Yeah, I totally know that I neglect this blog, but show me a blog that isn’t a little neglected from time to time. Anyway, I ‘m working on some stuff to revamp this site and doing some behind-the-scenes stuff. Anyway, I just wanted to pop in and let yu know I’m alive and give yu some highlights of what you can expect in the next few weeks…

• I will tell you all about the awesome stuff I get at our Farmer’s Market.
• You will some super-cute pictures of a baby who’s probably being born, like, now. (And of course they’ll be cute because all babies are cute!)
• You will see a better picture of who I am and what I am doing now in the site design and interface.
• There will be an emo post about the Olympics.
• I will have pics of my Smart car and our 74 VW Beetle to share.
• I will finally get around to doing a couple more “Things I am glad I bought” posts. Might be some things to make your life easier.

Anyway, keep checking back or you could always subscribe by email or your favorite RSS reader by clicking here!

Oh, and there will be cute kitty pictures as always. I have a ton of cute ones that I’ll update in my galleries.

I figured I would add a quick pic, so here’s one from my webcam in Photo Booth where I was pretending to fly using my wonderful shawl from my mother-in-law as a cape. And of course I am wearing Hamburglar stripes.

Today was Rob’s 33rd birthday. We spent the morning having our DirecTV fixed by a wonderful tech named Frank. After the storms (I really don’t know which storm, but I am assuming it was the storm after the flooding sometime and probably the same storm in which our wireless router got fried) both of my receivers stopped working so I have been relying on Hulu to get my Shear Genius and Baby Borrowers fixes. Today, Frank installed a HD DVR and life is getting back to normal.

Anyway, after Frank left, Rob suggested leftover pizza for lunch and I countered since it was his birthday, we should go out to the Cheesecake Factory. So, off to the mall it was after a much-needed shower by yours truly. We sat outside, had a nice waiter and they brought out his Peanut Butter Cup cheesecake with confetti sprinkles and “Happy Birthday Rob” written in chocolate sauce with a candle. We took the 1974 SuperBeetle convertible that my dad so generously is loaning us for the summer (there’ll be a separate post with pics in the semi-near future) up to the Fashion Mall and had a nice late lunch and bought Rob some new kicks. I call them his driving shoes because they have thin soles so he can really feel the mechanics of the stick-shift Beetle and where the clutch actually kicks in. I have always worn thin-soled shoes when driving stick shift vehicles because it is something ingrained in me by The Wag at Frick’s Driving School in Mishwaka where I took driver’s ed eons ago. Anyway, it was raining in Anthropologie and the store was closed (I am assuming as a result of yesterday’s downpours), and we stopped in the Sharper Image- which is going out of business that advertises 50-70% off, but is really just normal prices because they mark it up before they mark it down- and laughed at the prices and what was left.

After we left, it was off to the Urgent Care for me as I am developing an ear infection which I just thought was from sleeping weird and maybe with my hand under my head (sometimes I do this and I wake up with a sore ear) until I noticed the right side of my throat hurt when I was swallowing. Just prior to 6 PM must be the perfect time to get to the Urgent Care because I was checked in without a wait and when I came back out to meet Rob the waiting room was full. I guess people get home, eat, and then go to the doctor. After that it was off to CVS where this lady told me I looked so happy and healthy and commented that the car probably contributed to that (which is totally true- it is like Prozac riding around in that thing).

Then I got home and watched some TV, ate some Parmesan breadsticks from Papa John’s (seriously the best breadsticks from a chain pizza place ever available), and saw that my cousin April started a blog about my Grandma and her paintings. That chick is so stinkin’ cool. It’s always cool when you grow up and you realize there are people in your family that you have stuff in common with and you’d probably want to be friends with them even if you weren’t related.

So, it was a good day. And because I’m not leaving you with a photo, I do want to leave you with this super cute doggy video. I could watch this guy’s YouTube video’s all day:

Yes, I like this Jesse McCartney song “Leavin’”.  Although it’s weird to me that he references a Gulfstream G5 Jet and that we’re in a culture where lots of people know what that is. Nevermind, I guess people know what 737’s and whatnot are, so I guess it’s not TOTALLY weird.  Anyway, this video makes me feel 14 again.

And here’s a weird fact for you: this kid also wrote the Leona Lewis song “Bleeding Love” with that dude from that OneRepublic (”Apologize”) band.

And tonight Rob had to come in my office and tell me to keep it down because I was dancing around to this song by the Ting Tings- “That’s Not My Name”. It makes me happy:

Well I got a new computer and a new webcam this week, so I figured I’d give you a video installment of Stuff I Learned or Did This Week.  Actually, it’s more of a reflection on change and cycles and a couple things I learned.  Next time, I promise not to babble so long (5:43 yikes!).  The videos kind of weird.  I should probably get a different program for that in the future.  But for now you can just pretend like you’re on the phone with me and I’m talking your ear off or something.  My next videos won’t be so surreal looking and slow-mo.

Anyway, enjoy!

So, we were in Chicago for a couple days. I had a photography seminar yesterday and Rob shopped while I was out.  It was a great seminar with Corey McNabb and Amber Holritz, and as a bonus I got to meet another photographer whose work I love. Samantha Uphold, she’s in my blogroll on my site over here.  While I was in the seminar, Rob shopped for records and even ended up with a T-Shirt based on a Blue Note album that looks super cool.

Then I met my girl Blagica for a drink at the hotel bar before going off with the photo group and having dinner at the Billy Goat Tavern (Cheezborger Cheezborger from SNL). As much as I enjoyed dinner with the photo group, I could have talked to Blagica for like 6 more hours. Oh well, we’ll catch up more later. But it was kind of weird because we so share a brain on some things.

Dinner was a good time and the drinks at the Billy Goat are strong, so be warned. Then we walked back on the beautiful Chicago night.

Rob and I just finished some room service breakfast and now we’re going to head back to Indy.

We missed seeing Jenny and Dave.  But we’ll be back up soon.  Rob has more record shopping to do.

Tonight I met with my group for one of my classes.  It was so helpful to just think out loud together and talk our way through our ideas and feed off each other’s energy.  Compared to last semester, this group experience is much better.  My group last semester was kind of reluctant to meeting and when we did meet, it was really just to approve things we had done on our own.  The gals I’m working with this semester are smart gals and very easy to work with.  Tonight we met and figured out who was doing what, discussed our vision for each section so that we are all on the same page, and figured out when to meet next.  It was just so much easier than going back and forth via email.

Personally, I’ve always preferred human interaction over electronic even though I am tech savvy.  I’d much rather catch up with someone over the phone or in person rather than via email.  

I promise I will have a normal blog post for you later.  Right now it’s off to the IUPUI library to meet with my group for a project.

But for now, you can admire this very cliche punk rock bathroom picture of yours truly.  In black and white AND color.  And if anyone reading this could just test my comments for me (I had to mess with them earlier) and let me know if they’re working OK that’d be great.  And if they’re not, tell me what browser you’re on.

Even though I have been eating better and taking better care of myself than in the past, this year I got sick more times than in the past two combined.  I don’t know if it’s the adjusting to living with someone again or what, but I am on what I feel like is my 3rd or 4th cold this year.  And I don’t feel like it’s just me.  I feel like tons of my friends have been sick multiple times and there always seems to be something “going around”.

I was just reading and it doesn’t seem that there isn’t a superbug connection for antibacterial stuff anymore (but we can’t for get all the antibiotics we get through our food supply), so I can’t blame you germ freaks.  

Now, I’m off to bed since I have the Benadryl eyes-rolling-back-in-my-head-because-I’m-so-drowsy.

I am happy to show you my new (old) blog. I just upgraded Wordpress to 2.5.  Also found a newer version of my old theme which isn’t all busted.  If you do notice anything weird, hit the contact link above and let me know or just comment on this post.   

I’ll post a pic so you have something to look at:

Did you see the Peep Show???