Life in Denim and Flip Flops

The first real post will be tomorrow, but just a heads up that I'm officially doing BEDA. So starting tomorrow, this blog will be revived. It might also mark the day I officially lose my mind :) As my college roomie reminded me, I've done the write-every-day type challenge for an advanced writing class before. It was only 18 days, but it also involved me getting up at 6am every morning to write. As for those of you who know me IRL, you know that is not a pretty sight. This can't possibly be worse than that. (That's going to be my mantra.) Forced creativity is always fun. Right? Let the games begin! -B

I made cards for Valentines and a thank you card for work. I really like some of these. I mean I like all of them, but some I like better than others. Making 4 cards at once used to be difficult for me to see that many ideas, but these cards I knocked out in one night. (The thank you card was a different day, and I haven't uploaded the photo yet. ) Also I know the layout of this sucks, but I'm too tired to deal with it right now. Way too many hours at work today. :) I'll fix it soon I promise.

My quest to stretch my creativity hasn't been on hold although it may seem that way from this blog. I failed miserably to take photos of the last set of cards I made. I sent one to Em and the other 3 were thank you cards for our colleagues across town who came and helped us out when we had flooding issues. My other endeavors have been focused on a second short story. This one is centered on a non-sexual male/female friendship that doesn't involve one of them being homosexual. Anyone else noticed the boy-girl pairings either end romantically or someone is gay? That bothers me, so I'm working on fixing it :) Just an update for those who actually read this.

after the inauguration, this week sort of fell apart. here's to hoping next week is better. if this weekend is any indication, i've got a chance.

I didn't create this. I have just borrowed it from another user who got to it before I did. What a neat representation of the speech. I was surprised by how large "less" is and how small "history" was. Just goes to show, first impressions aren't always accurate. :)

What I wouldn't give to be sitting next to them. Two of my favorite singers and an NFL game. Yep. That'd be heaven :)

I've decided to spend 2009 really focusing on getting back to some creative endeavors I've abandoned or neglected along the way. I used to really enjoy writing both short stories/prose and poetry. I've always had a love for photography, despite knowing nothing of any useful knowledge about it. So I'm getting back to those. I'll probably use this blog to share my results with "the world." (Because we all know the world doesn't exist outside this blog!) I've posted one of my inspirations below. It's a letter I wrote myself in 2001 to the future me. aug 2001 becky, this letter is to myself. the myself of the future. my advice is to never give up on yourself. you know exactly who you are. no one else does. keep your head up. look those you meet in the eyes. your eyes are the gateway to your heart. don't let yourself be sold out. play the game the way it needs to be played. life won't always be a cookie cutter world. never lose the music in ...