Milwaukee Art Museum: After Dark Party

So, in my quest to find something cool about Milwaukee. My sister and I have been trying to make a consience effort to enjoy the city in which we were born. My sis heard from a friend about this after hours event at the Milwaukee Art Museum...which is an archetectual jewel in Milwaukee. It was a fun night mixing some really cool exhibits with some really random "abstract" dance productions by UWM students. But, overall it was defiently worth a night out.

My favorite part however was the photo booth they had set up. The best pics will be features in next years catalog for the event. Here was our attempt at being the best:




And one of our own:

R.I.P. Old Friend!

This weekend I had to say good bye to a good friend. We've spent every day together for the last two years, but on Friday...he died. My beloved Blackberry (or more appropriate, Crackberry) decided to give up on life after a long life. It was a sad day...but I secretly have to admit I have been eyeing the newer model for quite some time now. The silver lining in this grey cloud was that the day it died was the first day I was eligible for a full discount on a new phone. THANK YOU LORD!! I am now the proud owner of a hot red blackberry curve. Yeah!

As a final tribute to my old friend, a picture:

Tattoo!

I've always lived my middle name, JOY! I think it is a quality too often lacking in the world. There are so many things that can bring people down; I love that having Joy as a part of my name is a constant reminder to apply it to my life. For the longest time I have always said I would NEVER get a tattoo...I'm usually too indecisive. But, as usual my declerations, always have a way of overturning themselves. After going through some hard stuff in college, I had a new appreciation for the word JOY. So I started thinking about getting the word Joy in hebrew tattoed on me as a constant visual reminder. From there, everything fell into place. My sisters came to me about wanting tattoos and even got my mom on board, which of course made me jump on board. Then when I started my Pilates training my instructor was this awesome chick from Isreal. So of course I asked her to help me find just the right word.

In the end, my sisters and my mom hadn't decided what they wanted before my older sis was heading off to live in Southeast Asia for the next two years. So, I decided I didn't want to wait, but I brought them along to watch...and take pictures of course. Plus, this way they are even more inspired to get theirs in 2010!

The word I chose is actually used as a name in Isreal. It says Giliyah...which means "My Joy is in God" or "Joy of the LORD"
It comes from GILI, meaning Joy
and YHWH (Yahweh), meaning LORD (God)

GOING INSIDE!


Ascending to my fate! We just thought it was a cool staircase!


Last look at my naked foot...


Almost done...and it totally didn't hurt...which was wierd!


Dan, my new BFF...


The finished product..but it looks so much better when it's not red!

I'm Cold!

So for the last 8 years I have lived in Southern California where the weather is fabulous and a balmy 90 degrees this time of year. But today I got a dose of reality since being back in WI since June. October is cold! Today it started snowing...and then hailing...and then snowing again. It makes me wonder...why do people choose to live here? IF it weren't for the closeness of family and the free rent...Lord, knows I'd be on a beach right now!

Here is my new winter coat. The 3/4 length sleeve numbers I was rocking in SoCal weren't cutting it anymore!

Let's try this again...

Okay, so after a year of not blogging...I'm saying "let's try this again" I would like to insert some sort of lofty promise or measurable goal that I will blog often...but for know I'm just saying "I'll try"

So, to catch you up...these are the happs of the the last 12 months:

Dec 2007: Trip to Indonesia/Singapore to visit Katy, Brad, et al. (Awesome!)
April 2008: Event planning freelance-job to Puerto Vallarta with my friend Debbie
May 2008: Quit sucky full-time job
June 2003: Move back to WI (Goodbye LA...for now)
June 2008: Katy, Brad, et al come back to the states for 5 months
June-July: Unemployed and loving it! Hanging out with the fam
July: Get waitressing job & hired at a Gym (so they can pay for my Pilates training)
September: Start my pilates certification train! YEAH!

Okay, so that pretty much sums it up in words, here are some pictures:

FAMILY PIC IN SINGAPORE

OUR HOME AWAY FROM HOME IN INDONESIA

GOOD RIDDENS SUCKY JOB!!!

GOOD BYE LOVELY FRIENDS!

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GOOD BYE LA!!!

SUMMER LOVIN!!!

FALL, so far...