The Guardians

Today I went looking at french postacards........... again. I'm a freak and a francophile and it's a scary combination, seeing as how I'm not even french.

Anyway somehow absinthe (not drinking it) led me to ecodigerati looking at these beautiful haunting B&W's of budapest sculpture...



taking a break from scanning and editing. and just wanted to share. back to work.....

13 years, 5 months, 28 days, 5 hours, and 29 minutes

That is how long between receiving my high school diploma and my BA in Film and Media Studies. It just came in the mail. Nothing but the diploma itself... just in time for Christmas. I'm still proud of myself and all for going back and finishing, also just reflecting on the past decade and all and how I need to rock this next decade. I'm ready.

The creation of the Man Cave

Well, seeing as how we live a great but tiny apartment, space is something we can always use more of. After accessing the amount of crap that is just hanging out down there and either needs to be given away or organized and put away, i figured i could attempt to create a cool space for Jerry by xmas. I hope I can do it... wish me luck.

Heaven on Earth

I love beautiful natural things, the mystery and awe of sunrises and sets, clouds and mist and hill and creeks.....

:::breaks out in song:::

um, that was embarrassing, anyway, I stumbled this website today and wanted to share.

These photographs actually challenge me to imagine that there is a more beautiful place than earth. I was having pretty awful day and these photos just made me smile. plain and simple. Somehow then in true masochist fashion, I got mad. Why do when destroy pollute and otherwise neglect such a fucking beautiful place? Why?

I sat there conflicted for a moment, just wanting to enjoy the pretty pictures, but not able to......

Then I ran across the last one called "Hoar Frost". I told myself to STFU and felt much better.

In the corner of my mind

Are there places you've been that you just can't get out of your mind? Places that call to you and you just can't wait to experience again. This is how Wynand Fockink was for me... Yeah you heard me right... That is how it is pronounced, and just like everything else in Amsterdam it's a little naughty without even trying....

Same thing with the XXX all over the canals you see them everywhere and think to yourself "hey I'm not in the red light district right now, wtf?" Well that's how it is with this over 300 year old jenever and liqueur distillery and tasting room....

First aside from the fact the fact that it is the most quaint "Bar" like place I have ever been, the "Bartender" was really more of a jenever aficionado and educator who guided you through the history and the taste of these wonderful little bottles with a great sense of humor and skill. I remember it fondly and cannot wait to return.

While we were there We bought Bruidstranen' AKA The Bride's Tears', which is lovely and spiced and meant to be served in the days leading up the wedding, Jer and I had only been engaged 2 days so it was the obvious choice... I can't explain how excited I am for us to celebrate with this....

Yes it is INDEED a New Day!!!!!

Wow! It really is hard to come up with words to describe this emotion. It has been such a long time coming for us as a nation to really truly prove that we have done away with prejudices. I believe yesterday we showed ourselves (and the rest of the world) that the tenets that this country was founded are actually working, maybe even better than expected? It's just now starting to sink in for me.

I mean think about this folks…

This is important not because it means we can FINALLY get this country back in working order, finally but also because we…..

We the people, in order to form a more perfect union hired a BLACK MAN as commander and chief, leader of the free world. No affirmative action needed thankyouverymuch….

Ummmmm, Hellllllooooo?!??!? That Fucking ROCKS!!!!

I know it's everywhere but I love it, it just makes me smile...



Truth is, I have nothing against Senator McCain. I just know that this is far and away the best choice for a country with so much to give and so much to be.

I believe it was a good fight though, despite how the media has colored it I believe McCain held strong to who he was and ran a campaign with integrity. Also, I could give a laundry list plenty of reasons I think he would have made a fantastic president, only about 30 years ago…

The only thing I really questioned was his choice of VP, sure she was a lipstick pit bull (which I actually like) but she was also most certainly a very partisan candidate, with so many viewpoints the dead opposite of mine, and all of her tenacity and vigor just wasn’t good enough to make me forget that.

Basically what I am trying to say is just because I am a card holding member of the vag club doesn’t stop me from recognizing she’s a douchecougar.

At the tender age of 31 I have still seen my fair share of nasty, nasty campaigns and partisan politics, but all in all, the whole thing made me realize it is NOT our commonalities that make us different strong and better, it’s our differences. God bless our differences.

In honor of a couple of my favorite things, Sinatra and America, I’d like to share this clip that gets me very choked up (It would be dead perfect in my eyes without the pearl harbor “Jap” hating, but then again I’m a pacifist).




Keep on rocking in the free world!

Driven and Distracted

This morning my honey was rooting around in the garage looking for stuff to shred and get rid of. So being the closeted packrat that I am I decided to see if there was anything just absolutely, terribly precious that I couldn't part with..... there wasn't.

But I did find a printout of some brain test I took like, what at least 8 years ago? It was only part of it but I found it eerily familiar. It read as follows:

The predominance of your visual learning style implies that you tend to not be reflective and may not pick up on auditory cues including your own "inner voice" Frequently you may find that you can "see" where the other person is going before he/she gets there and in this way can be impatient with roundabout language.

Overall, you may find yourelf driven and distracted. There is a sense of excitement that attends this combination but also a sense of frustration. You can have well defined goals without the ability to articulte them to yourself let alone others. You can "see" where you are going but not be able to "tell yourself"

Wow! I suppose I could not have picked a better day to start blogging, no?