- ¡Feliz Cinco de Mayo! I think it should be allowed to intake margaritas all the live long day to celebrate. Or at least cups of coffee with little umbrellas.
- I’ve gotten into this great habit of playing Adele in the morning on my laptop. Without headphones. I figured it’s OK since a certain someone keeps singing Fiona Apple on his guitar at random times during the day. Even trade… though I think I got the better deal.
- Rumour Has It is such a good song. It might get repeated a few times during my Morning Adele Mix.
- Other than Adele and the Fiona cover, it’s been quiet in my pod at work. Too quiet. PodMate’s moved out of our pod and hopefully on to bigger and better things. I miss Susan’s company though. So I bug her about 15 times a day via email instead. You can take the girl out of the pod but you can’t take away my ability to annoy someone through the interweb.
- I don’t send Susan that many emails. I have nothing that important to say and if I want her to hang out with me on her own free will, smothering would get me nowhere.
- Doesn’t mean I don’t want to though.
- I’ve been keeping myself busy. Busy, busy, busy. So many ideas bouncing around in my head, on paper and in the wide open spaces of any room I may occupy. One idea includes a facelift for le blog – don’t be surprised if things look hinky over the weekend as I work out the changes.
- The Chow Wagon. I’ve been twice now. The first time I got sunburned on four inches of my forearm. The second time I froze to death and didn’t even boogie to the live music. The weather is sucking the fun out this year’s Kentucky Derby Festival. I will have fun on Saturday though. I absolutely will.
- The hubs has his betting window already open on his new, spiffy little tablet [that I didn't think he needed but purchased anyway]. I have a feeling that Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja might get more attention than the betting window though. Just a guess.
- All I have to do is make it through today… because I’m taking Oaks off… and it will be wonderful.
Last week I did nothing but sneeze and blow my nose and sneeze some more. It’s a small price to pay for spring weather in February. Today, the allergies have seemed to back off – the temps have also seemed to back off and it may be rainy all week. Boo rain, boo… but it’s so much better than more snow right now.
With the change in weather, I’m glad I got outside with my camera last week. I took an outdoor lunch with Mac and walked the Waterfront in hopes of seeing something new. I’m here to report there’s nothing new. Nuthin. People were out and relaxing in the breeze, ducks were swimming and dipping, trash was floating around the outside of the fountain… yep, nothing has changed. I had a boring photowalk. But I tried to make something good of it.
I searched for things that were “white” for the challenge, I tried out new perspectives, sat down on my butt a few times, even tried shooting at some people. It felt like I hadn’t gotten anything. After I pulled the images up at home, I was right. There was only one I kept going back too. The one of the fella fishing. With his three poles and grocery cart. Every time I look at it, I tell myself I should have gotten closer. Maybe even struck up conversation and asked him if I could take some shots. But I didn’t. I’m a scaredy cat. So I have to live with what I got.
Maybe one day I’ll overcome this fear. The stranger danger fear. But what I know for sure is it ain’t today. Or tomorrow.
St. Kitts – The Atlantic Ocean is on the left. The Caribbean Sea is on the right.
I haven’t let it go. I still yearn for island time again. For warm breezes and sunshine galore and people with fantastic accents.
I’ll have to settle for current forecast – it’s warming up here in Kentucky.
According to the weather guy (which he’s been wrong before so he can most definitely be wrong again), Louisville is supposed to hover in the 50ºs for the next week. This makes me do the happy dance. I hope my happy dance isn’t a snow dance because that would be the most disappointing thing since the final episode of Lost.
I need to shoot something. Other than a knitted hat. Something outside.
I smell a photowalk in my near future. I think me and Mac… or maybe the kahuna… are going to have to take a lunch together downtown. To see if anything has changed since winter holed us up. I doubt anything has but to see it with fresh eyes is promising.
So, Mr. Weatherman, don’t let me down. I need this defrosting we’ve got. You can toss in rain for a day or so but give me clear skies for the most part. I need that up there. I need a play date with my camera outside. Yeah… I need.
I’m not a fan of Valentine’s Day. It hovers around le birthday and, well, I think it’s kind of pointless. But there is so much love going on for the day of lovers, I thought I’d point you to some folks who embrace it. And of course, Happy Schmalentine’s Day to you.
Pink Suede Shoe has a delicious crafting blog. This week she shared a Valentine’s craft everyday building up to today. So crafty.
Who doesn’t love Bakerella? Lip-shaped cake pops are a win in my book. And a want.
And while we’re still on the subject of sweet treats, Wendipants at Bon Appetit Hon has the best Food Memory post today. Puffy Hearts… I want so bad to put my face in one.
Denise at Once Upon A Time has lists of random facts on Tuesdays. I like Tuesdays. Some may have been Valentine related.
And because I can’t help myself, an oldie from Listverse. A list of miserable facts about V-Day.
It was either this or show you another hat I knitted… I thought you might like something different.
Love on, folks. Love on.
It’s Tuesday. And I got nothing better to do. And because I can.
- Have I mentioned I want to go back on vacation? I believe I need to stop thinking about it (sunshine and warmth) and quit sorting through photos (water, sky, piña coladas) and focus on the here and now. Here and now includes cake so it’s really not that bad.
- Speaking of cake, I had cake for dinner last night. The hubs had traffic school (he thinks he’s Mario Andretti), so I enjoyed a moist slice of yellow cake with chocolate icing and two glasses of milk. I’m thinking the milk counters the cake somehow.
- I completed my All-Day Beret and blocked it and it is adorable. I haven’t been able to snap a “finished” photo yet but it’s on the to do list.
- And I’ve started and completed another hat! Just have some finishing touches that have seemed to confused me. I don’t know what is up or down when trying my hand at a pompom. (It wasn’t pretty, folks.)
- I think it might be time to part ways with my ultra-wide angle lens. It’s an awesome lens but I haven’t used it much and it just sits in a bag. And that’s sad. I just can’t decide how or where I want to sell. Advice?
- Been thinking the same about my Crumpler bag. It’s a great bag but that Canon 7D does not fit in it. Well, it does but it’s an extremely tight fit. I’ve been eying one little number for months now – I think it might be time to start a “Bring Lola Home” fund.
- I need more coffee. Stat.
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