PICTURES!!

I wanted to write a blog post about photos.  I’ve been snapping a lot of them in the recent past, and I haven’t been blogging them here because there are too many other places around the web to post.

I’ve posted a few photographs to my Facebook from last weekend, and I’ve also created an album there called “I ATE THIS” and it’s just photos of crap I’ve eaten.

The second Photo related thing that I wanted to post about was my DailyBooth.com account.

Do you Daily Booth?  If so, follow me and I’ll follow you back. To see today’s Daily Booth photo, look on the left hand side of this page.

Some of my Daily Booths are just stupid head shots in the car.  Others are me with other people.  And some are me sitting on the toilet (just kidding…well, ONE is me sitting on the pot).

The gist of Daily Booth is this: each day you photograph yourself and people can comment or respond.  It’s a lot like Twitter but you use photographs instead of words.

And lastly, I wanted to say that I’m always photographing stupid shit and posting it on Twitter…like this Greeting Card Fail. You have no reason NOT to be following me on Twitter.

I just plugged my cell into the computer and I’m clearing out some of the crap that doesn’t need to be in there (mostly photos). But before I deleted them forever I thought that I should blog them so I could have a (somewhat) permanent record of them..just in case. So here are some completely random photographs taking from my cell phone:

I was doing a cartooning lesson with children, and we were editing her face to look like different things. This was my favorite.

A creepy doll that someone left at my desk on show & tell day.

Our torch & scoreboard for Color Olympics this past summer

If you work in my building and take a Hawaiian vacation in the middle of summer, this is what happens to your office.

Greeting Card Fail

My boo-boo.

I just created a Facebook photo album called “Friends & Strangers” and here’s the idea: I’m going to start snapping photos of friends with strangers in the background and I’ll tag both the friend and the stranger.  The album now has three photos:

If you haven’t already, add me as a friend on Facebook here.  Let me know that you’re a blog reader in the friend request if I don’t know you in real life.

I blogged here that every time I drive through one of the photo enforcement zones that I make a funny face.  Well, on June 10th at 11:28pm I was on the 10 freeway headed home and this happened:

You may be wondering why I have a photo of 11:28pm on June 10th.  Well, the truth is I was going about 78 miles per hour…even though the posted limit is 65 miles per hour.  Damn it.

I was going through the photographs I had on my cell phone and was deleting a bunch of them.  And I thought that maybe I should post some of them here for safe-keeping…you  know, for when I want to look at them later.  So here, in no particular order are a few cell pictures with mini-explanations:

Perhaps this is a bit nuerotic…but I like to keep my closet in ROYGBIV order with white as my  starting color and black as my end.  Don’t judge me.

Four girls put together a thirty-second dance routine at work and wanted to do it for the Club.  And we’re a place that helps foster creativity…so we made the time.  (The truth is we were short-staffed that day, and when they came up to beg me to perform for everyone it was a really good way to stretch out our afternoon announcements.)

I’m really bad at making bulletin boards.  This is the Club announcement board I put together a couple of weeks ago.  Bleh.

I was trying to explain to Drew how organized my desk (right) is compared to my office mate’s (left).  So I snapped a photo and texted it…but when I look at this picture I see that I’ve got a lot of kid art and toys cluttering my space.  But notice how clean my actual desktop is.

Diet advice from the building managers?  I Twitpic’d this…but I thought it was funny.

This one freaked me out…I noticed on Tuesday afternoon that I had a mysterious 1:30 appointment blocked out with no explanation or title.  There were no corresponding appointments in my Outlook calendar or my Google calendar.  So I was truly perplexed.  Wednesday came and went, and nobody showed up at 1:30.

This little guy provoked a fight between 2 members at work, and was on my desk as evidence right next to the behavior citation I got to deal with that morning.

I Facebook’d that Mike Rowe and Dirty Jobs should come hang out at my work for a while.  This picture was taken after a small incident on Wednesday.

Sanctuary.

A six-year-old painted this cute picture last Friday.  He told me that the bottom thing under the letters is a guitar.  Super cute.  I tweeted “I didn’t paint this, but I agree.”

And @Adaman09 replied “But now it’s in your possession. ” 

Perhaps it is.

On the 12th day of each month bloggers all over the world take 12 photos throughout the day and post them on their blogs. It’s Chad Darnell’s idea, and you can see his website and a list of links here.

To see my photos from past months, click here.

Here are my photos from April 12, 2010.

The mornings start early for me. Even though I don't have to be to work until 11, I get up early to take care of the dooogs.

Beezus LOVES Olive's dog bed more than her own.

We've finally unpacked all of my nuns. This one is sitting on my desk and I snapped a shot while working on some stuff for iEATbooks.

When I went to get a coffee refill, this is what I found.

We have a county head-start program in our building, and I believe this was posted by a pre-school teacher.

Tweeting about my 12 of 12.

My officemate is being super healthy...and I'm not. Guess which beverage belongs to who.

At home we filled two gumball machines with wine corks and beer caps.

And we framed 9 of Dan's Dad's records. We're going to hang them in a grid.

This is Dan telling me all about his day in jury duty. He got picked to be on a jury...and it's going to be a long one. And he'll be able to write a John Grisham-like novel about his experiences.

Meatloaf before bed.

For Christmas, Dan got a book called Chow Hound.  And this morning I decided to give one of the recipes a try.

I chose Here Kitty, Kitty Tuna Pie (don’t let the name fool you…it’s a dog treat).  I picked this one simply because we had all of the ingredients in the house already.

Start by gathering your ingredients:

• 1 Tablespoon of Olive Oil
• 2 Eggs
• 1/2 Cup Low-Sodium Chicken Broth
• 2 Cans of Tuna
• 2 Tablespoons of Dried Parsley
• 1/2 Cup of Bread Crumbs

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.

Coat a 9-inch pie plate with Olive Oil.

In a medium-sized bowl, beat together the eggs and the chicken broth.

Throw in the Tuna.  If you’re using chunky (like me), I’d suggest you fork all of the pieces into smaller chunks.

Add the Parsley.  Mix it all together.

If you’re doing it right, your dogs should be standing at your feet already salivating over the treat you’re creating.

Pour the mixture into the pie plate, and sprinkle the bread crumbs evenly over the top.

Bake the pie for 45 minutes…or until the eggs are set and the bread crumbs turn golden brown.

Remove the pie from the oven and allow it to cool.  You can serve it warm or at room temperature.

I made little cookies out of ours.

Because of the move, I’m pretty late posting my 12 of 12.  Forgive me.  If you don’t know what 12 of 12 is, here’s the basics: On the 12th day of each month bloggers all over the world take 12 photos throughout the day and post them on their blogs. It’s Chad Darnell’s idea, and you can see his website and a list of links here.

To see my photos from past months, click here.

Here are my photos from January 12, 2010.  This should be called “The Diabetes Edition” of my 12 of 12:

What a cute face! Beezus is getting big, right?

Dan and I are obsessed with these Not-A-Paper-Cup ceramic coffee mugs. They look like disposable coffee cups, but are made of glass and can be washed in the dishwasher.

Kind of a boring morning for 12 of 12...I had a meeting in Gilbert until almost 1:30. Bleh.

My office-mate is kind of disorganized, and it drives me nutso! This is what I'm greeted with each day when I arrive.

When our members arrived I took a couple of minutes to play some CandyLand. Damn, my job is hard.

We installed these lights in both bathrooms. It's kind of dark, but you can see the paint color too.

This is the beginning to a very long night. 233 is WAY too high.

My friend Lee Ann Thill writes a blog called The Butter Compartment, named after the place that most of us keep our insulin. Maybe I should create a blog called "The Mustard Shelf."

After some insulin, my blood glucose level is slowly creeping down. 196 is still too high. I'd be happy at 85 or 90.

Getting there...

Not on target, but close enough to go to bed.

Fucking Diabetes. I woke up feeling panicked and shaky, and tested. 66 is too low. I drink some Mountain Dew and wait.

Exhausting. This picture is taken after 2 a.m...which is technically the 13th, but whatever.

When I went to the Arizona State Fair in 2008, I took a bunch of photos and posted them on my Flickr account.  And then about six months ago I got an email from the people that run Schmap City Guides…which is a website and iPhone app that guides people to places around cities.  They wanted to include one of my photos in the description of the AZ State Fair.  They picked this one:

The State Fair is under the Zoos, Farms & Aquariums page (don’t ask) located here.  And my photo is even credited.  Pretty sweet.

As you can read in my last post, I recently switched banks, and I had to live for almost 3 weeks without a debit card.  In that time, my hosting for this website was supposed to be charged, and my site was down until I contacted my hosting service to tell them my new bank card number.

So I’m here.

Since my last post I’ve been pretty busy.  I’ve received a promotion at work, and I’m now the director of my own club.  In the few weeks that my blog was down, I wouldn’t have blogged much anyway.  I was dealing with closing up shop at my old club where I ran technology programing with children, and I was training and getting settled into my new club which is in Tempe.

In that time I also missed a 12 of 12.  Bummer.  Here are some photos that people took of me in the past few weeks: