YOU DON'T NEED TO TELL ME

I know I’m not very good at keeping up with my new goal.  I wanted to start posting at least once a week and that has not gone very well since the last time I posted was on July 21.  Go me!!  Anyway, Recently I’ve been unhappy with my blog the way I designed it and such that I’m trying to remodel it.  So, as of right now my blog is under construction for the time being.  I’m hoping it will be like a week, but I sometimes have no concept of time (and I’ll be the first to admit it).  If you keep checking back my page will hopefully be changing daily.  I do have some posts I’ve written and just haven’t published.  I will be getting to these too.  I'm very picky when it comes to my writing (something about studying creative writing does this to you) so I nit pick at everything I write.  I will try to be better and not worry so much and just go with my instinct of writing.

This tin man is from the west, unlike Dorothy's. So, he's not as sensitive about things and knows to go inside when it rains.

M.I.A.

I’ve made it a goal to be better at keeping up my blog.  My problem is everyday I think “I will blog tonight,” but I’m not just thinking about my blog during the day.  I’m also thinking about the book I’m recently reading (which I don’t seem to keep updated on here very well either) and I can’t help myself I just go straight to reading and think “I’ll blog later.” Then I get tired after reading and go to sleep instead.  And it would be lying to say I’ve been a little obsessed with the whole last Harry Potter movie being released (AWESOME - by the way.  I have to see it again soon or I might lose the will to go on.)  So, now I will try harder to devote time to this blog at least once a week instead of once in a great while.  

Since I last blogged about my oh so fun filled life I have been to Philadelphia, PA; Mystic, CT; and Palmyra, NY.  Shilo and I went to visit Philly (or better known on the east coast as Wayne) and his family.  We got to meet his new baby and get to know his wife better.  It was a very fun weekend.  Philadelphia is a fun city, not too busy but of course not little either.  Here are a few of the places we saw during the weekend:

The LIberty Bell

Benjamin Franklin’s grave

A Real Philly Cheesesteak 

In the Italian Market

Along With A Pizza

The Rocky Statue

... And The Famous Steps on the way to the art museum.

I don’t think anyone was really there to go to the art museum 

A view of the city from the top of the steps

The building straight ahead is the Philadelphia City Hall.  On the top is a statue of Benjamin Franklin and when the building was first built the rule was made that no building should be taller than that statue.  Now obviously surrounding buildings are much taller than it, and they say the sports teams of Philly are cursed.  (though this isn’t true since the Philly’s won the world series in 2008.) But they do dress up Ben with basketball and baseball jersey’s.  

And I thought this was just another interesting find in the Italian Market