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