Day 7 - January 7, 2012 - A bit of history with your car hunting

We had a busy day today. In between what was about Day 6 or 7 of a fruitless car hunting process I had to cover a tour of Conklin Cemetery for The Beacon. Shawn and Yo dropped me off then picked me up again, they had some noms while I was covering the tour. This is one of the foot stones by the grave of Eunice Conklin.

Day 6 - January 6, 2012- Epic Yummies

I love junk food! Mainly I love sweets. Baked goods, chocolate, cookies, sometimes cake I definitely don't object to eating it. Today when I was heading back from the train I had to walk. There's a new cupcake store by the train station. I popped in to check it out and bought three cupcakes for myself, Shawn and Terry. We enjoyed them immensely. Terry is a junkie of junk food like myself so we devoured our cupcakes. Shawn waited and ate his last night.

Day 5 - January 5, 2012 - Thursday mornings with Vincent

Shawn's cousin Anabel gave birth to this adorable baby boy in April of last year. He's baby Vincent sometimes known as binks, binky or baby boy (I'm sure he's got a slew of additional baby nicknames that I'm unaware of as well). 

Every Thursday morning Shawn's mom usually ends up watching Vincent while Anabel goes to work. I love these Thursday mornings, right now it works out that I work Thursday nights. So even though I probably could sleep a little bit later I still wake up by 9 to get ready and spend some time with my future mother in law and this very precious baby. It's good for her as well because she gets to do a couple of random quick tasks that she wouldn't get to do if someone else wasn't around to keep an eye on Vincent for a second. 

I took this photo while he was in his walker. He looks a little scared, he was smiling right after though when I showed him the camera and he saw himself on the screen after the shot was taken. 

Day 4 - January 4, 2012 - Death of the burger bun

Shawn and I met up with his friend Dave. It's funny about Dave because I went to high school with him, Shawn met him in a comic book shop. Shortly after I met Shawn he kept mentioning Dave and I didn't know it was Dave that I went to HS with until all of us ended up hanging out the night of my birthday (my last drunk night - it was the day after I seriously pondered quitting drinking - a few weeks later I quit all together). Since then Dave is still mostly in contact with Shawn but he's become a mutual friend of ours.

When this photo was taken we were with Dave and his girlfriend (Patricia - who flew in from Cali to visit) and another friend at the Baldwin Coach Diner. I don't quite remember who decided to stab the uneaten burger bun but I thought it might be a good opportunity and possible daily photo.

Day 3 - January 3, 2012 - Wii fit = Wii fun

Sometime late 2011 I realized that I absolutely had to exercise for numerous reasons. I think when I first started I was just trying to do once or twice a week but somehow that turned into doing some kind of exercise every other day. 

Occasionally I'll miss a day but I make myself get right back on track if I do. I need to do this, if I don't I have noticed I'll get minor body pain (mostly in my back) and I'll also feel less confident about myself. I won't lie I am not a healthy eater and I adore my junk food so I'll never be a skinny minny (that's not really in my genes or body type to be one either), and I'd probably be at least ten to twenty pounds lighter if I just ate mostly fruits and veggies but since I like to eat mostly crappy food I figure the exercise will help me to hopefully at least maintain the weight I have now. 

My current routine is mostly based on nintendo wii games. I alternate between the wii fit game and just dance. Sometimes I'll throw in a Richard Simmons DVD because I absolutely love him and love how he makes exercise fun. Another thing is I have to have fun while I exercise I don't want to do it if it's going to seem like a chore. The gaming makes it fun. 

So my photo for the day is the wii fit yoga screen I took while exercising. 

Day 2 - January 2, 2012 - Semi-downward spiral already!

I'm currently feeling a little better but most of the day had me in a negative frustrated upset mood. I felt that the New Year was taking a minor downward spiral for me.

Yesterday the day started great, I had a wonderful brunch with Shawn's family. Everything was fine until Shawn and I were faced with a rather unpleasant dinner with a few people we went to dinner with. We came home really shocked at the events that occurred during dinner but we should have expected them to happen. This morning we were going to go car shopping but it was cancelled. That kind of made me more upset. I was worried that I'm never going to get a car now because we haven't found one and I'm worried that I'm going to be working too much to even have any time to go look at cars. So resigned and upset I took a walk. I went to Babylon Bean then to the cheese cellar (which was closed), then to the LIRR. I bought train tickets for the upcoming week. They were pretty expensive (fucking MTA). I probably should have gotten my usual monthly train pass but the car thing is still semi-up in the air and I really don't want to get a train pass and then find a car which results in a semi-wasted train pass. So tomorrow it's still the trains and a new bus system for Nassau County called NICE which I'm thinking may or may not be so NICE. The bus fare is supposed to stay the same, if we have metro cards (which I don't) we are still able to use them. The times for the buses I want to take still seem the same, but the big question is will they be on time or will I be stuck waiting and waiting and waiting for a bus after work.

After I bought my train tickets I decided to go back home. I wanted to go to NY& Co to return a dress but hte walk there was going to be a little long and my cell phone battery was dying. So I came home, Shawn woke up and I cried on his shoulder and talked to him a little. So now I feel a little better.

Day 1 - January 1, 2012 - Burn out!

I'm back at it again! In late 2010 I heard about a challenge titled the 365 day challenge. So from late October of '10 to late October of '11 every single day for a year I completed this challenge and took a photo. You can see my work from that challenge here.

Shawn thought it would be cool to go on with the project and do it again even though I did complete one year. So I decided I would take a break and then continue the project again starting January 1, 2012. I explained this all in an introductory entry that I wrote a few months back, so since I've been semi-repetitive I'll get on with the project. 

This first photo of my project was taken after midnight on January 1. Shawn and I went to celebrate New Year's Eve and ring in the New Year with the same crew we did last year, except instead of being at Lefty's we were at Broadway Bar in Amityville and instead of this being Resurrection it was just Rich spinning for Broadway.

This guy was a complete burn out. He was a little funny but he's a sad dude. It's actually interesting I'm posting this now because I'm reading a little article about addiction. He kept asking everyone if they had any drugs. After some time I got the courage to approach him for a photo. He complied and according to the little world he's got going on in his mind I'm going to get a free Lamborghini for this photo. That's not true, I just have a nice blog entry that people may or may not care about.