End of an Era!

I am kinda shedding a symbolic tear over the end of this blog!

We have been through some good and bad but mostly awesome times together!

I will keep this blog up because I want to be able to remember. Remember things I shared about my personal life but also my photography life...which to be honest, are meshed and mushed together into one big heap of love. Which is exactly what I want it to be!

So now it's time to share with all of you the new link to the new blog. Like I said, the new website is still in the works! I will apologize in advance still for my lack of posting during that time.

But here it is!  

www.blog.loriwongphotography.com

There is still some tweaking, so bear with me, but I hope you like it! Take a look around, check out the new features. All that good stuff. And please leave a comment (on the new blog, of course) or email me what you think!

Much aloha!
Lori

It's what I'm aaaBOUT! - Taking a drive.

I kinda enjoy taking a casual drive.

Actually, I would take a lovely early evening stroll, walking around a neighborhood any day over driving, but there are safety issues involved with walking around at night, especially alone, darn it. Plus, I'm cute, so I'm an easy target for getting stolen...kiddddding! ;) So to suffice, I like to drive around.

Well, I don't get to do that very often lately. I've realized how much I miss it. I like it as a way to think about things going on in my life. I like to listen to music that is a part of my life at the moment and just drive and think. It calms me down. I am able to regroup. I am reminded of how blessed I am. Sometimes I do it just to get out of the house. I love going at sunset or late at night when the roads are a little more empty.

I also looooove driving with the windows down when the weather is just perfect. I'm smiling just thinking about it.

One night, I was driving home after visiting a friend of mine. We hadn't hung out in a while. We chatted, laughed, cried, smiled, and just remembered why we need to do this more often. We both had recently had big things happen in our lives and we just felt a commendatory that we didn't feel anyone else understood at that moment. It was nice. It was a beautiful night. The stars were super bright. And the weather was oddly really nice for it being "winter". So I drove with my window slightly down and listened to music. Drives are just that much better when I am able to think about the conversation I had just had with a good friend.

I took the above picture with my phone to remember that night.

I enjoy taking a casual drive.

It's what I'm aaaBOUT! Music-Rosi Golan

"Moment that I wait, or I hesitate's a moment that I waste"

This is a line from the song "I Don't Wanna Wait" from my new favorite artist...

Photo by Laura Crosta

Rosi Golan!

I am soooo in love with her music. I found her randomly on someone's blog. They had a link to her album on iTunes. I checked it out and instantly fell in love with each 30 second clip of music.

I can be pretty protective of artist/albums that I fall in love with that are not super well known. I don't know why I do that, but I do. It's completely selfish of me. I need to share amazingness when I find it. So, I am trying to give up my selfish musical ways and share this.


Go and get her album "The Drifter & the Gypsy"! (one of my favorite songs on the album, by the way)

Here is a link to her website to listen to full versions of the songs.

It's what I'm aaaBOUT-New Guilty Pleasure

I LOOOOOOOOVE "Giuliana & Bill", it's a reality show about the marriage of Giuliana Rancic of "E!News" and Bill Rancic, the first winner of "The Apprentice".

It's on the Style Network, Wednesday nights at 9pm.

Giuliana is hilarious! I also love that she calls her hubby by his last name all the time...I guess that she calls a lot of people by her last name, but either way, it's funny!

I love that they are normal. And by normal I mean, she says "homie" as often as I do! hahaha! And he says and does things that are like any dude would to avoid a fight or further discussion. :)

It's what I'm aaaBOUT!

If you know me, you know I say this pretty often. It's my go-to funny line when I have to convince someone that my nerdy/geeky/weird ways are actually cool. Now your asking yourself (or your computer. no judgments), "does that really work?"

It usually is a pause of confusion along with the thought of 'what does that mean?'

Then it's a chuckle of 'did she really just say that?'

Then usually they forgot what I'm aaaBOUT and they just go along with it.

Yeah.

I know.

Genius.

Well I decided that when there is something I'm diggin', something I can't live without, a new discovery that will make you happy too, ooor maybe I'm just finally catching up to the rest of the world and I want it noted officially, I'm going to blog it, and "it's what I'm aaaBOUT!"

First on my list is one of my FAVORITE websites/apps on my iPhone.

This is not a new discovery or something you probably don't know about. I'm just sharing because I love this website SO much because I am a horrible speller, I second guess myself over the simplest words and I love to make up words, so validly that the word has an actual root word, I use this website/app.