A little note from the slacker of all slacker...

For the time being HLK Photography is has been on hold for nearly a year buuuuuuuuut I am thinking of bringing the business out of hibernation again. We'll see.

Late February/Early March: I went for Spring Break to Paris, France, Munich, Germany, and Salzburg, Austria. I took lots of photos... Not really giving a rat's bottom if they were perfect. I just wanted to make sure I took enough so I could remember being there. LIKE I COULD EVER FORGET. :)

Current: Saving up for a big move in the next few months. Excited! So many people are having babies. I'm thinking about doing some portraiture stuff of my besties and a self-portrait series. We'll see if I can get off my bum long enough to hop it into gear.

That is all. Peace out!

Hey you! Inactive for over a year. Let me fill you in.

In September of last year I got to see a couple of my boys that I hadn't seen in years which was a few days before a friend from high school killed himself, causing me to not get out of bed for 3 day because I was so upset over it.
In October, on the 7th to be exact, my grandmother lost her battle with lung cancer. She died one day to the year that she was diagnosed. After that I continued on in my black hole falling further and further still. In December my mom and I traveled up north to see family. I got a new dog and to this day she's still driving me crazy.
In May I decided I was going to start back at school, a different one obviously, and go for a degree in English (of some sort). I've been in school since August and I'm loving every minute of it.

Operation: Get HitRECord to Orlando.

So last night I watched HitRECord stream live, Summer In the City, from NYC where I met a girl in the chat room associated with the streaming site (and HitRECord). I don't know much about her besides the fact that she lives in Orlando, she loves everything HitRECord stands for, and AND she wishes just as much as I do that they'd put on a show in Orlando one day! That's right- Somehow get Joe's (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, owner/creator) attention or any of the HitRECord crew to decided on having a show in Orlando rather than New York. 

It'd be cool- At least I think so- if HitRECord put on shows in any other cities besides NYC at least sometimes too. Although my main focus is on Orlando- seeing as how it's only a two hour drive or less from me- I still think it would be awesome for the fans, friends, followers, and fellow collaborators to see a show live and in person rather than only on a live stream feed. 

Ingenious.

Anyways, so this girl (I'm not going to post her name for the pure fact that I don't have any idea if she'd be okay with it.) and I made a livejournal page- choosing Lj over Blogger and Wordpress only for the fact that we can have members join- and a group on FB so we can appeal to everyone in Florida- not just the Orlando area.

She believes (As do I) that if we can gather up enough members of our group/pages, we can show Joe (and anyone else involved in the planning of the shows) that there are people here willing to pay to see what is so amazing about HitRECord, and how people (from all over the world) transform each others thoughts and records to unbelievable finished products. 

I figure:

On th UPSIDE: Our plan works and someday HitRECord will put on a show here (In the giant state of Florida, aiming for Orlando). We (who all attends) will get to hopefully meet the creator and owner of HitREC, Joe. 

On the DOWNSIDE: It doesn't happen, but at least we will be able to say we tried. 

All in all I am (and will stay) POSITIVE no matter the outcome of our awesome plan!

Not how it started.

So when I originally started up this blog it was only for my reviews of current movies I had seen and hockey games I had attended and now it has officially been turned into HLK Photography. I deleted many of my old posts because there was no need for them to be up here. I did however keep just a select few to keep for me, myself and I. So from here on out there's no need to read any earlier post than this one right here.

:)

Favorite names from A-Z...

Found a post somewhere on yahoo asking people to list from A to Z their favorite names (boys & girls), so tha's what I'm going to do! Hahaha!

A- Alyce, Asher
B- Bella, Benjamin
C- Calliope, Chester
D- Delilah, Dominic
E- Emilie, Ethan 
F- Fiona, Finley
G- Gemma, Graham
H- Hermione, Heath
I- Isolde, Ian
J- Juliet, Jacob
K- Keira, Kellen
L- Lily, Lennon
M- Mae, Mason
N- Nevada, Noah
O- October, Oliver
P- Poppy, Padgett
Q- Quinlynn, Quentin
R- Roselyn, Reid ( I almost chose Renesmee. Damn Twilight series. It is a cute name though. Can't hate.)
S- Sophia, Sawyer
T- Tulip, Tyler
U- Unity, Ulysses
V- Violet, Viktor (Venice was a close second-girl)
W- Winter, Wyatt (Whisper was a close second-girl)
X- Xaviera, Xavier
Y- Yvian, Yves
Z- Zeppelin, Zealand

I love these names.

Emilie Mae

October Lily

Sophia Bella/ Bella Sophia

Ethan Benjamin

Eli Jacob

Mason Oliver

<3<3

I wish someone would start popping out some babies and use these names. Haha.

Officially 23.

As of yesterday I am officially 23 years old. Or shall I say young? Haha! I started off a little depressed, which is how I've been non stop for I don't know a week or two. The day got much much better though. I had chicken and yellow rice and ice cream cake with my Mom, Aunt Linda, and Grandmother. Headed out to Olive Garden with Patia and afterwards we walked over to the Books A Million to work off a little bit of our food.

All my friends on facebook said happy birthday to me. Which is crazy! I felt much more "popular" than I really am.

Either way it made me happy. Woo!

Also tonight I'm going to eat with Rita and we're going to see Cloudy with a chance of meatballs. I'm excited.

Update on my video::::: The video is coming soon... Exciting times! I have lots of ideas and I'm going to put some into motion hopefully today.

I think your Smaby key is stuck.

Haha!

Made my day! <3

Weight.

I need to lose weight. I keep saying this to myself. Over and over and over again. I have hit the 270lb mark and I don't know how I let it get this far. I'm depressed all the time. I feel like my weight is holding me back from the things I want to do. Also I'm pretty sure the weight isnt helping the crappy knees and back problem. So I am going to lose the weight- all the weight [eventually.] I'm not going to do this for other people, I'm doing this for myself becaue I want to be happy and I want to be healthy. I need to.

Weight Watchers is my drug of choice again. I did "good" on it the first time so why not try again? They say I should weigh between 130 and 160. Gah!

Unnamed recipe.

I mixed some shit I had lying around the cabinet. I've never seen this "thing" that I made anywhere else but it turned out pretty damn delicious! Haha!


Ingredients:

(1 can)- Green Giant Cut green beans
(1 can)- Rotel Diced tomatoes with Lime juice and cilantro
(1 box)- Betty Crocker Au Gratin potatoes
(1 box)- Betty Crocker Scalloped potatoes
(1 box)- Kraft Macaroni and cheese
(1 box)- Green Giant Frozen broccoli spears in butter sauce
(4 Tbsp)- Progresso Italian Style bread crumbs
(20 individual)- Pringles Smokin' hot ranch
(20 individual)- Pringles Barbeque

Steps:

Put Pringles into a baggie and smash into crumbs. Mix well- bread crumbs with Pringles crumbs.

Cook Scalloped potatoes.

While potatoes are cooking mix green beans and diced tomatos in a bowl and heat them in the microwave for 2-3 minutes.

Place scalloped potatoes in the pan making an even bottom layer.

Spread green bean mixture over top, making a second layer.

Cook Au Gratin potatoes.

Spread au gratin potatoes evenly making a third layer in your pan.

Sprinkle just a enough crumb mixture over the top to barely cover the potatoes.

Begin cooking mac and cheese.

While mac and cheese is cooking remove frozen broccoli from freezer and heat as directed on the box.

Once heated up- spread broccoli in pan making the fourth layer.

Pour mac and cheese evenly over the broccoli and other three layers.

Sprinkle crumb mixture evenly over top of dish- using all remaining mixture.

Preheat oven to 400F.

Bake 10-15 minutes. (Depending on oven)






VIOLA!!!!