As you can tell I changed the layout around a little. I’m still working on the colors, I would have them done but well my internet is loving to be crappy this week. Ugh. Hopefully by the end of the week I’ll have it completely finished.

So it’s September which means a new song of the month & picture of the month.

The song of the month is Suck by Nine Inch Nails. It can be found on the album Broken. The song is also featured on the current header. I love the song. hehe.

And the new picture of the month can be found on the sidebar. If you don’t want to search it out here’s the picture I picked out:

Aside from that, Nikkie & Mike have a new dog!

Nikkie told me what kind of dog he is, he’s mixed with two breeds, but I can’t remember. lol. Isn’t he cute though?! I call him Sam, I don’t know what his real name is. lol.

Today though Mike was in charge of watching Sam & Bear, well that really didn’t work because after 5 minutes of Nikkie being in the house and cooking, Sam was sitting on the porch. lol.

Mike, Nikke, Ryan and I had a game night last night. Which only means we start the night off by going to the Dollar Tree and getting snacks. I took this picture on the way through town. I must say, it turned out better then I thought it would because I was taking the picture through the window of the truck.

I seen these huge lollipops and they made me think of my childhood. On a family trip when I was younger, my mom bought me a lollipop like that at a gas station. The one I got though had Minnie Mouse on it.

Mike bought me this! I love monkeys! hehe. I think it’s cute. Not to mention it came with a tube full of candy.

As you know I usually don’t hand my camera over to anyone for them to use. Well I handed it over to Ryan today and he took this picture. While on a little walk the other day I found these steps in the side of a hill. I thought it’d be a great place for something like this. The only sad thing is, due to the time of day and where the sun was that’s why the top of my head looks like it does. Aside from that, I think the picture turned out pretty well. This picture shows all 4 foot 7 inches of me. lol. I think we might go back to the same spot tomorrow and try to get a better picture.

Last night while we were playing games Ming tried taking Odie’s food and that didn’t turn out too well for her. She was acting a little weird, but Odie didn’t bite her or anything. Today she’s been playing like normal so I think it just scared her.

Ryan is in the living room watching the Ohio State football game. I love football, but I don’t watch college football. Next Sunday my football starts, finally! I already have my jerseys washed and ready for a nice Sunday game.

This morning I woke up at 9am and my knee was just killing me. It had been hurting during the night and would wake me up every so often, but nothing like when it woke me up at 9. So I tore the house apart looking for some kind of painkiller. When I found painkillers I took two, normally I take one because of my weight. Well I slept until about 1:30pm. lol.

Since Ryan is watching the football game in the living room, this means I get to watch Project Runway alone. Which I’m loving. After my show is over though I already called the bathroom. I’m getting a nice warm bubble bath in hopes it’ll relax my knee a little bit.

I’m going to get my PJs dug out and placed in the bathroom so I can get in the tub as soon as my show is over.

Watching: Project Runway
Drinking: Dr. Pepper
Eating: Flavor Blasted Goldfish: Pizza

Nothing much has been going on, so I think this post is going to end up being a huge picture post. lol.

These first few pictures are ones I took Thursday.

As you may be able to tell from these pictures, we’ve been having a bit of a butterfly problem. lol. Well not really a problem, there has just been so many around lately. And I found one that let me pick it up and hold it! Oh I enjoyed that! They’re so beautiful and fragile.

Friday The last Exorcism came out…I loved it! The best part is, there were only four people there (counting Ryan and I)! I’m so glad kids are back in school  because that means when I go to see movies it’ll just be wonderful! lol.

Here’s the pictures I took Friday afternoon…

As you all know I’m a huge Supernatural fan. Well any time I go looking for the seasons on DVD I can only find Season 3 and Season 4 (season 5 isn’t out yet). Oddly enough since I have none of the seasons I want to start off with Season 1…yet I have to hunt it down! lol. I do have one disc (Season 4 Disc 2) because it has one of my favorite episodes on it, Yellow Fever.

I seen this poster and I couldn’t help but take a picture of it, and no it’s not because it’s the new Ben Affleck movie. It’s the first movie poster to be around here and show Jeremy Renner! As most of you know I’ve been following his career since I was like 10  years old. If we really do get The Town, it’ll be the second time I’ve seen him on the big screen. The first time was in 28 Weeks Later (Ah yes one of my favorites). The Hurt Locker didn’t have enough push behind it to get it released in our area. And the rumor release date is May 4, 2012 for The Avengers! I am going to pre-order tickets as soon as I can. What can I say, how can I say not to Mr. Jeremy Renner & Mr. Robery Downey?! lol.

The movie poster for The Last Exorcism…I like. lol.

There’s a new small arcade in the mall now! Which makes me excited because there used to be a large one and there’s where I wasted many weekends when I was younger. The best part about this new one is everything costs 25 cents! Anyways we went in and checked it out while we were waiting to go into the movie. I got two plastic rings with the tickets! lol.

At some point soon Mellow Mayhem is going to have practice and then I’ll have pictures. Not sure when, but well I hope soon. I still have a roll of film in my camera to finish off before I can get the band pictures back.

I do know one thing I need to buy, a card reader! I usually just plug my camera into the computer and get my pictures like that. Well since I’ve been with the band so much and always have so many pictures it just eats the batteries up doing that. The cheapest one I’ve found is $12, but I’m going to look at a few more stores before I get the cash to get one.

There’s also been talk that the band might have a larger show up north. If so..*excited dance* I can’t wait! Mostly because that will feel great for them, and it’ll be a huge boost to my self esteem because I’ll be in a location many bands (I like) have played and I’ll be there taking pictures for the band.

Right now I’m doing the one thing I never thought I could, being a band/concert photographer. I am loving every minute of it, and I’m loving seeing each member of the band grow a little each time they’re on stage. I am going to get a badge/ID made that says I’m the photographer for them. Mostly because I always get looks when I walk into the location of the show with a large camera bag and a small camera bag. lol.

Well I know this post doesn’t have a lot to read, but it has a lot to look at. I’m going to go find a snack.

Watching: 19 Action News
Drinking: Sweet Tea
Eating: Nothing

Hello all!

I’ve been busy uploading all the pictures from the show Saturday. Thankfully I’m done! It took me long enough. lol. I also already have the disc of the pictures burnt and ready to be handed over to them.

Before I start posting any pictures, I want to thank the guys of Mellow Mayhem for the little collection they took up. I am going to get fresh batteries and finish off this roll of film soon.

Yes I said roll of film. I ended up using my 35MM, I’m hoping the pictures turned out. I mean even if I have to scan them and adjust the color and everything on here that’s fine with me. I took both flash units, but forgot batteries for them! So I had no flash, but I still took some pictures with it. I just have my fingers crossed that they look good.

We also did a little, quick band photo. I had been eyeing the tree we used. Here’s all five of the pictures. I think from the pictures you can tell the type of guys they are. And please remember, I am a nature photographer. I’m totally new to concert/band photography, but I must say I am enjoying this new venture! Not to mention it’s mixing my two great loves: music & photography.

These pictures were taken before the show. We were kind of in a rush because the weather was not being nice to us at all.

I hope to be able to do a better band photo at some point. I know a place that would be wonderful for a group picture. You just have to make sure everyone is on the same schedule to get it done.

We were there early. We seen the two bands before Mellow Mayhem went on. Then when they went on, it started raining! So I was trying to hide and make sure my cameras weren’t getting wet. Anyways I ended up with some good ones. There’s also been talk about them playing up north. My only thought is that if they do I’m going to need a badge or something that says I’m with them. lol.

So here’s some of my favorites from the show. This time I picked out three of each guy…

There’s all of the pictures I’m going to post on here.

After they played, it started raining harder. After there was water over everything they figured it was a good idea just to cancel the rest of the bands. Which kind of made me sad because I had planed to watch all of them (except the AC/DC cover band, sorry I don’t like AC/DC anyways). I mean lately the only time I’ve been getting out of the house is when Mellow Mayhem plays somewhere.

So we came home, by then I had half a voice. lol. It was the first time I was almost 100% myself in front of everyone. I was more like 85% myself. I don’t really like to let go in front of people until I really know them. Honestly, I am a wild child. Everyone I think pretty much knows that. lol. If I let go and be myself 100% in front of everyone that’s normally at a Mellow Mayhem show, I think I’ll fall in love with the photography I’m doing even more…if that makes sense. I do know that once I let go and be myself there will be a lot more singing from me. lol.

Anyways…we came home and I went to the computer and started loading pictures and everything. Ron and Devon came back by and we ended up playing cards. I put in my Anti-Flag DVD, mostly because I still wanted music! lol. I love that DVD so much too, I hope they do another one soon. By the time we were done playing cards, I had no voice because I was singing along, like normal. lol.

Sunday I spent the day hooked to my computer editing the pictures. By Sunday night I was finally uploading them.

Today I finished uploading while I was watching a rerun of supernatural. TNT is back to Season 2, sadly enough I’m still missing some episodes. Today though the one episode I seen was the first episode Ash is in. It made me smile and feel a little better since my voice was still a little shaky Sunday.

I do have my voice back today now. lol. Though I don’t think I let it rest long enough because yet again today I was singing…can’t help it. lol. I heard music, I’m going to sing.

Lately though I’ve been totally into an Anti-Flag mood. That mood includes: Though Riot, Whatever It Takes, The Ramones, The Clash, The Sex Pistols…lol

This afternoon Mike (my older brother) was in a car accident. His breaks went out and he ended up hitting the guy in front of him. Thankfully no one was hurt, just his car. The one thing no one around here understands is why the police officer let the other guy go because he had no insurance! In the state of Ohio it’s a law that you have to have insurance on your car. Ugh. So anyways he has to go to court next week and well my mom is on the war path, and I’m sorry I don’t blame her.

Friday is a little date “afternoon” for Ryan and I. lol. My movie opens and we’re going to the first showing (1:50). The movie I’m talking about is The Last Exorcism. I can’t wait to see it but I know from now ’till Friday I’m going to keep wishing it’s time to go see it.

You all know we’re both huge movie whores. Well these next few weeks that’s what we’ll be doing if we have the money.

Here’s the list of films we’re going to see (*fingers crossed*):
September 03: Machete
September 17: Devil
October 01: Case 39
October 08: My Soul To Take
October 08: I Spit On Your Grave Remake
October 22: Saw 3D (in 2D)
October 22: Paranormal Activity 2

So yes, lots of movies coming out that I want to see. lol.

I know this is super long because of all the pictures and everything so I’ll just stop here.

I’ve been meaning to write something for the past couple days but just never got around to it.

First of all, here’s a picture of what the sketchbooks/journals look like:

So the past week I haven’t really been able to sleep. Not sure why. So today I slept well past noon! I must say I feel so much better now. lol.

I’ve been trying to set up my photoblog for the past three days, I’ve given up! The header images wasn’t loaded for anyone, the little images on the dashboard of wordpress wasn’t loading either. It just makes me sad though. I was trying to set up the website to have my poetry and other writings on, wordpress was doing the same thing with that website as well! So I guess I’ll just have everything totally on here. It just means the navigation is going to become larger because I want to split up Fan Fiction and Poetry.

Last night Ryan, Ron, Devon and I went to the mall. I have two of those $10 gift cards from Kohl’s to spend before Saturday. I ended up buying two little gift sets of lotion, body wash and one of those poof balls. lol. I bought cucumber melon and brown sugar. I just have to remember I have lotion now, my skin has been so dry because of the heat.

Anytime I’m at the mall I have to go to the bookstore. I think you all know that. lol. I love books, can’t help it. But they have these little cute guys in there now:
I love these little wind-up toys! Those blue, red and green things in the back bucket (on the left)…well that’s a bucket full of crabs! lol. I must say though, these are a total rip off. They’re cheap plastic, yet they cost $5.99 each! I will some day when I have the extra money, break down and buy one. lol.

After we were done at the mall we came back to my place and played a game of Skip-Bo, ate pizza and talked.

Here is the huge amount of picture spam. Sorry! Since my photoblog will never happen, I’ll just have to post the pictures on here. lol. The past two days I’ve noticed a lot of butterflies.

Those are some of my favorites I took over the past couple days of all the butterflies/months.

Tonight Project Runway is on. That makes me happy. lol. Tomorrow night (Friday) rerun of Supernatural season 5 is on…which I have to watch because Ryan and I missed a few.

Saturday (21st) is the concert at Moose Island. I’m excited because I’ll get to see other bands, and I will have pictures pretty much from the whole day. I have 4 GB in cards for my camera, so I’m pretty sure I’ll be good. I guess the one of them in Mellow Mayhem has batteries for me, Woohoo! I think mine are dying. I have to clean the lens of my camera off, it’s got something on it and I’m thinking that’s why I was getting weird spots at the last concert. I’m just scared to clean it off because I’ve heard horror stories of people screwing their camera up.

We might be leaving early Saturday morning though because they’re having practice before the show.

I’m also taking a band picture at Moose Island before the show.

So whenever I get a chance to blog after Saturday, there will be a lot of picture spam for sure! lol.

I’m watching Nancy Grace while I write this. I love her. She’s talking about the lady who smothered her two sons, then drove the car off a boat ramp and said it was an accident. Come to find out it wasn’t an accident, the boys were dead before the car hit the water and she wasn’t even in the car when it went into water. I think there should be some kind of test you have to take before you’re able to have children. And the safe haven law wouldn’t have done anything for these two boys because they were too old. The safe haven law is you can drop your child off at a hospital, fire station, police department and tell them you can’t care for the child anymore and charges won’t be filed. I’m not sure of the cut off age though, but it’s not too old.

Ah, I better stop now or I’ll just keep going. lol. I think a snack is in order before Project Runway anyways!

I just want to be able to sleep for once.

It seems the past week I haven’t been able to sleep at all. Last night I laid there for almost the whole night without sleeping. I don’t know what my problem is, but I’d give about anything to sleep.

I did take a nap for about an hour this afternoon, but didn’t help much.

So for the past three days I think I’ve gotten, maybe, four hours of sleep. That’s including the nap I took this afternoon.

Aside from that…

The two journal/sketchbooks I’m working on I got the pages in them, but now I have to ask my mom if there’s something else I could do to make sure the pages stay. The one book I’m putting in a big care package for a friend and I don’t want to send her something that’s going to fall apart! lol. I did them in red plaid fabric (I have pictures, I’ll post it next time). There’s a reason behind the fabric, I won’t bore you with more Supernatural talk. lol.

I also found another type of journal to make, all the pages are cut for it as well as the covers. I just have to mark where the holes go and start punching them. I’m not using a paper bunch, I use a leather punch. This journal also has a different set up of the holes and a different way to sew it. I’m hoping for the best. lol.

I am also making her a tote type bag out of some heavy fabric. I’m not sure which fabric to use because I haven’t really had a chance to look through what we have. Though I know we have some plaid that’s heavy. lol.

The two bookmarks I made her are also done. I’m not sure if I’m going to cover them or not. I guess I should really figure that out soon. lol.

I’ve also started making an ATC for Ryan’s little cousin. I have it all drawn out and inked, I just need to color it and then make the background for the card. Won’t take too long though.

Friday was Friday The 13th, so I watched all of the Friday The 13th movies! I know, lame…but I love the films. (No I didn’t watch Friday The 13th remake)

In October the remake of I Spit On Your Grave opens. Well the original is one of my top ten horror films I love. It’s a very graphic film, so if you look for the original be ready. I wasn’t allowed to see it until I was 18. Anyways, Chad Lindberg is in the remake. He has been tweeting about it and I sent him a tweet telling him I wasn’t sure on how good the remake would be because I love the original. He tweeted back and told me that he thinks I’ll like it. He’s seen the original and knows it, and he also knows the remake since he’s in it. I tweeted him again and told him since he said that…I will give the film a chance. The opening date for the film is October 8th, so I don’t know if we’re getting it around here or not. But if we do I have Ryan talked into going to see it.

I’m all excited now though because August 27th, The Last Exorcism opens! Yippie! I’ve been waiting since the begging of the year. It’ll be the state of our “movie season” too, because there’s a bunch between then and like the 1st of November that open & we want to see.

Top 10 Favorite Horror Movies Of All Time (In no order)
1. I Spit On Your Grave (A.K.K Day Of The Woman) (1978)
2. Carrie (1976)
3. Motel Hell (1980)
4. Psycho (1960)
5. Friday The 13th (1980)
6. Hellraiser
7. The Evil Dead
8. The Exorcist
9. The Shining
10. A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)

What is your favorite movie genre? What are your top 10 favorite movies of that genre?

Well I will end this post with a picture of my late night snack. lol. French toast! Totally unhealthy, but totally worth it!