Hello, friends!
homes are dangerous to live in.
Yesterday I cleaned my house. (!) It was gross. I needed to clean it the day before my supposed-to-be-housewarming party 2 weeks ago during spring break, but since I was sick all break, it didn't get done, and then it continued to not get done. I took a Ritalin yesterday after Jeremy cancelled our plans to go see Mirror Mirror and cleaned the whole damn house. Scrubbing, chemical bombing, putting away winter/too-small-baby clothes, etc. My throat hurts today from sleeping in fumes last night. My bad! I cleaned in the morning and couldn't smell them anymore, but I guess they were still there.
And then if you are my friend of FB you saw that I hurt myself- LIKE ALWAYS. I should not be allowed in kitchens. Especially after my Ritalin wears off - at that point all one's symptoms get much worse, ESPECIALLY the physical clumsiness. I was doing the dishes, but I dropped a glass in the sink. My ninja reflexes kicked in and i tried to grab it.... but all that did was basically PUNCH a very sharp point of the broken glass on the base of said cup. Not only did I cut my pinky knuckle and get blood all in the sink and glass horror-film-style, but I'm pretty sure I severely bruised(or whatever) the bone because it HURTS and not at all like a cut. if I touch it (or a toddler makes it slam into something) it feels much like I imagine it would if you hit a broken leg with a car. D':
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Shhh.
So, I may or may not be writing a novel. If I am... I may have, perhaps, trashed the whole thing, rearranged the main character structure, and started all over yesterday. I'm freaking out a bit because I am literally starting from scratch with only the two main characters the same, but it's just one of those things. You have an idea for a story, but when you start getting to know the characters and the world, they no longer fit in what you were planning, so you have to fix the story, because characters are basically as real as flesh and bone humans and they can't really be altered to fit story lines (while still feeling real, anyway). So, I'm trying to rebuilt my first scenes right now, with one character who no longer exists and three new ones. Very strange! I actually walked home instead of taking the bus today because I needed to try to figure out how the hell to get all the characters to meet now. I think I figured it out, thank goodness, but we'll see if it actually works when I write it out.
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Photography stuffs.
I've been practicing with my new t3i. Both around my apartment complex and when the city planning student association went up to Cleveland this weekend. I've also been messing around with Photoshop CS6 & Actions, trying to work on my style. I have a feeling it will be quite a while before I get into a style groove, but it's fun exploring. I got a bunch of Florabella actions and I'm playing around with the spring collection now. I definitely still need to work on getting "creamy" skin tones, but it involves MATH! Dumb. :p I renewed my ClickinMoms subscription and that has been absolutely invaluable in teaching me stuff. Definitely worth 30$ if you are into DSLR photography/portraiture!
I'm getting much better with shutter speed, as I've been practicing on TV mode. After that I'll work on the Aperture setting and then move on to manual. I've been bookmarking a lot of the really helpful tutorial blogs/posts on my Photography Pinterest board, if you are interested. Nothing from ClickinMoms' is on there though, since it's a private forum.
And, as part of my preparation for eventually doing this for a little side money (People were actually asking me before I even got a new camera), I bought a logo to watermark my photos with and I started a photography blog. I haven't shared it yet or anything, but I might as well get into the swing of watermarking and posting stuff now. So I'm going to do a photo dump and so if you get confused as to why the hell i would watermark some of them, that's why.
Oh and some of these the colors SUCK. You can sort of tell the style of them, but the colors are still quite weird, thanks to facebook messing with them upon upload. So just know they at least look a little better than what you are seeing here. (The watermarked ones are up on photobucket and are pretty much true to how they look on my computer).
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PICTCHARS
What kind of tree is this? It is SO pretty and smelled so lovely!
This is an unkempt labyrinth behind Killian's daycare/by our playground.
Pull up yo britches! / Clean edit
This is in Cleveland. I would not know how to work it, and it looks silly from behind. Oh, designers... I approve of bike-parking-art attempt, though.
West Side Market
I was super poorly lit so this one was hard to save
There was an international film festival happening in this mall, which was above the train station. I wished we could have stayed for the 8pm showing of a movie about planning/Detroit, but alas!
It's amazing how many beautiful old buildings Cincinnati and Cleveland has. Dayton (where I'm from) doesn't really have that and Columbus, being a much younger city doesn't have a lot of either. Sad. :(
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DETAIL MAKES ME CAPSLOCK HAPPY!
I love this one.
I take a lot of these kinds of pictures.
Found hipster glasses in the back seat and wanted to be cool like everyone else in the car! They make me feel 8. Which I sort of enjoy.
Did I mention I was the only girl? (Frankie was sitting next to me and not in this picture) - The gay boys were dirty as hell. My eyes got quite the work out from all that rollin' around! ;P It was a fun day, though! This was taken at tommy's restaurant, which is a vegetarian place! And it wasn't even my suggestion! Love it. :D
Little Italy
This isn't pretty, it just makes me giggle.
Stuck! Bahaha.