Day 14: A Vacation spot

I think my ideal vacation would be to visit European Countries- I would love to take a few weeks (or months) and travel through various Euro countries- from England, to France, to Germany (even though I have already been there for one day for one night), and Austria. It all sounds great.

Day 13: A guilty pleasure.

I would have to say that I feel guilty about all the DVDs (and now Blu-Rays) that I buy. I have way to many, and yet, I am addicted to my collections.

Day Twelve: A song I want at my Wedding.

Now, I am not some girl who has planned her wedding since she was 2. I have certainly thought it would be nice to have my mother's Quartet for the processional, and to have my dad officiate in a church venue, but other than that have no other plans so this posting is hard for me to know off-hand.
What song do I want played at my wedding?
Well, I guess if I had to choose, after taking a bit to think about it...

I would choose:
ideally, I would like to create my own song to sing to my bride- but if that was not working out
perhaps From This Moment On
or Just the Way You Look Tonight.

Again, I have not really thought about this, but after some research on popular wedding songs, this is what I would choose at this moment right now.

Day Eleven: A recent Photo

I don't take that many photos of myself and I don't have many photos that are not mine and so it was very hard to find todays challege posting. Pictures of me just aren't taken that much- probably so noone breaks their camera. But, the story behind this photo is that I was working on day on getting a picture of myself to upload for the top of my Blog and so I took a million pics of my face, my eyes, whatever and eventually came up with the Black and White Eye picture that you see up there, but I am putting this one on the daily "A Photo of You Taken Recently" post because I thought it was funny lookin'.

So, there ya go.

Day 10- A Photo Taken over 10 Years ago.

Well, this photo was not only taken of my over 10 years ago, but also over 20 years ago. It was a long time ago.

I beleive I was around 3 or 4 and visiting my grandmother in Sunnyvale. (Not positive though)

This is one of my mother's Favorites of me.

I was so cute.

Deschutes County Fair Photo Entries

So, I thought I would tell all that I have entered a few of my photos into the Deschutes County Fair this year and so if you go, pass by the photo exhibit and take a look for my photos. Granted they might not have the most fancy borders or mattes, but I am very proud of them.

Day Nine- A Photo I took

Well, for today's challenge post, the prompt is to post a photo that I took.

Here it is. I felt that I had already shown off so many of my photos that if I chose one of the generic ones that I love so much, that many will have already seen it, so I chose a photo that I was sure that I had not previously uploaded.

You like?

It's a dead fly.

I took it one afternoon while I was working on my computer and saw this dead fly on my windowsile.

It just looked so artistic.

I like all the details of the fly.

"We are food for worms boys"- Dead Poets Society.

Day Eight: Thank You Letter: To my HS Choir Teacher.

30 Day Blog Posting Challenge for today:

To my HS Choir Teacher:

Swear, you are one amazing man. You were always there for me in school. You gave me the confidence that I needed to be sure of myself and my voice. You made fun of me. And I of you.

You comforted me. You were there to talk about personal things too. You always made the time and special care for those of us who were focusing on our voices. You gave up your free prep period to give us private voice students the place to grow. You spent countless dollars of your own money on Doughnuts for the Choir on Friday after Friday. I still think of Caroling around the Elementary Schools on the Friday before Christmas Vaca.You were available to take time out of your schedule to bring me (and others) to out of area events such as All-State and All-Northwest. You were firm when you needed to be, and fun the other 98% of the time.

 You really helped me to separate myself from my sisters' shadow in High School. It was nice for once to not be the Perfect Twins' little brother, but TIM. That means the world to me.

Thank You for all you did for me and the thousands of other High School Students are Redmond High through the years.

Thank You also for the opportunities to sing at the places I was able to. I will never forget singing at the Blazer's Game in Redmond.

Day Seven: 5 Things I couldn't live without

There are many things I depend on. The first would have to be my Computer

The next thing that I would have a hard time living without is High Speed Internet Access. I find so much of my information on the Internet and I could spend countless hours on many sites. The third thing that I could not live without is my DVD/BluRays. I know that most of you know that my collection of DVDs and start of BluRay is very vast and I feel I have a problem with restraint when I am around great deals.    Warning- This is NOT my collection- I am not that possessed (yet) And hey, if I have my collection of DVDs and BluRay, I would need to have a Bluray Player and TV. I would not be able to live comfortably without them. The last thing that I would not live without would be my Music. Of course, if I have my computer, I have my music. It is all located on there, but just in case you can't count that.

Day Six- A moment rre-lived

Now Katy seems to think that 

"A moment you wish you could re-live" 

means something you would do differently,

but I take it totally differently.

The way I look at the post prompt 

is something that you want to experience 

from your past, 

once again. 

In this veiw, 

I would like to re-live the moments 

when I accepted Christ, 

so I could feel 

that feeling and newness 

once again. 

I was at such a young age 

that I remember very little 

and so I would re-live that moment with Juanita 

in Church 

at FBC Redmond 

after service 

so I could take it all in and remember it for good. 

(That is until I become 100 years old 

and forget what I had for breakfast)

PS- don't ask me why I formatted my posting this way, 

It 

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just 

something 

I 

did

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Day Five- Favorite Quote(s)

I have many quotes. There are many that I like that I do not ever remember. So, when This days task came up. I went searching for good quotes. Some of which I have heard, and some I just found and thought were great.


Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching

—Unknown Author

 

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.

—Kurt Vonnegut

 

I’d rather live with a good question than a bad answer.

—Aryeh Frimer

 

A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice -Bill Cosby

 

 

Another that is great is from many movies such as Coach Carter and Freedom Writers:

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.' We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." (A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles", Harper Collins, 1992. From Chapter 7, Section 3])

 

 

Day Four: Favorite TV Show

Well, if we are going for currently aired shows, I would have to say that my favorite show is How I Met Your Mother. It currently has completed 5 seasons and 6 is due to start in the fall. I love the way they tell the stories. It's a show that is based on (you guessed it) a narrative of how Ted- the main character- met his wife, telling his children. There are 5 friends who are in their 30s and tells of their lives and experiences. To tell the truth, at times, this show can bit a bit inappropriate with lots of sexual references (especially from Barney) but it is a sad fact that you pretty much can't find a show on prime time nowadays that does not have that sort of stuff.

















If we are going for shows of all-time. I would have to say, I have many more. To name a few: Boy Meets World, Home Improvement, The Cosby Show, Frasier, Veronica Mars, Scrubs, and Monk.

Day Three: A Favorite Book

Well, I get made fun of a lot because of the book choices, but I am an elementary teacher and so I find myself reading (when I read) children's books. Some of my favorite authors are:
Beverly Cleary, Louis Sachar, Andrew Clements, Roald Dahl, Judy Bloome, and Megan Mcdonald.
I would have to say though that my absolute favorite book would have to be There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom. This story is an amazing story about a 5th grade boy who has trouble in school. He never does his work and is just a pain in the butt (Do I relate to him?) and he starts to visit the new school councilor and she helps him to adjust his life. It is just a great story and if you haven't read it- YOU NEED TO!
Also, Holes by Sachar and School Story by Clements are very high on my list of Favorites.





But, if we are going Adult books (Not adult content, but you know what I mean) then I would have to say that Crazy Love is my favorite. It is a book by Francis Chan that speaks of how we need to be thinking of our relationship with God. He is very challenging in his thoughts.

Day Two- A Favorite Movie- UP

My Favorite Movie has to be UP from Pixar. It is amazing. I am just so in awe of the power of music in portraying emotion in the opening scene. There is NO words, just visuals and music and it makes you cry. AMAZING.
You can click on the link on the side to go to amazon to buy the movie. Good deal too.

Awesome UP Quotes:
Carl Fredricksen: This is crazy. I finally meet my childhood hero and he's trying to kill us. What a joke.
Dug: Hey, I know a joke! A squirrel walks up to a tree and says, "I forgot to store acorns for the winter and now I am dead." Ha! It is funny because the squirrel gets dead.

Dug: I was hiding under your porch because I love you. 


Charles Muntz: Adventure is out there!

Ellie: [her last message to Carl] Thanks for the adventure. Now go have one of your own.
 

I Was Bummed

So, last night my camera started acting up... must have been after I took that picture of myself- musta broke it... anyways, I was trying to figure out why the card would not work. I have a 2GB SD card that I have had forever and it would not recognize the card and when put into my computer to check it out, it would not find it. That tells me that the card is just too old. So, I figured that it is time to get a new card and why not go big so I can always add this card to my future camcorder so itd be smart to get a High Capacity card with around 8GB and a fast transfer rate. I checked around all the areas for inexpensive cards and found that Best Buy was having a sale on an 8GB card for $25. Pretty good deal, so I planned to go get it sometime this week.
That did not help for me this morning because I am planning to hike today. So, I went rummaging through my dads office to find an SD card from his camera. Did not find the camera but found the camcorder (that they were supposed to take on their trip BWT) with two 8GB cards available to use. I stick one in to find it doesnt recognize that card either. I dump the stuff on the card (because we already have the footage) and make sure it looks new (inside the card) then put it back in the camera and it still does it. This tells me that its my camera NOT the cards. So, Now I am REALLY bummed. I decide to use an old camera for my trip- 5MP and old wow. I put the 8GB HCSD card in and get the same problems. I finally realized that these devices are so old that they don't like High Capacity cards. So, I found an old 256MB card in my old camera that I put into my current camera and it works great.
Problem solved. Wahoo.

Day One- A Favorite Song- City on Our Knees- tMac

City On Our Knees is an amazing song by tobyMac.
If you just listen to the lyrics, it is very empowering.

Challeging Book of ELI

The Book of ELI... What do I say, other than... It challenged me.
Here's the overview- The book of ELI is about a man in the future in a world devastated and deprived by war and global conditions. There was a huge war, and something broke the sky barrier and the sun is now burning down and blinding eyes (without the proper sunglasses). There are few people left and they have very little. They are traders of goods, and water is a commodity. Cue, ELI- he is a man traveling West and he is walking that way because a voice in his head was telling him to. His only major possession is a book.
ELI comes in contact with a man in charge of a little city that was searching for this very book that ELI owned. ELI would do anything to protect this book. We find out later (Spoiler Alert) that this book was a Bible- The very last one. ELI would read from it every night and he would do anything to stay in contact with this book.
This movie challenged me for a few reasons... One- in the movie they talk about before the war (current day) where "people would throw things away that people would kill for". It just shows our current consumerism and how "I need" we get.
Two- I got to thinking about how many bibles we have in our house. How we take our availability of the Bible for Granted. Some countries are smuggling bibles in so those who thirst for the Knowledge of God can find it, but here I am with probably around 6-8 bibles in my household and I can't seem to find enough time in my "Busy" schedule (Sarcastic) to pick it up and read it. Very challenging.
I would def. recommend The Book of ELI, but be warned, there is quite a bit of "Blow Em Up" too. It's worth it. Thanks to Brice Wolford for the recommendation. Oh, and You will all LOVE The Ending of this movie- it's great.

How'd she do that?

So, my sister finally started a blog and followed me, which is fun, but I was confused when I saw some options on her blog postings that I had not seen on mine before. Why does she get that extra buttons to share on Facebook and blogger and Buzz and what-all-else.
It could not have been a setting I missed. It def. could not have been her technical expertise. How'd she do that?
Well, I was baffled. I looked all throughout my settings and did not find anything. I figured maybe it would be a new feature that if I created a new blog then it would show up. So, I go through the process of making a new blog to post on the internet, and try out my post, and sure enough... There were those buttons for sharing. Well, I figure that since it is on a new blog posting of mine with pretty much the same settings I had before, it should be on my normal blog posting. This post right here is to check that cuz... I WANT THOSE BUTTONS.
Well, if they are down there beyond this post, that is great and I will probably leave this up, but if not, I will be very upset and most likely delete this posting.

On another note. I went downtown Redmond today to view the carshow. I had fun. There were lots of great cars, but I found myself like the 1920's, 30's, and 40's cars the best- specially with the Rumble Seat ( the ones on the back of the car that pop out. But, I did not see any as cool as this car that we took pics of in the WOU parking lot a few weeks ago. WOW.