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The Spaceship no.5 - Water

This cookbook is fantastic, not for it's recipes, although they are great, but for the education. Actually, calling this a cookbook is a disservice. It is so much more than just a c ookbook. It's the instruction manual to your kitchen. If you are a cook or want to cook better, get this book.

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Sunset on a cloudy day, a gap in the clouds.

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wearing: vintage handmade silk dress, purchased on ebay last spring; purple belt, thrifted; lacey white flats from aldo; murano glass necklace from moma store

Whenever I get the cravings this is what I do, grab these four pint containers that are filled with water and do some exercises.

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04/22/08

~Edwin Arlington Robinson

Learning the standard precaution for Ebola crisis...

At an Irish Pub, taking pictures of strangers.

Whut it dooo.

and

agggh I'm so behind on uploading my pictures. blech

1/21/2011

"I'm falling in love, my walkman and me, with David Bowie."

~ Veruca Salt

Park the car, plug in and leave it charging while you do the shopping. We'll be seeing more of this over the next few years.

Chocolate-Orange cake, a Bon Appetit recipe. I used Ghirardelli 60% chocolate chips, orange zest, cut the water, doubled on the Kahlua (coffee liquor). For the icing, butter, sugar, cut the water, doubled the Grand Marnier (orange liquor) and intentionally neglected to boil off the alcohol. Except for this one slice, I fed it all to my friends and colleagues. It has been described as oral ecstasy, to the degree that I received a facetious marriage proposal and was additionally chastised by another friend that I blatantly broke her imposed pact that "friends don't let friends get fat." It's good and it's easy to make, and I cannot take credit for any of it because the recipe is at Epicurious.com.

Anyway, I have yet to eat that slice.

I'm not feeling it right now, because I keep letting my gimped out knee get to my head. I just wanna get better, but it's not happening anytime soon. In fact, I feel like this whole recovery process has hit a standstill over the last week. Nothing has changed and my knee continues to click like a ballpoint pen. Before, I mentioned that if I could do the single-leg squats as detailed, then I'd supposedly be okay to start jogging; I kind of overlooked the part where I would also have to achieve those requisites in the absence of pain. Yeah, so that's a major fail, because all the will power in the world can't make the pain go away. I don't even know why it hurts, what the hell is going on, and for the first time, I wonder why the fuck I should even try anymore because right now it feels like a futile endeavor. And so my morale took a precipitous plunge into a chasm of despair. I hate this messed up knee. I hate being a gimp. I hate that my knee has taken residence in my brain.

I guess I'm better off than the guy I saw with no legs. So there's still that. He should get the last slice of cake.

Day 113 -

" I Have Ten Feet Fingers And I Am Proud ! "

as a kid I refused to call toes toes !

I used to call them feet fingers ..

and the odd thing was that when my parents stopped trying to convince me they are called toes I started calling them so !

So I hope you all like baby feet fingers as much as I do !

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24-04-09

I was a bit disappointed in the pie, but it was still delicious. Just not as good as some of the others...one good thing, the pieces were gigantic.

Sorry no crazy animals. I was hungry!

april 23, 2013

"There's a ghost in my lungs and it sighs in my sleep,

Wraps itself around my tongue as it softly speaks.

Then it walks, then it walks with my legs

To fall, to fall, to fall at your feet."

- Florence and the Machine "Ghosts" youtu.be/WreXOF2Aqcc (killer early performance - better than the album - this woman blows my mind.)

daylight and daffodils

today was so much fun. i had a great day.

where i spend most of my time at home.

i hate but love the grain in this.

this shirt isn't mine, but i love it.

it's maddie's. we are partying tomorrow.

formspring. three words.

24035 views on my stream. feel weird right now.

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The lake is open along the shoreline so, Maggie just had to take her first dip into the lake for this year .... she'll be in a lot more as the days are getting warmer =)

Our Daily Challenge Topic: ANIMAL

113/365 365: The 2013 Edition

Thank you all so much for all of your comments, faves and views, I appreciate each and every one =)

--- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've been fighting to get a job since graduating in June. I feel like most of my downfall is my lack of real experience. I've had experience with cameras forever but I've never held a job with photography. Heck, I've never had a job really period aside from periodically just helping my Dad when he owned a business. He may beg to differ on my skills but I felt I learned something.

I went on a whim and tried again applying for a graphic design/webdesign/photographer job. I know from learning myself, a few classes in high school [even if I didn't do my best in them] and a family friend. I haven't had any certificate or degree in it but I feel confident that I know it well enough to pull the weight of a job. This is obviously a strong interest of mine, as well, so I figured it had to fit.

It didn't work out, I missed out again. I could blame it on my lack of real experience, I could blame it on the economy, I could blame it mostly on not hopping into college like I should've after high school but I've gained something. I gained the knowledge of knowing I do have the skill and the ability maybe some talent too they say. But when the choices come up the one with no education in the field beyond high school isn't really the desired to be hired one most of the time.

Some day, I say I'll land one. I'll be proud and beaming but now I should give into Target again and Wendy's. Maybe even Cub Foods to hire me but even that hasn't proven to work out.

When I came back from keeping busy; I found a stack of Photography magazines on the table outside my front door. I think someone knew I wanted to gain something when I lost the chance to have this job. I have no idea who they left them for me. No note, with the address simply cut out of the corner -- to be left anonymous. The magazines are older, from 2002 but to me, knowledge is knowledge. Now I have more reading material to study to gain. Here's to reading one to become more in-touch with my hobby - a huge part of my life, photography.

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votez light in the face!

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...when you first began it.

The US government has invented new words - sequestration and furloughs and they have been the talk of the town and all over the news whilst I have been in Buffalo. I am not certain what these words mean but I translate them as synonyms for chaos, delays and cancellations. It was repeatedly announced by very nice staff at both Buffalo Niagara Airport and JFK in NY, and by the pilots and cabin crews on the planes that if we were unhappy with the delays that were caused then we should write to our senators... can some please tell me who the US senator for Rugby, England is?

Sorry for not getting to your streams and photos for a couple of days, I will try and catch up with comments as I catch up with posting.

Our card choice is a bit spooky.

Emily bought hers and I made mine. Apart from the exact words (I hope you appreiciate the 500 days of summer reference), they are scarily similar!

Happy Valentines Day everybody!

T

April 23, 2015: 113/365 (2670/2992)- My goal this afternoon was to go kayaking before it got too late. I was waiting for Rebekah and leaning on the kayak trailer when this little tree frog jumped up on the side, just seemed to be waiting for a portrait. After a few portrait shots I moved him back over to the grass, if he stayed on the kayak he would have probably become dinner for a fish.

Day113 of 365 travel memories

Shanghai old town and a garbage man.

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Sorry I'm uploading this today, but yesterday our internet went out for a few hours and then when it did come back on, I was busy knitting a hat for my teacher's baby because today was her last day of school before maternity leave.

Anyway, yesterday I had my hair up like this, with a scarf in the braid and pinned up on top of my head. Aside from the fact that I was paranoid that it would fall down in the middle of class, I really liked it and got a lot of compliments. :)

Part of my Religious Gardens of Jersey City series

GTWL: Lyrics to a Favorite Song (Day 3)

"Soak Up The Sun"

by: Sheryl Crow

So I can rock on.

Today, I have been procrastinating terribly. I have two discussion posts to do and get posted before midnight and I just want to relax, maybe take a nap..anything but schoolwork. Other than that..pretty good day.

My rockin' friend Jenn sent me the most awesome 80's mix..I have been bopping along to it and singing, LOL. =D Thank you so much Jenn..you truly rock girl! ;o) And I also got a package in the mail from my awesome friend MC-1..full of sugary goodness and some really yummy tea. Thank you so much sweetie. =o) Mad love to both of you! xoxox

Oh, and I almost forgot. I actually found a video for the song I did today, so go watch it..enjoy. ;o)

23 February 2009

Spent the whole day buried in clothes... did lots and lots of laundry and started sorting and packing clothes. Man, I have a lot of clothes... but i keep telling myself, the more I get rid of now, the more shopping I can do out there :) I think this is a very good philosophy.

Found my old high school varsity jacket. I will never understand why it was so cool back then to get such a large jacket, this thing is huge on me now – warm though.

23.4.2018

Baking frenzy.

Weekend Viewing ;-)

By rights I should have the world's best cared for fingernails. I'd swear that my family confuse the concept of working from home with sitting on the couch, filing my nails and watching daytime TV. One glace at my fingers will reveal that to be one great big lie. The only filing going on relates to documents not nails. There's also no TV or acting like a couch potato.

Forget that. I'm in bed, drinking cups of tea and eating chocolate. That's what my family see. What they fail to concede is the laptop is fired up and the red pen is getting a serious workout on a pile of assignments at my side. I might not be in the office but that does not mean I'm not working. I am just not tied to the desk. I have flexibility for good and for bad. The good is that I can choose to go for a walk after school drop off instead of heading straight to work as I did this morning. The bad is that I may still be marking long into the night. It's a balancing act. Sometimes just staying upright and on top of it can seem incredibly difficult. And I'm not trying to master a skatecycle like Lewis Watson, a young man I met at the Roma Street Parklands this morning. He seems to have the balance thing sorted.

I admit that I find the concept of work/life balance somewhat intriguing. The mere term seems to suggest that something you do for eight hours a say isn't part of your life. On the flipside it also tends to suggest that none of what we do for the 16 hours we are not in paid employment is not work. What utter nonsense that is. Work is very much a part of life and very much part of what defines us. The trick is to not let it consume us which is not always as easy as it looks. Sometimes it is a struggle to just stay upright. At least I'm not trying to do it on a skatecycle.

April 23, 113/365 (844/1096)- Happy "Thank God It's Film-look Fisheye FUTAB Friday! Seems like half our students on some field trip or another, and many others just stayed home I guess. The ones that are here are all working on video projects quietly so it is a low-maintenance day for the most part.

E-mail on the computer is caught up, attendance is all done, checked my mailbox for important memos, full cup of coffee, etc. . . . life is good! Beautiful almost-summer weather today so the Hawaiian shirt just seemed to work for a Friday :)

I took this shot of the Lions Park's pond in Okanagan Falls just before the rain made me reconsider my life choices. 😂

Athens, GA (Clarke County) Copyright 2010 D. Nelson

I am glad the track has finally reopened after a year-long renovation. It was always my fall-back for the 365. It sure looks pretty now and should provide many daily photos. Today, they had a Relay For Life going on. I presented myself as a cancer survivor because we get in for free, so I could take a few photos.

I went to my one and only Relay For Life in 2006, fresh out of chemo and still quite weak. My friend Barbara urged me to go and she was there as well and we had a great time. It was a very similar evening weather-wise - just perfect. Barbara was 4 years post-treatment at that time. A year later, she recurred, and last October, she passed away. So this event brought back a lot of memories that were really too sad to bear, and I found the relay much less empowering than in 2006. She wouldn't have wanted that but I couldn't help it. I took my photos and left.

Shot on iPhone 5.

On this work trip, I've spent quite a bit of time at Sony Studios - which is the old MGM studio lot. For someone like me who loves old movies, it's cool to stand in building where they filmed Singing in the Rain, or the old school room where Judy Garland did her homework between takes.

But I haven't had much time for photography on this trip - alas, the work schedule has kept me busy.

Anyway, while I was at the studio, we went on set of Masters of Sex - a series staring Michael Sheen about the Masters and Johnson sex researchers. We saw two sets - one is their house, and the other was the brothel - or I guess research lab.

We saw some of the extras walking around - and now I'll have to watch the show when it comes out just because I've been there. No other reason. Really... well...

Not much of a photo but I liked the sign. It's just not clear if this is supposed to be rear end parking...

and clouds unbound by laws.

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