Nor'Easter 09

I have written in this journal since September 2001, and have written 2,438 entries. One day I would love to print out the entries and bind it together in a book, but that would be INSANE.

There's only a handful of us left still writing on here, but I am curious to know how many entries other people have written on here and when they started their LJ...

i want to be this girl (minus that pearl necklace):

i'm tired of saying no to myself.
it's time to say yes.

I'm reading Shopgirl again. That novella is like poetry.

i'd rather be getting styling ideas off of this site rather than magazines.
http://www.thesartorialist.blogspot.com/

this is a good place

Letting the Light In

alright, so this may not be funny, but it's funny to me. matthew broadwick is on this stupid show on bravo and if you watch closely you will notice that he is NOT happy being there. in fact, i think he goes so far as to make fun of the host of the show.

Ferris from Erica Emmons on Vimeo.

love this

Lady Gaga from Erica Emmons on Vimeo.

so i haven't been posting pics much lately it seems of our current blue shutter jobs. that's because i want you to check out our blue shutter blog! we post a photo of the day, and our best photos from each job.
blueshutterstudios.com/blog

but i couldn't help but post pics from our last session with bryn and brian. we were so happy with the photos. here are some that i took:) this was for their one year anniversary




( bryn&brian )

so this ralph lauren ad recently ran in magazines and because of all the complaints it recieved, they released a statement:
"After further investigation, we have learned that we are responsible for the poor imaging and retouching that resulted in a very distorted image of a woman's body."



Maybe this is a testament to when photoshop is used TOO MUCH! GEEZE.

background story: yesterday or something there was an internet rumor that zach braff died, and this is his response.
hilarious

walking the streets of detroit, seeing this movie on main street in royal oak, getting lunch in ferndale made me realize that sure detroit is shit (to many), but honestly i feel a sense of pride that i lived in such a cultured area for my first 23 years of life. it's a rare gift to be part of so much culture everywhere you turn.
detroit really is the underdog and i'm rooting for it.

there are certain things that feel certain, and other things that don't.

but a friend told me today that this is an interesting life experience, and i need to embrace it.

i just get held back by how much everything hurts.

i can't describe it-the pain of living away from detroit, the pain of embracing a new life, the pain of saying goodbye to your husband, the pain of being a newlywed, the pain of love, the pain of misunderstandings, the pain of missing people, the pain of being a bad friend, the pain of feeling lost. it all hurts so much, but i don't see how things could be different. this is just the way things are for now, and embracing it is my only shot of surviving the navy life.

so embrace i must and will.

We're leaving for 11 days starting tomorrow. Going to a concert in Charlottesville and then heading to DeTROIT to visit family and friends. We'll be returning to the office October 12.

( Happy Autumn! )

saw this last night. really good (but only if you are a girl who appreciates fashion and photo shoots).