December 18th, 2009 § 0
Today I found out that I have been hired as the new promotions coordinator at Rewind 94.9 in Cincinnati! What an awesome early Christmas present for me! I start January 1st but as of right now it’s only part time. Since it’s winter so not a lot is going on. So I’m going to try to stay a few hours at Bath and Body Works in the meantime.
Additionally since it was so warm outside Lucy was patrolling the backyard against the recent onslaught of bunnies.
December 14th, 2009 § 0
Today despite not having much to do I decided to not waste my day by taking a few trial runs on holiday baking. The first recipe I tried was pumpkin bars with cream cheese icing. I got the recipe from a friend from work brought the bars in for Black Friday. I’m not a fan of pumpkin pie so I passed on trying one until two days later when I worked a late floorset. The ladies I worked with raved about how good they were and I had to have one. It was just as good as they had said. So today I tried baking it myself:
Pre-baking:
Post Baking and cut into bars:
Once these were finished baking I made some Puppy chow! Sorry Lucy… despite the name this isn’t for you! But don’t be sad. She got a regular dog treat after I took the photo.
As a Christmas present for myself I bought icing tips. This was my trial run and it was pretty fun. I ended up deciding just to ice them regularly because I had a lot of leftover icing and since they were all different they looked a little silly.
December 12th, 2009 § 0
This Natalie Dee comic gave me quite the giggle. Later today I’ll heading up to Lima OH with the family for the ONU Holiday Spectacular. It’s something my family has done since I was nine although I’ve skipped the last few years (college) so I’m excited to see it again. I actually have all my shopping done and all I have left to do is bake cookies.
In other news one of my videos from the Brendan Benson concert was featured on Brooklyn Vegan! So that’s pretty cool. I’m wondering if I should add a published page to my website? The only other published work I have is a Lou Malnatis story that featured a photo I took but I currently have a photo pending to be put in Schmap!! So maybe I’ll wait and see if that get published and then add that page.
Anyway, Happy holidays!
November 23rd, 2009 § 0
I found this on Twitter (irony?) from Dylan. Figured I would share because its actually pretty interesting.
November 22nd, 2009 § 1
So I’ve been a bit busy lately. I’ve picked up a seasonal job at Bath and Body Works and soon I will be getting my substitute teaching license. I’m still trying to decide whether or not I want to go back to school or keep trying to find a job.
In my free time there is still a lot of hanging out with my dog but luckily I’ve had a few other distractions as well.
This past weekend I had the pleasure of attending the Brendan Benson concert in Indianapolis. It was phenomenal and a very lucky trip. I was front row, I got some killer video, and at the end I was handed the set list. Then on the way home I won $1 on an Indiana scratch off ticket. Win!
This video is part of the encore where Brendan and Cory Chisel (of the opening band) covered Tom Petty’s American Girl. I also uploaded “Don’t Wanna Talk” and “What I’m Looking For” on Youtube.
November 9th, 2009 § 0
Sorry for the terrible video quality. The weather was so nice today (Mid 60’s!?!) that I just whipped out my cell phone while out walking Lucy. I tried to make up for the poor video quality by using the intro to 40 Day Dream by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. Enjoy!
November 5th, 2009 § 0
I want the song Flashing Lights by Kanye West to be played as the first dance song.
“And the weather so breezy,
man why can’t life always be this easy”
“Feeling like Katrina with no fema
Like Martin with no Gina
Like a flight with no visa”
October 30th, 2009 § 1
October 29th, 2009 § 0
“An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.” – Buddha, 568 – 488 B.C.E.
“The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret – that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero, 104 – 43 B.C.E.
October 25th, 2009 § 0
