Blue Eyes in The Heights: March 2009

3.22.2009

Eat All You Want... You're Already Fat!

3.14.2009

Best dessert place in the city = Rice to Riches

'Chocolate Chip Flirt' & 'Honey Graham for Mr. Smith'

I Pity the Fool

3.13.2009

When there is only one picture from the day, I have no choice but to post it, even if I look foolish.

'Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again'

3.12.2009

Beautiful theater, beautiful show, beautiful picture!

Reason #1 to not stray too far from that beaten path...

3.11.2009

Mort and I went "off the beaten path" to a place called The Other Room. (We found it on Yelp!)

We walked right by this sign and the whole place itself. I knew the address, so I realized we had passed it up. Turning around, we saw the sign and the additional posting on the window...

Eek. Who knows what could have happened to our mental hygiene if we had gone here!

Don't Make Lemonade!

3.10.2009

When life hands you lemons, forget that lemonade stuff and do what Fairway does - sell them for a profit! :)

Seriously, that is a ton of lemons! That's what you get a Fairway though, ridiculous amounts of produce around every corner.

No Picture Monday

3.9.2009

I have no pictures from this day... but I spent the day at work and in class. (This much I know for sure!)

Instead, I'll post a picture from this day from the LOLCats Website - icanhascheezburger.com

This will have to do for today, and I'll try to make sure it doesn't happen again!

Neglect

I have been neglecting my blog and vow to update more frequently.

I have been neglecting to take my pictures everyday (I have missed three in the past 2 weeks!)

3.8.2009

I neglected to ensure my safety in cooking and ended up with a disgusting burn on my forearm.

3.08.2009

The Professor and MaryAnne

3.7.2009

Becca and Francisco waiting for the train.

I love this picture. I love how calm and peaceful they both look. I love the hair that crosses right over Becca's eye. I am proud of this one.

Hot Lunch Date!

3.6.2009

Style: check

Class: check

Manners: check

She definitely is in the running for a second date.

Someone in our building jumped out the window last night. Seeing the window in the morning light makes it look like there is so much life and possibility, and out of the same window, someone else saw no possibility and their end.

Tragic.

It's the one on the right!!

3.4.2009

Everyday that I pick Julian up from school, I hide his gum and he has to guess which hand it's in. Pretty standard kid stuff, but Julian loves it. And I love that he loves it. So I had him take a picture of it.

"The Game" from Julian's perspective.

Not getting what I want...

3.3.2009

This picture made me realize how I'm feeling about this blog.

First, let me say this is Fairway, the greatest grocery store in Manhattan. Hands down. The variety of produce is astounding and beautiful (and picture-worthy...).

So, after looking at this, my only picture from that day at Fairway, I have two related qualms about this blog.

1. I am not taking pictures, when I should be.

I go do fun things, have great adventures, have people over, and I don't take pictures. At all. And then I'm kicking myself for it because then I have to take a foolish picture to try to have one for the day, but it never really captures what my day was about. It's almost as though I'm embarassed to be taking pictures and am not doing what I set out to do.

2. The pictures I am taking are not really interesting enough or do anything for me artistically.

I want to improve my photography from this blog and show different perspectives. I want to have photos that I'm proud of and that I want to look back on. The picture of a Netflix envelope doesn't really do the trick for me!

So, I want to get over my embarassment of actually taking the pictures and know that I will be glad I did. Also, I want to take the time to take pictures that capture the essence of my day and not just a random photo. And I want my pictures to be photos I am proud of showing and to be something I actually want to look back on.

Fairway is brimming with potential, and next time, I will capture it. (No matter how foolish I feel.)