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Using My Lens To Refocus

16 Friday Aug 2013

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Over the past few years a lot of people have died. People I knew well, people I wanted to know, people I had known my entire life and hardly begun to start a relationship with, people I was friends with at school, people I worked with, people I grew up with, people I never met whose death shaped my dear friends. These days I find it difficult to live outside of the moments of sadness that overcome me when I remember anything, a single thought goes to something of one of them and I’m all of a sudden so sad. Or an anniversary or a birthday will come around and I will have the deep blue-black shades drawn over the windows of my heart, while outside I try to smile. It can be so difficult to enjoy life, to see what is good and joyful and wonderful, when all I can feel is the sadness of missed opportunities and disappointment at my own failure at being able to stop these tragedies.

And then… Then something, or someone, comes along and reminds me that there is so much more coming. He makes me raise the shades and see the sunshine.
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My very best friend in the entire world squeezed and pushed (and ultimately lay on a table and had removed from her) a beautiful baby boy. I had the joy of being able to be at the hospital, and getting to take some pictures of him. He didn’t like the little beeping and light on the camera.
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Look at him, he looks so wise and grumpy! Babies really do look like old men at times. Born 4:41pm, at over 9lbs and something like 20.25 inches long, Brady was welcomed with much love.
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Even Maxwell wanted to meet him, which was super adorable.
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And my dad got to have some Brady-bonding time. Super cute!
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Today is my Birthday.

14 Sunday Jul 2013

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photo (3)This year I feel like I’ve only learned one thing that’s noteworthy: if you can survive a loved one’s death you can live through any heartache or break that comes along.

“He heals the brokenhearted
    and binds up their wounds.
He determines the number of the stars;
    he gives to all of them their names.
Great is our Lord, and abundant in power;
    his understanding is beyond measure.” – Psalm 147:3-5
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TV Teaches Me Things part 3

24 Monday Jun 2013

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tinadanceWhen I was a junior in college I was introduced to a show by a friend that she swore was one of the best things she’d ever seen in her life. It was one of the best things I had ever seen in my life as well, and I became a fangirl immediately. The show was 30 Rock.
Here is a random list of things that I have learned from my beloved show. It is incomplete, but it is still gonna happen.

  • Reaganing is defined as a continual streak of perfection. It is similar to a ‘no hitter’ in baseball however with a more broad application that refers to a series of non-related events. Named after the 40th President of the USA Ronald Reagan.
  • It is possible to have male-female friendships. Liz and Jack are strictly friends, business buddies, work spouses, mentor-mentee, and work husband slash uncle/co-worker slash little brother. It can work. It doesn’t have to get complicated and weird.
  • Live every week like it’s Shark Week.
  • There are secrets to fashion, ranging from tie colors (having more than 2 colors in a tie means you’re looking for a certain type of bar) to the proper way to dress as a spinster (sweatshirt, mom jeans, fanny pack), from the secrets behind trends (your friend is Michael Khors and will make wizard capes cool to hide your girlfriend’s pregnancy) to the wrong way to color block (tan slacks with a tan turtleneck will make you look like a giant condom), and of course the proper way to treat evening wear.

    Lemon: “Why are you wearing a tux?”
    Jack: “It’s after 6. What am I, a farmer?”

  • Reality TV will always be on because it always wins the ratings.
  • The Bubble is defined as the world in which beautiful people live where they are protected from all criticism and all of life’s unpleasantries and never get a true sense of their actual limitations
  • Nothing brings people together like fear and/or the hatred of something. Bonding can happen over fear of the end of the world, budget cuts, or even bed bugs.
  • There are 3 things you should not do in a negotiation: speak first, smile, and negotiate against yourself.
  • You can’t out-crazy Tracy Jordan
  • An EGOT is the combination of winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony; the highest peak an actor can attain.
  • There is a difference between positive reinforcement and stating facts.

    “I do look like the Arrow shirt man, I did lace up my skates professionally and I did do a fabulous job finishing my muffin.”

  • I want to go to there is an expression of yearning for a feeling, place, or situation. Use it in reality. I do.dirty

Dirty Dozen: Birthday Wishlist

18 Tuesday Jun 2013

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I’m going to be 26 in a month! Let’s not go into all the gory details, let’s just read my birthday present wishlist!

    1. The New Girl season 1 on DVD.new girl
    2. A durable and good sized external hard drive. I’m afraid of losing all the pictures I’ve taken over the past few years.
    3. Anything from Wildfox. I especially like these shirts. One is fricken BA and the other represents delicious flavor.
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    4. A professional layout for DirtySean.com. I’m a big fan of this girl, and this one. I think it’s just make the site a little more… professional, stylish, exciting!
    5. A Tristar Air Climber, cus I want to be working on my fitness and also alone in my room watching The New Girl.
    6. Another tattoo. Just a little one. Or maybe just two little ones.
    7. 26_cowher_92_2I would love a new pair of quality boots. I’m really picky about them, the style and the heel and what have you… but the ones I like are always basically rock and roll. These aren’t bad.
    8. Anything from Lauren Conrad’s Khol’s collections. 4aa35af448725f00d46fdc90fdc69cbaSeriously, don’t I belong in this dress?
    9. A nice new pair of quality shears for my hairdressing-Mary-Poppins bag.
    10. The Craig Camera Bag from Rebecca Minkoff. 0470efe7fa093b0ef138d2067fe9c3c9I said wishlist.
    11. A clean closet. To go through all my clothes and clean my room. adf4b247ad5ef081e4fb50e345171b99This will never happen.
    12. To see my friends. The ones I haven’t seen in 6 months or more. The ones who live a state or two away. Guess what? This, like the camera bag and the clean closet, most likely won’t happen either. Don’t get me wrong, I’m so happy to have my family around me this year, I am so thankful for everything that they do to support me and try to make me feel loved. But I miss the people I left behind with the life I couldn’t quite make work. I keep trying to make a plan to go to them, but I’m really bad at that apparently. It’ll happen at some point.15961_10151185888349340_959981093_n297146_586135558083_1257042056_n

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Dirty Dozen: My Favorite Things About Being Single

02 Sunday Jun 2013

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1.  I can spend my money however I want.  I can pay my bills, or buy a new purse, or give a friend gas money, or buy makeup, or go to a concert, and I don’t have to ask anyone’s permission to do it because it’s my money and I can spend it where I see fit.

2.  I only have to deal with MY parents.  As much as I am looking forward to expanding my family someday to include in-laws, I can at the moment barely handle my own parents.  Some days are better than others, and I don’t need to have two sets of people who are older than me causing me to pull my hair out right now.

3.  I can invest my time wherever I want.  I can spend lots of time with God.  It doesn’t always happen, but I have the option that I foolishly pass up on a regular basis to have that alone time with my Creator.  Or I can lavish it on friends.  Or I can be alone.  No matter what it is, it’s my decision. 

4.  I don’t have to consider anyone’s opinion on my appearance but my own.  I like to change it sometimes for no reason.  I like to wear what I like, do with my hair what I think is awesome, wear the makeup that I want to wear.  I like to do what I want with how I look, and I am grateful that I don’t have to deal with anyone else telling me how they want it to be.

newgirl tv all day5.  I can watch TV all the time.

6.  I can be sad about being single and not feel alone.  When I am emotionally destroyed, even when I’m being a miserable and annoying idiot, I know that I have single friends who can understand where I’m coming from and relate, and attached friends who can pretend they remember what its like being in my situation and give me sympathy.

7.  I can sleep without disruption from another human.  I don’t have to worry about being roundhouse kicked in the back or punched in the stomach because someone is a very active sleeper.  I also don’t have to sweat my skin off, because in my experience every single male on the planet runs at about 102 degrees.  And I don’t have to deal with snoring.

knopedesserts8.  I can have bad habits.  It’s one thing to get crap about my bad habits from friends and family, but I’m really ok with not having to give up what I like that someone else doesn’t just because they want me to.

9.  I can relate to almost every Taylor Swift song.

10.  I can be delusional about love.  I can still have the fantastical idea of love being like what I read in books and see on TV and in the movies.  Ignorance is bliss, my friends.

jlaw pizza 1 jlaw pizza11.  I have nothing to prove to anyone.

12.  I can cook for myself whatever gross food I want because I like it.  You know, I think I’ll make a stir-fry that looks like regurgitated Chinese food, or a split pea soup that looks like baby barf.  The list goes on folks.

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