Catching Up!

Tonight was great! I was able to finally catch up with my BFF that I haven't seen in months. She is someone who I could talk to about anything pretty much! You know you have a good friend when you can just enjoy each other's company talking about whatever like two old hags. No offense to the old hags out there. Thanks for catching me up on all the latest Katie! It was great seeing you! You will always be a great friend!

Peace

Do you know what peace is?

I often find peace when I'm alone with my thoughts. Most of that time is usually when I'm at sea on a cruise. I will stare at the waves from my balcony and just be at peace because I allow all thoughts to go away. Today I thought about peace when I noticed a bonsai tree on this table out in the smoking area. Who left it there? It gave me something to visualize. It was so nice to see and something you don't see everyday. Peace. How or when do you find peace?

That is today's photos.

GET AWAY FROM ME DUCKS!!

So a funny thing happened to me on the way home today. I decided I wanted to take a couple of photos of this Jesus statue in the cemetery near my house. I drove through the cemetery and found there was a pond in the cemetery on the way to the statue. As I was driving closer to the pond, I noticed some ducks and geese in the pond. What a great photo op! Well as soon as I get out of the car to take the photo, the ducks rush towards me and start squawking!

They are like "give me some food or die!" So I slowly take photos as I walk back to my car. (As you can see below) Now they have surrounded my car and I can't drive forward without killing one of them. Well a little toot of my car horn and backing up and going around them I made it to my destination.

Below the ducks are photos that I was trying to get in the first place before I had a run in with them!

"To the moon Alice!!"

So tonight I decided when I was taking Poptart for a walk that I wanted to take a photo of the moon.

With the sky not completely black i was able to get a shot of the moon with a little tint of blue in it.

Below you will see the first photo as the wide shot and the second is the same photo zoomed in. Kind of neat that you can see craters in the moon.

Do you ever wish you could go to the moon?

Enough Said.

Not much to say today but I found this pillow in a store today. This says it all. 

Happy 4th of July!

People are off work. Traffic is light (depending on where you are going). People are celebrating with bright colors and sparklers. And the American Flag is blowing in the wind.

All of this is because of our proud men and women who fought for our independence!  I'm thankful for you all! It is because of what you did that allows me to enjoy life everyday!

Today's photo is dedicated to Old Glory blowing in the wind! In the words of Bill Pullman from Independence Day - "Today we celebrate our Independence Day!"

Innocence

Young children can be so innocent. I remember the days of old when I used to play in the neighborhood with all the other boys and girls. Riding bicycles, playing tag, hide and seek, going to the playground, hopscotch, etc.

Most kids don't do that anymore. They are getting into something bad or staying in the house. Today's photo is just dedicated to the innocence of children. I saw this little girl riding her bicycle in the neighborhood and I thought she would make a good subject.

Of course, I probably look like a stalker or something from the way this photo was taken.

C is for Cookie! (that's good enough for me!)

If any of you remember the song that I'm thinking of when I created this blog post name, you will be that much more closer to my heart.

I've said this before but I will say it again. There never seems to be a reason for there to be food at work. Someone stopped by my edit suite and offered me a homemade cookie. It was a pumpkin chocolate chip cookie. I don't even like pumpkin but it was a very good cookie!

Along with this post, it was a good opportunity for me to take a photo with my new Canon T3i camera. From now on, I'm going to start using my new camera for this blog so it will probably be later in the evenings when I update this blog unless I take the photo of the day with my phone.

Enjoy! This photo was taken without any filters and in low lighting.

Oooops!

I'm back!! Sorry I've been busy for a while and haven't had time to blog. I will get back on it.

Today I was leaving work and something so embarrassing happened to me. You know those security bars that come down after passing through a gated community or business? Well when I was leaving work today, I wasn't really paying too much attention to the timing of the gate and went directly behind the car in front of me passing through the gate.

Two seconds later, BAM!!The white security bar that you see in the photo below, came down onto my car! I was looking around to see if anyone noticed and making sure I didn't break it. That is the last thing I need to do is break the security gate at my new job of 6 months. Car was fine and so was the gate. The only thing broken was my feelings.

Has this every happened to you? I know at least one person at work that has admitted that it happened to them. At least I wasn't the only embarrassed one.

Two Creams, Two Sugars

I love cream in my coffee! It has to be flavored! Who drinks their coffee black? These little creamers are very hard to come by at work. Sometimes I have to go to a different floor to get them. 

I guess several people love their coffee with flavor.

It's time!

Today things change for the future of gaming!! E3 is here!!! Last year was exciting because it was the announcement of Playstation 4 and XBOX One! Today and this week will all be about the games!!

I'm so excited! Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday to me! Empty my wallet now!

Painting a house - Garage doors

When you own a home there is always something that needs updating. Hopefully they aren't real major issues such as pipe work or electrical work or repairing a roof from a storm. Actually we had to have our roof repaired a few years back because it had shingles that fell off and it was an older roof.

Today's project was to paint the garage doors. The doors weren't in that bad of a shape that we needed to replace them entirely but they did need updating.

First we sanded them down to loose up any paint chips and bad spots. Then we just used exterior white paint to update them. In the photos below, the door on the left was the before photo and the door on the right is the after photo.

Looks really good, yes? No we are not for hire.

Graduation Day!!

She graduated!! I'm so proud of her! After 6 weeks of training she did it. Of course you can tell that the diploma was already made out in her name so I think she would have graduated by default. She was so good though.

Her test consisted of sit, release, back to a sit command, leave it, followed by a stay command for 10 seconds.

I'm pretty sure that a few days later she will have forgotten everything that she learned. Oh well, there is always summer school.

Updating.

From the photos below you would think that I'd either be moving offices or I'd be leaving the company. WRONG!!

They are changing the carpet in all the offices at work so that they look uniformed. I honestly didn't have any problems with the carpet before. Hopefully everything that you see here will stay in it's place when they lift the furniture to put down the new carpet.

We will see Monday morning. Fingers crossed.

Keep Hydrated!

Would you say that you drink enough water everyday?

Are you feeling weak or unhealthy?

Water is the most important thing you can drink everyday. I think that I drink enough water every day. Not the required 8 glasses of water but my fair share. Sometimes I feel like I'm having a sharp pain in my side or back where my kidneys are so I wonder if it's because I'm not drinking enough. My dad drinks a big jug of it all the time.

I think everyone should take care of themselves and drink as much water as possible. I know a soda or juice tastes really good on a hot day but substitute it for water sometimes if you can.

Food?!? Where?!?

For the past almost 6 months that I have been at WSB-TV, I have been bombarded with food offerings on many occasions. It is so funny. There is always some reason for their to be free food somewhere in the building. I feel bad sometimes because I'm not really hungry but will eat it just because it's free. Sometimes it seems like people think something is wrong with me because I will refuse to eat it. I just got to work! Or I brought my own lunch!

It doesn't even have to be a special occasion. Today they catered food from Rising Roll Gourmet. SOO GOOOD!!! The occasion was the quarterly birthday and anniversaries celebration. I didn't have a birthday but I will celebrate yours!!

More gigantic cookies please!!! I love my job!

Timber!!

Trees were there one day and now they are gone! Came home today and noticed that these 3 big leyland cypress trees that were used as a divider between our house and the neighbors' had been taken down! It was kind of shocking at first because the wifey and I were wondering who they belonged to.  We wanted to have them trimmed months ago, actually years ago, but were unsure who they belonged to. They just get too big and they also draw bugs. The neighbors seemed to assume they were theirs and decided just to remove them without asking. No more privacy between the houses but honestly it doesn't matter. They were too big anyways. It just seems weird now.

Howdy neighbors! Now you can tell someone needs a major powerwash!!!

E3 is coming!!!

NERD ALERT!!

With me being the geek that I am, there are 4 major days of the year that I get very excited for. My birthday, WWE Royal Rumble, WWE Wrestlemania and E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo). E3 is something for me to get excited about for the news of the upcoming game year. I'm a huge video gamer as you may have read in my previous blogs. E3 is when I get to sit back and see/listen (and drool over) all the video game news from the industry developers/CEOs to see what they have planned for me.

Sony has always been number one for me as a fanboy but I enjoy seeing what the other competitors (Microsoft and Nintendo) have in store. E3 is right around the corner and I can't wait to see what's coming. Last year was the announcement of Playstation 4 and XBOX One so this year should all be about games!

What will be coming? I already heard about a new Mortal Kombat X game today. Giddity!! I need to hurry up and finish playing the 10 games I'm working on now! I'm gonna be broke soon!

Nothing to say.....

Today was kind of a lazy day for me. I didn't really have much to say or take any photos today. I just did my X-Men Days of Future Past review. Maybe you should take a look at that.

X-Men Days of Future Past review

Sit, Watch Me, Stay!

For the past 5 weeks we have been attending dog training at Petsmart. We don't necessarily have a bad dog but we always wanted her to learn simple commands so that she would be obedient in front of others. Nobody wants a dog who barks at others and is running around crazy. She knows how to sit and watch me and come when called. She has been doing ok in class but there are a few too many distractions. Hopefully she will graduate next week. If anything she will graduate just based on cuteness and the fact that she is the only one in the class.