-22-2010
Katie’s wedding shower is this Sunday. Everyone is stressing about it it seems. I hope the weather is nice.
Butterfly/moth that is to white to show up on my camera. I found her when I went to get my mail.
Flowers in bloom.
I love when these bloom around my house. They always make me smile.
Well, it was my birthday yesterday. It was a pretty good day. I slept in, read for a little bit (I’m reading ‘The Butterflies of Grand Canyon” – so far I wouldn’t recommend it), and then slept a bit more. I repotted some of my plants and I replanted some of them that didn’t sprout well. On my desk right now I have an Aloe, a Painted Lady, a Christmas Cactus, and a Serrisa(?). The last is one I just got recently and will be an excellent drawing tool. I will take a picture of him later. It is apparently a type of bonsai.
I got on a tangent. I really do like my plants. I wish I had more room for them. I’m learning as I go. I enjoyed sitting outside and potting my plants and I made a huge mess and I had dirt under my nails for hours.
After repotting, I ran some errands, cleaned out the munchkins…I mean bunnies, and picked up a new book from the library. Then I got all spiffied up and went to my new favorite coffee shop to treat myself to some bubble tea.
The bubble tea, unfortunately, was not made correctly – the bubbles were much to hard, but I still enjoyed my quiet time there. I brought my computer and worked on my continuing education course for work. Then I putzed around on an art website and read for awhile. I was waiting for Mike to get off of work because he said he would do something special for my birthday.
And he did! I went over his place and he made me dinner. Stuffed porkchops with sausage and fried potatoes. There were supposed to be some sort of beans, but apparently they didn’t make it through the cooking process. Dinner was very delicious, honestly one of the best porkchops I’ve ever had. We sat out on his porch and ate dinner by candlelight.
For dessert we were going to go listen to live jazz music and eat gelato. Unfortunately, that didn’t work out, nor did the second choice for dessert. We ended up at another bar we frequented and listened to a ‘modern old-timey trio’ called Hey Mavis. Check them out, very cool: http://www.heymavis.com/ – listen to the song Red Wine. It’s my favorite.
I really like them. So it all ended up okay.
For my birthday he got me concert tickets to see Yo-Yo Ma and the Cleveland Orchestra, and Apollo’s Fire – a smaller portion of the Cleveland Orchestra. I’m very excited.
Today Jackie stopped by and gave me my birthday gift. It was a bunch of foods from Japan. I really appreciated this because I missed Japan a lot today. I went to the mall and I found that Japan fashions have finally made it over here.
Well, time for me to sleep. Night.
I decided to try a new challenge. I’m going to try to take (and upload) a picture a day. This was brought on by the fact that I miss photography. I miss taking pictures and looking at things differently. This doesn’t mean that my pictures are going to be good, they’ll be random bits and pieces of my day. So here we go, my first picture of the day.
6-21-2010
Me on my 25th birthday. All dressed up and nowhere to go. (that’s a lie, I’m waiting for the boy to get off work, he’s cooking me dinner tonight.) Painted my nails bright red. Used my webcam for the first time. I brought my camera, but forgot my cord, so this will do. At least my hair looks good.
Seahorses are harder to take a picture of (without a flash) then you would think….Taken at the Shedd Aquarium.
Summary!
Days Total– 31
Days I worked out – 0 (at the gym) It was a busy month! I promise I worked out between all the walking and the few hikes I went on.
Days I worked on Art – 0, sad but true
Things I accomplished/Things worth mentioning: I got back from Japan. It was amazing. It was my cousin’s first birthday! She’s getting so big. I planted my desktop garden and made a little greenhouse. It is doing very well, I’m so proud of my little plants. I went to Michigan for Katie and Justin’s wedding. It was an absolutely wonderful weekend and a beautiful wedding. I also went to Chicago for the first time in my life. Mike came with me. It was a great weekend. I decided I really like Chicago and I need to go back.
Things I would like to accomplish for next month: There are lots of things I need to accomplish for next month. I guess you’ll find out what they are when I write about next month. 😛
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