Farewell to Voxtrot. One of my favo bands is callin' an end to their run of fame. Pitchfork broke the news to me (http://pitchfork.com/news/38565-voxtrot-call-it-quits/), and i have to say, im pretty bummed. I'll have to relieve the glory days via songs like "trouble", "start of something", "raised by wolves" and "everyday". fare the well Voxtrot, i <3 you!
Ive been trying to find a website that will have all the cool features i want, for free. I liked my old website just fine, but it was just kinda "blah." but, it was free. I may still keep it as the front runner for now, but today I had enough and looked for new website generators (free ones). I came across this neato one that will give you flash websites: it has a TON of cool templates, and gives you a TON of freedom to edit them (its time consuming, but very user-friendly). I think Im happy with the end product, but I still cant find a place that i can show my work (w/text) strait out of my portfolio in a "photo viewer" format. That wouldn't be a problem if I hadn't lost my jump drives w/ all my stuff (!!!!) but alas, the majority of my work I have was saved from old portfolio stuff....o well, this too shall pass.
also ps--the new website is just coming along, i havnt finished correcting grammar and yardie ya ya. ill deal w/that......eventually?
For the most part, the snow in Rochester has been minimal. I mean, there's snow all the time on the ground, but as far as "omg its going to blizzard!" not so much. We've had a few dustings, but just small talk. Yesterday everyone was slightly panicked because were going to get 20inches. As the day went on everyone turned the other way and just cast this forecast aside: "oh that's crap, we'll only get 8inches." Well this Georgia girl says POPPYCOCK! We definitely ended up with the 20inches. Driving? miserable. I've never had to drive in the snow before, and I am not interested in doing it again (good thing its what? only Feb of winter...so shouldn't be a problem right? its like Georgia, we get that one snow and we're done right?...yea right...) sooo. I'm anti-snow but I shall adjust eventually. hopefully. maybe...
For those of you who know me, you know I have an obsession. It's called: Hello Kitty. Heres why: when I was a very lil girl (like, age 3) My mom gave me this little itty bitty tiny art set, all that was in it was 4 color pencils, 1 2x3" pad of 10sheets of paper, and it opened like a purse. on the outside was a character from the Hello Kitty series, My Melody (a bunny like thing) printed on it. There was nothing special about this set, except that it smelled SOOO good. Not like they scented it or anything special but just had a smell I liked. Well when i was older, I lost it. Crushed by it, I figured "oh, well they have hello kitty stores, maybe i can find a replacement." I went on a great hunt and couldn't find it, and was devastated. Unfortuantely, in the mean time, i started become obsessed with Hello Kitty items, and I find all kinds of cool stuff anything from airplanes (theres one company that only goes from like Tokyo to Taiwan or something like that) all the way to condoms (yes...even the kitty is safe). here are the latest finds:
Chainsaw: what? cant look cute while chopping trees?
Retainer--yea, a retainer...
a burqa...wow...
even HK will bust a cap.
if you want to see more (which i doubt) you can go to www.kittyhell.com where one man posts all kinds of stuff he hates, bc his wife is obsessed, and he can't believe its such an enterprise.
So, Tiger made his lil speech today. Because of this, everyone's facebook status' are in an uproar that it was "insincere" or "fake" or whatever....ok, so lets talk about this. The problem is he cheated on his wife. HIS wife. not your wife, not my wife (interesting if i had wife), not your mom, not your aunt, HIS wife. His profession? Golf. Not President, politician, guidance councilor, priest, preacher, or so on. His job, is to hit a ball, and look good doing it, and to get paid to do so. He is not a moral pillar of the community. "But hes a role model"...so is kim kardashian...lets get serious. Teach your children to do right, and it wont be a problem. If your child is looking up to athletes for their moral compass, and the parents cant teach them to see when behavior is wrong, that's on the parent. It is not the responsibility of an athlete, or any other public figure like a celebrity to control our children's moral behavior. Thats like saying it is the world's responsibility to discipline your children when they act out in public. Would you let a stranger spank your child for acting out? ok then, why would you rely on them to control their moral behavior?
On an even stronger note, does anyone call you and ask why are you cheating? Does anyone call you up and say "hey, you did something questionable in your life, answer up for it"....no. why? bc its nobody's frickin' business! So why, because he hits a ball, and is really good at it, is it any of our business whats going on in his marriage? That's their business. You would tell someone to kiss your ass if they called you and said "hey! you should be a better person! what are you doing?!"
Just because you're famous, doesn't make you a God amongst men. Humans will be humans. Again, teach your children to be right, and if its a problem, then don't let them watch sports or tv and let them learn that since mommy and daddy couldn't get a handle on them, they'll be forced to play chess (and how do you know chess players arnt gettin crunk behind the scenes?)
So to Tiger Woods:
Go play your sport, take care of your family, and don't answer anything else about this, bc you don't owe the world anything, none of us do.
So my birthday is kind of a big deal, mainly bc im such a big deal. Every year i try to have a huge blow out or a huge deal just bc once i got in college i could make that happen, when i couldn't before.
Last year was absolutely the most epic of my birth dates, and I knew it was already going to be tough to top, and of course I was right. We enjoyed ourselves at dinner, i definitely hit up the Banana's foster martinis (it was mardi gras too of course). I missed having all my friends, i miss having my friends every day though, but i had a really good dinner, and had a good time w/my family, offended the waiter, and didnt have to pay for it. Getting older is only lame when your bday presents go from being a bottle of nice liquor to my tax information and drivers license renewal (NY your crap is too expensive). To summarize the last year of my life in a nutshell, lets go ahead and hit the last year's photo montage:
For the most part, the snow in Rochester has been minimal. I mean, there's snow all the time on the ground, but as far as "omg its going to blizzard!" not so much. We've had a few dustings, but just small talk. Yesterday everyone was slightly panicked because were going to get 20inches. As the day went on everyone turned the other way and just cast this forecast aside: "oh that's crap, we'll only get 8inches." Well this Georgia girl says POPPYCOCK! We definitely ended up with the 20inches. Driving? miserable. I've never had to drive in the snow before, and I am not interested in doing it again (good thing its what? only Feb of winter...so shouldn't be a problem right? its like Georgia, we get that one snow and we're done right?...yea right...) sooo. I'm anti-snow but I shall adjust eventually. hopefully. maybe...
