on my own... first entry: Aunts are Lovable Creatures

Living alone is not easy. Maybe this isn't any news to you and it certainly wasn't any news to me when my mother left to live with my sister for a couple of weeks, but that doesn't make the process any easier.

Anyway... I've decided to document the process of living alone... with the problems and advantages it brings.

What I love about this living alone thing is that there's really no one to blame beside yourself... it really makes things easier when it comes to finding a scapegoat to place the blame on. Whatever didn't get done.. you're the ONLY one to blame.

What I hate about it is that you have no one to talk to. Loneliness is a bitter thing... believe me! And the Interned doesn't always do the trick.

This series of posts will be mostly related to cooking, mainly because this is something I don't get to do when my mother's at home. And I really like to wear the apron from time to time. I'm not going to document everything I eat or cook. The purpose of this is to reveal the things I discover on this journey of staying at home.

First thing: Aunts are lovable creatures. Since mother's out of town, my aunts have taken an interest in what I eat and have taken turns in inviting me over for lunch or dinner. The best thing about it is that they also make me take some food with me.. here's a 1,7 litre jar of beans soup and a slice of home-made bread (yum!):

And here's the spaghetti with seafood cocktail I made the other day:

Yup!.... Yum!

R

One shot, one kill.... day five (back on track)

Today's shot is kind of a fail... in the sense that it didn't turn out the way I wanted. It was supposed to be a 30-second exposure and I was planning on a few cars passing through the frame... but when I moved the glass to open the window... I didn't place it back at the same angle, so I didn't photograph the road, I photographed the building next to it.. Oh well.

The reason I took a 2-day break from OSOK is that I wanted to photograph an event that took place in my town and had to shoot more than one shot that day... a friend borrowed me his camera (a Nikon d7000) and I just had to shoot as much as I could with it.

Upside-down real world

Original exposure

That's pretty much it... more tomorrow!

R

One shot, one kill.... day three

 This one went to war

Original exposure.

This lemon decided no one's gonna take its juice... it got all painted and armed and decided to fight for its freedom... It didn't help to much. This lemonade is so refreshing. (gulp, gulp, gulp... aaaghhh!)

I actually shot this one with the camera handheld... I missed a bit on the framing... not too much, though. And, obviously I couldn't help not applying a levels command. The original exposure wasn't so bad either. I like where this project is going.

More in 24 hours.

R