Playing Photographer

I'm gonna fake it until I make it.

Word.

Backyard Shinanigans

The day I've been waiting for has officially come! I bought a Canon Rebel from a girl at the office for a great price. Here are my first photos from the past two days as I've tried to learn how to use it.

New Age Mumbo Jumbo?

Staying in the present, it sounds like such a simple concept, but I always find myself dwelling in the past or projecting into the future. I'm beginning to realize the present is where life is occurring and very much alive, and it's where I need to be consciously. It's almost as if I'm scared and opting out of my life by not remaining in the present, like I can only handle it in small doses before I escape into the past or future. I need to make an honest effort to stay present in my life because it is at this very moment that life is changing and reshaping and branching into new directions. Life in the present is dynamic while life in the past and future is stagnant.

I want to make a serious commitment to myself to be in the moment and open to all the possibilities life will bring my way.

Eat Da Poo Poo

"Like ice cream!" I don't know what else to say to this but, really? I mean really??! I am stunned by the stupidity of this over generalized, hateful and fear driven assumption.
Hey world, we've come pretty far, but we still have quite a long way to go.

Go the F*ck to Sleep

I know children's books for adults are all the rage right now but there is something slightly enchanting about Go the F*ck to Sleep by Adam Mansbach. Maybe it's because it's got the balls to say what we've all thought once or twice in our lives when we've put a child down for bed.




Below are two of my favorite new lullabies. Lay down your weary lil head and take a listen.

You Have My Heart Tori Spelling

Hoarders: Untold sTori from Tori Spelling

It Should Happen to Me!

This is one of the most delightfully charming movies I have ever seen. Judy Holliday is a gem among silver screen stars.

I'm a Creep

Even with Chester the molester glasses on I can't match the creepiness of this:

Lazy Summer Days

CEO of Sadness

(Do I still seem jaded to you?)

Have you ever noticed how music can bring out the most irrational emotions at the worst possible time? Yeah, me too. Today in the office Part One- Band of Horses played on my Pandora station and I instantly was whisked back in time to my life in NYC. I would listen to this album all the time on my daily commute looking at the city skyline thinking how lucky I was to be there. As soon as the memory came, it was gone. It was like a hit and run down on memory lane and of course, now back in reality, this is when my phone decides to ring off the hook and I'm forced to answer with a lump in my throat.


It's so easy to love NYC on TV, in fantasies and memories. Even though I am riddled with the occasional backlash of regret, I have to remember the reality of what NY was to me. It was like a totally twisted relationship and you stuck it out because it wasn't always so bad. On it's good days it was amazing, exciting, filled with hope, possibilities and opportunity. And on it's worst days it was a cruel jokester, who would lure me in only to beat the crap out of me and drop kick me when I was down and out. But I am coming to terms with the notion of loving NYC from afar because if I don't I am going to be on the fast track to becoming a Sad Sally and sadness is not my business.

Here is another case of the music crazies for the medical books. On my walk home, Waiting For a Star to Fall-Boy Meets Girl came on and I was on cloud nine. I know, I know, it's ridiculously cheesy but you'd have to be dead not to feel good when this song comes on. At least the day ended on a high note (literally)!

I Can't Make You Love This

...As much as I do. Bonnie Raitt's I Can't Make You Love Me is one of my all time favorite songs. I love that Bon Iver took a crack at it by covering it in his unique style.

Good Friday

I have seen this church all my life and it is still beautiful to me.

I met my sisters for happy hour last night after work. It was a nice way to start the weekend, three beers for five bucks and some tasty burritos from one of the local delis, in my frugal old age of twenty eight that is a real bargain. But the real joy of the night was when Gina and Rafi hand delivered their wedding invitation to me. I just love those two. I never get too overly excited for weddings but these two have been in love as long as I have known them and that is a beautiful thing that deserves to be celebrated.

(PS-Get it? Good Friday and a picture of a church? Yeah.)

Running Out Of Time

Now tell me she doesn't know how to have fun.

I am going to be thirty in less than two years. I am running out of time to have naughty adventures, to be careless and fickle. These three things all become irresponsible and stupid after the age of thirty. I mean, I already have friends with kids and houses for Christ's sake (<--that's just for emphasis). But you can explain anything away by saying "Oh I was just a twenty something when that happened.". I've never been one to dive in head first, I've always waded my way through life using calm calculation and cool observation. Maybe that's why I feel like I've missed out on a lot of things. I've got two years to get this out of my system, otherwise, I am going to have one hell of a mid-life crisis and we all know that crap is one big laughable joke.

This song makes me want to go out and find my first scandal.

Pat on the Proverbial Back

My emotional fortitude never ceases to amaze me. Just when I think I'm at my weakest, I surprise myself and can be the sturdy foundation my family needs to keep the world from crumbling down.

Just For Men

I can't really understand a word he says but his videos are awesome.

Haters Gone Hate

A Day At The Lake

Lookin' For Love

Lookin' for love

I've spent a lifetime looking for you
Single bars and good time lovers, never true
Playing a fools game, hoping to win
Telling those sweet lies and losing again.

I was looking for love in all the wrong places
Looking for love in too many faces
Searching your eyes, looking for traces
Of what.. I'm dreaming of...
Hopin' to find a friend and a lover
God bless the day I discover
Another heart, lookin' for love

When I was alone then, no love in sight
And I did everything I could to get me through the night
Don't know where it started or where it might end
I turn to a stranger, just like a friend

I was looking for love in all the wrong places
Looking for love in too many faces
Searching your eyes, looking for traces
Of what.. I'm dreaming of...
Hopin' to find a friend and a lover
God bless the day I discover
Another heart, lookin' for love

You came a'knocking at my heart's door..
You're everything I've been looking for..

No more looking for love in all the wrong places
Looking for love in too many faces
Searching your eyes, looking for traces
Of what.. I'm dreaming of...
Now that I found a friend and a lover
God bless the day I discover
You, oh you, lookin' for love

In all the wrong places
Looking for love in too many faces
Searching your eyes, looking for traces
Of what.. I'm dreaming of...
Now that I found a friend and a lover
God bless the day I discover
You, oh you, lookin' for love

Fireworks!