Calories and Protein
As I’ve come to find out recently, I’m eating too few calories. As well as too little protein. Sadly I seem to have no issues getting sodium, which is the one thing I need to lessen. I’m back to logging my meals into Daily Burn, at least until I get a better grasp of what…
Move Your Money
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icqrx0OimSs[/youtube] I’m so glad someone made this movie pulling in “It’s a Wonderful Life”. Craig and I started watching “It’s a Wonderful Life” annually about 4 years ago. For some reason neither of us had really been attracted to it when we were younger. Now having lived through the DotCom crash, 9/11, job losses, credit…
2009 Recap – 2010 Goals
2009 Recap: Turned 30 Been on unemployment/shared work program for 13 months Fought back depression Vacationed in Maine in monsoon season Vacated in New Hampshire in intense humidity Biked the Lincoln Woods Trail (a highlight for the year) Finally bought a TV Established some new friendships, that I hope will last a while Partnered with…
When Life Gives You Lemons…
you make lemonade. More than 130,000 advertising professionals have lost their jobs in this “Great Recession.” Lemonade is about what happens when people who were once paid to be creative in advertising are forced to be creative with their own lives. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJltcT7DH7g[/youtube] Craig and I have talked often over the years of the “what if…
New Year’s Resolution Generator
Need help coming up with resolutions for 2010? Visit the New Year’s Resolution Generator. Personally I never seem to have a problem coming up with a long list of resolutions, my usual over eager self. Of course sticking to those resolutions is a whole other matter. I’ll be following up with a post on New…
Driving Pet Peeves
Let me first address, that I do realize the post before this is about having compassion. I probably should have more compassion for the drivers around me, who knows what insanity they are dealing with or have found no way of dealing with. Before I reach that point of enlightenment though, my list of pet…
Charter for Compassion
As we close a decade marked by war, help us usher in a decade focused on compassion. The names of all affirmers on December 31 will be sent along with the Charter for Compassion to 5 world leaders whose countries are engaged in conflict. What if more people went about their days with this view…
A Jimmy Fallon Christmas
This year, after everything that we’ve been through this year, I could really appreciate this song.
Let It Snow Playa!
The guys over at Film Riot put together this hysterical music video to demonstrate how to create a snowy scene, when you don’t have snow. To see how they made the snow, watch the latest episode.
Merry Christmas Eve
I really miss my Dad this year, as my mother is trying to set me over the edge. The holidays were the one time of year my parents didn’t argue, well actually that should be restated, Christmas eve and day were the only times. I cherish this time of year, and in recent years it…
Craig
My humble and always willing photography subject, Craig. I was showing Ron how the lense worked with depth of field and the expo disc the other night. Craig kindly posed and I snapped this photo. I love the 50mm lense.
Website: Housatonic Friends Meeting
I haven’t shared much of my web design work. The Housatonic Friends Meeting website is based off of the Hemmingway theme for WordPress. Quakers are by a rule simple and plain and my objective was to keep the site that way as well. I integrated a Flickr feed of photos of the meeting house, along…
Serious
My good friend Ron is always fun to take photos of. Especially when we’re doing posed photos, he’s got the dead serious pose down to a science. I shot this with the Canon 50mm 1.8 lense.
Meticulous
While doing errands this morning in the bitter cold, the ideas going through my head were the different items I want to service on my car. It frustrates me to no end that I slacked on keeping the wheels clean over the past 4 years and because of that, brake dust has become caked on.…
Droplets
Dew, originally uploaded by criana. I took this photo in June 2008 at Topsmead State Forest. A good thunderstorm had just rolled through and all the flowers were covered with water droplets. I’ve always wanted to take a photo with a silhouetted flower against a dark back drop. The exposure for the background was low…
Sweetness
, originally uploaded by criana. Jazzmine loves the camera, more specifically she loves to rub the camera, but when ever I take it out, she’s interested. The other morning she was in her usual spot curled up at the end of the bed and I decided to snap some photos. She never moved, only the…
Gifts
Gifts, originally uploaded by criana. I did some quick work for my friend Kevin’s Mercedes-Benz club out in Indiana. In return they sent me these glasses along with two others.
My favorite ornament
Peanuts Ornament, originally uploaded by criana. My childhood neighbor gave this to me around 1990. It has become my favorite ornament, I look forward to putting on the tree each year.
Rainy Newport
A few weekends ago, we had finally set a date for our [Kelly, Debbie and myself] 30th birthday weekend away. It should be noted our birthdays are all in February and March. It has taken this long to get everyone’s schedules together. Just before the trip Kelly had to back out due to having contracted…
Happy Thanksgiving
This year I was thankful for having a job, being able to spend my life with my best friend, a roof over my head that I even like living in, a car that runs even at 163K miles and being able to do for a living something I love. What were you grateful for this…
Go Forth
America by Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Centre of equal daughters, equal sons, All, all alike endear’d, grown, ungrown, young or old, Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich, Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love, A grand, sane, towering, seated Mother, Chair’d in the adamant of Time. via (kottke.org)
