Weekly Photo Challenge #41

Hello, All,
I have not participated in far too long, I did take pictures for last week's, just forgot to put them up, so I might after this one, we'll see. Well, this week's photo challenge was "Thirds", and I don't really know what that means, but I'm supposed to crop the same picture 3 times, and use the idea of cutting the picture into thirds I presume. So That's what I'm doing. I just read the challenge today, actually about 8 minutes ago, so my opportunities were limited, but I took a picture of my sister's evil fat cat that clawed me in the leg yesterday. Made me bleed. Jerk. Hope you enjoy!

Photo Challenge #32

Hey, all,
I know it's been a long loooong while since I've posted anything. I have, as many of you, gotten slightly more busy. I started working on a book last week, so that's been occupying much of my time. I just got a 2nd job, not as boring as the last, so that's pretty sweet. I'll be starting soon with that. Other than that, not a whole lot is new. I suppose I'll just post my new picture. This is for the theme "Work", portraying work in a single image. I hope you enjoy!

Photo Challenge #28: BIG and small

Big and Small...

Photo Challenge 27: I Love, I Want, I Wish For

I love...

I have...

I want...

I have...

I wish for...

I have...

BLUE!!

Hello, all, it has been quite a while since I have written on this blog, sorry. Also, I apologize for not commenting on people's photos in a while. And again, I'm sorry, cuz I didn't quite follow this week's photo challenge 100% accurately. I didn't really "go into town" to search...kinda just in my car. And instead of 3 photos, I did 4, but the fourth is mostly to show why I need the first three to begin with :-p Hope you enjoy!!

All in a Day's Work

Today at FedEx, I was complimented several times by my manager about the walls of boxes I was stacking. One such compliment was, "You build better walls than most people that have been here for a year!" I was quite glad, and almost proud, until I thought of the working quality of those who had to be there for a year, and I was no longer impressed with myself.

My Sophisticated Adult Day Chronicled Through Pictures

http://weeklyphotographychallenge.blogspot.com/2009/07/challenge-24.html


Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, ready to face the challenges of the day.


Trying in advance to overcome the stress of being an adult.


Riding to work, trying to beat traffic.


Financial planning, trying to ensure the monetary well-being of my future and that of my family by making sure I save a large portion of the money I make during the pay period.


Clearing my head of mental anguish, rebooting to survive the rest of the day.


Contemplating life.


Keeping in mind my slowing metabolism, I refuel while trying to stay healthy, and most importantly trying to stay regular.


I journal of my day's excitement and the great feats I accomplished before hitting the hay.



Believe it or not, this isn't too far off what I do on a regular basis. Since I only work about twice a week right now, I usually sleep til about noon, roll out of bed, and don't really do anything. Sorry for having so many pictures, but with as busy of a schedule as I have, it's hard to narrow it down even to the 8 pictures I used :-p. I was thinking about putting a picture of me shaving, but that is incredibly unrealistic, because I only do that about once a week. But yes, this was my Tuesday. And will likely be my Wednesday as well. Yeah.

Weekly Photo Challenge #23

Photo Challenge #23
http://weeklyphotographychallenge.blogspot.com/2009/07/photo-challenge-23.html

This week, we had a photo challenge of stripes! I know Emily loves that idea, and I hope she's able to put in hers, but since she's in Colorado, I'm not sure if she's doing it or not. But I am, and though it says to not make it obvious, mine aren't terribly discrete. But I had fun doing this one as well, I hope you enjoy!

Baseball update! Also, my day. And my last weekend. And work.

Hello, all! I like saying it like that because even though there are probably only a couple people reading this, it sounds like it could be dozens or hundreds or even more!
So, this past weekend was awesome. I was the only person I saw watching fireworks with a Happy St. Patrick's Day shirt on. Prior to that, however, I had quite a fun time, especially with my brother-in-law Jon. We had a slam dunk contest on a 9-foot hoop. By saying that, I actually mean, I dunked a bunch, and he started to, but decided not to break a sweat so he stopped trying. After that, we played a made-up game on a huge trampoline at my cousins' house. I felt like a small child, because I was enjoying myself so much doing such a simple thing! Then we played frisbee, awesome day.
After fireworks, which were very beautiful, loud, bright, exciting, in a word: fireworky, my sister Em and my parents and I went back to my cousins' to have a fire, and we took some pretty sweet pictures, which I will hopefully put up as soon as my dad puts them online. We set his camera to a 20-second exposure, and used sparklers to draw designs in the air, and some of them turned out pretty neat.
Anywho, Sunday I went to another wedding, and got to sing and dance, and we listened to too many Michael Jackson songs. Such is life.
I probably shouldn't have gone, because I got such a terrible sore throat last weekend when I went to a wedding from singing so loudly that I was kinda sick all week, and I knew I'd feel even worse. So I couldn't really fall asleep last night, til like 2, and then I woke up at 5 coughing, couldn't fall back asleep til 6:30, then had to wake up at 7 to go to work. And the boxes were equally as disinteresting as they were last week. But I came back this afternoon and had a lovely nap for about 40 minutes before I went to my baseball game.
Which brings me to the main reason I'm writing this particular blog--that I am not busy at all. True, because I'm all alone and not yet tired, but the real reason is that I just had a baseball game tonight that went quite well. I pitched 7 innings, struck out 9, and gave up 4 runs, and also batted 3-3 and 2 walks and I had 2 runs scored and 2 RBI's. We ended up winning 14-8, woot!
I have now run out of things to say.
Until next time,
-Josh

The Weekly Photo Challenge: Challenge #22

The Weekly Photo Challenge: Challenge #22
This week's photo challenge was a non-wedding-related something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue. I did not know exactly what to do for the something borrowed, but I am lucky enough to have an awesome little nephew J-man that was willing to wear my baseball hat for it :). I only have a point-and-shoot camera, and I didn't do any editing (mostly cuz I'm unsure how, partly cuz I am too lazy to figure out how), but I enjoyed having to be a little creative in this, my first photo challenge. Thanks, Em, for introducing me to this, and I will hopefully be a little more faithful with keeping up with it than Dad was.

Moved In

Well, I have moved in with my sister, Emily, my bro-in-law, Jon, and my nephew, Josiah. And by moved in, I mean I brought enough clothes to rotate about every 3 days, a toothbrush, and...that's about it for now. But I am new to the blogging world, introduced to it by my sister. I am excited to be in Milwaukee, the land of the great oyster cracker. I look forward to doing something interesting enough to blog about, all I have right now is baseball, which is plenty interesting to me, but maybe not you guys. I'm going to write about it anyway.
I play for the Branch Blaze, a semi-pro team near Manitowoc. I also played all 4 years my college eligibility would allow, and finally got all-conference this past year :) I am a pitcher, and I also play shortstop. We are playing well for now, and I am batting .384 so far this year, which is about .100 higher than last year :-p Alright, enough about baseball, back to the other interesting events of my life...
One of my softball teammates got married Saturday, and I went to the reception, finding myself stag. I felt like a wedding crasher, minus the hooking up with someone and not getting invited part. Other than that, I started my job packing semis for FedEx today. I put my Tetris skills to the test, but not so much my degree in Psychology. Boxes don't need much counseling. I might if I'm in this job too long, though. Ugh.
K, that's all for now, I am probably going to join my sister's photo challenge that she does weekly, so hopefully I can at least put up a couple respectable pictures. She said most of the people in it are women, so they wanted a guy's point of view. But I took a masculinity/femininity test on facebook, and I was ruled to be 57% feminine, so I'm not sure it will be much different.
Until we meet again, or if we haven't met, until we meet,
-Josh