I have a new favorite fun photo website: www.picmonkey.com
It's so fun, you have to go check it out!
So we're moving soon. It's gonna be great.
Gonna hang with my grandparents a lot, plant a garden, tickle my niece, do lots of art, walk in the forest, go swimming.
It's almost summer, are you excited?? :)
I was just struck with a memory of my Grandpa Gorman today while microwaving my coffee in the break room at work. Don't judge me, it's been a long week! This might seem strange to many of you who know me as a bit of a coffee snob, and a "I don't own a microwave" snob, but hey, desperate times dude. :) On to the real subject matter...
When we were kids, my brother, sister and I would spend time hanging out down at Grandma and Grandpa Gorman's house. Usually "hanging out" involved helping them with fun chores like yard work or stacking firewood for a few dollars so we could run up the street to High School Pharmacy to buy some candy or gum, but sometimes we got to just relax and watch tv, which was awesome because they had cable something we didn't have at home, nor would our dad ever let us sit around all day just watching TV, so it was definitely a treat. The other bonus was that my grandma had a VCR, and boy did she know how to use it! She would record shows all day long, and if you had a favorite she would make you a tape just full of hours of your favorite movies or shows. When we were young it was all about John Wayne, Fred Astaire and Shirley Temple movies, oh, and my brother went through a big Three Stooges phase too, it was fun times.
When we were a little bit older it was all about things like, the Simpsons and MTV, things we were DEFINITELY not allowed to watch but could get away with at the grandparents house. I particularly remember one summer when No Doubt's song Spiderweb was on heavy rotation, as well as that Soundgarden video for Black Hole Sun with the barbeque'd Barie doll which both fascinated and disturbed me at the same time. Watching TV at Grandma's house was also where I first discovered MST3K, and fell in love with bad movies.
While we'd be piled up on the bed in my grandma's room watching TV (and boy was that amazing that they not only had cable but TWO TVs!) my Grandpa would watch TV in the living room, sitting in his easy chair with a mug of coffee. Of course, he was more into watching things like reruns of Lonesome Dove or some other western (although if you know my brother & sister & I well you'd know that we weren't adverse to watching westerns either, we're big fans). It was always slightly annoying to watch TV with him though, because he watched it with the volume practically maxed out, due to the fact that he couldn't hear all that well.
So the volume blasting, sitting in his easy chair, drinking his mug of coffee, every once in a while he'd yell to us kids in the other room to go heat up his coffee for him. He drank his coffee at home instant, black, and most importantly SUPER DUPER hot, so when it got to cooling down he would send one of us grandkids into the kitchen to microwave it for 90 seconds and carry it back to him in the living room, which was always pretty tricky because it would be super hot and you had to be careful not to burn your fingers on it while it seemingly TRIED to splash out and land on your skin. And you'd hand him this steaming cup of coffee and he'd say thank you and start sipping it right away.
So my bffs from way back, Alex and Nick (aka Mayhaw) have a new band (with 2 other cool kids, Colin & Maren). They are called the Spookies (pictured above) and they are totally awesomesauce. Check out their demos on bandcamp by clicking here. They played a super awesome show at the Know last weekend, with the Woolen Men and Paper Brain (who both were also good! click the links to their facebook pages). I had the privilege of taking photos for the Spookies at the show, which was really fun! I'll hopefully be uploading them all to flickr here at some point.
Other than that I haven't listened to all that much new music this year, so my top 5 list is more like a top 3. Woops. Is this what happens when you turn 30? You stop listening to new music, and forever listen to what you listened to in your 20s? Maybe, but whatevs. :) Here are the three albums that came out in 2011 that I managed to get into. No new bands here, just some old favorites with new albums. Pretty good stuff. Click on the links to go to the bands websites. :)
It has been sooooooooooooooooooooo long since I blogged, what is wrong with me?
Nothing really, I've just been a bit busy doing other things. :)
I went to the Oregon Coast, it was fun! I took lots of photos and video, which I may get around to posting here someday, no promises. :)
I started a facebook page for my photography, you can visit it here if you would like.
I've been watching a little bit of sitcoms on Hulu, The New Girl, The Office and Parks & Rec, they are good! :)
I went and saw Wil Wheaton vs Paul and Storm, that was super geeky funtimes. This cute geeky girl band opened for them, the Double Clicks, they are superduper, you have to check them out!
I've also been watching Wings on Netflix. Do you remember Wings? It's pretty great. There are a few Cheers crossovers for you Cheers fans.
I've been running! Well, walking/running with my buddy Rachael. We're doing that good old C25K program, and we're on week 4! Amazing!
I've also been trying to be super healthy eating lots of veggies and not eating lots of processed foods, which is something I usually try to do but I'm trying EVEN harder lately because it just feels good, you know?
I've been busy! Trying not to stress. I can do it! Posted a new pic to http://camillelorainephotography.wordpress.com/ go there to see it. I'll be posting another one next week, for realz, it's already in the pipeline! :) So how cute is this Regina Spektor video? Animated by a fan I believe. Birds are pretty cute. I know it's the cool thing to say, but it's true. :)
Cute plant.
Someone was watering this plant in the "lunch room" today. I put "lunch room" in quotes because it's really not a room, its very tiny, and you can't lunch in there. You can store your lunch in there though. Fridge. Anyway, back to this cute plant. It is cute, isn't it? I totally wanted to steal it. But obviously I didn't. I don't steal. This picture does not even show you how cute it is, it looks like a mini tree, and the trunk is like, braided. Very cute.
Cute mug.
Also cute, this snowman mug. It's so silly, but I like that snowman smile. I keep thinking of bringing in my own super duper mug into the office, because I have so many, I love a good mug. The ones here in the office are so random! I really like the idea of drinking out of a snowman mug in the summer. It probably gets neglected by most people except for during the month of December. Sad snowman.
I've got some really great photos I want to share here soon, from a trip out into the country a few weeks back. I need to get a roll of film developed first. That could take a while, knowing my track record with film development... but I will try to do it soon!
