Archives for “#best09”

Umm… Happy 2010!  So clearly I fell off the wagon with consistant posting, but that’s going to change!  At least I tell myself as such.  In effort to finish what I started in December, and move on with my bloggin’ life here’s my first venture into the realm of video blogs.  Clearly there’s work to [...]

  Monday evening I’ll be partaking in perhaps the most significant car ride of this year. What began as a trip charted as a holiday venture to visit my über preggo sister in PA for the Christmas holiday, and then on the return swing through Ohio to visit a super close friend of Tara’s suddenly [...]

via xkcd.com “Interesting” is most certainly how I’d sum up my 2009.  An incredibly full blend of loss, stress, frustration, rebirth, discovery, socializing, karaoke, dipping my toes into the “dating scene”, quickly removing aforementioned toes from said scene because the “scene” felt too much like an awkward joke people play on themselves, re-learning to be [...]

via peets.com I absolutely LOVE coffee and could geek out forever experiencing various blends, roasts, brews… but I just don’t crave the stuff.  It might be that it’s somewhat in my blood as my mom and her father before her both had stints roasting beans and running coffee shops respectively; and while my time spent [...]

Anywhere near this girl. How to Join the Best of 2009 Challenge: http://www.gwenbell.com/blog/2009/11/30/the-best-of-2009-blog-challenge.html

via amazon.com I find myself in a bit of a sitch, as I purposely refrained from blogging about my best challenge of this year.  It was quite the maelstrom of suck, as long term relationships that come to a sudden and rocky conclusion can be, and I felt it inappropriate to really wax nostalgic upon [...]

Several weeks ago I visited my parent’s home in Sebastian, FL with my lady.  It was a warm, sunny day and I was lounging in the pool… just floating… floating and zoning. Tara asked me what I was thinking about, as she often does, because I’m usually lost in thought with my trademark pensive furrow [...]

via amazon.com Without question, my notable favorite read of the year was Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”.  At times whimsical, melancholy, joyful, and then utterly heart breaking, this story had a significant impact on me with it’s themes of love and loss set in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, and [...]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhqZ0RU95d4&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6&border=1]   While this is clearly not an “article” per se, it’s hands down one of the most inspiring, influential, and ass kicking messages I’ve absorbed this year, and have shared with many. On most days, there is a lot of noise in my head regarding my current job/career thing/path.  Typically a cocktail comprised of [...]

I have a tendency to tackle my posts in stages (as well as think too much, be hard on myself, and get confused in my brain), as I still work on training myself to take time to make time for focused writing sessions.  With my Posterous account I’ll submit via gmail, so I ready the [...]

Sannnnnn-Franciscooooo.  An extended weekend trip born out of a desire to get away and decompress for a while, became an excursion to not only take in the sights and sounds of the Pacific coast… But also to see about a girl.  A very, very special girl… but more on her at a later date. I [...]