day 040. [photography buddy]

Now, if you've been following you know that a few posts ago (day 024.) I was writing in disappointment in how the first day of summer was a complete utter fail. Well, today was a little different. These past two days have seriously started to feel like summer. In fact, according to my little weather gadget on my mac it's showing that today's high was 80-degrees. It's about 10:19 PM right now and it's a good 64-degrees out. So the sun is definitely coming out, and it will be out for the rest of this week.

What I love most about the sun though is I'm fixing up tan lines that so desperately need to be fixed, haha.

Anyways, on to today! I started today off by going to my dentist appointment. Now, let me tell you something that might blow your mind away, haha. I'm now going into my 20th year of not having a single cavity [knocks on wood]. I'm pretty much the poster child of what dentist look for in a patient. If only I could have been the poster child for braces (should have worn that retainer ...), haha. I'm not going to lie, I was quite excited to hear that I went another dentist appointment without finding a single cavity. In fact I will quote what my dental hygienist, "This is by far the best dentist appointment you've ever had." I don't like to toot my own horn, but I knew it was going to be a good one, bahaha.

Afterwards I ended up just getting my haircut. For some the last time you saw me my hair was just getting over an inch long, for others it might have been a goo 1/8th of an inch long. Well, after that haircut, my hair is back to 1/8th and I quite like it this way :)

When I got home, I had a meeting with one of the seniors that I will be doing portraits for in the next few weeks. We got some ideas down and locations to go. Speaking of senior portraits my number of "clients" has gone up from 3 to 5!! If you're wondering who's photos I'm taking (even if you don't know them) they are:

• James Middleton
• Steven Welch
• Caytie Matthews
• Allison Duvenez
• Brandon Rhine

It's exciting to know that I've got 5 times the "clients" as I did last year. It will be a fun group to take pictures of. Like I said before though, keep an eye out seeing as some of their photos might grace the pages of my blog!

Once Steven left though I decided to take a nap because it was just so darn hot. I took it outside though, haha. But around 5:30ish my good friend Bailey came by to pick me up so we could hang out for a bit. We were also joined by our other friend Christian. It was fun hanging out with these guys seeing the last time I hung out with them it was during my Fall Break last October. So it's been a good more than half a year since I've seen these two. That ended early though because of last minute change of plans, but that was alright.

I spent the rest of the night at the cadre party that was going on at City Beach. If you're wondering what cadre means, it's just the small groups from our youth group were having an end of the cadre year party. After today, cadres are done until school starts up again. I had a blast hanging out with some of those guys because I haven't seen some of them in awhile. What's really cool though is I think I found a new photography buddy! There's something about having photography buddies that makes the idea of photography ten times more fun. What's even better is my photography buddy is Bailey's brother, Matt Poggie! He might tag along when I do James' photos sometime in the next few weeks. That will be exciting. As for my photography buddies they are as listed:

• Pam Dupa
• Brian Dyche
• Matt Nienhuis
• Steven Welch
• Erika Acode
• Matt Poggie

YAY!!! I hope to get the opportunity to work with each of them this summer. It's still a hot day, but I'm going to call it a night and get some seriously needed shut eye. Hope you guys are having great summers.

PS. Sorry that this ended up being so long :|

day 029. [jordan]

I had so many photos to choose from today that it was actually hard to really choose which one I'd use. My day isn't even over to be honest with you. Long summer days call for long summer nights!

Anyways, I had breakfast with a good buddy of mine from high school. Jordan Kingma. He and I have an interesting relationship, that has only gotten better since we've become friends. We absolutely despised of each other freshman year, but sophomore year things started to turn around. Come junior year we started to go to breakfast with each other. It was something he did with his dad, so he decided to do breakfast with me. Senior year we managed to keep it going. Sadly, we've gone to breakfast twice this past year, but I guess that's what happens when both of us have college lives. It's alright. We spent today just really catching up with each other seeing as the last time we saw each other was literally 6 months ago. It was a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to doing breakfast with him with the two months we have left before we go back to college!

Tradition, he always picks me up, which means he always drops me off back home. So after he dropped me off back home I finished up on a project that needed to get done now so I could ship it off to someone. In fact, there's another portion of it that I need to get done, but that won't take too long. I just cleaned, unpacked from not only the summer session but I ended up going through some stuff from fall and spring, and then I just did other little crafts whilst watching the World Cup. Good job today USA!!

The best part about today though was a home cooked meal. THANKS MOM!! After dinner though I went out to get some ice cream at DQ with another good friend of mine, Pam Dupa. We were there from 7 to about the time it closed. Just catching up and talking Photography. Things will never change the way I see it, ha.

Pam had to get going and I decided to go stop by Wal*Mart to see if they had embroidery floss. Unfortunately, they do not. Fortunately enough for me though I ran into another friend, Paul Jewell. We go back to 8th grade. Paul, if you read this, I'm sorry for killing your Machoke as it was evolving into a Machamp back during sophomore year. If there's any way I can repay you [besides my first born child] let me know, haha! Good times with that kid during high school.

Now even though it seems like my night is about to end, it's only about to begin. Just waiting for a few friends to get back into town from watching Toy Story 3. Once they get back ... it's all fun and games from here until the sun rises.

First day back in Oak Harbor couldn't get any better. This summer is totally shaping up to be a good one!

day 024. [summer]

You know how they say that June 21st marks the first day of summer. Well, whoever said that forgot to tell that to Mother Nature. We maybe got about 5 minutes of sun today, and that was it. The worst part, I was in class and didn't have an opportunity to snap a shot of the 5 minutes of sun we did get. Oh the North West, how I love you so ...

As for today, it was pretty uneventful. I'm in the 6th week of my summer classes which also means I'm in my last week of my summer classes. I woke up on the later side and had to get ready for BibTrad quite quickly, I did make it. I made it on time. Gotta add that in there.

History was ... well ... history. ha. Don't have much to say about it, other than since Dr. Els turned in his tenure application he's been at ease a little. It's quite nice having him not be so high strung, especially in our final days of classes!

Afterwards I went to go eat some lunch before I headed to the library to do some research for my BibTrad final. I wasn't there for too long seeing as I was getting all antsy and couldn't really focus/sit there anymore. Hopefully tomorrow will be better luck at studying/writing/researching in the library. Wish me luck!

Anyways, for the real fun of the night, I guess (haha), I watched Toy Story 3 ... AGAIN! Just not in 3D this time. I realized that the movie wasn't all that different from 2D and 3D. I mean, the toys were in 3D, but that's not what really is important. The message of the whole movie is what's important.

Well, that's it for today. I'm obviously taking a writing break from BibTrad and dare I say it, I need to get back to work. Later guys! Hopefully tomorrow shapes up and is better than today :)