June 21, 2010 [Day 21]...After 4 nights of Phish shows, I was pretty beat. I intended to go kayaking up in Saratoga, and the weather would have allowed for it. But instead, I headed towards home and decided to stop in New Paltx instead. I really loved it. I had sushi lunch and did some antiquing. After all of the weekend's group activities, it felt really good to have some bonding time with myself.

June 20, 2010 [Day 20]...I chose the photo because I feel like it represented the vibe of the day. We all felt like kids just enjoying the summer.

June 19, 2010 [Day 19]...This is the "money shot." I think it is actually from Friday night, but since they rocked it out until about 1am, I am taking my chances on it being the picture of the day for Saturday. Plus, I actually have no photos from Saturday. A big chunk of the weekend is missing! Nothing from the campsite...I can't believe it. I was living in the moment and loving it.

June 18, 2010 [Day 18]...Ahhhh...my first trip to Mystic, CT. It was just a day trip as we needed to be back into Hartford that night for Phish (I had SICK seats I might add). But it was more about hanging with the boys in Mystic that day than the concert at night. I felt like I was entering Brad's world for a day, and it felt good. A little bit of a high school crush I think!

June 17, 2010 [Day 17]...These are one of my favorite flowers. I think it is the bright orange color. Whenever I finally have my own house, they will definitely be among the flowers I plant. This particular photo was taken at a rest stop in Connecticut. I was pretty stressed out b/c I hurt my sister's feelings by not waiting around for her to make up her mind about which Phish shows she wanted to attend. Then (right after this stop) got stuck in a ton of CT traffic. My other friends started the tailgate without me, and I was less than pleased! I really felt like I had made the wrong decision going up on a Thursday night. But once I got there, I put everything behind me and had the most awesome weekend.

June 16, 2010 [Day 16]...I was totally rushing trying to get my shit together for the weekend of Phish shows. I sent my friend a care package a few months back with some CD's, and he really seemed to like them. So despite the fact that it was already like 11pm, I sat down to make a few more. I color coordinate them...what a geek I am!

June 15, 2010 [Day 15]...Waiting for my sister to arrive for an "emergency" sushi dinner.

June 14, 2010 [Day 14]...FLAG DAY! Morristown is so patriotic. There were at least 10 homes in a row with a flag.

June 13, 2010 [Day 13]...I imagine I will have a lot of door mat photos. My friends all make fun of me b/c I have a doormat for every season or holiday. I really do. I have a pile of at least 20 in my basement. Many holidays there is one in the front and back of the house. This is the first one out for the summer.

June 12, 2010 [Day 12]...Some of the beach house gang going out to breakfast for Kerrie's birthday. In honor of flag day (her actual birthday), I am wearing red, white, and blue. I completely support her in this cheeziness b/c I can relate. I used to force my friends to dress up for Halloween. If they were not dressed up, they were not allowed to come out with me!

June 11, 2010 [Day 11]...Awesome patrol car from the 70's coming out of the car wash with California plates on it. This thing was legit.

June 10, 2010 [Day 10]...There was a silent auction at my gym, and I saw this great jersey. The namesake of my favorite football team (terrible as they have been the better part of my life)!

June 9, 2010 [Day 9]...I got this gift card 2 or 3 Christmas's ago. I am not a big pasta person, and in NJ, who needs to go to The Olive Garden anyway? But my friend suggested we meet there before a movie, and I was like "awesome, we can use the gift card I have." Sure enough I do not even so much as think about it until I am on my way home. Typical. I will probably lose it before I spend it! (P.S. This is the same reason I do not clip coupons)

June 8, 2010 [Day 8]...Every year I plant flowers in tera cotta pots out on my back porch. I just thought this was cool because a pansy actually came up in the space between the driveway and concrete slab. I didn't plant any pansies this year..had no idea it was a perennial.

June 7, 2010 [Day 7]...I was just super psyched to come home and see this in the mailbox. Phish is only a week away!

June 6, 2010 [Day 6]..."RED" This is the name given to my bike 5 summers ago when I bought it (for obvious reasons). At the time, my beach house was all the way down First Ave (almost to the inlet), and it was a good mile or more to my friend's house next to O'Neill's. I had wanted a beach cruiser for years and finally had an excuse for one. And so the trend began. Now I am actually part of the house I spent so much time at, and there are at least 6 cruisers in the garage. This bike has brought me so much joy. Pure joy. It makes me feel like a kid, and I have a smile on my face whenever I am riding it. I love, love, love this bike!
I also got hit by a car on it once, but that's a whole other story.

June 5, 2010...[Day 5]...OK, I'll admit it. I kind of let the whole picture taking thing slide today. But here I find myself out at Parker House happy hour without my camera. Dan to the rescue! I must have a good 100 pictures taken at the Parker House over the years. Ahh...another
summer begins "down the shore."

June 4, 2010 [Day 4]...Today I got an email from my landlord that he is selling the house I have been living in the past 8 1/2 years. I know that is way too long to be renting the same place (I probably should have bought a place years ago) but I really love my place on Wetmore. Morristown is the first place I ever considered "home." As in when people ask me where I am from, this is what I tell them. Not where I grew up or where my parents live, but the place I moved to October 1, 2001, just a few short months after graduation.

June 3, 2010 [Day 3]...So clearly I suck at this blogging thing. I have really gotten into this "project" as far as taking the pictures is concerned, but I have been pretty slack at writing about it. Since I really wasn't so sure if I could commit to the on-line writing, I thought I would couple this experiment with a journal. I have never been the type to write, but I thought this might help me on a couple of accounts. I have been having a terrible time sleeping. This has been going on for almost a good 2 years now. I first thought it was lack of exercise when I fractured my tibia. But the poor sleep continued. I have a really hard time settling my mind down when I go to bed. Half of the time, I am not even sure what I am thinking about, but the thoughts (or anxiety?) are clearly there. I am hoping the journal helps me get the thoughts in my head sorted out so I can rest better.

June 2, 2010 [Day 2]...I spent so much time on the first "real" day of this challenge thinking about what I wanted my picture of the day to be. I really thought that something was going to jump out at me. But nothing, nothing, nothing all day. Then while parked at a light on my way home from the gym, I saw a political poster. Now I know this photo kind of sucks (I was messing with trying to find my camera and getting the shot before the light turned!) but that's not the point. The last name of one of the candidates was Mastrangelo. That was the last name of my friend Chris who passed away about 2 and 1/2 years ago. The sign reminded me of him, and it was not a memory or thought I would have otherwise had. Nothing too spectular or amazing or thoughtprovoking...just an emotion. It was at this moment that I realized the photo of the day can be something really simple. Most of the times it probably will be. But I am hoping it will help bring to light the little things that capture a piece of my mind on any given day.

June 1, 2010 [Day 1]...After a few (ok, like 5 or 6) drinks, Rob, Priscilla, and I decided to accept the challenge of taking one photo per day for a year and sharing it on a blog. Of course I got excited and immediately started taking photos, but I really had no idea what I was committing to until the next morning. Technically it was already morning when we made this deal, but you get the drift. I started to worry a little bit that a blog would make me feel too exposed. I have never done this type of thing before, and for God's sake, I screen the shit out of something so little as my Facebook status! But a deal is a deal, so here we go.