I wanted to include a resolution for 2010 which is:
Do something for somebody else
Basically it could be pay it forward, a random act of kindness, volunteer work, whatever you so desire as long as you do something for somebody else.
I thought this could be a community thing. If everyone did it for twenty ten. we could post our stories. For those who would like to join in, post this, Also I don't know all of the people on vox, so for those who like this, post it to your vox blog.
Maybe we can get something going, maybe if this catches on we can get it posted to the TIG this time next year.
Perhaps we can create a group for this?
EDIT: I created a group Do Something for somebody else please join
Bad Things on Tuesday
- Still sniffling with a cold
- It's too cold for Florida right now, It was in the 40's this morning when I was walking my dog
- My toes are frozen. Really they are ice cubes now.
- So cold out this morning I didn't want to get out of bed.
- Realizing that I didn't book my hotel room in time for the totally awesome hotel special for our trip to Seattle
Good Things on Tuesday
- Finding out that the Hotel has another totally awesome special that saves me just as much money,
- Finally feeling like my cold is going away.
- Getting my music play list for our Seattle/Portland trip ready
- My dog snuggling with me under the blanket this morning
- Getting up in time to take out the trash, with the holidays there was a lot of trash.
- Work being low key and drama free today - (so far)
- Nick coming home tonight from London at around 6:30pm
It's feels like it's been while since I've made a post. Work has been extremely busy. There were more layoffs and now I have more work and more people around checking out what I am doing which means less internet surfing time. This should quite down now that the holidays are in swing and everything should be back to normal after the first of the year.
I have recently decided something though after months, actually a year on vox I have decided I like it and I'm going to stay. I know this place used to be better, more people, the vox team where more active and more helpful back then but it's still a decent place if we the users make it so. I hate to see a post from a neighbor explaining that they are leaving vox and why. There are still plenty of us here though so I have decided to stay.
and with that I am going to reorganize my blog a little bit. It'll be the same but I have added the things on a tuesday group and will be writing some more personal stuff , friends only of course. Some sex talk, bring some sexy back to Fridays. I want to get back to writing what every I feel like without holding anything back. This of course means more friends only post but I will also write about Orlando, and any other topic I find interesting as a public post.
I'll also be posting my New Years Resolutions and the ones I made last year, which ones I accomplished and which ones I didnt. It's something I do every year, last year I didn't post them to hear since I was so new to vox but this year I feel more comfortable.
I really do wish more of my pownce friends would have stayed here, I understand why they didn't. There was a bad taste in their mouth about Six Apart and I understand that, I also understand the nature of the web biz. It's a rough business, anyone that tells you to go into IT, Computer programming, interactive design and digial media entertainment because it is lucrative is fooling themselves. The company I work for has now made layoffs for two years in a row. At any moment we could be told to pack up and leave without much notice. It's just the way things go. No it isn't fair and these are hard working people who do a bang up job but sometimes things just don't work out and you save and salvage what you can. There isn't much else you can do.
So I'll be around and posting more again. I'll leave you with one of my favorite toasts. I believe it's an Irish toast.
"May the roof above us never cave in.
And the friends gathered below never fall out"
..for my mother. I just found out today that she had a hypoglycemic spell a few days ago. She would not wake up no matter what my dad did, so he called 911 and they gave her a tube of glucose and some other stuff to revive her. She's been alright the past few days, but I can't help but to worry. She has a Dr. appointment Tuesday for more bloodwork. And all I can keep thinking is that if my dad had been out of town (as he usually is on weekends), she might have never woke up.
If you feel so inclined, include her in your prayer/meditation/well-wishes.
Merry Christmas to all. Have a great weekend and have fun.
There's still more to come I'm sure, but I couldn't wait.
I like to give cookies and candy. Below is one of my "goodie trays" that I baked. For the past two weeks my kitchen has been a cookie-factory. Some cookies I roll into balls so I can chill them and bake later. Others I bake and then store in Rubbermaid containers in every nook and cranny of my kitchen until giving-day comes. Still others I bake and store and discover that Pooky has found them so I have to bake more. But it's what I love to do.
There's (from left to right) Hershey Kiss cookies, haystacks, peanut butter cookies, soda cracker toffee cookies, rocky road cookies, chocolate cihp cookies, Russian tea cookies, and white chocolate macadamia nut cookies.
For all you photo folks, the image is pretty much straight-off-the-camera. The trick was to compose the shot while avoiding the mess that is my kitchen.
One year to this day. Rip Pownce, we miss you, also know that there is a pownce reunion today.
Toast to pownce.
May the rood never cave in and the friends gathered below never fall out.
Totally Terrible Things on Tuesday
- Finding out I'm going to have a very busy weekend.
- being late to work because I forgot I had to get gas.
- Fire Drill at work more annoying than fun.
- Hopping the curb in my bug
- No scratches or damange done from hopping the curb.
- Finding out I'm going to have a very busy weekend.
- Getting more excited about my seattle/portland trip in late Jan.
- Cleo being a good girl this morning and not barking when I left for work.
- Lunch in 10 minutes :)
My Birthday and Anniversary are coming up Jan 22nd(birthday), Jan 23rd(Wedding Anniversary). First Anniversay is paper so Nick has suprised me with paper airline tickets to Seattle and Portland for 6 and a half days. I'm excited because I've never been to either place and I've always wanted to go.
Yep this answers the question, where do Orlando natives go on vacation in the winter? To the coldest places possible. lol. It's rare I see snow. I have been involved in a snowball fight but I've never had a white christmas and I've never made a snowman. While for me things like 90 degree weather and palm trees and being within an hour of beach on each side of me are normal, snow isn't and that is why I love it.
Seattle and Portland are wrought with culture and they pride themselves on being local and sustainble, with food and goods. I'm starting to research now the places I want to see. We are trying hard to do a 3 days for each but with travel it could be a little less. I found this inn in seattle near the space needle and the seattle center where we can hop on a monorail to get to downtown if we are too full or too drunk to walk. lol. The inn is running a special at 53 bucks a night. It's quaint but cute, has history, and seems quirky.
I have a certain hotel philosophy. We are still fairly young and we are looking to explore the city, we plan on spending more time out and about and less time relaxing at the hotel. In this case look for something cute and small with history such as an inn and less of a resort style place that will cost major bucks. I think its rediculous to spend over 100 bucks for a room you are just going to sleep in. Now if I want to plan a relaxing by the beach tropical vacation perhaps a resort such as the marriott, they have some nice places where be appropriate but this isn't the case.
I find that if you stay at the inns or in small more local places you seem to find more interesting people and things around. Perhaps my view is skewed by the fact that I live in the number one tourist desination in the country and I'm a bit turned off to the tourist type thing. This is why I hated Time Square. Times Square reminded me of Mcdonalds and Disneys Love child fornicating for the whole world to see. Over priced, unoriginal, and dare I say fake. I wouldn't even consider it part of New York City really and neither should you. I went there because I'd never been there but I didn't even get that far just enough to take the tourist type pictures and go to virgin records (we have one of those at Downtown disney with the same overpriced crap). I was not inspired,
So while yes, I will see the space needle and I want to go to the park with the Kurt Cobain Memorial Bench overlooking the house where he blew his head off, I'm not much of a tourist type person. I want to know the real city, even if it isn't glamorous, it's real.
I really set out to write this about a playlist for my iphone and then just went off rambling. Obviously this playlist would include Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam for Seattle. and Everclear for Portland.
We have a friend in Seattle and one in portland so I think we are planning on renting a car to go from seattle to portland and perhaps take a drive up the west hills which could be interesting. It's were all the mansions are and even a few built castles. Like in the Everclear song I Will Buy You A New Life
"I will buy you a garden
Where your flowers can bloom
I will buy you a new car
Perfect shiny and new
I will buy you that big house
Way up in the west hills
I will buy you a new life
Yes I will"
Any places to visit in Portland or Seattle? Any Songs you would reccommend for my playlist?
No..not Chicago and Phoenix. This was local youth league b-ball and my friend's son Carlito was playing in his team's first game of the season. And I was there..along with Rosie and Posie and one crazy cheering section of friends and family.
I got there early enough to do a little white balancing, but I did not quite get the white as balanced as I hoped to. Gymnasium lighting is one heck of a challenge, and I did not want to use my onboard flash and chance disturbing the players' game with dazzling distractions from the bleachers. We sat in the back row, which also presented the problem of having to shoot around the steel supports that hold up the roof in the Aubrey Street Community Gym. I was torn between using my 55-250 zoom and my 50mm prime lens. On the one hand I wanted close-ups of the action..and on the other hand I wanted the action frozen perfectly without blurring. I compromised by changing out lenses in between periods.
Anyway, here are the three "creme of the crop" photos from tonights game.
Bulls on the offense here. These guys played an excellent team-game and seem to have been coached well on handling the ball and passing.
This guy has an awesome jump shot. The final score was the Bulls winning by 20 points, but the Suns played a hard game and did not give up.
Carlito, who plays defense and plays it well. He may not get the ball very often, but he sure keeps the other guys from getting anywhere with it.
His next game is Thursday. I will hopefully grab a better spot in front of the support beam next time and see what I can accomplish from court-level.
Oh...and did I mention I took Posie too. I made a Posie-movie of a segment of the game.
