The up and coming...

Well, since I don't have another awesome trip planned for this sumer, I decided I need to plan some things to look forward to. Two of which are a great motivation to stay in shape.

The first one is this Saturday (Yikes!):

The next awesome thing I am doing is this:
A 187 mile race that I get to do with 11 awesome friends! Yay!

Dodgeball!

Thanks Ape and Eric for sharing your dodgeball kit with us!

The Holga in Mexico

Well, seeing as I took about 25 pounds of camera equipment to Europe over the summer, I thought I'd take the opposite approach and just take 2 cameras- my trusty canon powershot, and my holga. For those of you that don't know what a holga is, it's basically a toy camera that takes fun, unpredictable photos. Here is a picture of what the camera looks like:

And here are the photos I got from it:

Cruise Pics!

Well we just got back from the most awesome cruise ever and here are some pics:

Sans School Assignment

Being done with school has definitely had it's perks- no homework to do at night, free weekends, and no stress about getting assignments done and getting good grades (although my job has taken the place of school stress times about 10) Anyway, I decided that the things I have learned in my classes at schol are far too valuable to let go of. I think that even though I don't have a teacher assigning a task and giving a due, I should still be doing projects on my own. So here is a short list of projects I have assigned myself:

1. Take at least 1 roll of film of photos a week- and get them developed and processed, I don't need any more negatives sitting around that I don't do anything with.
2. Recently I purchased a few supplies to make more linocut prints- the problem I have is deciding what to actually print. So I decided that the next print I do has to come from something I find in my house- not including anything from the internet.

I'm going to start with these 2 and see where I get. Simple enough.

Lunch Break Blog Time

Well it's definitely been a while since I've been able to write on this, but I thought that because I don't have school to keep me busy, I should be able to post more. Plus I just got a new wireless router that gives me blazing fast internet at home, so now I won't get kicked off the internet every time I check out a blog...

So here's what's new in a nutshell:
1. I finally graduated from college
2. I did get rid of facebook because I feel like if I want to know what someone is doing with their life, I should just call or go see them instead of being a creeper.
3. I got a new job. I'm working as a designer for an architecture and interior design firm.
4. I'm going on a cruise!

Those are the biggest ones I can think of at the moment, but since I've made the goal to update my blog more- including giving it an awesome design- there will be a better flow of current events. Until then...

It's Christmas Time!

A few weeks ago my sister in law posted a blog entry about a promotion going on through the company Shutterfly, where anyone with a blog can receive 50 free Christmas cards just for blogging about these great cards! That’s pretty easy for me. I’ve used Shutterfly before, and they were great to work with, so seeing as last year's card was a total flop (I designed one, even took a picture for it, but that's about as far as it got) I decided that this would help motivate me to get some holiday cards out to our friends and family. I should be working on my big research paper that is due next week (at least I have an outline I guess), but I can't stop looking at how cute the Shutterfly Christmas cards are! If anyone is interested you should definitely check their website out: http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/christmas-cards

Hope you all have a great Christmas season! Yay for the holidays!