January retrospective

31/366

"Home is not where you live, but where they understand you."
- Christian Morgenstern

30/366

Tale as old as time
True as it can be
Barely even friends
Then somebody bends
Unexpectedly

Just a little change
Small to say the least
Both a little scared
Neither one prepared
Beauty and the Beast

Ever just the same
Ever a surprise
Ever as before
Ever just as sure
As the sun will rise

Tale as old as time
Song as old as rhyme
Bitter sweet and strange
Finding you can change
Learning you were wrong

Certain as the sun
Rising in the East
Tale as old as time
Song as old as rhyme
Beauty and the Beast

Tale as old as time
Song as old as rhyme
Beauty and the Beast

- song by Alan Menken

I know it's the whole song, but I couldn't pick just one line!!!

29/366

"If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it."
- Andy Rooney
This quote with this photo, because I have this hanging on my cubical at work and it makes me smile everyday. Plus, she has no mouth. :)

28/366

"No matter how dark the night, somehow the sun
rises once again and all shadows are chased away."
- David Matthew Click

27/366

"Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head
with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby."
- Langston Hughes

26/366

"Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man.
But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can."
- Vince Lombardi

25/365

"I am Shiva, the god of death."
- from Michael Clayton

24/365

"You must empty a box before you fill it again"
- Irish saying

23/365

"The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule,
but to schedule your priorities."
- Stephen R. Covey

There is a small story with this photo. I am starting back working full time next week. I have been working part time for the majority of this past year. It is going to be difficult, but its necessary.

22/366

photo from imdb

"God's finger touched him, and he slept."
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

RIP Heath Ledger

Today's photo is another that I did not take. The death of Heath Ledger has knocked me off my feet and I don't feel like looking at the world thru a lens today.

21/366

"I guess some things that happen in Vegas do find a way out of Vegas."
- Connie (the bride in her the in email accompanying the photo)

Today's photo is not one I took, but I am posting it anyway to congratulate our friend Mike & Connie who got married in Vegas over the weekend.
We are so happy for you guys!!!

20/366

"The sun does not shine for a few trees
and flowers, but for the wide world's joy."
- Henry Ward Beecher

19/366

"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when
you bore people, they think it's their fault."
- Henry Kissinger

18/366

"The object of education is to prepare the young to
educate themselves throughout their lives."
- Robert Maynard Hutchins

17/366

"Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love,
the things you are, the things you never want to lose."
- From the television show The Wonder Years

This is my childhood home. I lived here from 3rd grade to the age of 21. I drove by it today and got very emotional. So much of my life was spent in that house. The first window to the right of the door. I was married in that house. To think that strangers are living there and going about their lives really upsets me. This house will always be a part of me. The good and the very bad. So much of my life under one roof.

16/366

"The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one."
- Oscar Wilde

15/366

"A careful driver is one who honks his horn when he goes through a red light."
- Henry Morgan

14/366

"Actually, I think all addiction starts with soda. Every junkie did soda first.
But no one counts that. Maybe they should. The soda connection is clear.
Why isn't a presidential commission looking into this? Or at least some
guys from the National Carbonation Council."
- Chris Rock

13/366

"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.
It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;
it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it."
- Lord Acton