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Should old acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind...
What is it about the New Year that makes people create so many resolutions, boundaries and op ions of others and things associated with anything before 12 midnight ... which was er um just a second ago? So we Cheer, and we shake noise makers, throw streamers ... rock out with our jocks out to welcome in another 365 days.
What changed at midnight?
Did your bank account become flooded with millions? Did your circumstances or living quarters smell of roses and dandelion? How about the pumpkin of a car ... did it mysteriously turn into that four house powered beamer that you've been eyeing.
Things that may have changed at that moment... Your relationships with others after you became a belligerent drunk and jumped into the pool naked...Your dogs bowels since you decided to give it a New Years drink after all ... your job since you took it upon yourself to drunk dial your boss and say what you've really been feeling for the last 365 days... and last but not least your phone plan since you've used up all your anytime and where ever minutes texting people who are "Just not that into you" -- HELLOU
I just don't get the whole ideology behind "IT'S A NEW YEAR AND A BRAND NEW ME" ... c'mon. I mean obviously i get it -- but really?
No really?
CLIP!
Everyday is a new day ... I don't see anyone promoting any NEW DAY RESOLUTIONS PARTIES!!! At what point in the old year to you say forget it and chalk it up as a loss? 245 days? 120 days in? Where do all of your resolutions go to die? Do you recycle or trade in resolutions? I like the people who try to be inventive and ask everyone "So what are your resolutions this year?" ... then try to BRA-HA HA this brand new way to say the same thing they said and didn't do last year.
WOW - REALLY, DUDE?
no really?
What is it? You have the next day or even the next hour if your motivated to re-vamp the program. I get the whole mistakes make you resilient ... love that. I saw the same folks "WORKING OUT" last New Years ... 20 pounds heavier this NYE. Guess what their resolution was this time around ... "WORKING OUT AND REALLLY STICKING TO IT" and I KNEW they were serious because they put the emphasis on REALLY!!
I mean, don't get me wrong as cynical as this blog may be I'm a GREAT supporter of ideas. I love what's authentic as well as refurbished. Adore the creative and inventive ... by nature I'm practical, yet I'm a hopeless romantic - I like dates that leave the earth like hot air balloon rides with champgne and stomach aches. I respect what's real and at times appreciate and become infatuated with the elusive. I'm an ambivalent gypsy from another time ... yet I was birthed from my mothers womb on May the 18th way back in 1977.
Life is whatever you make it. A new second, minute, hour, day creates a new space upon your book of "ME".
Changing your resolutions won't make them stick, but changing you and your habits will make way for a new you in the new year and for that you don't have to wait out another 365 days!
Be your boss
Know yourself
Create your own life - dont let the New Year map it out and mold it for you!
Thanks for stopping by!
New Year ... New You? WTF?
::: HOTT-NESS:::
The HOTTNESS that is Michael Schmidt http://www.mesfoto.com/ ... This guy has been on my vision board since about a month after he and I first spoke. After I saw his work I KNEW one thing for certain and that was that I would be working with him. I had to work with him. His work (TO ME) is extra-ordinary, there is a quiet drama to it ... a story within a story and he's just DOPE AS HELL. So close to 8 months go by and not another word from me to Michael or him to myself for that matter. I had this constant brain worm of a story I wanted to shoot and I was in need of WARDROBE, that was my issuse so I thought. Not just any wardrobe ... high-end fall wardrobe ... edgy ... non-LA and without the essential that a stylist would need to access the digs. I was frustrated (i think) with folks telling me that I would NOT be able to get this project off the ground. Silly me. I worked against that ... got back into myself and worked it out. So I had already spoke to Michael but I said to myself I wont bother him until the timing is right. THIS WAS IT, and I didnt...
I sent one email to him and it was all said and done. This guy is the epitome of awesome, we clicked after the pitch ... we were in sync and there was a natural seamless flow to everything from that day on. I cannot say enough about him, his talents and his assistants. He's as down to earth as clay, quicker than a jack-rabbit all hopped up on Mountain Dew and I was speechless (but thankful he took a chance on me) once I set foot on set.
I CANNOT wait to share the super awesome goodness that we created together and I look forward to plenty more splendid things to come from working with him.
Life is as good as you make it ... thrills, spills, falls and all!
I am ecstatic at the endless possibilities that my life holds ...
Thanks for stopping by!
::: From R & R to FULLY CHARDED :::
So I somewhat forgot I had this thing called a blog ... my recent thoughts bring me to
Rest and relaxation and what I know is …
Calm clear blue skies
White sand beaches
Gorgeous waters
Lightly toasted crossed calves
And flanges gripping a nice Corona bottle
(insert commercial here) you can add the occasional birds chirping and hammocks but that’s the jest of it.
And I’m ready. Since my move I have not been able to completely un-wind and enjoy the fruits of my labor, blood, sweat and tears. I laugh, I play, I socialize … I drink but I don’t relax. I do, I’ve done it before and seen it done as well as heard about it thru the many stories of others … However I’ve yet to do it within the last year or so and I’m ready, willing and able. I got my “TO REST” list together, my bags are packed and I’m ready to hit the road running.
(pause... take a deep breath ... exhale ... smile and continue)
SEEEEE WHAT I MEAN???????!?!??!???!
See this below list of
HOW I FEEL TODAY AND OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS and I will run the gamut of just about all of them I’m sure. I would like to further add SHYTFACED, TRASHED and HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE to the list. (ex. See Loaded)
I have my reading material that I’m so pumped and jazzed about … one is “The Artist Way”. I will get back into it … Jati I never made it past Chapter One … but in all fairness I DID NOT go back and peek at my assignments. YEAH for that! The next on my list is THE DREAMGIVER which I’m sure I’ll read on the way over since I have no scripts to KNOCK me out for the flight. Boo to those who won’t allow ambient to be sold over the counter ... who cares if it’s for folks like I!
So I have not seen my bedroom floor in about 3 days BUT in all fairness I’ve been shooting and packing and visiting buds. One has to be social RIGHT? I’ve made some tremendous progress and I’m thrilled beyond thrilled (insert big cheesy smart word there). Part of my trip will be spent appreciating ME and all that I do as well. I am EXTREMLY hard on myself so if there is one person reading this that can stand up and say CRYSTAL you need to do so much more to be so much more IT WOULD BE Crystal Maria HANDS DOWN.
No more. I am blessed and I won’t spit out my list of things to be blessed for because I know this and this I know BUT the number one stunna on the list is I am blessed to be ME!
In my ripe ole age of 20 + 11 I've come to know (WOW another blog someday soon THE THINGS I'VE COME TO KNOW!)
* NOT everyone has my best interest at heart...
* That, some who wish me well secretly despise my efforts and tenacity...
* I am fooling no one but myself to believe that in an failed effort to not procrastinate ... I sleep less, think more, make phone calls earlier so my day only seems like lots of hours with naps inbetween....
* Not everyone who makes me laugh is a friend
* I WILLdo the things of leisure on my list one day...
AND
* Broccoli IS a little betta with chedda...
but I digress as I often do. I tell you my head is a spinning with the thought of getting away. Sleeping in … lying around … not rushing to hop in the shower and out the door, and cold drinks out of coconut shells.
DISCLAIMER FOR BAHAMAS:
I am not the Crystal from 1994
I will not be doing everyone’s make-up
Before we walk out the door!
Hope you get the memo!
XOXOX
And I'll leave you with some recent food for thought ... see above blog!
Thanks for stopping by!
:: JINGO, GRILLED SALMON & GODDESS ::
SIGE - THE GODDESS OF SILENCE!
My weekend will be filled with (until my shoots on Sunday) quiet time, creative time and meditative time... I inspire to do more.
Goddess of silence: She is the eternal silence that was before anything, and will be after everything. She is the space around the stars. She is the highest form of truth and perfection. She reminds us to listen to our own silence for there we will find truth. Be still ... Blessed Be
Sige: Silence. Primal Creatress of Gnostics, who said Silence was the Mother of the Great Goddess Herself. Out of Her was born the first Word, the Logos of Creation.
Sige: is the Gnostic representation of the great silence from which life sprang forth. For me, Sige represents the feminine aspects of our existence—the intuitive knowledge, the seeking within, the inner life forces that are such a great part of our spirituality. Without seeking within, we would not know enlightenment. She is within each of us, She is the great silence that speaks so loudly to us. She is the silence from which our power comes.
She is the silence from which our inspiration is born.
