Life Lately

A Year In Review

Adios 2012! Welcoming 2013 with open arms

What I learned: 

RESPONSIBILITY-- This seemed to be a theme for the Spring and Summer for me. There's an age that 20-somethings hit and it becomes totally unattractive/uncute to be the person to pass responsibility to others. I'd rather be the girl who take cares of those "terrible grow up responsibility's" instead of throwing it to others

BITCH--Gosh how I fell in love with this word. I'd rather be a woman who is up front with what she wants and doesn't want in life. A bitch but not in a rude way. Someone who is clear with direction.

ACTIVE--Whenever I start to feel the reds happening..I have to either stretch it out or walk it off to give me balance again. How could I forget/ignore this??? It makes anyone happy-- healing that emotional pain in us. I also have to remember to be active in my professional life because that also makes me see red, when I ignore my passions.

TRUE FRIENDS--I love them. I miss the ones that live far from me. But I've learned to not take my friends for granted. Friendships are relationships. You have to meet each other both half way.

ESSENCE OF COOL--For me, the essence of cool, can be people who don't try to do something because it sounds magical but just are. People like this seem to really listen to whats around them.

LISTEN--I can only complain for so long until I realized I needed to listen to what was happening around me, move on, and take action.


Here's to 2013!!! I'm SO excited to take what I came out of 2012 with and use it for the better in '13            

All I Want For Christmas (!)

My boyfriend love was sweet and covered All I Want For Christmas. I love it. & him & his voice.

Via

New Life On Ohio Ave

Pardon My French

" To me, a bitch is assertive, unapologetic, demanding, intimidating, intelligent, fiercely protective, in control---all very positive attributes. But it's not supposed to be a compliment, because there's that old stupid double standard: When men are aggressive and dominant, they are admired, but when a woman possesses those same qualities, she is dismissed and called a bitch....
.... I strive to be a bitch, because not being one sucks. Not being a bitch means not having your voice heard. Not being a bitch means you agree with all the bullshit. Not being a bitch means you don't appreciate all the other bitches who have come before you." 

---- Margaret Cho ----  

Yellow Springs,Ohio

A little weekend trip to Yellow Springs, Ohio: The cutest little town..Mike's Grandma Rose turned 92 with a family birthday bash. It was a really fun time and we were sad to say goodbye. 

Test Shoot w/ Clyde

My good friend Clyde is a lovely photographer. I'm always happy to do a test shoot with her. She always pushes me to want to be my best.

Young & Free

 These photos are from 2009 and one of my favorite nights filled with the former band The Widows, summer heat, beer, Hollywood history, dancing, pizza, friends and Wolfmother. If I could have more nights like this one I would. Young&Free. 

Links to my current crushes:

How to do a perfect knot

A Daisy dress

A t.v show that is saving my sanity

 

"A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired." --- The Great Gatsby

Photo Credits: Yasya Fogelgardt

Spring Bones

A Small Update:

Please forgive me for my lack of posts..I do think of Blondunderwater often and how I've slacked off from her.
  I'm unable to finish reading the book The Help..At first I was enjoying it, then slowly I started to become bored and ready to move on.  I can't move on because I am unable to finish. There is a pile of summer reading books that I want to get to.  But I have to finish The Help even if my focus has been shaky.
  My writing has suffered because my math class has had me swimming with numbers. If you know me well, you know that math and I have a bumpy relationship. Math is a subject that should belong in a whole other post. It always, without fail, makes me feel manic.
  Los Angeles has been interesting lately. Sometimes boring, stressful, and leaving me feeling stupid. Most of this isn't the city's fault but rather my headquarters. I'm ready for something new, clean, nothing heavy and something that respects my own personal space. R-E-S-P-E-C-T

Until next time,

xoxo

Libby
   

A Small Preview

A small preview of a photo shoot I did with Lou on Friday

"An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's."

-- J.D. Salinger




image via pinterest

Tips for a show business life or any type of life

Sunset Blvd. 

If we took this to heart life would be good and calm and not desperate

"Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves,not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others." -Philippians 2:3-4

Miike Snow -Animal

Just let me dance to this song....I'll be good all day and all night.

Almost First Kiss

My lips are wet and ready but I'm a terrified sixteen-year-old girl. His hair is a curly jet black that matches handsomely with his pale freckled face. As he leans in, I'm wide-eyed with giggles falling from my mouth. Now his eyes look sad and hurt because he's a sixteen year old boy. My mind is void except for the fact that I'm not ready for this. I won't be ready for six more years.

Music Monday

"I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is"

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Horizontal, not to get it confused with vertical but hey it happens. How far is one supposed to go? Are we supposed to think the horizon tastes better or is that a sunset with a rainbow? My imagination isn't very high but is in the low calming area of my thoughts. She's learning something, taking things in so she can write past this horizon.

Happy New Years!!!