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Woo hoo! Jim and I had a great time in Cleveland on Saturday night for our friend Mike’s 30th birthday. Click on our purdy faces for a few more pics:

We went to Luigi’s afterward for pizza (which drunk Brandice did not track properly at all… drinks = too much pizza and no mathematical skillz), and I felt like a million bucks the whole night, because I just dropped another clothing size and I ALMOST fit into a size 10 while out clothing shopping the day before.

I feel REALLY great lately, and it was great to be my skinnier, healthier self with friends I hadn’t seen in a while. It’s a huge boost to have a weight loss week that includes sharing your success with people you don’t see often and also getting to wear clothes that you would NEVER have squeezed your ass into even two months ago. Rockin’ weekend!

Woah! Guess who has contacts after 26 years of wearing glasses every single day of her life?

I can’t even express how weird it is.

I went to my yearly eye exam last Friday and on a complete and utter whim decided to ask about contact lenses. My fifteen-year-old-looking optometrist cheerfully informed me that we could put some in same day and fifteen minute (and an awkward, eye-poking struggle between he and I) later, I was sporting some high tech saran wrap on my eyeballs.

Had some difficulty with the prescription being off initially (holy nauseating vertigo, batman!), but when I went in today, Doogie Howser strengthened the prescription in both eyes and I am suddenly REALLY excited. It isn’t as consistently clear as my glasses (astigmatism = strange weighted lenses that I have to blink into the right position and they easily blink back OUT of position), but man is the convenience ever worth it.

It’s so weird to be walking around with what I’ve always considered to be such a huge part of my “look.” I honestly had a bit of mourning, and I still get a little nervous about walking around without my specs, like I’m somehow more naked, but really, I’m just more… me. When I feel like wearing some nerd prop-ness, I can whip out the specs, but I don’t have to anymore, and that’s pretty cool.

Playing around with a shot that I took of Jim’s bike in Camera+, which I continue to heart. ;)

He uses the black and white shot for his iPhone 4 background and he’s positioned all of his apps in such a way that they don’t block the picture. (Meaning: He has four pages of apps and app folders, but they only have five or six icons per screen… lol.)

“We don’t see things as they are. We see them as we are.” – Anais Nin

This is one of my favorite shots lately… such a neat shot to begin with and then I had fun playing with it in Camera+.

The quote is just one that I’ve been thinking of a lot lately. What does what you see in the world around you say about how you see yourself?

Just finished an hour long voice memo out on deck. What a beautiful day!

Voice memoing to Laura = still a favorite thing to do, even on the NEW iPhone. :) More on my voice memoing adventures some other time. It’s a GREAT way to maintain a long distance friendship in an very sustainable way.

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.” - Muhammad Ali

Here are the shots I took during the unboxing of my iPhone. A proper review might come later, but mostly I’m just enjoying the phone’s existence.

[Photo album if you can't see the slideshow]

Things I love:

1. Display quality (holy COW)
2. Camera(s) (HD, 5 MP, front-facing, all gooood)
3. Battery life (it is noticeably better)
4. iOS 4 (rocks)
5. iMovie (although I’m still figuring out how to use it)
6. Design (it’s substantial to hold, beautiful design)

Thing I want:

1. Qik and Ustream compatibility with iPhone 4 cameras (fix it!)

“Keep knocking, and the joy inside
will eventually open a window
and look out to see who’s there.”

- Rumi

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