"but feelin' good was easy, Lord, when he sang the blues. hey feelin' good was good enough for me..."

(dad found this baby for me...it's in amazing shape for being over seventy years old...)

(this one is a birthday present from a couple AMAZING ladies. they know me well and i love them dearly. this one's also over 70 years old and looks beautiful!)

all right. yesterday's unproductiveness bug was squashed by today's awesomeness foot. i had an incredible photoshoot this morning (a sample of it is here...), and with the help of an AMAZING laptop (which is vista-herpe free), my wacom tablet and lightroom...i have made a family quite happy and made myself feel great again--in RECORD time. i haven't been ignoring my camera or my photographer roots as of late...though it would appear, by my lack of content, that i have been. i've actually been incredibly busy with my baby...it's just been in work form. i took over a preschool classroom and have been feverishly working to bring my room up-to-date. there hadn't been a full time teacher in there for months and the room needed major help. it's now quite current, but it's been consuming. everyday i'm working with photos...just nothing i could ever post--as to think of my kid's teacher posting photos of her would irritate me, highly.

anyway...

the day started with a cup of fresh, hot coffee and is now ending with a glass pinot grigio and a delicious crockpot meal of black beans, brown basmati rice, salsa, corn and topped with cheese and sour cream. all ya need is some fruit to make it a complete meal. oh wait! apple pie! yay! okay. i don't really know if that counts either, but whatevs. i think it could. kinda. i mean, it contains apples. and it is homemade, so i know they're real. a friend's on his way over now...he's got some hard stuff happening at home and just needs some beer and a mind-clearing space to chill for a bit...or so. oh and yes, more music. lots and lots of music lately. currently, listening to man in the mirror and missing my man. too bad we never got to actually make out. like, for realzies...not just in my weird little mind. and now willie...

then there's tomorrow...i've got stuff to do tomorrow. a dad to watch the game with, a hospital visit to make, a grandma to have a late lunch with, plus a sick kid to attend to and a nephew to babysit. then there's the work...a curriculum to work on for the next month of preschool, some final photo edits and a disc to burn. so, back to normal, i spose?

oh breaking benjamin...you sound so good.

hmmm. i think i wanna watch a movie and possibly have another glass of pinot. i think? maybe an adventure flick of some sort? wow and now tracy byrd. okay...maybe i just need to keep the music going...this is incredible. it all just sounds so good and i'm completely sober...

crap. i have a really scattered mind tonight and i know that means i need to shut it down or the next thing ya know...i'll have a mural painted on my living room wall. or a new, self-inflicted haircut, or something....

i will leave you with this tidbit of awesomeness though...

and after nine rounds with jose cuervo
they were counting me out and i was about to give in
then after ten rounds with jose cuervo
i lost count and started counting again...


oh! oh! oh! and also:

sometimes it makes me want to laugh
sometimes it makes me want to take my toaster in the bath

okay. i'm done now.
bed it is. this is getting ridiculous.