Bits Of My Weekend
I don’t normally, but I thought I’d go in chronological order today with the photos. Some of my friends tease me that Bits Of My Weekend often times makes it look as though I have such constant awesome fun every weekend when they know that I did in fact not have constant awesome fun. I think that’s something a lot of bloggers project with their blog – this false sense of reality because you’re carefully curating a lovely gallery of your life. I’m so fascinated by that – the good and bad. Well, this weekend was definitely one of those not constant awesome fun weekends. But that’s not to say there wasn’t awesome fun. Let’s focus on the positive, which is my reason for not coming here and showing you the non-awesome parts. Positivity and my goal to bring more of it into my life.
Good things: having drinks at LIC bar with friends I haven’t seen in months and months (criminal) after Billy’s wonderful opening. The sun shining Saturday despite the temps dipping to freezing. Wendy having some sort of strange burst of love and cuddling under my chin not once, but twice! – A breakthrough in our relationship. Baking and its magical relaxing powers. My new camera lens (it’s probably wrong – the obsessive love I feel for that lens.) Ethiopian jazz on a cloudy Sunday morning (more on that later today.) Bringing superwoman strength into my life and making necklaces until my arms gave up. This is teaching me that I’m capable of dedication I didn’t know I possessed, and I’m going to stop joking with people about my “laziness” because I know that’s not true. Do I take the easy way out sometimes? Um, yes. But lazy? No. But I won’t lie, I can’t wait for that April 20th deadline to come. Thank you Lauren, for coming over and letting me teach you the necklace making secrets and taking some off my hands. You are good, young grasshopper.
March 29th, 2010 at 9:07 am
i had a feeling you must’ve gotten a new lens! the shots are really great this weekend! i especially like the egg shells.
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March 29th, 2010 at 10:22 am
Anyone who can document this much of their weekend is NOT lazy! I always look forward to your Bits of the Weekend (even if they are slightly edited!)
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March 29th, 2010 at 10:55 am
the fire, the muffins, the cat…fantastic set!
xo Alison
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March 29th, 2010 at 11:11 am
What a great looking weekend! I liked what you said about curating a gallery of your life, definitely something we do as we’ve been growing our little blog. A new lens sounds fantastic! 1.8! Nice!
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March 29th, 2010 at 11:56 am
youre going to love that lens! I have it too. :-) nice creamy bokeh. esp for its affordability!
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March 29th, 2010 at 12:51 pm
Thank you thank you thank you for posting the kind of lense you used! Your images are lovely. I also really appreciated your note on the tension of presenting only the happy bits of your weekend, I think it’s something a lot of bloggers can relate to.
LOVE!
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March 29th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
lens not lense. oops.
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March 29th, 2010 at 1:34 pm
thank you for the photos of Wendy– she brings my boyfriend and me little moments of happy because we borrow the photos to communicate when words are not enough. an example: http://www.flickr.com/photos/15088839@N00/4474005924/
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March 29th, 2010 at 2:05 pm
it’s true! i don’t intentionally try to make my life idyllic on the blog, but people do get a sense that everything is perfect. A++ on the wendy cuddles!
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March 29th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
wait, Hannah, you’re not perfect?! dreams crushed.
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March 29th, 2010 at 2:52 pm
Don’t you just love the 50mm? It makes me happy to know that I can shove my camera in my big purse when I have that lens on. :) And the bokeh, yum! Really love that shot of the skyline, gorgeous light!
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March 29th, 2010 at 3:26 pm
your writing really makes me laugh. i love your bits of the weekend. you’re right, it is all about staying positive.
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March 29th, 2010 at 4:32 pm
Baking is the best! Those muffins look delicious!
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March 29th, 2010 at 9:27 pm
I have that exact lens and I wouldn’t be able to live without it. My parents got it for me as soon as I got my SLR. I am in LOVE with it!
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March 30th, 2010 at 12:08 pm
Oh man, dude. I am totally feeling you on this, the lovely gallery of your life thing. I kind of live by “fake it til you make it.” I don’t even think that the image I project on my blog is that great, and I don’t get the thousands and thousands of readers that some people do, but sometimes funny things can happen… like a stranger writing to me to tell me that she envies my life? But I don’t want to show the crappy parts, because I don’t need to contribute to the massive amounts of negativity that already exist in the world. Also, the thing about “laziness.” Haha, I’m dying over here. Maybe it’s the fact that we both live in big cities (yours bigger than mine, obviously) that are super crazy competitive (yours more so than mine, obviously), but I was talking to my therapist (oh yeah!!) the other day about how I have this huge fear of being thought of as a slacker. So much of my “free time” is spent doing things that are pleasurable, like going out for walks or for food or for coffee or whatever, and not busting my ass working like my parents did/still do. And then I beat myself up if I watch an hour of television without doing something else at the same time. It’s kind of a problem. I have two jobs! Yet I kill myself over my productivity level and feel stressed that I never read a book. Jeez!! Of course all the therapist could say was “Don’t beat yourself up, it’s not necessary” which I didn’t believe for one second. Anyway, sorry about this overly-confessional comment, it’s just something that’s been on my mind a lot.
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March 30th, 2010 at 12:51 pm
i have a cat crush on wendy.
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March 30th, 2010 at 3:12 pm
I’m with AB, “fake it til you make it”. I like posting the good bits and happy moments so I can look back to find fond memories. Most of my days are spent surrounded by research and writing papers, certainly not great photo material. Besides, you had to the live the bad bits, no need for the reminder, once is quite enough. A friend of mine once told me that my blog was “exactly like you, but cooler”. I’m okay with that.
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March 31st, 2010 at 1:17 am
ohh, the first shot and the bird are delightful. i like them! :)
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April 2nd, 2010 at 2:20 pm
I totally get what you’re saying. Bloggers lives can look super interesting and exciting but I think that’s what makes blogs good. You have to get out there and live. It is your life and it is authentic.
Lovely blog. :)
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