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My Leila is coming to see me tomorrow! I have been looking forward to this for about a month now. I'm glad the snow it getting it out of its system now so it won't be too cold for her Florida blood when she gets here. I couldn't be more thrilled about her visit, as I haven't seen her since mid-January. 800+-mile relationships can be trying, but ( Read more... )

I have been so busy planning shoots for the beginning of this year. I'll be in Ohio a week from now, where I have two shoots, one of which is for a magazine. I'll be back in Ohio next month for a group shoot. I will be in Pittsburgh twice in April. I'll be in Columbus for a shoot in May. So, yeah -- traveling is going to be a big part of the ( Read more... )

The blizzard aftermath left me without power for a day and a half (in addition to a few hours the day before). This will be the second greatest shower of my life, second only to post-childbirth. [We don't have water when we don't have power because there is nothing to power our water pump.] Trenton stayed with the in-laws last night, as per his ( Read more... )

Happy new year, my lovelies. As per my last eight years on LiveJournal, I will do my usual run-down of things that happened this year and things to come ( Read more... )

I have had a lot going on that I haven't really been talking about. On top of the external stressers of helping TJ and Trenton through their adjustment onto various medications and TJ's eventual need to switch to another, I have been fighting my own demons. I have been in an extreme depressive and anxiety state for a while. It has gotten really ( Read more... )

I feel like I've been given a second chance in a lot of ways, and I've taken that as incentive to re-motivate myself ( Read more... )

This will be the weekend that I try to unwind my ball of stress in a healthy way. Even if I have to sleep until 2 in the afternoon to get all of my sleep debt resolved, I will. I will not allow others to take advantage of me and use me to run their errands. If I don't de-stress soon, I may combust. My life is utter chaos. Why am I still awake?

Last night, I had the pleasure of talking to my friends Katie and Shirley, who I hadn't talked to on the phone in a long time. One of the last things I did before I deleted my MySpace was copy down Shirley's number from a message she'd sent me. Of all of the things in my inbox, that's really the only thing I thought was worth holding onto, and I' ( Read more... )

There comes a time in everybody’s life when they need to assess what is truly important to them. The fact of the matter is, actually, we do it multiple times as we evolve and change as individuals -- in the niches we exist, mentally, spiritually and physically. Human development is a constantly dynamic process. I think it is perfectly acceptable ( Read more... )