If you guess it, you will get it.

I woke up this morning with a horribly sore neck. I slept wrong I suppose. Anyhow, it was a great excuse to go get a massage. Feeling ten times better afterwords I thought I should stop into Gigi's cupcakes to get their winter menu. Then it dawned on me, "I should just get some cupcakes for Zach's gift!" So I got the new Buttered Rum and the Tiramisu. I decided to place them in the oven for hiding. I folded up the new menu for the box. When he came over to check his box, I told him he had to guess which ones I got. He got it on the third try. I mean it's not like I would have withheld the cupcakes if he didn't guess. So here are the photos from that:

Day 2

Today Zach came over before I went to get my haircut. He checked his advent and found:

 

"On a day like today, when we have to wake up too early, pay for a car to be fixed, and face the decision of throwing our computer out the window and beating it repeatedly with a baseball bat, wouldn't it be nice to escape to a winter wonderland? Look in a cold place to find your gift for today. Something you have never had awaits you there." 

I hid the present in the freezer...it was this adorable snowglobe.

Zachery's Christmas

This year I have decided to an advent for Zach. Meaning, his Christmas gifts will come one at a time for 25 days. I will be posting pictures from each day. Today was the day I presented him with the advent box and his first gift.

 The note says:


Good Morning Baby
Today is the day you get a gift from your lady
As will be tomorrow and the next day...
All the way till Christmas
This box shall remain here
And you will open one door a day
Today, your gift is the gift of Christmas
Now that it is the first and NYC lit their tree
We can light ours while listening to the soothing sounds of Christmas Music
Yes, Zachery, you may now start your Christmas
I love you!
Merry Christmas

I know I know I know...I suck at this.

I have to say, blogging is usually the last thing on my mind. I try to come up with ideas here and there, but nothing I have to say really feels important. Other than work, babysitting, and photos there isn't too much going on. Although, Christmas time is getting closer so there may be some more blogging.

Today though, I want to blog about the 1940's. I had a busy day today, as Zach would call it, Virginia and the Busy Day. (He feels as though I should write my life as children books). I worked this morning, and then babysat. I was out of my house from 8:30 am until 6:30 pm. I didn't really have ALOT to do today, but when I am gone from my house ALL day, I feel particularly stressed. I just miss the comfort of my own home. Once I finally got home, I had many emails and such to attend to since I had no access to a computer all day. I decided that Nat King Cole would be a good background, and it was. It is amazing to me how calming that style of music is. It's so slow, but not depressing. Just romantic. It makes a glass of wine and small apartment seem like a NYC loft with a vintage bottle of wine overlooking Central park. I feel classy and can escape into an entire different state of mind. That is glamorous compared to my running clothes, messy hair, and scattered mess of a desk.

That era, the 40's, is where I would go back in time. The romance, the fashion (Couture ladies), the SHOES, the men, the music, the thrill of the cinema, the food. Despite the war going on, that would have been a great time to be alive, granted there is a war now and it might be even better to live in that time than now. I mean, it was so simple. Who cared about emails, cell phones, cars, work. It was a time of life. When I think of the movies, I always go back to this time. That was when people got dressed up and excited to go to the movies. It was an event, not a way to kill three hours. It seems like things were not taken for granted then. Maybe it's just me, but that is a time that we could all learn from. So, here are some images of things I love from that time.



(PS, if anyone wants to participate in a photo shoot based around this era, let me know) I've been wanting to put one together.

My Morning So Far

It's only 6:30 am, and I can hear you saying, "What POSSIBLY could have gone wrong by now?". Well, it's not all that tragic, just annoying. I actually woke myself up early today. Early as in 5:15 am. I am going to Chattanooga with my precious nephews, sister, and brother-in-law. I woke up early to go run, get breakfast ready, and still have time to shower and look decent for the day. I NEVER have motivation to run this early, but I actually got up, got dressed and headed out the door to the gym. Why not just run outside? Well it's dark, and I live by campus, so that means potential rape even walking out my front door. At least that's how I feel. I get to the gym at my apartment complex. It's closed. Not sure when it's open. Thought it was 24 hr since I have a key card to get me in. It's not. I woke up early for nothing, and I bet I won't run today. Whatever. It just set my morning off at a bad pace. I am now showered and trying to calm myself down from yesterday's events at work(boss screwing up schedule and jipping me out of money essentially because I won't work the schedule he wants even though I am not available then. So now I will probably be working 7 days a week between two jobs while looking for a third.) and this morning's episode. Now I suppose I will actually take time to dry my hair. I will be heading to Panera for some bagels and then finally preparing and egg, spinach, cheese casserole for breakfast. I do feel as though this will be a coffee kind  of morning. I can't wait to get in the car and head OUT of Murfreesboro. Most things that ail me right now reside in this wretched town. Maybe the rumor is true: Davis Market is the center of the universe and once you go there you never leave Murfreesboro. NOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo 

Bucket List

Maybe this will get me motivated to do some stuff:

•  Watch all the movies in my academy awards book
• Skydive
• Hike Yosemite Half Dome
• Fill my passport by 2015: Top Countries: Ireland, Spain, Italy, Greece, Germany, Canada (again), Japan
• Go to San Francisco in March
• Get my masters
• Move to Cali
• Learn to sew/knit/crochet
• Bake a wedding cake
• Help rebuild my dad's GTO
• Read all the Classics
• Hike the Grand Canyon
• Buy a house
• Study under a real photographer, like Annie Liebovitz. 

Many more to come....but here is a short list to get started.

So not good at this

It's been a month since I posted. Well, almost a month. Anyhow, I got into grad school! So that starts in January. I just posted some of my photography in JoZoara. It will be there until January. I suppose, since I want to accomplish some things I should make a bucket list. I like lists. So that's what I will do for my next post. Just wanted to update everyone really quick. The deepest part of me wants to write a melodramatic blog about all the negative things in life, but a bucket list sounds more uplifting. I need uplifting in my life.