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I use them occasionally, not for big things (I am not a great knitter). But some scarves for Lili come out well.
Part of a concertina fold Moleskine sketchbook. Work in progress. My favourite things. Colour pencil
Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in the little things. Charles Simmons
So I've got a goofy grin, I'm trying to get a picture right here. (I blame you, Renee, with nothing but love! :))
I've got my remote in my hand there, and my camera is precariously perched up on my speaker, using the wireless modem to aim it down. Glasses on since I should have been in bed, oh, and hour ago.
Anyhow, ten things:
1) I'm the oldest of four kids.
2) I would have had an older brother, but he died as an infant. I often wonder how my life would be different and what it would be like to have an older sibling. For my siblings, that's me I guess.
3) I've been married and divorced already. I'm the first one in my family to get divorced. I wear it around as a little mark of shame sometimes. Sometimes I miss her, but then I remind myself how miserable I was (and, truthfully, how miserable I made her). I guess you never really get over this sort of thing, do you?
4) I'm never happy with what I have and image matters a lot more to me than I wish it did sometimes, though you wouldn't be able to tell by looking at my car, my clothes, my hair (Which I haven't combed in years, not like it's going to matter much longer...). For instance, I desperately want to get up on Explore... I think I've got one that might make it... it's going up tonight as soon as I finish this!!!
5) The person I admire the most is my father. He works hard, loves his family, and still manages to lead an interesting life. He's got more hobbies than me.
6) I was, for one semester in college, an elementary ed major. I wanted to work with kids until four years at a daycare ruined it for me. I love the kids most of the time (usually more than I love the parents).
7) Whenever I discover a new hobby, I get really obsessed with it, and invariably it's got something to do with art. Photography is just the latest one. There's been guitar, stereos (well I guess that's art and technology)...
8) The saddest thing in the world, to me, is friends drifting apart over time.
9) The most heartening thing in the world is being able to pick right up where you left off years later with an old friend like nothing changed.
10) I develop crushes easily and there are countless girls... dozens maybe... that I never told that I liked them.
11) Sometimes I cheat if I'm not done with my story.
Ten taggers:
dreamcatcher.crb for bringing me to do this, and for being a fantastic person to confide in and collaborate with. I'm working on something for you...
rakkasan69 for being my friend at all times and photo-outing buddy.
Bub56 for always checking out my stuff and having a kind word
The lately-absent miss L-Bear for her astounding rise to the top in skills
itsalisarose for being my confidant :)
Buy the ticket, take the ride for suffering many long, cold nights at the poo plant with me
Lorac's for her riveting pictures of old machinery and tools that always inspire me to find my own voice
Kat Lily for the always beautiful, sometimes amusing, and without fail strikingly good self-portraits that I wish I could emulate in execution (See this picture for poor, poor example)
NoLoveMoreSincere for almost-but-not-quite cleaning my apartment and for continuing to invite me to things. I promise I'm going to come, I'm just nervous since I don't know anyone.
RDubz for stopping by to say hi now and then... I do notice, thank you.
Same goes for you, PabloLopez26.
Yeah, so that's eight.
GTD tools of the trade.
Close-up of my custom made GTD tickler file. Basically a bunch of transparent folders with tabs stapled together. I'm using 31 folded sheets of A4 paper (colored) to represent the folder for each day in a month. I usually store the whole tickler in a leather folder and carry it with me.
Another fun evening spent with the ABC Players last night at Stuart's Opera House. Marriage has never been so complicated and funny! May 9 -12 at Stuart's...Don't miss it!!!
then everything changed, another battle to fight
People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range
I used to care, but things have changed
A worried man with a worried mind
No one in front of me and nothing behind
Bob Dylan
Hawkins, 1983. The young boy Will Byers vanishes mysteriously. His mother, Joyce and the Police Chief Jim Hopper start to investigate – and so do the friends of Will: Mike, Lucas and Dustin. The children meet a girl, Eleven, who has psychokinetic abilities and joins the boys’ team to fight together against the Demogorgon.
Relive the moments of Netflix’s Stranger Things with this modular LEGO creation. Find and save Will in the Upside Down with Jim. See Joyce taking off the receiver under the Christmas decoration lights. Face the terrifying Demogorgon with El and separate again the dimensions of our world.
This creation has two moduls. The first one is the real world with the back of Byers’ house and behind it with Will’s mini lodge, the Byers Castle. The second modul is the parallel and desolate dimension, the world of the Demogorgon.
There are seven minifigures included in this creation: Will Buyers, Mike Wheeler, Lucas Sinclair, Dustin Henderson, Eleven, Joyce Byers and Jim Hopper. And of course, a brick-built Demogorgon.
Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I’m gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you’re gonna fall apart. The cells and organs and systems that make you you—they came together, grew together, and so must fall apart. The Buddha knew one thing science didn’t prove for millennia after his death: Entropy increases. Things fall apart.
-John Green
Three things in this view at Altoona that cannot be repeated: One, the SD60 variant still in blue paint nearly 10 years after Norfolk Southern and CSX acquired their respective portions of Conrail. Two, the PRR position-light signals protecting the interlocking. And three, the venerable Alto Tower, in continuous service for more than a century and retired along with the signals, now just a vacant trackside hulk.
Ok, I was tagged by I think everyone in my contact list haha! Old pic, but here goes! I tag....
1. I'm extremely self conscious about me and everything I do.
2. I'll be 29 next month and not sure I'm looking forward to it.
3. I'm obsessed with street graffiti and lowbrow art.
4. I've worn glasses since 1991.
5. I have a severe phobia of the dentist, severe. My wisdom teeth tried coming in and cracked 5 of my molars... 4 are now missing because of it.
6. One of my favorite things in the world is my cat Cha Cha.
7. I love documentaries, independent and foreign films.
8. I believe my calling is life is to be a toy designer, just wish I had more time to make plush and plastic.
9. I'm currently working on a plush book, slowly. But recently had some good luck and have my fingers crossed.
10. My favorite music is Radiohead, Bjork and Damien Rice.
11. I'm obsessed with art by Jeff Soto and Buff Monster.
12. Most of my customs, plush and art is inspired by street graffiti.
13. I love color but my wardrobe consists of black tee's, jeans and black flip flops. I hate wearing color.
14. I'm addicted to iced chai and chocolate milk, it's sickening. haha!
15. My dream when I was younger was to be a Paleontologist but never stayed in college.
16. I am a big hippie :)
17. I used to paint a LOT but stopped when my hands began to shake. Everyone once in a while I will have a good day and can paint.
18. I have self taught myself in everything I do from sewing to knitting.
19. Stupid people make me cringe and I HATE when I see people use the term FML (f* my life).
20. I am not religious or spiritual but would like to one day find something that makes sense to me.
mallory is so cute in a FORAGE lady bow tie:
mallorymakesthings.blogspot.com/2011/08/wardrobe-pictures...
1. I've made it to day 50 of the 365 project. I'm pretty proud of myself, and I'm as motivated as ever to finish.
2. I was tagged by .violaine. who has some pretty cool photos so you should check her out.
3. I have a lump on the top of my head that i lovingly call "my horn."
4. Sometimes I think about how much better off the earth would be without people.
5. Around 1:00 in the afternoon during the wintertime, the sun reflects off of a building and into my office. I like to close my eyes and feel the sun's warmth on my face
6. My oldest friend is a stuffed rabbit named Veronica Brownie
7. my flickrname comes from my birthstone and the fact that I don't consider myself a professional photographer at all. And I probably never will.
8. I have an insatiable sweet tooth.
9. Someday I want to have a really deep bathtub so I can take bubble baths without my knees sticking up.
10. I take poor care of my nails.
11. "I found the secret to life. I'm Ok when everything is not OK."
12. I hate wearing shoes with a heel.
13. I'm going to try to write a few songs this year. That's my resolution. I could resolve to loose weight, but I do that every year, and it never really happens.
14. I don't have the desire to give birth. If there is ever a time in my life I want a kid, I will adopt one old enough to have a conversation with. Babies for the most part freak the hell out of me.
15. I have a good relationship with my parents.
16. I've been to Asia three times, and I'd love to go back someday.
Hawkins, 1983. The young boy Will Byers vanishes mysteriously. His mother, Joyce and the Police Chief Jim Hopper start to investigate – and so do the friends of Will: Mike, Lucas and Dustin. The children meet a girl, Eleven, who has psychokinetic abilities and joins the boys’ team to fight together against the Demogorgon.
Relive the moments of Netflix’s Stranger Things with this modular LEGO creation. Find and save Will in the Upside Down with Jim. See Joyce taking off the receiver under the Christmas decoration lights. Face the terrifying Demogorgon with El and separate again the dimensions of our world.
This creation has two moduls. The first one is the real world with the back of Byers’ house and behind it with Will’s mini lodge, the Byers Castle. The second modul is the parallel and desolate dimension, the world of the Demogorgon.
There are seven minifigures included in this creation: Will Buyers, Mike Wheeler, Lucas Sinclair, Dustin Henderson, Eleven, Joyce Byers and Jim Hopper. And of course, a brick-built Demogorgon.
I've been tagged by Rose but won't tag anyone back as most of my contacts have already done this. So here goes
1. I am the biggest Bruce Sprinsteen fan and once spent £200 on a ticket to see him in concert.
2. My favourite colour is pink.
3. My middle name is Gabriel. It's also my Mum's middle name and was my Nan's maiden name so it's a little bit of family history being passed along.
4. All the drinks I love best begin with a "C" - Champagne, Campari, Cosmolitans, Cocktails.
5. I have suffered from insomnia from about the age of 6 and find people who fall asleep as soon as their heads touch the pillow very annoying!
6. Every year I reread my favourite novel "The Summer Before" by Patricia Windsor.
7. My ideal man would be Michael Portillo - handsome, intelligent and a sense of humour, the perfect combination.
8. I often find things hysterically funny when no one else is laughing.
9. Last summer I spent some of my redundancy money on Gastric Band surgery and have since lost 7 stones. The best thing I ever did.
10. I love swimming and do my best thinking whilst ploughing up and down a pool.
11. I started writing a diary in January 1974 and have done so ever since and kept them all.
12. For 10 years I couldn't afford a holiday and now try to go somewhere interesting at least once a year.
13. If I could buy anything, I would my my old flat back that I sold last year and regretted ever since.
14. I would love to have lived in the 1920's and 30's. I love the clothes, the shoes, the cars, everything.
15. I am a real worrier and pessimist and live by the rule "Always expect the worst and you never get disappointed". Sad but true.
16. Meeting new friends on Flickr helped me through a really bad time when my Dad was terminally ill and I'd moved to an area where I didn't know anyone and life sucked. Thanks everyone!
Things Remembered
12300 Jefferson Avenue, Suite 609, Patrick Henry Mall, Newport News, VA
This location opened in the late 2000s and relocated here in 2016; it was previously a Levin's of Virginia/Levin's Brass Beds. It became part of Kids Foot Locker in 2016.