What I miss

                                                 

I miss my dad.

I miss cricket.

I miss playing cupball with my brother.

I miss puddles.

I miss kissing.

I miss the county fair.

I miss hearing The Christmas Story from the book of Luke on Christmas Eve,

I miss New Hire Mondays.

I miss cornfields.

I miss hearing the mandolin.

I miss long van trips with no air conditioning.

I miss Georgia backroads.

I miss sticky little hands.

I miss Stockholm.

I miss thunderstorms.

I miss Saturday mornings.

I miss Friday nights.

I miss being a part of.

I miss love.

I miss you.

NASA - Predicting the Weather

NASA - Predicting the Weather: "Predicting the Weather
A United Launch Alliance"

yea, i know months again

Prolificity. It should be a word. The quality or state of being prolific. Is there a person to contact when one feels a word should be added to Webster's? Perhaps if I just randomly begin using it in everyday conversation and request my friends to do the same it may actually *trickle* its way into the english language.

I tend to think of myself as prolific - you know -one who posses abundant inventiveness or productivity. Not inventive in the way I can solve some industrious problem with my spectacular engineering abilities and knowledge, but inventiveness in a MGuyveresque kind of way. Ingenuity? and by productivity I mean working two jobs - raising a family of two teenagers - being in a play - and cleaning gems from every nook and cranny of my home and putting them in every nook and cranny of my garage on a daily basis. No - I REALLY mean it.

It's been an amazing week of Thrift Store and Yard Sale Gems. My garage is overrunning with these gems. Things I find with the intention of placing them somewhere in my home to be revered by guests and family alike. But these things most often end up in piles upon piles of Gems in each and every room of my house. Although last week while "staycationing" in my home I did manage to move all of my gems to the aforementioned garage.

Oh, yeah, the play...thinking of that I really need to continue memorizing my lines - considering opening night is next Saturday.

so i suck. what a procrastinator i am. its been months. months. i could blame numerous things for getting me off track - my busy two-job-work-filled-life, kids, the high holy days (i'm not Jewish but still they have recently impacted my life)...but i wont. truth is i have always been one to grasp hold of something hard and then let it go just as quickly. i start with the best of intention - but thats mostly all it ever succeeds to - intention -and we all know what road is paved with those.
my mind is a spark of one hundred different ideas and thoughts at one time. sometimes so much so i cant even concentrate on one before another one starts to trickle into the crevices of my cerebellum.
so maybe this blog should be just for me and not some grandiose plan to share my bright and thoughtful views on the worlds or the "jackassery" (thanks Robert Arnold) i come across an am inflicted with on a daily basis.
its just gonna be for me to vent about shit. share my thrift store finds. write a poem. share some cool new music \. or just whatever the hell else i feel like doing here.

and no worries, cameron still needs a fat suit.

elemuntz of me

my first blog, now i am officially a part of web 2.0

today i am reading "how to be a graphic designer without losing your soul" by stefan sagmeister. so far i am deeply into the book, albeit only page 23 it already has me enslaved to its content. i am highlighting, in pink, every name he mentions with the intention of going back and doing my own bit of research on them.

i am formulating a plan to be implemented within two years, (closer to the end of those two years to be more precise). this plan is to be in business for myself doing what i love ~ design. my method or plan -right-now is to read and research and observe and involve and evolve in every human way imaginable. i have to put myself out there and develop things i dont posses, like better verbal communications, better math skills and a basic analytical understanding of business. i am going to learn how to write a buisness plan and how to follow through, if this means immersing myself in conversation with those who know, reading business books, taking a class, networking...whatever it takes.

i dont even know positively what my business will be. im my most perfect world, which i do know doesnt exist, i would hope it to be something with my design abilities, most perfectly it would be to design stationery, invitations, presentations and greetingsd cards about the celebrations and defeats in life.
OR
perhaps some buisness where i will be able to make a statement about my experience in life, how i view things and what i believe about them and the world i live in
OR
perhaps it will be more along a business where i can interact with people who share the same loves i have - music, books, design, life. that may mean opening a book store, a music resell shop, a consignment shop, or a small diner/deli. who knows.

whatever it may be i know its going to take time and a lot of hard work. both of which i am willing to contribute to this cause of mine. so i charge you to follow my journey to my dream...comment, correct, chastise, inspire or invigorate me or just sit back and ride.

and thanks for reading.