A Photo and A Thought A Day

Days 31-43

2008-06-13T00:00:00.000-07:00

Woo I am way behind on this. I've been so spaced out lately. So I'm only going to post my favorites from the past couple weeks. One more update and I should be caught up.

End of May (the 30th)

Day 35: The Ex

June 1st, a new month!

Day 37: Lights, Explosion, Confetti!

Day 40: Sky Lines

Day 43: Fantasy 10

Woo that's it for now, I think I only have maybe another 5 or 6 photos to post tomorrow to catch up? Then I'll start writing a little more about each photo. When I wait too long, I forget what happened each day ;_; Which kind of defeats the purpose but..well..you know. I'm trying at least.

Days 28-30

2008-05-25T11:34:00.001-07:00

Again, I got lazy/drunk and have not posted daily. But I am really, really happy with the photos from the last couple of days. So it all evens out I guess.

Day 28: Maya & Sebastian (I & II)

Maya is the black cat and Sebastian is the gray one. I couldn't just have a photo of one of them up, they're a pair :) It's still a little tough for me no, neither of them can replace Nala for me. For those who don't know, my cat Nala was one of the unfortunate victims of the poisoned Iambs cat food. We eventually had to put her down because she was very unhappy, and in order to live would need very painful treatment everyday of her life. She was only 12.

I don't think I ever cried so hard in my entire life as I did when they put her down. My family got Nala when I was about 6, and it's hard to remember a time when she wasn't around. She was faithful like a dog, she would follow you around the house mewing until you sat down so she could curl up next to you. I miss her like hell. I love you Nala, wherever you are.

Day 29: Drunk Days

I went over Vince's for some beer and Guitar Hero. It was madness/Sparta! We tried to get the other two from the old art table group (Jimmy and Bonnie) however they were not available. Andrew said I was his favorite drunk person, and Vince commented that Andrew was the only one in the room who liked girls. Note: Out of the 5 people there, I was the only girl. WE played some drunk Halo 3 as well, but I was not terribly good at that. I still beat out a couple people on live though. I wanted to grab the headset and yell, YOU WERE BEATEN BY A GIRL! But Vince broke it. Oops.

Day 30: To Write Love On Her Arms

This photo is in honor of an event that is occurring today (and for the rest of the week). For the full story, visit TWLOHA.com. The basic gist is to write the word "Love" on your arms in any language to promote awareness of teen depression and suicide. I'm not sure if I will participate all week, but a day I can do.

Now that my sleep schedule is back on track it should be easier to update. No promises though, because I am a severe procrastinator.

Days 22-27

2008-05-22T22:27:00.000-07:00

Hoo boy, I got a little backed up again. But here it is, 5 photos for the week!

Day 22: Night Books

Day 23: Watch It Come Clearer

The above title is from a BNL song. Do you know which one it is? I was not feeling well that day...

Day 24: Retro-Fitted

This is my favorite for the week. Even if the dress didn't look good on me, it looked great in the photo.

Day 25: Meh

I hate this photo. I wish I had taken another one for the day but I didn't. I was out late that night and almost forgot to take a photo, this is the result.

Day 26: Axe of Might

I am a nerd, and this is a good way to show it. Too much Rock Band/Guitar Hero this week.

Day 27: Climbing Rocks

Angie and I went rock climbing together. It's been a while, I missed my best friend :)

That's all for now, tune in next time for more mediocre photography.

Day 21

2008-05-16T22:23:00.000-07:00

I feel much better today! I spent most of the day being dragged around the city so my sister could see doctors, but the news was good and I got to eat lots of good food so it was a happy ending! I wanted to use a photo of a lamp from inside Carmine's, but the lighting was low and I couldn't keep my hands steady enough for a clear shot (damn slower shutter speeds!) However I saw this couple walking down the street in the rain and it just kind of struck me.

Day 21: You Can Never Steal Our Love

You Can Never Steal Our Love (Remix)

This is the shopped version which I like much better, but I thought I'd include the original photo since P365 is about straight photography. I just can't help playing with my photos a little :)

I wish I'd taken a photo later in the day too, since I got to go out for ice cream with Ledd, Art, and Craig and it was way awesome! Today was a good day, w00t!

Day 20: Candy Shop

2008-05-15T20:19:00.000-07:00

I know it looks like I skipped Day 19, but the photo is in the webshots album. I just didn't feel like posting it for a number of reasons.

Day 20: Candy Shop

I'm really not in the mood to write anything.

Day 18

2008-05-14T13:58:00.000-07:00

Here we go, now that summer has started I can really get into the swing of things.

Day 18: The View from Here

To be honest I don't like this photo very much. I wanted to take another one but didn't have time.

I guess it's appropriate. My perspective lately has been less than ideal. I need to get myself focused and calm again, and not let the other people of the world taint my happiness. Because I like being happy, dammit!

Anyway, I shall post today's photo later in the day. After all, the day is young.

Day 17 aka I'm a big liar

2008-05-12T22:38:00.000-07:00

I was going to wait til the morning to post this photo but..I got anxious.

So here it is, for your viewing pleasure.

Day 17: Folded Roses

I tweaked this a bit in photoshop, but it needed it and looks damn good if I say so myself :)

Days 8-16

2008-05-12T22:03:00.000-07:00

I'm not going to post them all here because I don't want it to be too photo heavy. I will post the latest two for now, even though they're not technically the latest, just the newest I've uploaded.

Yes, I got a little unfaithful and skipped a week. However, finals became my priority and I don't regret losing a week of photos to prevent myself from failing.

So for your viewing pleasure, Days 15 and 16. If you want to see the rest, click on Day 16 and just cycle through the rest of the month. Click on one of the old April photos to get to my April Webshots album and see the last 3 for that month.

Day 15: Neon Tangle

Day 16: Night Time

Tomorrow (later today I guess) I should have time to post Monday and Tuesday photos. That's all for now, kids.

Days 3-7

2008-04-27T13:31:00.000-07:00

Super update time! Finals are stealing my time, so I'll make this really quick.

Day 3: Broken Glass

Day 4: Video Hands

Day 5: Midnight Rendez-Vous

Day 6: Love Infinity

Day 7: April Flower

More updates later after all of my school things are finished!

Day 2 AKA Da Moon Rules Number 1!

2008-04-21T21:37:00.000-07:00

Hun out with Mikey G, late night at Applebees! The moon had a gorgeous halo around it, of course my camera is not a professional one but I'd say this is still a halfway decent shot.

I feel better today, overall.

Take Two: Project 365 Day 1

2008-04-20T21:37:00.000-07:00

Armed with my new camera courtesy of woot.com, I am ready to begin anew. I'll try to stay as faithful as possible to this, because I need to focus on something, anything, to get my mind off of life for a bit. Here is Day 1.

Shooting Star

A new beginning for a lot of things. Just had a mutual break up but I don't want it to bring me down. I need to set myself free of the fears in life that hold me back.

*sigh* It's a lot of big talk, but it will take more work than I can bear right now. I have such mixed feelings about everything right now....

Epilogue

2007-11-10T18:37:00.000-08:00

Mmm maybe more of a prologue I guess. I know my Project is on standby, but I thought I'd post a link to my older photos for people who haven't seen them. They're a couple years old and it makes me feel like I was a better photographer then. ;_; Oh well.

shutterCLICK.

Ooops that was just practice guys

2007-11-05T19:16:00.000-08:00

My Project 365 must be put on hold cuz the ghost of Bonnie's camera decided to move into my camera. AKA, it's broke. Hopefully I'll have a new one by the new year, and can start again.

Until then, downstreet on the flip flop timepants.

Days 12-19

2007-11-01T09:57:00.001-07:00

Ok, so I'm still lagging a little but I should be able to fully finish my update tomorrow. I really need to catch up because I already forgot the photo-unrelated stuff that happened on each day for these photos! I have such a terrible memory :(

October 20, 2007

October 21, 2007

October 22, 2007

October 23, 2007

This photo means more to me than you'd think. It was taken on campus and it's a big deal to me because in all honesty it''s when I finally got all my shit together and started going to class regularly again. There was a lot of stuff dragging me down the past couple weeks and I was finally able to let go and live normally again.

October 24, 2007

I almost used a different picture for this (oen of me all moopey, soaking wet and sitting outside my apartment building). Today I locked my keys in my apartment and had to RUN to the school because I had a test in class that day. It was raining like crazy. This is the back entrance of the school after I got out of class. I ended up waiting for Angie to come home like 3 hours later, and just hung out with my neighber Stu downstairs, smoking and watching TV.

October 25, 2007

This is my picture of the shelves by the door of my old room at home. There's a whole lot of memories in this photo. The USSBA trophy from my senior year of marching band as undefeated champs, the silver spoon I stole from the Fireman's Dinner with Zach, Princess Leia and Juggernaut from Corey, my tassels from Copeland and Morris Hills, a Face First and Over It pin (each respectively from the first time I saw each band), Bonnie's bottle of water and sand she got me from Mexico freshman year of high school, a candle from senior prom my junior year, mardi gras beads from junior prom my sophomore year, the Patrick that Zach won for me after prom (only cuz Bonnie won me a Care Bear first) and the Apu toy from Burger King that I got my freshman year in marching band. On the shelf below is just a bunch of comic books and old awards that my parents framed.

October 26, 2007

Another Avatar night. I took this right before going to work. I had to work until ten but I went straight to Brendan's where we watched Avatar and some Halo 3 was played.

October 27, 2007

I had some people over for video games, Halloween-ness, and beers. Here we have Adam, one of the 300 Spartans, and Mr. Brendan Fay rocking out some Pa Rappa the Rapper. Good times were had by all.

That's it for now, I'll probably be updating tomorrow with the rest (another 5 days of photos!) then I'll be all caught up. Yaaaaay!

Days 7-11

2007-10-23T15:49:00.000-07:00

I'm still trying to catch up a little bit here. I only have time to post a few photos, since my camera eats batteries like a fat kid eats cake. So, here's my next installment.

October 15, 2007

My first day working at the calendar kiosk. I thought I'd take a picture of the floor at the mall, since they are ripping it all out. Those tiles have been there since I moved to the town, I remember playing stepping games on them (like only stepping on the small ones) when I was a kid. Plus now I have a picture of my favorite shoes, which are slowly dying on me.

October 16, 2007

This is the beginning of the Halloween decorations at the apartment. I'm going to try to take one picture out the window every month or so, so that I can see the seasons change. Already, most of the leaves are yellow and orange now, unlike the photo.

October 17, 2007

This is a statue my mom has in the house. It's Quan Yin, the Buddhist goddess of mercy and compassion. It's not real metal, but it is gorgeous. I photoshopped the background a little bit. Now the statue looks like it's glowing. I actually ended up going to the Office tonight to hang out, which I haven't done in a while. It was pretty fun.

October 18, 2007

I took a lot of pictures of home, because I was home so much. I like the connected pattern, since this day I connected with some old friends. Went out to lunch with Colin, then had dinner with Corey at Applebee's (where Colin was working). Corey texted Colin and had him come out with the staff to sing me happy birthday. It wasn't my birthday, but who passes up free cake?

October 19, 2007

This was Avatar Night. Jamie's sister Ivy was over trying to write some really important paper for her PhD. We were gonna go out and see a movie, but Brendan and Adam got caught up in a computer game and I was hooked on Every Extra Extend Extreme. I got the Chain Wizard achievement for Brendan (meaning I got a chain of 2000 explosions).

Whew, now I'm only five days behind; hopefully I'll be able to upload the last 6 photos tomorrow and be all caught up! Not having a computer is a huge pain.

Lately I've been listening to a lot of Straylight Run. It helps me get through hard times, because a lot of the music is about learning to make mistakes and move on. Kind of inspirational for me I guess. Hopefully things will get easier once I have health insurance again...

Days 4, 5 & 6

2007-10-17T07:40:00.000-07:00

I'm not completely caught up yet...this time, the batteries in my camera ran out before I could upload all the photos. Whoops. Oh well. Here's the next installment of my Project 365.

*Five Minutes Later*

Well webshots is being a total bitch today and not letting me do preview thumbnails in anything larger than 100 pixels. So, tiny photos it is!

October 12, 2007

Fridays are Avatar days, but I brought my knitting along this time. Someday, it will be a scarf. I got to see a run of Portal (from the Orange Box) and it is one of the most brilliant games I've seen this year. It's innovative, funny, and opens up a new genre of "first person puzzler."

October 13, 2007

This is at Bill's, he's sharpening an ax! I thought the way the sparks split was pretty cool. That night, we had a fire with hot dogs and marshmallows and beer. Bonnie decided to have a phone conversation in the kid's playhouse, and I got stuck in the tire swing. It was pretty awesome.

October 14, 2007

This is...after midnight at our fire party. If you didn't guess, it's the fire.

Hopefully I'll have the other pictures up soon. I'm running out of money for things like batteries, and Bonnie has my rechargeables (still). The point of the story is, I am exhausted because there was an unexplained, constant thumping noise coming from the apartment below me (I think, either that or from my next door neighbor Amy). Amy was also playing the violin, LOUDLY, at about 5 am. It was not a good night's rest. You'd think plaster walls would mute the sound a little....

Intermission

2007-10-16T15:20:00.000-07:00

So I was all set to post like 5 photos today, but then I got to a computer and lo and behold! I can't find my USB cable (again). So the next update will be like 6 or 7 photo. Don't think I've given up on this! No matter how much the circumstances are against me, I'm gonna keep at it! Eat that, bad luck!

Days 2 & 3

2007-10-11T11:15:00.000-07:00

I've been having trouble posting the past couple of days for a few reasons.

1. My computer's main fan is broken and

2. I misplaced the USB cable for my camera

In retrospect, for Day 1 I wish I had taken a picture of Corey playing with magnets at Starbucks. We went to get a cup of coffee in Denville and he noticed that I had this little cylinder-shaped magnets hanging from my car's sun visor (Mac gave them to me to play with while I was working at Luna). They are some powerful little magnets. He was making them into all sorts of shapes and stuff, like the tiny magnetic robot. It was pretty funny.

But that's all behind us now, let's go on to Days 2 and 3 of Project 365.

October 10, 2007

I was reading Nabakov's Lolita when I heard an odd series of bangs. I was hoping that people weren't shooting each other at the bar across the street. I couldn't see anything from my windows, so I went back to reading for a little bit, then finally decided to take a look outside and see what was going on. Turns out there were some fireworks going on pretty much right behind my apartment complex. It could have been for Montclair State's 100th anniversary or whatever, but I'm not really sure. Anyway, a bunch of people from the complex went outside to watch and it was pretty cool.

October 11, 2007

This one is for today. I woke up kind of late and even more confused. I had been up late the night before knitting (I know, I'm a nerd) but not late enough to sleep through my alarm. I rolled over to see that my clock wasn't on. In fact, nothing was on because there was a brown out.

Since I didn't have any electronics available at the apartment, I just kind of tooled around on my guitar for a while. It was actually my mom's originally, but it's a beautiful instrument and I love it (even if it is a little big for me). I don't know why, but for some reason I always find musical instruments very photogenic.

That's it for today. Three days down, 362 to go (or maybe really 363, since this coming year will be a leap year).

Day 1

2007-10-09T08:34:00.000-07:00

This is the beginning of my personal Project 365. In addition to having a place to write down my thoughts about the day, this is going to be my place to post my one photo a day. I may not have the time to post every single day, but I will always date my photos and try to post them all. At the end of each month, I'm going to print out my one-a-day photos and put them in a photo album.

This is a new opportunity for me to have, even for a short period of time, a solid goal to strive for. A friend told me last night that it's easy to feel lost without a solid goal. I've always tried not to set goals for myself so i wouldn't feel stressed or pressured to achieve them, but now I realized my stress comes from not having goals at all.

I hope this project gives me a sense of direction.

10.11.2007 Update: Here is my Day 1 Photo

It was supposed to be at a campfire with Bill. We were going to start our projects together with the same type of picture, so we could see how our lives later divurged. But it was not to be! It rained like crazy that night.