Happy Halloween

I kinda think he looks like ET...

New England

It's time like these that makes me love New England.

Dogs are not our whole life,

but they make our lives whole.

~Roger Caras

Doesn't this picture look kind of fake?

Rain

When I was little, I used to get excited for a rainy day so I could wear my rain jacket with the matching umbrella. It was red and blue with bears on it. I was a weird kid. Now it is a struggle to get out of bed when it is dark, cold, and raining.

Touron (Tourist + Moron)

Awesome list for visiting Newport or springing some ideas to play tourist for a day.

Poughkeepsie in my Pants

Carrie Bradshaw: What makes you think something bad is gonna happen?
Charlotte York: Because! Nobody gets everything they want! Look at you, look at Miranda. You're good people and you two both got shafted. I'm so happy and... something bad is going to happen.
Carrie Bradshaw: Charlotte... you pooped in your pants in Mexico.

Maybe there is hope that my bad luck is over.

I am Murphy's Law

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

Murphy's Law

Seems to be the theme of 2009 for me.

Happy Friday

Lou enjoying Friday early!

Fall Love

I love apple cider. It is my favorite. It's one of my favorite things about fall. I am hoping to make it here this weekend. I am either getting old...excuse me more mature :)...or digressing back to my youth. Anyways I am excited! Warm apple cider freshly made. Yum!

Blossom Fruit

Click HERE to see some fruit labels that I designed for my Digital Illustrator class.

I am learning web animation and am trying to post something I did in class, but cannot figure out the problem....ugh!

You Can't Hold Down Angels

"There are people who tell me I've helped him. Mental health experts who say that the simple act of being someone's friend can change his brain chemistry, improve his functioning in the world. I can't speak for Mr. Ayers in that regard. Maybe our friendship has helped him, but maybe not. I can, however, speak for myself. I can tell you that by witnessing Mr. Ayers's courage, his humility, his faith in the power of his art, I've learned the dignity of being loyal to something you believe in. Of holding onto it, above all else. Of believing, without question, that it will carry you home. "

from the movie The Soloist

Bean Town

BOSTON Tourism

Stewie Love

Check out some of my fun homework.

Where the Wild Things Are

Oh, I used to looovvveee this book.

I am excited to see the movie and hope that it doesn't disappoint.

Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known

Strange fits of passion have I known:

And I will dare to tell,

But in the lover's ear alone,

What once to me befell.

When she I loved looked every day

Fresh as a rose in June,

I to her cottage bent my way,

Beneath an evening moon.

Upon the moon I fixed my eye,

All over the wide lea;

With quickening pace my horse drew nigh

Those paths so dear to me.

And now we reached the orchard-plot;

And, as we climbed the hill,

The sinking moon to Lucy's cot

Came nearer, and nearer still.

In one of those sweet dreams I slept,

Kind Nature's gentlest boon!

And all the while my eye I kept

On the descending moon.

My horse moved on; hoof on hoof

He raised, and never stopped:

When down behind the cottage roof,

At once the bright moon dropped.

What fond and wayward thoughts will slide

Into a lover's head!

"O mercy!" to myself I cried,
"If Lucy should be dead!"

William Wordsworth

Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known

Fall

"I saw old Autumn in the misty morn

Stand shadowless like silence,

listening to silence, for no lonely bird would sing

Into his hollow ear from woods forlorn,

Nor lowly hedge nor solitary thorn;

-- Shaking his languid locks all dewy bright

With tangled gossamer that fell by night,

Pearling his coronet of golden corn. "

~ Thomas Hood

Understand, I'll slip quietly
Away from the noisy crowd
When I see the pale
Stars rising, blooming over the oaks
I'll pursue solitary pathways
Through the pale twilit meadows,
With only this one dream:
You come too.

Rainer Maria Rilke, "First Poems"

Columbus

It has been a crazy week of mixed emotions. Some highs and some lows. It has been exhausting, so I am looking forward for an extra off. I did start a whole new round of classes this week and call me a dork, but I love them already. I am taking web animation, digital illustration, and XHTML (haven't had that one yet and it sounds like the least interesting). So what projects are on the horizon? I get to design some fruit labels, draw Stewie from the Family Guy, and create, create, create! Have a happy weekend!

Lou vs. Me

Some people say that dogs are like having children. Well, I am hoping that if/when I do have kids they don't eat sticks of butter, loaves of bread, and insulated lunch bags. I will say, it is a test of my patience, which I was always told growing up, "Patience is a virtue."

I know some times I am overly emotional.
I may cry too much.
I can worry too much.
And in the end, I usually see it wasn't worth it.
So why all the fuss?
I don't know.
I ask myself the same thing.
I do know that I am trying to be better.
I am trying to breathe when it gets difficult.
Move forward when I keep wanting to look back.
Think things through when I jump right into over react.
I am learning that the bumps along the way are necessary.
That when I land on solid ground, my feet are more firmly planted.
And through this I am thankful for your patience.

Treat every stressful situation like a dog.

Pee on it and walk away.

Image

Next week I start classes again. A new semester, a new start. I also have a tough day on Tuesday. I'm nervous and know I shouldn't be, so I am making chocolate cookies and cleaning like a mad woman. I better figure out something to keep me busy this weekend or I will have a pile of baked good in a sparkling clean kitchen. I can't seem to sit still.

Hmmmm

I don't know if it because I am preparing for the winter and staying inside or that I really just don't know what to do with myself during this week I have off of school or that I am just plain crazy and like to plan things, to do things, but I am trying to figure out a long-term project to occupy me. Should I start a cooking challenge with myself? No, I will eat myself stupid. Should I try to make wine again? It might make me nostalgic. Should I try beer instead? Maybe, but I don't drink beer much. Should I try refinishing some furniture? I have no where to put said furniture. What should I do?