Happy Birthday Tetris!
Saturday, June 6th, 2009
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- Tetris Art
Congrats for turning 25 and still being just as awesome! Thanks for inspiring artists to make sculptures that I want to take photos of. And thanks for the hours of addicting entertainment you have provided to me and many friends. Listen to the theme music for old time’s sake. Other Tetris theme songs.
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From Russia with Fun Media Coverage:
25 Years of Tetris: From Russia With Fun! (TIME)
Have a Block Party: Tetris turns 25 (Chicago Tribune)
Tetris: Rock around the Blocks (Globe and Mail)
Computer game Tetris celebrates 25 years (Telegraph)
Houston, Ho!!!
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
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Sandra and Goeril, our German couchsurfers
Yessiry! I am fixin’ to be saying Howdy to Houston! I am meeting up with my mom and sister who are already there visiting Ma. It will be a nice way to spend a couple of days. Wow, it’s been a while since I’ve really written much.
I just updated the Examiner website with a little blurb on Houston’s Mixers & Elixirs event and linked up Val’s Youtube video. Give it a looksee. :)
In May, we had some great guests from Germany (couchsurfers) stay with us for a few nights (ok, five nights). They even accompanied us to Texas when we went down to celebrate my Mom’s bday (check out the photos)!
Brennan's Baptism
My little cousin Brennan was also baptized last month (photos on Picasa). He’s grown sooo much in just a short period of time, it’s pretty incredible. I just hope Sheila and Justin, the proud parents, can return to a normal sleep routine soon. Having a newborn is certainly taking a little bit of a toll on them.
Begun with Internet Magnetic Poetry
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
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heroes stumbling
quickly emptying
riches from the safe
grabbing the girl
on the way
out
an afterthought?
What is a hero if he is not rich?
Create your own work of art with internet magnetic poetry.
Time Flies! 1 Year Already
Friday, May 8th, 2009
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Wow, it’s really hard to believe Justin and I have already been engaged for a whole year!
Justin surprised me today with a pair of earrings to mark the occasion (What a sweetheart!). They’re not any old earrings, either. They’re Swarovski earrings that perfectly match my engagement ring. Super awesome!
Maybe we’ll actually plan a wedding… one of these days…
Let’s recap the year:
- May - Engaged on the River Walk in San Antonio!
- Val! and I went out to celebrate the engagement
- June - Justin and I started off the summer right with a picnic in Flushing Park (photos)
- We headed to Montana (photos and more photos) for my work and spent a day in Denver, which was a lot of fun (photos from Denver)
- Justin, Mom, Val!, (Joey), and I had a misadventure while hiking in the Catskills which resulted in stitches for me (photos)
- July - We had a great trip to Puerto Rico with Marisa and Alex (photos)
- Justin, Val! and I all turned 28
- August - Justin and I were stressed because Ruby developed Cherry Eye… but we got it fixed and she’s been great since!
- I got to see Sheila’s new house and Justin and I spent time with lots of family and friends in August (photos)
- September - I was back in Montana for work and Justin visited me for one amazing weekend (photos)
- JetBlue was completing work on T5 and Justin and I went to the Chili Pepper Fiesta in Brooklyn (photos)
- October - Justin and I celebrated our 4th anniversary by taking a vacation to Poland (with a stop in Vienna)! (photos)
- We met up with Jenny and Cody in Vieques, Puerto Rico! (photos)
- We celebrated Halloween properly by having a Pumpkin Carving Party (photos) and heading to a Halloween Party (photos). The puppies also got in on the action (photos)
- We took a day trip to Maine to check out fall foliage (one photo)
- November - Justin and I took off for two weeks in Australia, including Thanskgiving!
- December - We returned from Australia to enjoy snowy weather in NY and Christmas in Texas (photos)
- We drove our car alllll the way from San Antonio to New York! (photos)
- January - Not my favorite start to the new year. Justin and I found out I was being laid off from my job.
- February - I left for a week in Switzerland to visit Val! and BigP (photos)
- We visited Eric in LA (photos) and had a lot of fun with friends here in NY
- March - Sheila’s baby shower was this month (photos)
- Our friend Thao got baptized (photos)
- We went to Puerto Rico (El Yunque and Fajardo photos and Culebra photos) with Alex, Marisa, Tom, Niki, and Emily. Fun times!
- April - Brennan, Sheila’s baby, was born (photos)
- We took Alex and Marisa to Texas for the weekend (photos)
- May - Ruby and Eve, our puppies, turned 2 years old (photos)
Happy Birthday to My Mom!
Thursday, April 30th, 2009
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Happy 60th Birthday Mom!
Overcoming Sleeplessness by Journaling
Friday, April 10th, 2009
Posted in Thoughts, Writing by Vanessa | 6 Comments - add yours now!
Everything devolves. Everything trends toward decay.
We are living in the petri dish of our own halfway point. The organizing, cleaning, exercise, and motivation has ceased. We wait to see what will happen. If anything will grow.
Ambition has ground to a halt. Projects have paused midstream. They often do. Everything is on hiatus. When left to its own devices, nature breaks things down - rot, weakness, crumbling, oblivion are inevitable.
Is there beauty in dystopia? We used to think so. We were children (”We are all just foolish children, searching desperately for ourselves, and in that struggle, we are lost.” - Me circa 1995/1996) and everything we thought or wept meant so much. It was never “Now what?” but always “What’s next?” The world was rife with beauty, sorrow, loneliness, and possibilities - even in the futile sameness I perceived was out there. My isolated, questioning tears seemed so significant.
We write things off as “the angst of youth.” For us, it was a time of self-centered importance, to be sure, but also of analysis, of well thought out arguments lasting into the early morning hours. Of ideas that created stories, self-published magazines, performances, and, yes, philosophical movements. It was a time of possibility and action. Not, as now, of taking things at face value. Accepting and not questioning. Taking what is offered without striving for personal goals and growth.
These are the thoughts preventing my sleep tonight, probably because I’ve got a meeting with a tech recruiter tomorrow which has made me introspective. In my dreams last night I was a super hero, graced with exceptional speed and the power to manipulate objects with my mind, but I was unable to achieve my desired transformation - to dissolve into a billion particles and disperse. To escape the evil pursuers attempting to capture me and obtain the information I was privy to. (I don’t recall what this was.) I wonder if we’ll ever understand the significance of dreams…
Is this odd, in-between place really where true change occurs? Is the past gone forever? Or, more importantly, are those people that we were gone forever?
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