Wednesday, November 25, 2009



It's not that I don't like birthdays but in general birthdays don't like me.  There are so many random strange things that happen on my birthday that sweat pants, a nice comfy bed and a good book seem to be the only things that can't spoil the day.  Maybe I just get disappointed easily.  Maybe I am cursed for silly, ridiculous and completely random things to happen to me on my birthday.
This year the fiascos include:
  • Wanting cupcakes from Uprise only to find that the cupcake of the day was peanut butter with maple brown sugar frosting. 
  • Why it's a fiasco: I don't really love cupcakes in the first place (but the apple pie that I really want for my birthday will be served on Thanksgiving) and I loathe peanut butter 75% of the time.
  • Receiving a balloon that said: Happy Birthday (on side one) birthday boy (on side two).  Mom didn't see side two when she bought the balloon.
  • Why it's a fiasco: I'm not a boy.
  • The Bean was still crying when I got back from dinner with Joe at 9pm.
  • Why it's a fiasco: I went to go put her to sleep and by 10pm when I put her in the crib, I crawled into my bed without having my chocolate cream pie (brought home from the Old 63 Diner).  No candles, no singing... just snoring.
  • The next morning I discovered that my pie was no longer in the refrigerator
  • Why it's a fiasco: my mother mistakenly ate my birthday pie.
So there it is folks, no major disasters... just the usual random things that make me wish I stayed in bed with my book.
* the good things: Us Weekly, a peppermint patty, flowers, silly cards, lots of birthday wishes, and monkeys with hats!

Monday, November 23, 2009

"Don't go through life with your eyes closed, even though you may have chosen photography as your vocation. The machine may see for you, but its eye is dead. Your eye should furnish it with life. But don't believe that all open eyes see. Seeing needs practice- just like photography itself."

Alfred Stieglitz, Steiglitz on Photography, Aperture, 2000.

"It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare."

Walker Evans

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

If I had more time in my day


If I had more time in my day I would...


1. learn how to sew and then sew things

2. go for a walk to the trail

3. take the dog to the dog park and then run after her when she runs away

4. let the bean use crayons and markers

5. find new recipes and cook them
6. learn the bean's crazy moon language