i can adapt damnit.

but now i want more coffee & spinach, carrots, cucumber, broccoli, avocado, berries, hummus, yogurt. give me back my produce. my cinnamon. my bed.
but scratch all that complaining because i don't want to complain.

i road-tripped up to indiana with my whole family. (dad, mom, me, brother, sister, sister) my brother had a soccer tournament. they lost. i went to one of the games, it was hot. i tried to relax; not so easy, the rooms are cold, we don't have enough water, all chain restaurants, the hotel is questionable.

god emily, shut up.


the more you complain, the more you complain. it does nothing. but i do want to scream a little bit.

pictures

guys i got a camera yesterday morning. my dad called me -- 6:40am to wake me up so i could meet him downstairs to grab it from him. someone sane would have gone back to bed at 6:55am when i got back to my room, but alas i am not sane and i got to figuring my new friend.

you see i really like photography. my freshman year of high school i was convinced i would be a photographer and and own my own studio. i took photo 1 & 2 in 9th grade, but then i was scared to take photo 3 with all the seniors my sophomore year, so i took entrepreneurs in action. then i realized my love for business.
i also took into to photography last year at indiana university; which shattered me a bit [i got a B].


i have a huge bias for natural studios, always have. a few years ago i deliberately ruined mother's day pictures, because they were being taken at a celebritykids portrait studio [with the giant sheets ugh] & i couldn't stand the way the man's tone when he talked to me.
i would never describe myself as nice.


onto today. today i took pictures. odd ones. not as beautiful as i had hoped, but i have all summer to practice.

without further adiu i now present---emily's mini walk in clifton.

nippert stadium--failed miserably at doing my homework, the music in my ipod was far more important

cincinnati conservatory of music alumni garden; i'm naming this little boy statue peter

obviously i got distracted when i was walking back to my apartment

good old clifton natural foods

rainbow of produce; if only they would lower the price

oh look it's myra's; teeny tiny restaurant where i work

get excited for more pictures to come; i bought this camera as a birthday present to myself && to keep me entertained this summer while i take summer classes.

how do you plan to keep entertained this summer?

any photo tips?

the sun has finally returned. it has been grey as can be around here for the past week and i don't know how long. friday we had a thunderstorm right above our house. lightning struck our next door neighbor's redwood tree. it was devastatingly fascinating.

what do i want? 

i'm at a crossroads. i feel like a damn cliche. i have choices that are only mine to make. i have to decide what i want.

i want beauty. i want laughter. i want the picture in my head. 

i want fresh. i want to flit around town with messy hair and a t-shirt. i want an identity.

there.

step one) smile more.

what do [you] want?

today's agenda: 

• dave farmar podcast
• shower
• produce shopping
• homework
• be outside

agenda for this fine sunday?

note: all images from weheartit.com

"the people who make us happy are never the one's you expect." --skins

breakfast

i thought i was over oatmeal.
do not get me wrong, oatmeal and i had some exquisitely delicious and comforting times. but i've been enjoying more variety (sprouted english muffins, toast, waffles) in my breakfasts lately & oats got knocked off their pedestal.
but this morning oats were divine, yummy and beautiful. i wish i had a picture.


the recipe shall suffice:

1/3 cup old fashion oats

1 small banana; some cooked in

a few raisins

1 apricot

1 tbsp almond butter

1 tsp pure maple syrup

note: almost all images from weheartit.com

altogether now--

1/3 cup old fashion oats

1 small banana

raisins

1 apricot, sliced

1 tbsp almond butter

1 tsp pure maple syrup

i microwave my oats seeing as i don't have a pot to my name, and i am too impatient for them to cook stovetop anyway. so my method:

add water to oats (maybe 2/3 cup...) microwave 1 minute. add some banana. microwave 1 minute. add raisins. microwave 30 seconds (or till you get to a consistency you like). add apricot slices, remaining banana, maple syrup, and almond butter. gingerly stir, to let everyone awkwardly mingle.

enjoy.

how did you begin your day this morning?