My heart’s a stereo – and I’m going to start sharing “deep stuff” ;)

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It is trite and dramatic to mention my entire world has changed over the past 8 months; of course it has!  Hasn’t everyone’s?  How can you LIVE and love and not change or grow? But yet I find myself wanting to say it!

I have changed.  I am changed.

I am also Queen of the Obvious!

But there!  I said it – I got it out of the way.  We can move forward.  :)  haha – ok I’m not like COMPLETELY changed.  My sense of humor is still about the same.  :)  which let’s be real – that is a HUGE SIGH OF RELIEF!!!!!

YAY!!!!!

You see, I LOVE to laugh and I think I’m funny.  So the fact that I STILL think I’m funny?!?!!  Wahoo!!   :)  :)

Anyway I’m only mentioning this because I’ve done moderately well at being “adjusted” despite my – umm – well – my life.  I’ve tried to maintain a happy perspective, I’ve worked at being optimistic and I’ve NEVER taken the “why me?” attitude; though I have most certainly wondered about the purpose of life.  But I’ve adjusted; I’ve adapted.   I’m still here and most days I’m still laughing.  :)

Up until recently I didn’t want to really admit… (continue reading on my new blog here.)

Or if you just want to stick with the light stuff …

Let me share with you my new favorite-est-est-est song!!!  I’ve mentioned that my BF and I have a soundtrack of US.  (you should read it the story – it’s cute) And this song makes it on the list.  The lyrics ring true in my heart.  I love J, and I WOULD carry him around even if he were an old school 50lb boombox, and I’d hold him on my shoulder wherever I walked, and turn his volume up  in front of the cops, and crank it higher every time they told me to stop. hee hee ;)  Yes – My heart’s a stereo.

HELP!! Do you have a rugged camera? Oh and try snapsort.com

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So I’ve been trying to find a rugged camera for months!!!  It’s not that I can’t actually find one – it’s more like I haven’t found the RIGHT one.  There are so many options!!  From all of the reviews I’ve read – it looks like the Panasonic Lumix T rugged series is top notch.  But I’m such a Sony girl!!!  I LOVE LOVE LOVED my Sony T-series P&S and most of the pictures you’ve seen on my photography blog and photography FB page were shot with my sony!!  (the rest were shot with a 50D or 60D)

And – Yes! I took most of my photos with a point-and-shoot!!  (no one ever believes me)

So anyway – Lumix AND Sony both have new rugged cameras out and I have NO IDEA which one to pick.  Have any of you used a rugged camera?  Did you love it?  Or hate it?

Today I stumbled upon a pretty cool new website Snapsort.com that compares them all – I thought I’d share it with you in case you are ALSO in the market for a Rugged Camera.  It gives the necessary info in a concise way.  (though I still don’t know which one to pick!!!)

Lumix Ts2 vs Ts3

Lumix Ts3 vs Sony Tx5

Lumix Ts3 vs Sony Tx10?? (I didn’t know there was a Tx10!!!)

Sony Tx5 vs Sony Tx10

Dr. Dre vs. Lady Gaga: Instant Immersion in Ghettospeak

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My mom speaks a few foreign languages:  twitter, text-talk, file-sharing, Facebook, Emoticons and Pretend Ghettospeak.  She’s only fluent in Emoticons – the rest she speaks with an ultra-conservative-mom-from-the-fifties accent.  And the first time she threw down a “True that” for me I laughed so hard I didn’t know if I’d stop.  *hee hee*

Anyway – My mom is pretty rad.  :)

Today’s story happened over the weekend.  We were driving along and “I love it when they call me big poppa” started playing on the radio and I had to make a choice.  Change it because I’m in the car with my MOM!  Or leave it and see what my mom thinks.  I hesitated.  The song is about “Seeing some ladies who should be having my babies” and yeah … that’s when I noticed my cute mom tapping her leg to the beat.

*Pause while I play the memory back in my mind. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!*

Needless to say, I left it on the hip hop station. When a lil Jeremih feat 50 Cent came on she asked, “This is hip hop right?” and that’s when I knew.

My mom was attempting to refresh her Pretend Ghettospeak with a bit of instant immersion into hip hop.  Something she, before this weekend, couldn’t fully distinguish from pop or rap.

Yes – I said “before this weekend” because AS OF TODAY my mom not only has opinions on hip hop, pop and rap but can tell the difference.  *big cheesy smile*

Her verdict?

Pop is ok.  Lady Gaga wasn’t particularly impressive.  But HIP HOP??  Now THAT is something that makes you want to shake.

Yes that’s right.  My mom has good taste.  And you should be even MORE impressed that her verdict came while listening to Dr. Dre’s “Kush” (but she listened to the edited version.)  She said that hip hop, more than pop, really makes you want to “shake” and then she asked me if “shake” was the right word.

Bahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

I screw things and my mom giggles

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I went and did a little shopping with ma mère today. It was pretty sweet.

And so is the fact that I added the accent over that e.

Anyway – at Best Buy I was asking the super awkward sales guy in the camera section about their different tripods.  (Awkward as in he probably blushes when he walks past Victoria’s Secret so purposefully takes alternate routes to the video game store to buy his Wizard Dragon 4000 trading cards.)  He told me the perfect tripod for me depends on how many knobs I’m willing to hassle with; many of them are screws.

And then I, in perfect Daisy style, say – out loud, “I don’t mind screwing a lot of things.”

It got a little quiet and a few people looked at me.  My mom giggled.  Why? Maybe it was because I had JUST said in my 10 yard whisper voice for the entire camera section to hear:

“I don’t mind screwing a lot of things.”

Wow.

So I stuttered an awkward, “That sounded bad.” And the sales guy looked incredibly uncomfortable, refused to make eye contact with me OR my mom, picked up a different tripod and changed the subject.

Tonight – I’m making brownies

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I’m writing this blog as I bake – well MAKE and then will be baking – brownies.  Right now they’re mixing.  Probably over-mixing – that’s the problem with multi-tasking right? it’s not ALWAYS the best bet.

258/365 Multitasking

(that picture makes me laugh)

So I have loads and heaps and tons of deliciously great goss in my life right now but at the advisement of TheTooth, I am going to move THAT goss to somewhere else.  BUT WAIT!!!  That doesn’t mean I won’t dish a little out here too!! It’s just that SOME gossip is best served with a healthy dose of hot anonymous fudge.  Well – semi anonymous because anyone of YOU who wants the new address will be welcome to it!!   But not until next time because I don’t have it set up quite yet.  I need a blog name, a username, AAANNNDDD an avatar.  SO MANY CHOICES!!! How will I ever decide??

50/365

Ok so my brownie batter was YUM!  And now they’re baking.  YAY!  I really shouldn’t have made them – but that’s the problem with starting a new workout plan! Suddenly you find yourself psychologically hungry!!

OINK OINK

Are you like physically hungry? Prolly not – but that doesn’t stop you from feeling STARVING FOR ALL SORTS OF FUDGE-Y GOODNESS!!!

Wow – it seemed like I was shouting that – probably because in my head I WAS SHOUTING – well kind of shouting.  I probably should have written this instead:

STarvIng FoR AlL sORts of fudge-y GOODneSS!

Yep – that’s better.  It was almost half shouting.

:) hee hee

Alice in Wonderland: White Rabbit - Who Killed Time?

I have TONS of time on my hands now that J has left.  He’s in Spain now btw.  Wait -did I mention he’s in another country?  Well … just in case you missed that from the tweets, facebook posts, or my last password protected post. (the password is SIMPLE btw – but it doesn’t work.)  I thought I should let you know – he’s in Spain.

[insert his first FB uploaded pic from spain - oh wait - that's stalkerish - instead I'll just tell you it's of him and 4 girls.] HAHAHAHAHA!

No for real – I’m being for real.  It really is.

But here is the first pic I posted since he’s been in Spain.

The flowers he sent me this morning FROM Spain to let me know he misses me already and loves me.  Very sweet!!!  *hearts!*

AAANNNYYYWWWAAAAYYYYY

I’ve decided to renew my October Goals.

  • Working out
  • Mind games (haha! just kidding – mental acuity)
  • Thinking (meditating)
  • Pictures (I’m starting another photoblog! yay!!)
  • Reading (heavy stuff)
  • Banging on the piano (practice doesn’t seem to make perfect)
  • AAANNNDDD I’m going to try throwing in some volunteer work

HAPPY DAYS!!! And if you don’t laugh at this video – you might be a robot.

Go is a hate word.

Yeah is totally different than yes.

Don’t take this the wrong way, but she has fat thumbs.

Whatevs.  And then she erased that and just put W.

for Whatevs.

OMGOSH – my brownies are DELICIOUS!  like sinfully delicious.  I added a bit of almond flour and WOW! It wasn’t enough to make any difference at all and you can’t taste it like at ALL but definitely it made it like all AAAAAHHHHHmazing.

W.

Good night!!!