isaiahsixtyone:3: over here

okay okay. Starting a new blog and making anyone who cares to read it switch over and follow a new page is a pain. Yes, I’m aware. Sorry. I just wasn’t feeling the other blog anymore and I felt the need to shed off the old layers and start fresh over here. “Over here” being this new page. The other page was too heavily influenced by outside sources. I borrowed far too many ideas to call that blog my own. While the ideas were good, they weren’t always purely mine. So here we are…over here. I'm hoping this blog portrays more of the 'homey' feel I want. Not 'homie'...but 'homey.' On another note, I have also been trying to cram myself into this mold lately…I was trying to eat better and cut all sorts of crud out of my diet and cram in more workouts. Then I read something on a stupid desk calendar at work. The desk calendar is called the Skinny B!tch calendar. The day’s tip said “eat well and take immaculate care of yourself without being obsessive or neurotic. You don’t want to be a scrawny b!tch.” Hm, true. So I’ve decided these 30-day jaunts of primal eating or whatever the heck I was trying to do or whatever are officially out the window. I’m going to eat well, limit the junk, and work out emphatically. But, when the mood strikes to bake cookies or make an apple pie from scratch, I’m going to do that too. As long as that’s not an every day occurrence, I see nothing wrong with it. J Ever seen “Stranger Than Fiction” with Will Ferrell and Maggie Gyllenhaal? I looooovvve that movie, and there’s a line in it where Anna Pasqual says “I decided if I was going to make the world a better place, I would do it with cookies.” Well said, Anna, well said. So instead of contributing to the world by being the next Jillian Michaels, perhaps I’ll keep my contribution to society a bit more not-super-human. And lucky you, you get to follow all of these amazingly exciting adventures right here...errrr...over here, on my new blog!

Other than all that, I don’t have much to say, but have been thinking lately about how some of my favorite photos that I’ve taken in my life have been complete accidents. Completely, totally, and accidentally lucky. Shots I’ve snapped out a car window. Pictures I’ve snagged by clicking the shutter button repeatedly in hopes of catching the planes buzzing by. Something I’ve snagged twisted around facing backwards in my car at a stoplight. If I try to take pictures, I typically don’t get decent ones. Usually, I forget to even put the memory card back in my camera and end up using my smartphone to take pictures. That’s right, photography straight out of my phone. It’s not high-caliber, but I like it. I’ve learned in my life that, if you want good pictures, you must take a lot of pictures. If you take a million shots, maybe one or two will come out pretty cool. Today I’m going to share with you some of my favorite accidental photos...or eph bombs, if you will.