Way back in high school, I wanted to be a photojournalist when I grew up. I had acquired a copy of LIFE magazine as a Freshman, featuring famous war photographers such as Robert Capa and Margaret Bourke-White and was convinced that’s what I wanted to do. Not sure what was going through my head at the time. Now, I have no desire to document war, and in fact, it’s the farthest thing from a desirable career choice.

I saved up and purchased my first camera, a manual 52mm Nikon FM10, from an older friend of mine who was already into photography. I used it through high school and into college now and then, but gradually, it lost it’s charm and it has sat in my closet since then.

All this to say, I pulled it out and used it on a camping trip Steve and I went on last weekend. The pictures turned out great! I don’t think I’ll be taking it to war anytime soon, but from now on I’m sure I’ll get some good use out of it.

Life’s full of bumps. I just wrote this huge paragraph venting about how… well, in a nut shell, we should cherish the bumps and not consider them a detour from our ultimate goal of success, but decided to start back at square one to just say – Life is the bumps and I’m intrigued to see where they take me.

This all to say, the financial struggle of our time has turned us in a new direction. Sometimes I think I’m exempt to stuff happening around me, then SMACK! it hits me in the face and I’m force to change my tune. Change is good!

I got some pink peonies at TJ’s a couple days ago. Peonies are my absolute favorite flower! They’re huge and complex and smell delicious. I took some pictures to share. Embrace the day and make it count.

To be frank, blogging sucks! I find myself going in and out of wanting to do it at all. I don’t know what my inspiration should be and among many others, I’ve struggled with knowing what to write about. No one wants to hear about this stuff. A lot of the time, I end up writing about what I think others want to read about. I know, that’s bad you say. You should write about things that make you happy, you say. blah blah blah. Ya, your right. What if I just started taking pictures of my life, my house, my pets, my habits, my stuff and wrote about that? What if this blog had no other purpose in this world than to show everyone reading who I am?

Seems kinda narcissistic. Ok, I’m over it.

It’s cherry season! If you have a minute, go get some. A cute neighbor girl came to our door last night and sold us a bag for $3. I put them in my vintage strawberry pattern bowl today and have been chomping them off their cute little stems! There’s a bit of my life today whether you wanted to read about it or not.

I’ve figured something out, but I don’t know what really. I did a bit of research and compiled a group of pictures. Ok, I’m not sure why I did this in the first place. It’s all entirely random and there’s not much point to it besides trying to compare my style attempts to those of celebrities that I am aware of. Whatever the point may be, here goes. I’ve always liked Audrey Hepburn. I love her movies and her fashion sense. I enjoy how she seems like everyone’s friend and appears happy in pictures. I want to be carefree and fun and experience life. On the other hand, I also love Winona Ryder. Besides all the crap she’s been involved with, I love her back in her 90′s, rebellious, short haired “Reality Bites” era. You know what I mean? She makes me want to paint and write in journals and sit in coffee shops all day. I identify with that. Although I doubt that anyone who knows me would ever label me as a “rebellious,” but still. An finally, I’ve discovered that I love Michelle Williams of late. She’s collects books, dresses super cute and she’s a mom too! I look forward to becoming a stylish mom that reads a lot some day. I guess I would have to become a mom at all first…

It was fun putting this together. Just a bit about myself, kinda. Make your own sense of it.

I just wanted to briefly brag about my husband and his awesome computer nerd skills! My computer broke a few weeks back and yesterday, in order to fix it, Stephen transplanted my Mac Power Book G4 into a new housing. This may not sound that intense, but I was like performing surgery at a microscopic level (well, that’s kind of an exaggeration). Anyway, it was crazy, and my sweetie pulled it off. Here’s a picture showing what he had to take apart and put back together. After he got it all together again, to our surprise and delight, it turned on and the problem was fixed

He’s got the skills to pay the bills and he’s kinda cute too.