Just wanted to post this picture. Not much to say as I am really busy with my photography and design on the side as well as my full time job with the Boy Scouts in Dallas so things are good. I am going to be doing some travelling soon to Houston and Nac Town as well as Chicago in September so be on the look out!
So I have been messing around with my photos recently and editing them in photoshop. Below is the original picture and the recent one is the fixed picture. Kinda corny yes but I like it.
I figured I'd post something on here just to say I did. It's been awhile but this year has been crazy. I've been doing a couple of things a lot lately: running and taking pictures. Pretty much 2 of my favorite things to do.. jogging and photography. Jogging accomplishes many things for me: excerise, staying fit, listening to music, getting outdoors and time to think about things and not have distractions like tv and stuff.
Photography- I feel like I have taken some good pictures so far but I'm just getting started. I just now started to kind of figure out how my camera works and how to take different kinds of pictures. I plan on doing a lot more stuff soon.
Which leads me to my next topic: upcoming plans. I have so much on my mind sometimes I have to write it down just to remember and stay organized.. which is why I like writing in this blog.
I have also been having some self-doubt lately.. not good for me because I never have doubted myself or what I have done in the past. I have pretty much stuck to doing and saying pretty much what is on my mind and doing what I feel I like.. but recently I have been just thinking.
A lot more to say and do but I gotta go do it. I'll post more later. check out my photos for now:
It's been an interesting 2009 so far. It seems like just yesterday it was New Years Eve and I was working at Pirtle Winter Camp... now it is almost March and I am allready looking forward to 2010. It kinda goes against my whole "live life now" motto but oh well.. this year so far has pretty much sucked. Why you ask?
Well I don't work at the travel company any more because they are dumb. I basically got let go because I did some personal work on company time. I had a personal folder on my computer and when it was slow.. I did my own work. The thing is, other people that still work there do the same thing, just in different ways. So that is what gets me. I wanted to quit there anyways and I think they knew it.. I didn't get along with the boss there and she isn't very good at leading and she definitely isn't good at her job which the numbers and sales of that company reflect. The fact that some people there still have their jobs is dumb. They blame everything on the recession when I see other companies still flurishing right now. You can't blame everything on the recession people. Maybe you just handle your company wrong. Or maybe its a thing called Karma- you can't treat people badly like they did me and others who wrongly got laid off and expect to thrive as a company. There are still people that work there that want to leave and don't like it. That is how bad it is there. Oh well.
Anyways.. things other than that are good.. just doing some work right now and freelancing graphic design. I think I am close to getting a job in Southlake but cross your fingers.
I have already had an interesting year, and it is only the 6th. I feel like I don't have enough time to blog anymore because I am so busy and I know like 1 person reads this because everybody is into crap like twitter and youtube that is so instant, but I am kinda old school like that... picture this as like my letters to whoever wants to read it. I always look back on old blog posts from years back to see where I was and the memories I had while I was in college. That was a good 5 years, not only for the school and friends, but for the experiences working for the YMCA after school program and the scout camp. Speaking of that.. I just got back from Pirtle again. This makes it 6 years I have worked there, both summer camp and now winter camp. I had a lot of fun and met some cool people again, so that makes it worth it.
There was a troop from Carrolton there and that is where I live now so they invited me to come to their meeting as a guest and I went last night and saw the kids I had in class so that was cool. I also met some cool staff members as well.
So we have a huge house party coming up the first weekend in February. Check it out.. go to my facebook.
Funny story to tell. Its about my shamrockery of a brother. I love my brother and we get along at times.. but at the end of the day.. he has no common sense and he does things that I just scratch my head sometimes. Like his dumb tatoo on his arm that says 'Pain makes you beautiful'. For one thing, I know him and he hasn't had pain. Maybe an ex girlfriend breaking his heart. He stole this tatoo from a friend in college who really has been through some pain. His parents were on drugs and basically kicked him out at like age 13.. and him and his sister were living in cars and made their way through life to make it here. That is emotional pain. My brother... um not much pain.
And here is the story:
Last night.. we stayed at my parents house and we are in the media room on the pull out couch. So we get ready for bed last night, I took the cushions off and pulled the bed out and got it ready. So here we go tonight.. and I'm sitting in a chair not tired watching tv and on the internet. And I ask him just casually: 'you gonna get the bed ready'? As in I was just checkin cause I would do it but I didn't know what he was gonna do... and then he just looks at me like I'm a deuch bag and he has this look that he doesn't realize he makes but he is pissed at me for asking.. all in like 2 seconds. So then we start arguing and he is like 'dude I did all this last night'. WTF? Either he smoked some weed or is just dumb.. cause I vividly remember doing this last night and here we are talking about a motherfuckin couch and who did what like we are in middle school. So then I am trying to just simply state that I am right which I am of course and he get's pissed at that cause people think I have to be right and argue my point. But that is the point.. yeah I'm right sometimes and then yeah I have to argue my point cause no one else will. Steven can just sit back and act like a boob and be silly ole Steven and people like my parents will back him 100%. Me.. different story.
Anyways that is the story. It has been a less than stellar Christmas..
So Christmas was today. We all know what Christmas is all about.... Jesus? Well for most it is getting gifts. Getting and giving gifts. Let's not kid ourselves... Jesus wasn't born on December 25th.. this is just the day that was deemed his birthday and its more of symbolic to spend with family and friends to celebrate.. but it is really all about gifts. Seriously. As in SERIOUSLY.
And being 25 sucks.. cause Christmas sucks if you are 25. You don't get anything and you have to give shit to people who you normally didn't in the past.. so now you are broke with nothing but gift cards. I know what you are thinking... man this dude is either selfious or dumb. No I just wanted 1 thing this year and didn't get it. I ended up getting a trip to Las Vegas.
That sounds cool.. and it will be fun. But I am not the biggest fan of gambling. I like more of New York or Chicago or Boston. But nope. Las Vegas it is. More for my brother I guess cause we both got this trip and I am starting to believe that my parents only care about him and not about me.. seeing as how my big gift was putting money toward a phone plan that I have to go get. Thanks for getting me an errand that I have to do when I get back. Shit.
No but seriously it was good.. it is not all about gifts and I got to see family so that was good. Now it is off to Winter Camp at Pirtle for a week in the freezing cold. Can't wait.. cause there will be a lot of people there and I get to teach a cool merit badge.
