Naming the Issue

I think my antsy-giddy sleeplessness (feeling lovesick and daydreaming about passionate kisses) has just as much to do with an irrational-based on nothing-teenage style crush on 'Frank' as it does starting (grand opening commencement of) my public blog.  It means a lot to me I guess.  In an almost subconscious way I am aware of the possibilities doing this could bring -and how much it would mean to my daughter, and me!  Just trying this is a big step, and I guess that it what is keeping me up when I wake in the wee hours of the morning -that I am taking a big step.  The beginning of something.  I feel like last week I had reached a plateau and then promptly fell off in a downward spiral.  I knew, not how, that I would break out of it and gather momentum again, but in a different way.  Positivity has many facets, as positivity in and of itself can be difficult to buy into.  I have my own little brand of cynical optimism that you don't read about in the secret and other self-help books.

So that's it, I'm taking a big step.  I think I thought of a http name: thepleasantvilleproject.  It makes sense to me -drives home why I'm doing all this, sort of commemorates where I'm starting and I like the name Pleasantville (the irony, but also that it could be a fun design name...kitschy, playful).

The name itself will no doubt change and be a process of settling in...  I got nuthin' right now, I'll like something for a few minutes, then hate it.

This reminds of the Batman Movies ...love the dark mood

Some findings I'm loving from this morning (trying this joannacoffee style):

• Fashion photographer -and New Yorker- Micheal Creagh.  For a guys point of view. This post in particular I love, some incredible shots of the Brooklyn Bridge during a blizzard earlier this year.
• Combining my intrigue of the french obsession in many blogs, healthy recipes, 'what is chia' and in a very indirect way, interiors I found this editorialized(?) recipe for Cranberry-Chia Granola. Yum.

(Pics aren't loading... swans from rosaline's this is glamorous blog)

• Also, realizing that I could pick almost anything off of Nicole Zabel's Eat and Drink pinboard to make and eat and would be totally happy and further culinarily educated. To-do.

(Pics aren't loading... Avocado and Smashed White Bean Salad)
For extra flavor, mix some fresh lemon juice and chopped garlic into the bean mixture.

• And this, (apropos of my blog title) I am finding brilliantly hilarious right now. "The first step is admitting you have a problem."