Yeah yeah I know its been a while since I have posted here but a lot has transpired since the last post. Where do I begin? Lets see first, I launched my photography website dillonandre.smugmug.com where I am doing photography on the side, besides what is more fun than taking a passion, turning it into a hobby, and sharing it? PLEASE Check it out and let me know your thoughts!!!
Secondly, we have wrapped up most of our shooting for the Next Food Network Star Season 5. The season still looks to be a really good one and I think those watchers followers of the show will feel the same. But you can judge for yourself as we have set our season premiere for June 7, at 10/9 central.
Next, I have finally finished the extreme makeover NYC Apartment Edition. All the rooms are done and my room actually is welcoming now, and the kitchen is much cleaner and inviting to be used for cooking. Seeing all of the studio kitchens through work, I already have my future house plans drawn up for the culinary wing of the estate. Yes I said wing and estate. VERY similar to what I have “heard” the Contessa has…
For the LSU vs. UNC basketball game on Saturday, The LSU Alumni branch here in the city threw its annual gumbo cook-off. Now Gumbo is one thing that I really haven’t mastered on my own, but soon will thanks to my grandma Maurine sending me a years supply basically of Louisiana seasoning mixes and packets. Other relatives have sent some as well but are still in transit so when they arrive I should be set for the year! It was a very fun atmosphere and is the place for LSU sporting events, they turned away a guy wearing an Alabama hat or told him to take it off! This is my kind of place :-)
The weather has still been hit and miss lately. A couple weekends ago we had snow still on the ground but the temp warmed up to mid to lower sixties. I wore my flops shorts and a hat while the snow still covered parts of the sidewalk. It was awkward but felt great. This weekend it was supposed to be warmer and I wake up early Friday (thinking and believing the weather guy of this “fifty” promise) and there is snow falling? Just about as unpredictable as LA weather.
Finally the Madoff saga is over, that was a frenzy up here. Just about everyone up here was talking about, affected by it, or guilty of it. Even the homeless people. In my case, I guess it does pay after all to be broke, poor, and saving little by little and not investing?
Two former colleagues were in the city for a convention last weekend and we got to have dinner and catch up which was a nice treat. April is my visiting month, My parents, are coming on two weekends and a friend is coming one weekend too so April will help me get through these bumpy spots I have hit the last couple of days.
My girlfriend and I are proud parents… NO NOT IN THAT WAY! Calm down! She inherited a dog and she has fallen in love! Not sure who she loves more at times, me or the dog, although sometimes we act the same! Yes I am a man and I will admit it. We are still trying to come up with a name for the wiener dog that she is insisting that I will come to love, but we will see. I did the really sweet thing and said, “whatever you want you can have” (Did I say really good think or made the mistake?)
I was asked to join the bible study leadership team by my church and my current bible study leader, so I will begin a crash course to prepare to lead a group of my own during the summer, if God still has me here in NYC.
Until then, life has been interesting and definitely not the same without seeing all of you. HOWEVER, please know that your prayers are sometimes the only thing that helps me get through a down day, and when I awake the next morning I realize how blessed I am that your thoughts and prayers and He has carried me through. DONT STOP NOW!
Seeing you later,
Peace, Love, and NYC!
Dillon
