giving up too easily….(Edited)

25 06 2009

 A commenter one post back made a good observation. I do give up waaay too easily. Why is this?

 I’ve had it way too easy for way too long.

 Sad but true.

 I could make this a therapy page and go on and on about it, but I won’t. I don’t want to diss anyone. It’s the truth though. I’ve had it way too easy for way too long. And I’ve liked it that way.

 I’ve thought about this the last few days after hearing news about a step-cousin of mine who hasn’t graduated from high school on time. Does he have plans of finishing up? Hell if I know. He just plainly didn’t feel like attending school. Why? No one made him. (I also don’t want to generalize what’s happening here though. I think there’s a lot more than what meets the eye.)

 Now I’m not that bad. I do have goals for myself. Really, I do. :)   It’s just that at the first sign of discouragement, I buckle under. I feel there’s no point until I have to make it a point.

 And that is just sucky, in my opinion. I need to stick it out!!!!!!

 So, let me ask you this, dear readers. What should I do to conquer this?

 And btw, here’s the link to my last article:

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-1264-Fullerton-Community-Examiner~y2009m6d24-Dazzling-wedding-locations-exist-right-at-your-doorstep

 And now to find out what’s happening with MJ. I wish I had some of his records now!


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pretty churches deserve a place before stupid songs…

24 06 2009

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 I just had to show this picture because I did an article on church venues for weddings in the city I live in. Since it looks like no one is clicking on my links for my articles  from my blog, I guess I won’t include them anymore. :(

 So anyway, even though a cuckoo group bought the church, I absolutely love the design of it. The building is 100 years old. Here are some stained-glass windows from the inside of it.           

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 I about died when I walked in the church and saw these gorgeous windows, which are original to the building. I think I let out a loud gasp and said something like, “Ohhhhhhhhhhh.” Then I saw the pink pew cushions and shut up…. The church was condemned after the Whittier earthquake of 1987, and if all my old-school people remember, that color pink was around quite frequently on chairs, etc. If I gave a damn this evening I’d pull up some photos of this awful pink on chairs in the ’90s, but I don’t…. :)

 Aren’t the stained glass windows gorgeous though?

 I also saw the church across the street from them-a gorgeous Methodist church. And that nearly made me want to pass out because it was so stunning. Ironically enough, this first church belonged to the stunning Methodist church, and they sold that plot of land 80 years ago to build an even bigger church-across the street. Here are the pictures that came out at the stunning Methodist church:

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 This stairway leads down to the sanctuary. I can see that probably many brides have taken photos on this stairwell. I would certainly want to!

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 This stained glass window faces the entrance to the church. Lousy shot but gorgeous window!

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 The stained glass window from the street. :)

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 And finally, the belltower in the church.

Needless to say, I loved this church! And please leave me a comment if you’d like me to post the link.

 Stupid wedding songs coming in the next post. Boy did I find some doozies!


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where have all the flowers gone?

20 06 2009

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 They’re right here! :)

 I just loved the bouquet above that my friend had at her wedding over a week ago. A friend of hers from work had a sister who does this and so she got her two bouquets-one for her and one for her daughter. As a wedding gift. How great!

 I was just looking up prices of wedding flowers. One Web site said $3,000.00 is the average price of wedding flowers. Three thousand dollars for flowers that die????? Amazing. I used to work with a woman who shared this philosophy and told me that she had silk flowers at her wedding because of that. Her mother later made her something out of all the flowers that she kept in her home. Three-thousand dollars for wedding flowers…. Wow!!!! There must be cost-cutting measures for this.

 Oh, and I also wrote another article.

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-1264-Fullerton-Community-Examiner~y2009m6d20-Remember-these-things-when-picking-the-date-and-time-for-your-special-day

 Please read. :) Pleeeeeeeeeeeease?

 And there you have my wedding rant. Tomorrow will be wedding songs. The good, the bad, the stupid.


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It’s the simple things that excite me

19 06 2009

                               bonaventure

 You can tell I don’t get out of Orange County very often, because this was sooo cool to me. I went here last night for an event for the Web site that I freelance for and rode the elevator all the way up to the 32nd floor, and down, and up, and down again. (I probably could have ridden it ten more times. :) ) This hotel was shown at the beginning of the TV show “It’s A Living” in the ’80s, so I kept thinking of that as I walked through their many floors. Cool location.

 Speaking of the Web site I freelance for, I wrote this article today about engagement party sites in my wonderful city.

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-1264-Fullerton-Community-Examiner~y2009m6d19-Celebrate-this-special-occasion-right-in-the-heart-of-the-city

 It was fun to research all the different spots in the city! Sunday is pre-marital counseling, so I have to find a gap in between now and then. :)

 The water is off in my complex for some reason. Greeeat.

 No shower for me!


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I need to clean out the back seat soon…

18 06 2009

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because I’m heading to an event in a few hours for the Web site I freelance for. I normally wouldn’t care except for the fact that it’s in downtown LA and I don’t want the valets at the Bonaventure Hotel taking my crap. :)

 I did a short little ditty of an article last night about engagement rings. (Hence the picture above…) I basically took a jaunt to a jewelry store in the mall by me and learned all about diamond quads and how the average engagement rings are around $3,000. Diamond quads are basically cuts of princess-cut diamonds that they piece together to create an illusion of a larger ring. I frankly think it looks very ugly when you see them up close. (Sorry to anyone who has a ring like that!) I saw a three-carat ring in the store’s case and when they brought it out to show me, all I could think was eeeeeeewwwww. They had this covering over the ring that really made it look bad. However, is any diamond really a bad thing? Here is the link to the article:

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-1264-Fullerton-Community-Examiner~y2009m6d17-Even-in-rough-economy-diamonds-still-are-a-girls-best-friend

 (And yes, I need to change my headshot. My face isn’t that fat anymore.)

 I did my research today for the next article I’ll write. It’ll be about engagement party spots in Fullerton. They seem like unique spots!

 Onto cleaning out the car now!


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