After a few Jedi Mind Tricks, a friend convinced me that since this is such an important trip to me (and it is, really something I feel like I've been waiting for forever) that I should document it on sort of a Travelblog. I pretended to resist the idea, but once the name emerged it was all I could do to contain my excitement over the idea. I was planning on just uploading photos and jotting down notes about them on Flickr or here, but this is a MUCH better idea. I love the thought of having a space designated just for the trip.
Thus, Just for Paris was born. :-) I really cannot wait. 22 weeks!
Yesterday was actually a pretty mild summer day here in Georgia. Which was nice since I had an outdoor engagement session. lol
The session was up in Gainesville, Georgia and it was with my 08.08.08 couple. They are incredibly sweet people and I have no doubt we're going to have a great time at their wedding. We were supposed to get together for their session last week, but the weather was lousy at best. So I met them at their church yesterday and the weather was just beautiful.
While I normally delete e-mail humor with a sort of mad glee, I couldn't help but smirk at this...
Thoughts from across the pond
An email from Ireland to the brethren in the States...a point to ponder despite your political affiliation:
"We, in Ireland, can't figure out why people are even bothering to hold an election in the United States.
On one side, you have a pants wearing lawyer, married to a lawyer who can't keep his pants on, who just lost a long and heated primary against a lawyer who goes to the wrong church who is married to yet another lawyer who doesn't even like the country her husband wants to run.
Now...On the other side, you have a nice old war hero whose name starts with the appropriate Mc terminology, married to a good looking younger woman who owns a beer distributorship.
What in Lords name are ye lads thinking over there in the colonies??"
It is a valid point. Happy Thursday, everyone! :-)
Share a picture taken underwater.
Submitted by jacolily.
Does this count? :-)
I always liked the way this turned out. And that I didn't drown my camera in the process.
You know, I don't care which side of the fence you sit on: pro-choice, pro-life, don't care, waiting to see so you can decide what's popular, whatever.
But you know what? I did NOT need to f*&king see poster-sized blow-up photos of bloody parts on my drive in to work this morning. In fact, I don't need to see them ever.
I know people feel really strongly about it all, I do. I get it. I feel strongly about lots of things...but I damned sure don't print up giant photos of it and shove it in your face as you drive down Piedmont on your way to work.
WTF is wrong with people? GUH.
Although we typically post on Team Vox to let you know about things that are going on with Vox (to, uh, state the obvious), once in a while, we like to let you know about other cool things that are happening around the blogosphere. And we think the idea of four hilarious mommy bloggers traveling across the U.S. on their way to the BlogHer '08 conference - all the while blogging and video blogging the journey - is one trip you will not want to miss.
Four adventurous bloggers from the Silicon Valley Moms Group were selected to participate in the Summer Road Trip '08 and blog about their travels, hotel stays, media appearances, time away from their families, and life on the road. Six Apart helped them partner up with General Motors, who provided the blogging mommies with a Chevy Tahoe Hybrid SUV to help make their journey comfy, safe, and a little more green.
In case you're not familiar with them, SV Moms is a group of over 200 bloggers who showcase the ups, downs, outrages, struggles, victories, and everyday humor of motherhood. There are currently nine regional and demographically tailored sites that give mothers from D.C., New Jersey, the Deep South, Rocky Mountains, L.A., and Silicon Valley a powerful voice and sense of camaraderie across the country. Whether you're a mother, a child, or just a person who enjoys a good blog, you'll really love reading the words of these amazing women.
The moms buckled into their Chevy Tahoe Hybrid SUV on July 11th and even got an encouraging message from Katie Couric to kick things off! They are currently somewhere in the middle of America making their way to San Francisco where they'll attend an SV Moms Group Party, as well as BlogHer '08.
You do not want to miss these entertaining and irreverent bloggers -- or their spontaneous contest giveaways! -- as they blog from the road. Experience the journey at MomRoadTrip.com.
And let us know about your summer road trip - or plane/boat/bus trip - in the comments! (I like to live vicariously.)
Love:
Having my car back and fixed.
The weather taking a cooling turn.
Some color on my skin finally.
Nothing to do right after work tonight.
Good leftovers for my lunch today.
Starting a new book.
M's excitement over losing her 2nd tooth.
Loathes:
Aching all the time.
Stressing about money and the unknown.
Having to be at work today.
Being so tired all the time.
I can't believe that the day I have been planning for for so long finally is here and is now over!
Jenna, again, was a perfect abaay. She ate, She slept. That's it. She is a GREAT baby. Oh. And she slept throught the night! From 11pm - 7am (when I woke her up!). It was Saturday night - Sunday morning...so she would have been nearly 5 weeks and 1 day! Five weeks old and sleeping all night long? I am a lucky Mommy!
It was so awesome seeing all of our family. My side was there (well, some of them), Jasons Moms and Dads side was there as well! I have to say that this is, by FAR, the best party we have given (even though I hardly found any moment to sit..)
The Jumpy Castle was a huge success. Renting that was one of my proudest Mommy moments...ever. I only wish that I could have done the same for Carly and Cory when they were younger. But I was a very happy Mommy when I saw my Alixs' face. She was thrilled!
The party ended late (ish) and only after Jaons and I both had had a few beers ( I had 3 throught the day) It was such an easy and relaxed party.
And my Lil girls got so many wonderful gifts! I can't even begin to tell you how happy they were. Especially when Alix saw her Barbie Cadillac Escalade that Mommy and Daddy bought for her!
I will be posting picture tomorrow - they are still uploading!! And I would like to go to bed!!
I spent a good part of the rainy afternoon lost in the bookstore looking for a new author. It seems there are just a tremendous number to choose from, and while that's really a good thing it also makes it something of a challenge when you want something new to read.
It becomes a daunting task when you factor in someone with eclectic tastes...who might be seen reading Shakespeare in the morning and erotic vampire fiction before bed (oh yes, I've read the entire Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series and I'm not afraid to admit it.). So it's tough. I like light, fun reading, historic fiction, crime, fantasy and occasionally science fiction (the best thing L. Ron Hubbard wrote was not Dianetics. Trust me.).
I also like books with continuing themes and characters. There's something nice about picking up in a story from one book to another and feeling familiar with the characters and time. It's like having a really interesting friend who leads an extraordinary life and stops to tell you all about it occasionally, but doesn't ask to borrow money or steal your car to make a clean getaway from the feds. And what's not to like about that?
Lately, I've also found a lot of Women's Fiction appealing. I don't know who coined the term or why, so far it just appears people needed a way to distinguish between books where the protagonist might stand up for herself and show human strengths and weaknesses and (gasp!) intelligence from the ones where she'll be running around in circles with her top off while the killer sits and waits for her to get tired so he can slay her efficiently.
Not that I mind her running around naked, mind you. Not one bit. Naked is good. Naked and capable of pulling off a witty remark and then artfully escaping after driving a ten penny nail through the killer with a giant nail gun, however...
So I'm open to suggestions! Today I picked up the first of the J.D Robb (Nora Roberts) In Death books. I like the premise of futuristic crime, and after reading a couple of excerpts from a web site, I found the intereactions between the main characters likeable. So we'll see how it goes. A friend recommended I actually read the Harry Potter books and I plan to after all the films are done. I kind of want to see them all and then go back and read the books from start to finish to fill in the blanks. It should be an interesting experience I think.
So any other suggestions?
Off topic, I actually heard a Coldplay song that doesn't make me want to slit my wrists with a pocket comb.
You can pick it up here or here from iTunes. It's kind of catchy.
I'm home alone tonight...daughter is with my parents for the weekend, hubbie is helping out a friend at a party...
So I decided to make it a movienight with all my fav movies. The last one of the bunch was "Down with Love", for me that's a designer's orgasm! I'm passionate with the style of the fifties/sixties, it's so positive and full of hope for an amazing future! The design is just amazing simple but at the same time elaborated... (the story of the movie is fun but really not the main reason to watch it)
This year Belgium is celebrating the 50th birthday of the world fair of '58. It's logo was a star in the typical fifties style, so simple but so iconic. My father went to see it with his parents when he was little, it was the year his brother (my uncle) was born. He always told me this amazing stories about seeing the first "black" person (ok, this may sound racial in this time but then it was something very new and special) and riding a teleferic (a sort cableride) and seeing a real elephant at the booth of chocolatier Cote-d'Or.
I grew up with these stories and I loved to watch the illustrations in his history books, they were so different than the ones we got... so naïve, so optimistic, so idealistic! The space-age just began, one of my great-grandfathers died the month before they landed on the moon, saying mankind would never do so. People gathered together at my grandparents as they were the only ones in the neighbourhood who had a tv. In summer everyone brought their chair to their frontlawn to watch it.
My other great-grandfather died October 13th, 1975. Exactly 2 years after that, I was born... They tell me my character is much alike... I sure loved my great-grandmother! When she died (I was almost 4) I was devastated! She was such a modern woman, always wearing the latest fashion... and such a strong woman.
OK, I got side-tracked... What I wanted to talk about: design of the fifties & sixties. I'm such a fan of the Bauhaus... please give me a Barcelona chair, egg or ball-chair, an Eames,... !
I would love to wear long black gloves, hats and pearls every day... And please play some crooners... I'll melt away.
Probably the romantic part in me that tries to escape.
I sooooooo desire to design something in that style that doesn't look fake, too clean, too... I don't know.
I just bought an old TV from "His Master's Voice" to make some art of. It will become a "viewing box". I don't know yet how but it's boiling...
I guess these are all ramblings that are flying through my mind and not really a coherent post... but they'll be kept now.
And isn't that what every thought wants, to be reminded; not being thought of and immediately forgotten?
