Breakfast of Champions #7

Wow its hard to imagine I've completed a weeks worth of photos. I can't imagine finding 51 more weeks worth of photos, but I know I can do it. The next few days will be interesting to say the least. I'm done with school officially at the end of the week. Yeah! In your face doubters of Coastal! Sorry anyways, I'm headed back up to Wisconsin. I don't know how permanent of a move it will be since I have other plans I want to do, like move out west. Currently, I don't have enough money to live on my own, so my options were live with my parents in FL, which may have been ok since my brother can't go back to college for this semester, but definately not my ideal thing. Or I had a few friends in WI offer me to stay with them rent free until I saved enough money to move out on my own. So I decided to move in with a friend and hopefully that will be the right decision. I feel like I'd be choked living with my parents. So anyways I am moving some stuff I don't need down to my parents house on Thursday and spending a few days there before I come back here and pack the rest of my stuff up that I need for WI. The problem is I just don't know what I'm going to need for WI. Do I just pack clothes, shoes and basic neccesities or should I bring my scrapbook stuff along and my books? Do I bring my tv? Or will computer suffice for the time being? So don't be surprised if some pictures this week contain my insane packing and moving days!

So on to the picture of the day...

Donuts and apple explosion muffins. Most definately a breakfast of champions if I say so myself. I was quite disappointed that Kroger's didn't have any pick yourself donuts only pre-packaged stuff. But I figured it was my best bet. So I ate my donuts and watched my church service on the internet, which by the way is totally cool, if you feel too lazy (sounds horrible) to get yourself dressed in the morning you can watch church in your pj's. I thoroughly enjoyed the service today. The pastor was talking about stress in our lives and that it is a result of sin. But God and His Word can get rid of the stress in our lives.

Breakfast of champs plus God's Word=A decent Sunday morning

Peace&Love

~L

The Open Road- #6

"Pursue some path however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence."-Henry David Thoreau

It ain't no joke that finding things to take pictures of everyday is a difficult task. Finding things to do everyday is a difficult task. My plans were to hit the beach, but as you might be able to tell its rather cloudy and shortly after this photo was taken it started to rain. Its been raining for the past 3 days and I'm getting rather sick of it. Today I just needed to get out and drive. I've been stuck inside for what seems like years, but in reality its only been a day!

This is the open road. No other cars in sight. Just you and the black top beneath you. The best part about the open road, is the unknown journey and destination. Sure my destination, was ultimately coming back home, but I'm not much of a planner, I'm a doer. If the urge arises in me to go some place on a whim, the thirst will be quenched.

Now this picture doesn't exactly go hand in hand with Thoreau's quote, but in some ways it does. Pursue some path...no matter what that path is, or what it looks like, or how you manage to manuever down that path, but take it and let it guide you. Take the path that calls to you. The road you can walk down with love for what you are doing and love for the people who are walking that road with you. The open road is endless. The options are few. The journey is an adventure. Let it guide you. But turn off every now and then for a chance at something new and different. That right turn may be the answer you've been looking for or it might be all wrong. But how will you know if you don't take that risk? That turn might tell you to do a u-turn and get back on the right road for you. But no matter, listen to it and follow it, however difficult it may be and enjoy the journey!

Peace&Love
~L

A Rainy Day

Photo #5

A picture of the crazy rain. It's been so nice to have the rain come through, it's cooled things off significantly. It's funny to think that 85 degrees is cool, but trust me after days of near 100 degrees it is nice. Today is a lazy day for me. Since it's been raining all day, its been a nice day to stay in and read and watch tv. Another thing about the rain is that people do not know how to drive down here when it does rain. It's a little ridiculous if you ask me. Especially when a majority of the people driving are from the northeast and should be used to driving in snow. Rain should have nothing on them, but alas it does. Thank God for rain to water the dying grasses and trees and for cooling things off!

Let it rain!

Peace&Love
~L

Yummy yummy get in my tummy

Photo #4~

I haven't had a dessert in a long time. I used to be a pretty big dessert lover but over the past few years dessert has lost interest to me. Every once in a while I enjoy having a cookie or a piece of cake or ice cream. I'm not much of a sweet tooth and I'm okay with that. Plus I don't have to worry about the calories and sugar associated with them. So today I went to Cold Stone Creamery. Hands down one of the best ice cream places I've been to. I love the variety of flavors and the choose your own mixes. I got the chocolate devotion. Which has chocolate ice cream, chocolate chips, fudge and chocolate brownies. Basically chocolate overload, but oh so delicious. It's always so hard for me to decide what I want, but I wanted to have something different, I've had the mint mint chocolate chocolate chip and birthday cake remix, both of which are amazing. I don't think you can make a wrong decision.

Speaking of greatest ice cream places...the best place I've ever been was Jeni's in Columbus OH. My sister took me there when she was still living in the area. It has the most unique flavors ever. My kind of ice cream for sure. http://jenisicecreams.com/ There is the link to Jeni's if you are at all interested in what flavors they have. If you are ever in that area I recommend it hands down.

Get in my belly :)

Peace&Love

~L

Inspiration Board=Photo 3

A few months ago I started creating an inspiration board. It is a board that has inspirational words and phrases as well as pictures of things I want to do or accomplish. As you may tell from the picture it is not close to being finished, but I want to make sure it has the right things on it. Eventually I will like to have it hanging on a wall in my own place, so that whenever I look at it I can be reminded to keep going, even when I'm having a bad day. I created this board as a way to find more out about myself.

Peace&Love

~L

"I'll make you an offer you can't refuse"

If you have been reading previous blog posts of mine, you know that I am interested in compeleting IMDB 250 top movies. All this week on AMC is mob movies. On the list there happens to be 4 of these mob movies which will be shown on AMC. Since I don't see myself finding any other way to watch these movies, now is better than ever. Last night Godfather aired. I have seen bits and pieces of it and of course know the quotes, the title of this post as well as "on this the day of my daughters wedding". I have heard many people say it is the greatest movie ever. Now I don't necessarily agree with that, but the movie overall was interesting. I love the stories about mobs/mafias and this gave the viewer an understanding of mob families. I am also not one to sit through an almost 3 hour long movie, especially when at times it can be very slow. Tonight Godfather Part 2 is on and apparently thats almost 4 hours long. I'm not sure I will be able to make it through all the way.

#2

My second photo is of flipflops. Anyone who knows me, knows my love affair with flipflops. When I lived in Wisconsin and Minnesota, summer was the only time you could wear them. I've been spoiled to be able to wear them practically year round here. There is nothing like slipping on a pair of flipflops and instantly being reminded of summer or the beach. I do however know the bad effects it can have on your feet as well as I'm sure other parts of the body and I do try to mix it up by wearing sneakers at least twice a week. But what can I say? I can't resist having those nice tanlines, because once fall rolls around I won't be wearing them as much!







Peace&Love

~L

#155

I decided I am starting my journey to complete #155 on my bucket list. It is a 365 day photo challenge. I did a little research to see if there was any rules, but there were none. I can take any type of picture as long as I take a picture everyday. I hope to post a new picture everyday or at least upload a few of them on one post.

You may ask why even bother doing something like this? Isn't time consuming? Won't you get bored taking photos everyday? Yes I probably will, but I want to do this to be able to excel at my weak photography skills, see the world from a different perspective and be able to say I accomplished something that at times probably wasn't easy to do. I know as the days go by coming up with pictures will get difficult, but that will force me to search and discover new things.

My picture for the day is of myself starting out on this grand adventure. I decided to start with a picture of myself and my last photo on day 365 will be of myself. To show how much I've changed/grown in a year!

Wish me luck!

Peace&Love
~L