The BimBlog 2.1

The Survey says.......

2008-08-21T22:17:00.000-07:00

My daughter, yep the one from the bookstore again (see previous post), answers all these crazy, silly surveys on MySpace and then posts them on her site. Well I love reading her answers, it gives me a real insight into her psyche, some of which I'll have to pay to try to reverse with therapy later but MOST of it reveals what a funny, clever girl she really is. I've always wanted to do these, but let's face it, I'm in my late 40's and I'd look like an idiot posting it on my MySpace page and certainly not on my Facebook - I have Pastors as friends on that site. So....what better place to answer a survey and post it than here on my blog. All the cool kids are doing it.

1) What's your third-favorite fruit?

- nectarine

2) What's your third-favourite fruit?

- wait huh? Didn't I answer this already. You spelled favorite wrong by the way.

3) If you could give Brennan two nicknames starting with the letter B, what would they B?

- Bren and Nun

4) Finish this sentence

- (.)

5) Inuits have taken over North America. Pick three actors to be in your resistance force.

- Resistance is futile. But if it wasn't I'd get three guys that played Siths on Star Wars - they'd handle those pesky eskimos

6) If you could change your eyes to any color (on command) what's your favorite type of bear?

- Polar with hazel eyes

7) Which musician would you most like to share milk and Oreos with? (Note: if you pick a currently-not-alive musician you have to share milk and Oreos with a zombified version of that person)

-Bono

8) Prussian blue or cerulean blue?

-Prussian or Cerulean blue what?

9) In what order do you put on your clothes?

-eeew clothes.

10) What's your favorite commercial?

-"e-liftys"

11) If you could punch any animal in the face, which one would it be?

-don't hate. hug.

12) If you owned a city, what would it be called and what would it's economy be based off of?

-New Debbie, New Debbie a city so nice they named it twice. We would use puppies like cash. Not sure how we'd make change.

13) You now have a metal band.
What's the name of your band and the name of your drummer?

-Spinal Tap already stole my idea.

14) If you could start any company, what would it be and how would you market it?

-Uh Apple already stole my idea.

15) If you were one of The Golden Girls, who would you kill first?

-myself - no thank you for being a friend.

17) OmuhG!!! wUT HaPnD 2 # 16??!? ROFL

-Unicorns

18) Donny Salladin is mowing his lawn and you drive by with your mom in the car.
Do you say hi to Donny?

-Who's Donny Salladin?

Just another surreal night in Riverside

2008-08-01T22:32:00.000-07:00

The life of a mom is never easy. We do things for our kids that really should make us scratch our heads and and wonder - "What in the world am I doing?" I say this from experience my friends. As I type this blog post I'm sitting in the Borders bookstore in Riverside plaza at 10:36pm on a Friday night. I paid $9.99 to get internet access and kill 3 hours. I'm on a laptop that has a history of crashing over and over on the internet and I have no pages bookmarked and I can NEVER remember web addresses, I forgot my cf card with over 200 pictures on it so I have no pictures to edit. I can't get into my work web page to moderate comments so here I sit typing this blog post ever so slowly, hoping the time goes by faster than my typing. I'm here under these tortuous circumstances because my oldest daughter wanted to attend a book party for something called "Twilight" - the new teen book series rage (coming to a theater near you- not kidding about that by the way) It's a series about a girl who loves a vampire but he's a good vampire as opposed to a bad one? I dunno. All I know is I have a book geek for a daughter and I'm proud of that mind you - there are a LOT of worse things she could be doing with her life at the tender age of 14 and a half. Besides she needs a life and if cheering for fake charachters dressed up as real ones and getting her picture taken with them and having a debate over which guy the main girl should like and having trivia contests and talking about what they hope is in the new book and then a 12:01 AM release of the newest book, that I have to pay for by the way - if THAT'S what it takes to make me "Mom of the day" ( a year is to much pressure) and give my daughter a life, at least for the night, well then I'm all for it. At least I can make HER stand in the never ending line for marginal coffee ( I wonder - is this really Seattle's BEST?). So as I sip and ponder and type ever still so slowly chuckling to myself at the girls dressed up as their favorite charachter in the book, thanking the Lord above that my daughter is not THAT big of a geek ( no offense to anyone who actually dresses up as their favorite book charachter mind you - but c'mon seriously?), I salute you other moms that will do what it takes to give your children ample opportunity to express themselves despite the weather, the late night hours, the long drives or the less than free Wifi.
Elly won that debate by the way by stating that one guy was hotter than the other and therefore the girl should like him.... and a HUGE cheer went out from the all-girl crowd - college debate team here she comes....
Costume contest is coming up - I knew I should have worn my cape.

Friday Night Sights

2008-06-23T23:04:00.000-07:00

I'm experimenting with new Techno knowledge and tried my hand at sharing a slideshow of some random shots from Jr High Friday Night activities this past week. Mary sang with the band and Hanz and I were proud parents indeed. Here's the random pics in slideshow form that I promised.

Israel pics will be forthcoming.....

Flower Power!

2008-06-05T15:54:00.001-07:00

I love taking pictures of flowers and my favorites are geraniums. The very first one is a close-up of flowers from a tree in Jordan they call a "Crazy Tree". You stick it in the ground, give it water and it grows like crazy. They're very prolific in the parched desert landscape of Israel and Jordan. It's very similar to our Mimosa tree. The 2nd one is a cluster of flowers from a Hoya plant. The flowers look like candy when they blossom and smell divine. The last three are from Israel - from a courtyard in the Citadel -David's tomb and from the Garden Tomb. Someday I'd love to get a macro lens so I can get the super close-up shots!

eeew! What is that? I know, let's eat it!

2008-04-19T22:08:00.000-07:00

We had a great time the other night with our friends the Mariano's. They moved here from New Orleans a few years back and they're really trying to make Riverside "cajun" one person at a time. We shared in a springtime Louisiana tradition of boiled crawfish, corn and potatoes. I cannot believe how many of the little buggers we all ate! Mary and Elly plates were heaped with the carcasses of many crawfish heads. We had two escapees that tried to make a break for it but Lucy the dog ate them later that night boiled or not- she didn't care... that's one of the reasons why dogs don't rule the world.

We'll call this the "Mary" post

2008-03-27T09:45:00.000-07:00

Mary at Jr. High Talent Night

Just some pics of my girl from Christmas up to now. I kept the really fuzzy one because as I said before a cool shot is a cool shot even if it's blurry (professionals may not agree - another reason I'm not one) and I LOVE the look on her face and her piano teachers face. It's from her recital and she was obviously really pleased with herself.

Easter Sunday

2008-03-24T21:00:00.000-07:00

We love to go to our family's house for the holidays. The Briggs aren't "blood" relatives, but they might as well be. We got to play with two babies - Jovie, Ty and Lauren's beautiful baby girl and Peyton, Beau and Nicole's new little puppy. The dog in the window is one of six there that day - I can't remember which one it was (maybe Grace). I just LOVE that all you can see is an eye and a nose. The shots are all a little grainy - I didn't check my ISO setting until I downloaded these pictures. Better late than never? I'll be sure to let you know when I've taken the perfect picture. Can we take cameras to heaven?

Worship Team Pics

2008-03-24T20:47:00.000-07:00

Hanz asked me to come and take some updated pictures of the Worship Team. Always daunting for me to photograph in the Sanctuary and wouldn't you know my batteries died in my flash but a few of them still turned out cool. I'm learning not to trash the blurry ones so quickly - if it's a cool shot, it's a cool shot. The team was thrilled to see me at 6:30 in the morning with a camera. Thanks guys - you look mahvelous!

Part Four

2008-03-20T17:14:00.000-07:00

More, more and more. I'm finding three at a time makes it easier on the whole uploading process until I really learn what I'm doing.

Part Tres

2008-03-20T17:05:00.000-07:00

Okay still to small to catch some things - the 2nd one was a pic of Crystal Lewis singing "Trust me" while her iPod was playing the track. Trying to be aesthetic.......trust me.

Part Deux

2008-03-20T16:59:00.001-07:00

Okay I realize I made everything to small so here's the third one again and a couple more....

The first attempt

2008-03-20T16:33:00.000-07:00

Just learning how to do this stuff so bear with me please. Maybe I should have my girls help huh? I'm posting some pics from the last couple of months all with the new 40D. I'm learning to let go and shoot fully manual but sometimes I still go back to shooting with "floaties" when I have to get the shot. I'll add more pics as the days and weeks go by. I have some from Christmas last year I'd love to post. A few are out-of-focus but still worthy of post because the picture is cool. My only post-editing comes from what I get in iPhoto so it's very minimal. Maybe I'll treat myself to Lightroom later this year. Still haven't mastered Photoshop - just don't have the time. Life calls....often.