My name is Andrea. I live in New Mexico with my husband and my cat. We just moved to Los Alamos from Las Cruces and are learning to live our lives without all our old friends nearby. I'm a Starbucks Barista and am working on loving being in a small town.
Here you'll find an amalgamation of my many passions and pursuits. I am an aspiring photographer. Please check out my SmugMug and what you think of my shots. You can even buy prints for a nominal fee.
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It was on this day in 1912 that New Mexico was formally named the 47th State in the United States of America.
(Source: awesomeetsy, via new-mexico)
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(via nedzissou)
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Should the beholder have poor eyesight, he can ask the nearest person which girls look good. (Actually, the prettiest ones are almost always the most boring, and that is why some people feel there is no God.)Woody Allen in On Love, an essay in “Without Feathers”
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On the Vltava with Joe! <3 What a wonderful day. As of this weekend, we’ll have been together for 4 years. July 2011.
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To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But, then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer, to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love, to be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy, therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness — I hope you’re getting this down.Woody Allen
(Source: en.wikiquote.org)
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Ugh, someone stop me! My mind is running wild…
(Source: theworldisarollercoaster)
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All men fear death. It’s a natural fear that consumes us all. We fear death because we feel that we haven’t loved well enough or loved at all, which ultimately are one and the same. However, when you make love with a truly great woman, one that deserves the utmost respect in this world and one that makes you feel truly powerful, that fear of death completely disappears. Because when you are sharing your body and heart with a great woman the world fades away. You two are the only ones in the entire universe. You conquer what most lesser men have never conquered before, you have conquered a great woman’s heart, the most vulnerable thing she can offer to another. Death no longer lingers in the mind. Fear no longer clouds your heart. Only passion for living, and for loving, become your sole reality. This is no easy task for it takes insurmountable courage. But remember this, for that moment when you are making love with a woman of true greatness you will feel immortal.Woody Allen, via Ernest Hemingway, in “Midnight in Paris”
(Source: sonyclassics.com)
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I’m a lush!
I love people. I love my best friend. I love my old friends. I love my husband’s family (it almost sounds evil to call them in-laws). I love traveling. I love home. I love good food. I love wine. I love Pilsner. I love to be social.
I suppose the best part of a drunk dial is how free I feel to tell the people I’m talking how I feel! Unbridled happiness to be a member of the “society” I have built around myself.
I may not be so articulate after drinking, but I am decidedly more honest, open, and happy for the people around me.
And now for a photo, so this isn’t just some random text. Singin’ in the rain! #GPOY
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First, give value. Then, get value. Not the other way around.
I need to do this more often:
This is a bit of a counter-intuitive thing. There is often an idea that someone should give us something or do something for us before we give back. The problem is just that a lot of people think that way. And so far less than possible is given either way.
If you want to increase the value you receive (money, love, kindness, opportunities etc.) you have to increase the value you give. Because over time you pretty much get what you give. It would perhaps be nice to get something for nothing. But that seldom happens.
From “16 Things I Wish They Had Taught Me In School”, surprisingly new advice I haven’t seen before.
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Love- courtesy of my favorite tree at NMSU. A limb was cut off of this tree when I was a freshman, and it left a heart shape in its wake.
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I love you more than anyone and like you more than everyone.
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“And in this moment I swear we were infinite.”
People around the world spread words of love and peace on the “Lennon Wall” in Prague.
Can’t wait to see it!
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I love you all.
Now I will jump the gun as if I were in the time zone of my birth for GPOYW (gratuitous picture of yourself Wednesday).
