Randoms - Faff Edition

In honor of the lovely Hillary at Two L's Please, and the sweet post she wrote about me and my humble little place in the bloggy world, I'm going to take a page from her book and do a Friday Faff - Thursday Edition, meaning the following post are some odds and ends currently taking up space in my brain.

I started this blog a little over two years ago. I know it probably gets annoying, but it's hard not to compare your life in a before and after kind of way when you've had some sort of big change. For me, that change was leaving my boyfriend of five years as well as his daughter whom I loved, and moving from San Francisco, back to Los Angeles. I started this blog knowing that the break-up was imminent, and through the blog I was able to get a lot of my thoughts in order.

I know the idea of a blog is super passe to some people, but I'll never be embarrassed to be part of that nerdy blog culture. All the writing gigs I've gotten, my improved writing skills and subsequent realization that I was actually good at putting my thoughts and ideas into words, well those things never would have happened had I not started this blog. I had practically never written before starting The State That I Am In, which I don't tell very many people. I had been an avid reader since I was a small child, and entertained the idea of someday putting all my crazy thoughts and fantasies onto paper, but the confidence was just never there.

This blog has made me closer to my family and friends. It's made me understand myself more and given me a brighter, more optimistic outlook on life. And it's also given me a strange relationship with other bloggers whom I feel like I know very well, even thought we've never, and may not ever, met in person. You can find a list of those people in my blog roll on the left sidebar, but a couple of those girls I can picture having a round of drinks with and feel like I've known forever are the aforementioned Hillary, Rachel at Diary of Why, Miss Hope Dies Last, and the ever-hilarious LiLu. There are a ton of bloggers whom I am obsessed with, but those four ladies feel like old friends.

Whew...well that was unexpectidally emotional. Moving on!

Remember all those "scenes from my lunch break" photos I've been taking for the past year or so? Let me refresh your memory:

Well I turned them into an art project of sorts. My kitchen wall needed some decorations, so I had the photos printed and then painted some little frames in the manner of this old Domestic Tuesday project, but much cuter. See:



I was thinking of starting an Etsy shop and attemping to sell them, but I haven't yet perfected them, nor do I know if anyone would be intersted in buying such a thing. A few of the photos are of not-great quality, as I took them before I got my swanky little new camera, but I've been taking more and plan on adding to the collection every month or so. So I guess if you'd like to buy one or a few, let me know. I was thinking around $5 each would be good. I don't know, email me and we can hash it out. georgiaisyourfriend@gmail.com

In conclusion, since this post hasn't been very "faffy", here is a photo set of Elvis eating Pocky:

He does this weird thing whenever I offer him something...he'll graze his teeth across it before he takes it. Such a strange cat, this one.