Straight up deliquent..that's me. I haven't blogged in nearly a year. Seriously? I think I need to make an effort at this thing again. Tonight I had a wedding (like many Saturdays in my summertime life). Beautiful wedding...at Chrisman Mill Winery...going to make my top 10 favorite wedding venues in Lexington. Yes, I have a running list..ironic since no wedding prospects anywhere in the vicinity of my life.:-) Anyways, had a bit of heat exhaustion I think. Basically I thought I was going to pass out, cold chills, nausea, dizziness...and confusion at one point. So today I will share the tidbit I learned from this incident...take a cold towel and place it on the back of your neck...its cools down your body. Seriously. I was better in like 2 minutes..after an hour of misery.

I am sitting here..up late as usual working on photography stuff..and wanted to share something on my mind (and lucky for you no one else is up). As I have gotten older, I have became quite jaded in my notions of love and how the whole deal works (as one can see from reading my older posts:-) However there have been two men in my life that have break those jaded notions in my mind...one of them of course lives in Ireland and the other was a young boy I fell in love with as a child. Now, can someone really fall in love as a teenager..I don't know...but I know that Jason Hall first introduced me to the idea of falling in love. For some reason I have been having some really vivid dreams this past week, and today I woke up after dreaming about Jason. I met Jason when I was 11 at 4-H Camp. We "dated" at camp..as much as kids can at that age..lol but it was over the years to follow that Jason from Letcher County would hold a piece of my heart. We kept in touch over the years...random meetings..and scattered phone calls. At one point I even found it necessary to "confess" my feelings (oh..I know me confess..never!). No boy in my middle school or high school years could hold a torch to Jason in my mind. And anyone who knew me..also knew about Jason from Jenkins. Looking back I not quite sure what it was but, you know there are just some people I think we meet throughout our life that we share some unique connection with for some reason..and Jason was one of those people for me. I don't know if as a young girl I ever looked up at night sky without wondering if he was looking at the same stars. It is all very silly looking back now that I am older..and really hard to explain. All I know is that Jason Hall was the first guy I loved. We might have grown to be close friends as I got older..however he died when he was 19. I found out from the local news. It was odd that I found out that way as less than a year before I nearly had a heart attack about hearing someone on the radio's obituary with the same name. One of the hardest things about my memories of him is that is all I have..I don't know anyone else who really knew him. Tonight I did a search and came across a blog entry about him. It was so great to read someone else's memories of him..and to see a local newspaper clipping about him. Talking about connections, I do believe that we have strong bonds with some people that we meet that are really hard to explain rationally. Case in point...I looked back at the clipping again and realized that today was the day he died years ago. I consciously did not recall the day he died..however the heart remembers what the head doesn't sometimes. I can't believe he would have been 30..but then again I can't believe I am 28 most days. I am thankful to have met Jason as a young girl and thankful for him teaching me how to love (even if I am slightly bitter and jaded and still single:-) As long as I am alive, I will always have memories of Jason Ryan Hall with me.

Case and point why I may not be a good southern woman.:-) The other day at work Sandra brought me some green tomatoes..so I went home with the intention of frying them and making some cornbread to accompany the tomatoes. Well I did well on the tomatoes..but seriously..I can't make cornbread fried or baked!





the final product above




my feeble attempt at cornbread



the mess I made



the tomatoes:-)



the multiple attempts at cornbread..sad I know



what more can you do?



and of course my adorable dog Kaden..who likes fried green tomatoes!

Random thoughts.

Why I am glad that I no longer work night:

- I eat even worse!
- I have no life (even more so than I already don't!)
- The strangest people come out at night at the hospital
- Kaden will not let me sleep during the day..seriously.
- You will beautiful days like today!
- I don't get anything done because all I do is work and sleep.
- And I work the majority of the time by myself on nights..so depressing.

So needless to say I am glad my week of nights is over. Other random thoughts. I don't like songs that have sirens in them (like several rap songs do)..they make me very paranoid. I look every time to see in the police are behind me! Also I think it is sort of creepy when someone in a drive thru calls you by name because they see it on your credit card. Yes the Steak and Shake called me by name at 4am. Creeped me out a bit.

I am working night shift tonight (a rarity yes) and so I thought I would take the opportunity to actually post a blog. I often feel like my life is mad chaos these days. I am essentially working two jobs between the Ridge and photography. So my life is basically work at the hospital..work on pictures...sleep..eat..spend time with friends. I end up sleeping more than I should probably because of emotional exhaustion and because that is the only time I can get rest! One good thing about this summer is that I am so busy that I can not even fathom the idea of dating or worrying about it.

O.k. I must complain about a few single persons annoyances. I am getting tired of seeing the little stick people on peoples cars. Seriously. I think I will order one of me and Kaden. Just a little stick female and dog. How sad would that be? If you go to this site you can even customize it..so if I had several pets I could order a fish, a hamster and look like crazy female pet lady. Also when you go to McDonalds and want to order an apple pie. They always ask do you want 2/dollar. Now I understand this is their job..but some of the punks are persistent. I have had people ask me up to 3 times. One of these days I am going to be like "no.. I am a single loser therefore I only need one stinkin' apple pie. I just want one pie because I don't want to eat two apple pies all by myself. If I start doing that it will most likely ensure that I will gain 20 lbs and definitely continue to be single and not buy your two stinkin' apple pies." I know you are thinking I am crazy but this has happened multiple times and I hardly eat at McDonalds on a regular basis.

My new obsessions. They are of course two of my favorite things..cameras and purses. Talk about a way to my heart. If a man ever bought me one of these..well..I don't know what I would do. I have always been a fan of the Coach purse but recently I was introduced to Mulberry purses. Love at first sight. And of course the Nikon D3 is the camera that I long for.:-) And click here to see the bag I adore.
Aren't they both beautiful?

I am finally getting around to working on some of my personal pictures. So, here are some pictures from the Clinton rally in May. It was a really neat experience to go to presidential hopeful rally. Not that many take the time to come to Lexington, Kentucky. Usually our primary doesn't count for much being so late in game! We even stood right beside the podium. I got some amazing pictures..of course I stalked them with my camera..and even got to shake Bill Clinton's hand. So I can say I have shook hands with one of our presidents. And even though Hillary has finally bowed out, I must say that she gave it an impressive run. Regardless whether you are democrat, republic, Obama, or Clinton fan..you must recognize that it is impressive to see a female candidate make such a strong run for the presidential nomination. (Although I won't even go into the post-primary coverage of Kentucky and the exit poll results!...yeah...KY was totally painted as one of the most racist states in the US).

The many faces of Bill Clinton last night at the rally. More pictures to come but the first one cracks me up...he held that facial express for the longest time!