Life is so weir…

Life is so weird.

I went to see the 3 Stooges with my dad. He enjoyed it. My thought was it’s amazing how different early 1900′s humor was from today’s. I suppose it had to be more physical comedy than verbal because of silent films and then the lack of dirty language that there would have been.

Anyway….i am glad spring is here. I need to invest in some summer clothes or really clothes for any season because I haven’t bought any in a long while. Fortunately i never see anybody that I need to impress, so my current wardrobe has done the job. I will have to check the sale rack at Target.

My life is going in reverse. Seriously.

I started a new job a few weeks ago, and since then I’ve not been sleeping well. I think I’m afraid to oversleep, therefore I keep waking up every hour looking at the clock. I get up at 5:45 am, and yet I find myself laying in bed staring at the clock, waiting for the alarm because I’m already awake. I’m not a morning person, but in a weird way even knowing I am not sleeping well, I have been excited to feel like I am a morning person.

I only blog now because people ask me to. When I first started blogging, I wasn’t as filtered and so it was probably a much better read (not saying it was a good read but just better than now). I’ve realized that i don’t really want all of my personal thoughts for all to read. So I suppose if you want my real thoughts, ask me and I will just tell you instead of the world.

 

For whatever that means

So my father and I decided to take a little 2 week hiatus from our daily grind in Indiana to live it up on the east coast. The first week was to be in Cape Cod, and the 2nd week in Newport, Rhode Island….neither place we had been to. Well, my dad was in Cape Cod many years ago, but he doesn’t remember anything from his time there.

So we took off a week or so ago…and mother nature treated us with the first decent snow storm of the winter. So we drove 10 hours from Indiana to western New York in snow, which was lovely. Long story short, we made it to the Cape the following evening and everything was good there. Due to the time of year, nobody was there and many of the businesses and restaurants were closed, but we made do with what was open and had a good time. The beaches and landscape there were different from any beach I had been to, so that was pretty cool. I did some hiking and took some decent pics, so that worked out well.

So this week we are in Newport, Rhode Island. I love it here. I wasn’t really sure what to expect because I didn’t do much research and it was kind of an afterthought in regards to the trip…but Newport has definitely been a pleasant surprise and good contrast from Cape Cod. Newport seems to be a romantic little city, with the quaint walkable streets and shops, the history, the mansions from the Gilded Age, and of course the rocky coastline. The only negatives about Newport so far are the bitter wind and our next door neighbor who must have had a big party with 20 loud, obnoxious, terrible east coast accented people all weekend. The walls here are somewhat thin….and it’s a very low-key, nicer place where that type of noise isn’t supposed to be allowed…but the girl at the front desk was clearly afraid to do anything about it…so we were stuck to deal with it. Today, we ran into the dude in the hallway and he said “I hope we weren’t too loud this weekend”….followed up by “My name is….., and I come here a lot, so if you want to know where all the deals are this week, I can tell you where to go. I know all the deals. Tonight, there is a good deal on steak at this steak house, and tomorrow, they have 2 pizzas for 12 dollars at this pizza place. I know all the deals.” He kinda reminds me of a combination of Joe Pesci and Chris Farley. He also mentioned that my dad and I should stop by for a couple drinks…so now I have to spend the rest of the week avoiding him…which will be difficult to do because our doors are right next to each other and he always leaves his open for some reason. All of his people left and he is now staying by himself. Maybe I should give him a chance…but the noise thing over the weekend almost drove me insane. I am getting old.

Anyway, Newport is where it’s at if you are looking for a place to get away for a bit.

It’s interesting to be here watching the Boston and Providence News during super bowl week talking about Indianapolis and hearing some of them rip on Indy. A little different perspective out here.

Dad wants to go to IHOP in the morning…

Tomorrow needs to be a major picture-taking day…mostly of the buildings and architecture I think.

 

 

Will I always feel this way

So I think I may have hurt my dogs foot by stepping on it. She seems to be favoring it and has been for the past week…yet when its time to play and run around she is fine. I probably should still get her checked out.

I have been living the life of a 70 year old for the past 6 months.

It was good to hang out with my homies over the weekend. I need to do more of that.

Excited for my trip to the east coast coming up. Perhaps it will enlighten a possible decision I may be faced with pretty soon that I’m already stressed about for no reason.

Dog sitting for 4 days starting Thursday. Should be good to spend quality time with the Wrigs, Gracie and Bob cat. Not looking forward to the hair though.

It’s been in the 50′s and 60′s of late, and it’s early January. I’m not sure how I feel about this. We haven’t had one halfway decent snow yet this winter. I’ve been hoping to take some snow photography pics, but so far it’s been more like early spring. The birds were chirping today.

So check out my friends website I am helping with by taking some pics. She is doing some good things, trying to save a persons life by raising money via necklace and bracelets that she is hand making with pieces of a burqa she obtains from the person for whom she is trying to save. If you can support the cause in any way, that would be awesome. http://lespetitesvictoires.com/Les_Petites_Victoires/LPV_INTRO.html Make sure to watch the video and then enter the site.

 

And I said I know it well

“But it’s just the price I pay,
Destiny is calling me,
Open up my eager eyes,
‘Cause I’m Mr. Brightside”

I took Nana Banana to get groomed a few minutes ago. She needed it bad.

My goal for the New Year was to be more decisive, and of course right out of the gate I’m hit with a big decision that is testing my decisiveness. Funny how life works sometimes.

While at dinner the other night with my parents, the owner of the restaurant whom we know came up to our table and told my dad that he and his family had done the puzzle my dad had created and sold to him a few years ago. I think that probably made my dads month, knowing somebody was doing something with his project he worked on for several years.

It’s kinda crazy to think the Super Bowl is going to be in Indianapolis. I think most people who come in for it from other states will be surprised at how well everything is put together and how cool it is to have everything right in the middle of downtown Indy. I was down there the other night checking out some of the streets they had converted for the game and I think it’s going to be pretty awesome. When I lived in Phoenix and they hosted the super bowl, everything was so spread out and the stadium was so far away on one side of town, you couldn’t really even tell that the Super Bowl was going on.

I keep forgetting to sign the photos I print and sell. One day when I’m dead and somebody claims to have a “Sanders” that isn’t signed, they might get screwed out of what it’s really worth…

The paragraph above was written with my tongue embedded in my cheek.

I am really looking forward to my east coast trip. It will be nice to have something new to photograph…and also will be nice to see the Ocean, even if it’s while I’m in my snow suit. That would be a first for me.

 

Everything that I said was true

It’s New Years 2012. Last year at this time I was in Austin, Texas with a girl. The year before that I was in Wyoming by myself. The year before that I was in Indiana with friends. The 2 years before that I was in Arizona with friends. The year before that New Years was my 7th day in California. Funny how I can’t remember any New Years before moving to California. Almost as if that is when my life started.

Tonight I spent at my parents, watching a movie called ‘Crazy, Stupid Love’ starring Steve Carell and Ryan Gosling. Emma Stone was also in the movie. I didn’t really know who she was until I watched “The Help” a few weeks ago. I began to enjoy watching her during that movie and tonight only furthered the cause that I am a fan of her. So Emma Stone, if you are out there, I am now a fan…and if you want to go out sometime, let me know. My facebook account can be reached by clicking on the link over to the right.

So starting Monday I will have 3 photos hanging for sale in downtown Indianapolis at the Chamber of Commerce building as part of a 2 month art show.  Hopefully people like my photos and hopefully it brings me some good exposure. I am looking forward to going down there and seeing how they look hanging on the wall.

I booked my parents 2 weeks on the east coast later this month in a few condos. I booked them at a place in Cape Cod and a place in Newport, Rhode Island. Assuming I haven’t found a job by then, I will be taking my dad for one of the weeks and my mom will be meeting us for the other week. I’ve never been to New England, so I’m very excited about all the picture possibilities of the coast and and lighthouses and such.

My goal this year is to be more positive and to be more direct and decisive.

“And if I could be, who you wanted”
If I could be who you wanted
All the time, all the time”

Could I live out in the middle of the desert, working at an amazing resort, surrounded by national parks and thousands of incredible photo opportunities, far away from any big cities, starting over in a town I do not currently know a soul?

I liked that movie I watched tonight. It had some really funny parts and Emma Stone.

Careerbuilder keeps sending me tech job recommendations. Why would they do that? I am not a techy nor do I believe I ever told them I was.

 

 

Don’t Let it fool You

I’m laying here listening to Bon Iver…which is probably my music flavor of the month. I really like his music…however as I type this I am realizing it’s very mellow, somewhat depressing music. I tend to like this type of music, perhaps because it kinda fits my mellow personality. However, It’s probably best if I were to listen to less depressing music, because it doesn’t do much to lift my spirits. Where is my Guster cd?

What in the hell am I going to do with myself? I ask that and people say “do photography”, but that’s a tough way to try and make a living.

My mom asked me today if I were to meet a bubbly, outgoing girl would I talk more. She also said she was concerned that I’m not being social enough at this point in my life. My dad told me today I should get married. I am seriously turning into George Costanza. I think they are trying to tell me something.

A girl I met for the first time the other day told me I reminded her of Forest Gump. She said it was a good thing, but I’m not sure how there is anyway to take that as a good thing. Then, later on she told me I am a cross between Napoleon Dynamite and Forest Gump. Is there any reason whatsoever to think that is a good thing other than Napoleon D. had some sweet dance moves? I say not really.

Seriously, what in the hell do I do with myself? Where do I live? How do I make it all happen? Is this why people go to church?

I often times try to think at what point in my life did I make the wrong decision to put myself on a path of making things really difficult on myself. It tends to always lead to sports decisions…should I have kept playing baseball because I was really good and it was my favorite sport and I might have done something with that….should I have played college basketball which probably would have increased my chances of graduating college? But then I think that I am wired to live my own life and do things outside of the playbook and create my own path…and this is how my life is supposed to be. I dunno…just things I think about when I’m feeling sorry for myself I suppose. I’ve passed up on so many things this year alone that would have really sent me on a new path…I’m starting to wonder why I didn’t pull the trigger when in the past I would have without much thought. I’m becoming more selective in all aspects of my life, I suppose not wanting to waste time on the wrong things. However, I worry I’m becoming too selective. Who knows.

Take a bow

I just learned that I didn’t qualify for either the “nice” list or the “naughty” list this year due to lack of doing enough worthwhile to be judged by Santa….therefore, I won’t be receiving any presents….however, my name will not show up on the naughty record which means it could be worse.