Day 32 - February 1, 2012 - Finally saying goodbye to the little pencil that caused so much controversy

So I have had this pencil that I've pretty much worked down to an itty bitty stump. Now the pencil has an interesting story that of course happened to me at work, you can read the story here. I was pretty sure I couldn't get this pencil into the sharpener anymore so I decided that after I was done using it for the day I was going to say goodbye to it and drop it into the box where the library keeps golf pencils for the patrons to write with. It would be the snazziest pencil among the tiny pencils. Hopefully some weird patron won't end up picking it up to take home and make a shrine with if I by chance have any creepy stalker patrons that might like me. I was playing around with my camera settings and decided this photo was to be in sepia to commemorate my relationship that I will always remember with this itty bitty stump of a pencil.

Day 31 - January 31, 2012 - It's daylight a little longer each day again

It's been a month and I've kept up with photos for the day so far! I know even though this year has been a little disheartening so far that I will do this project and complete a second year of daily photos. Who knows, if we don't get hit with anything apocalyptic to end the world as predicted for this year I might even continue many more years of this daily photo stuff, I kind of like it.

So as normal in NY when fall and winter hit it gets darker outside earlier. Once January hits though the daylight last a little longer each day. The weather has also been a little warmer then normal which has been great. Took this photo at the bus stop, while it was still light outside.

Day 30 - January 30, 2012 - Sleepy commuter

I was really really really tired. I have a bad habit of staying up late, sometimes I'm not even up late I just can't sleep well. Sunday was one of the nights I couldn't sleep well. I ended up dragging my ass through work. When I got on the train and got a seat before I completely passed out I took this staged self portrait of myself fake sleeping to portray my tiredness because it's really all I thought about the whole day until I got home to have dinner, shower and go to sleep.

Day 29 - January 29, 2012 - Is Garnier a goner?

So we went to see the car, first time we saw it since it was towed. Yosef thinks it's totaled, I'm holding out a small hope that the insurance company might decide to fix it.

Day 28 - January 28, 2012 - My new breakfast of choice during the morning rush

For awhile last year I ate pop tarts for Breakfast. I would heat up my pop tarts, wrap them in foil and eat them while I was on the train to work. Now I've taken a liking to these Clif bars. They are 99 cents each at Trader Joe's so every once in awhile I make a trip to Trader Joe's to stock up on these guys and packets of noodles that I microwave on Thursday nights at work for dinner. Now in the morning while I'm drinking my coffee and getting dressed, or the night before I throw a clif bar in my bag and munch it for breakfast while I'm on the train. During the mere few days I had my car I ate them while driving. That's not going to happen for awhile now.

Day 27 - January 27, 2012 - BARRY!

For some silly reason I absolutely adore Barry Manilow. My godmother gives me woman's world magazine to read when she is finished reading it. I was leafing through one of the past issues she gave me and found this photo of Barry when he was much younger plus a little blurb about him and his song "Mandy". I got very excited and clipped it out of the magazine to put on one of my cork boards. For now I have 3 cork boards on the wall by my computer desk. I tack random things up there, this one was pretty empty because I took Christmas cards off of it, so there was plenty of room for this picture of a younger Barry for me to oogle. Poor Shawn, on my cork boards are pictures of Barry Manilow and David Hasselhoff as Micheal Knight. I feel bad for what my fiancee has to deal with, for some reason despite my many quirks the guy still loves me as I love him.

Day 26 - January 26, 2012 - A rare visit from Kissy

We have 5 cats at home, for the most part they have free roaming range in between both sections of the house if we keep the door open at the stairway leading down to our place. Kissy cat used to stay upstairs with Terry and barely made an appearance at our place, so I was surprised to see her cuddling on top of some of my dirty clothes that didn't make it to the hamper yet. I documented Kissy's visit and since it was the only photo I took it became the photo of the day. This year's project is going okay but I'm currently lacking enthusiasm for it so I'm not sure it's going to be great work. I've been on this trend where I just snap one photo and call it a day, hopefully I'll start snapping more. One of the things that's not really helping is that I am keeping my camera in a case in my tote bag so it's not easily accessible to whip out while I'm traveling. Perhaps I'll have to sling around my body some more, it's kind of impossible to manage that with a heavy jacket on, so maybe in the better weather I'll start having more shots to chose from.