It's Like We Know What We Are Doing

Thursday, May 19 Mom's dream trip was always Australia.  It was always talked about as a "One Day" type of trip.  Sometimes, the conversation would be more forceful than others.  Like when Oprah went to Australia.  Mom watched the episodes and talked a bit more seriously.  That was in 2010.  And Australia never happened. Elias and I have gone to the Travel and Adventure Show for the last few years.  We usually meet up with Adele and Sooj and wander the halls, waiting for inspiration to strike.  That's when the idea of Australia came into focus.   Elias and I drove home from the convention in 2015, talking about what we'd seen.  We spent several minutes talking with a travel agent that specializes in Australia, picking up several pamphlets for light reading.  During that drive, we came to a decision.  It was time to either make Australia happen or leave it be. Let's be honest.  Every year the trip was ignored, it became har...

April 20th, 2016 I love taking pictures.  And I love my camera .  Every time I use my camera, I think I need to learn more about the science of photography.  I've tried learning.  I understand the basic concept of f-stops and aperture and such.  But I can't seem to wrap my head around why I want to use a particular f-stop or aperture. Mom even got in on the action.  She bought a Great Courses class for me to try and figure things out. I was excited as I watched the classes.  I felt like I was getting a better understanding about ISO's and such.  Dad inhaled the class quicker than I did.  But he was a photographer back in the day.  He had a darkroom in the house and everything. After going through the first half of the lessons, Dad and I went out to practice our photography skills.  I was ready to put all of my lessons to use.  On a random Sunday afternoon, we went to a local park and started shooting.  After a few ...

Tuesday, April 19th I don't know how I found this exhibition.  I mean, I'm sure the cookies on my computer tell the tale of a Star Wars Person.  It definitely tells the tale of a nerd.  I can't deny that one.  And really, I wouldn't want to. It's way too dark of a pic, but still.  Han!! That being said, I'm not an insane Star Wars fan.  A fan who knows all of the side characters from the books, cartoons and video games and serious history of the wars and planets that we never saw in the movies.  But I'm not giving any crap to those people who know all of this info.  I just couldn't keep up.  I read the books in the early 90's.  I'm down with the cartoons, started with Rebels early on, still working my way through the Clone Wars.  But really, I was all about the movies. In the winter of 1983, I was seven years old.  We were the house on the block with all the toys.  We had the swimming pool.  We had the At...

Sunday, April 17th I'd never been to Milk Bar before.  I'd heard of it.  I wanted to go, obviously.  It is a bakery.  But I'd never been. There was a cake I kept seeing on Pinterest from Milk Bar.  That was 100% the reason I took a baking class here. Yeah, I shouldn't show the finished product before showing the steps, but leave me alone.  I'm super proud of this cake!! Rewind a year.  I was on the train going home after work and I saw a picture of a Milk Bar birthday cake.  It looked like a vanilla funfetti kind of cake, but plussed up juuuust a little bit.  I sent the recipe to my mom and told her she could make this for me for my birthday.  The recipe included glucose and acetate and my mom basically told me to get out of town.  I was so dismayed about this lack of birthday cake for my 40th, I vowed never to forgive her for not making me a cake.  I'm only slightly kidding. So imagine my surprise when I did...