finally shooting

well last week the day finally came.. i finally pulled out my camera {the d1 not the rebel} and shot something! cheryl modeled for me and i went to B&H and had a tripod adventure, you don't cary anything around the store so you hand it to someone and it goes on a track that's above you and you get it at the very end.

i picked a very sturdy used bogan {it's so beautiful i even included a photo.

and i ordered lights {4ft florescence with cord and exposed bulb- they're snazy too}

and mitch helped my take just about everything but the bed out of our bedroom and got it all studified! so here's a sneak peek at raw unedited faves from my shoot last wednesday

welcome to the randomness

oh my goodness so i have so much to say! i've been waiting for mitch to post because he's had so much to talk about. {his stuff is way more exciting then mine right now} so if you're interested you should call him up and bug him about it.

lets start with 2 or 3 weeks ago when we had the blizard...

this is the view from stepping outside of our apartment.





this is the view across from the co-op








as you can see it is open- mitch was even working that day on beer squad stocking- there were others there stocking. the shelves were far from bare... we didn't go hungry

after his work shift at the co-op i met mitch there and we did some shopping. this is us walking home




we came across this outside of our apartment walking home from work... random



last night we went to see Miracle Worker. it was so amazing! it was at circle in the square theater and they do theater in the round which was fun and is hard to find. Abigail Breslin starred as Helen Keller and the whole show was pretty incredible. all the sets dropped in and out form the top and the lighting was cool. it was funnier than i thought it would be- there was a crazy amount of comic relief that i wasn't expecting. Alison Pil played the governess and she was a highlight for both me and mitch, she was so incredible and i imdb {ed} her and recognize her from alot of film stuff too.

next week we're seeing the behanding of spokane. it takes place in ireland and ends up in spokane, wa. Christopher Walkin is supposed to be amazing and it's supposedly really dark but fantastic and i'm stoked {yeah for comped tickets}

we didn't start the fire

"we didn't start the fire
it was always burning
since the world's been turning
we didn't start the fire
no we didn't light it
but we tried to fight it"

-Billy Joel {New Yorker}

ps: it's been added to our playlist just for you - so check it out


okay... so maybe we started one tiny kitchen fire that was absolutely 100% contained in the pan with baking soda and a lid on stand by... but that's what you get with gas stoves and brandy right?

to those who are worried about mitch and myself in the brooklyn fires that you read about: we are fine, i promise and we actually hadn't even heard about it. two days ago mitch saw a fire in our subway stop... but nothing major

here are my words of comfort: we have renters insurance, we have a fire escape and we have a fire station 2 1/2 blocks away, and we have and amazing God.

{thanks to all the firefighters in the family by the way}

we joined the co-op 2 weeks ago - we LOVE it

it's been so super fabulous i don't think i can even put it into words! but part of the whole co-op is that you have to work ya know... so i had my first work shift today. it's 2 hours and 45 minutes every four weeks. i'm on an "A" week - i did it on purpose because i wanted to be on the A team. score! i'm in stocking and receiving and i rocked it! i was outside for most of it i did manual labor and felt like a big burly man! it was so great! i actually had a really great time, we unloaded a truck with these rollers where someone sends it down. i was in charge of stopping the big boxes because there's a big gap in the rollers and someone has to move it {we take up the whole sidewalk and so have to have a gap to let people through} so i stopped boxes and smiled at people in the neighborhood as i waved them through - it was cold but fun.

mitch is on beer squad. he starts next tuesday, i'm sure he'll tell you all about it


this is our gym - we love it




mitch took me to see the flat iron district- we've been there before because we went to the shake shack in the park last summer but didn't notice this building - crazy that we didn't notice - it is WAY cool

I learned a very valuable lesson

I learned something today: to keep my goddamn mouth shut. I think that the book of James says something about how wild our tongues can be, though I might be taking that out of context.

Flat Iron Distrct

I had the best day on Thursday. Well, that is if I take the following criteria into consideration: all activities with Alex aren’t included (all of them rank among the very best); and I only mean within moving to New York. Thursday was the final day of my internship, a very sad thing, but it marks my ascent into a paid position. So, here it is in a nutshell: I woke up and went to FinePrint; read 50 pages of something for Janet Reid (a fabulous literary agent); and lunch in the Flat Iron District.

So, I should fill you in on the particulars. Brendan , a man I admire very much, is an editor with St. Martin’s Press, a division of MacMillan Publishing. We worked very close together during my internship, and he taught me a lot about the industry. While I was happy as a clam reading Janet’s manuscript, he called to see if I wanted to grab lunch near the Flat Iron Building. Now, I don’t know if you know what the Flat Iron Building is, but it’s what they shot for the exterior of The Daily Bugle in the Spider-Man movies. This was something else for me. Spider-Man! Can you believe it? I thought that the building was probably a structure made of clay to resemble what they showed in the comic books, but I was totally wrong.

So, Brendan and I grabbed lunch at a place near his new work and chatted. I was really unaware of his past. He used to be an executive at Miramax, which I knew, but the details of his departure from that world were always clouded. Anyway, he answered my many questions about who he was and what he did; it was great.

During lunch, he said something about creationism (he’s not a fan, and I don’t blame him). I did something that surprised me, I came out with my conviction and stood by it with my resolve. For those of you who don’t know my beliefs, I am nervous about unquestionable belief and that includes religion and everything else. I just don’t think that you should accept things as fact and leave it at that; I don’t want other people to be doing my thinking. I don’t know much about science, but I do know that they’re academic bullies who tend to make others feel inferior or weak. The point is that, though I didn’t go into particulars, I did say that I love Jesus and, by association, everyone else.

After lunch, I got to go into the elevators of the Flat Iron Building and ascended several stories. It was great. The elevators were gorgeous. Once at the top, I saw the awesome view. We talked of job possibilities, and I left feeling much better about my future (nothing was promised, but I feel like I have a possible future in film, theatre, or publishing). I left the Flat Iron Building and descended into the subway station to come home for Barnes & Noble.

It was a day of wonder: the end of something great and the beginning of something even better.

By the way, the pictures provided are from the internet and were not taken by me.

birthday coffee and redhook {the place not the beer}

Hello hello everybody! me and mitch had a delightful morning. we grabbed coffee at gorilla coffee {it's the best coffee in our neighborhood and the best coffee i've had in NY period} and we had a nice little walk in the park per someone's 50th birthday request.

so we toasted with a maple latte for me {they are the greatest! with real vermont maple syrup} and a drip coffee for mitch {there drip coffee is amazing too, it's what we brew at home now. we even have a bean punch card- score!}






















welcome to prospect park! it's a beautiful day! check out my killer lens flare!











oooh and my boots!

walking in a very non winter wonderland

mitch says this is john travolta... but he's not doing it again...

this is my handsome husband

GO COUGS! we have cougars in park slope

so we walked through the park and came out of the entrance on 4th and walked to barnes and noble... which is where he is now, working. he's a good little worker and just finished his internship yesterday. we're both very excited for what's coming next for him but don't know what it is yet. we're celebrating tonight with a good dinner and a great bottle of wine that i won at work. it's a kerner, i don't normally like white's as much as red, but this ones different. it's a big fatty white that lingers on your tongue for what seems like forever and has these delicious peach notes...mmm....delicious! plus we just joined the co-op so we'll have extra good food for not as much. and we joined the gym- life is so good!






Sunday we went to Red Hook for an adventure. we went in search of the pretty part that's rumored to be there... but couldn't find it. these girls from church offered to be our tour guides but we don't have their number {they live there} we walked in the

rain and didn't see a single other person. it's very industrial where we were - like bushwick but not as busy {we don't like bushwick} mitch took a step {just ONE step} in the wrong direction and these loudspeakers went off all around us:

"step away! you are trespassing. this is private property"

that's when we decided to stop exploring and just go to ikea.

ikea's so great right? i don't know why we still go there. everytime we go we get in a fight. we stress eachother out or our expectations don't match... we both get upset. then we go get meatballs and everything is okay and we always leave on the same page and happy and stronger i guess. that's pretty cool- ikea brings people together {after they rip them apart} i've talked to a couple people and they fight with their significant others in ikea too. that should be the next poll {i'll see what i can do}

us waiting for the subway at 9th and Smith mitch is carrying the duvet covers we purchased i'm carrying the chocolate {he's stronger then i am}


this is the view from the station. beautiful. on a clear day you can see manhattan. if you look closely you can see the city all misty and ghostlike it's there. it just makes me smile




*side note* in several photos mitch is photographed holding two coffees. to those who are concerned, mitch doesn't order 2 coffees, he doesn't have a problem or condition. he is double fisting because he's a gentleman and a sweetheart and a great sport and i like to hold my camera with two hands

thank you

Things are changin'

So what if I'm bored, and I change everything about our blog? It still has the same pictures and posts. If you all decide that we should change it back, I will acquiesce. In the meantime, I want to accentuate some of the things that I've added. First of all, there is a poll, so that we know how you enjoy reading our posts. The second thing is that I've added a playlist. These are songs that I have been listening to recently, and I wanted to share them with you. You are able to pick specific songs and turn it off when it becomes distracting. Whatever you want. I'm sure that Alex will either tell me to change everything back when she gets home or have fun in the experiment herself by adding songs and posting her opinions on my decisions. We'll see what happens.