Posts Tagged ‘Photography’

That time we went to Yosemite to see squirrels

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

When you visit Yosemite, you see all these signs cautioning about bears, so you would think visiting for a weekend you would get to see some wildlife.

So I would like you to meet the very scary bears of Yosemite:

okay no, it’s a squirrel

And TWO squirrels! (no we did not feed them. Some old guy did. Tsk tsk.)

So no, over the weekend of July 18th that we spent in Yosemite, we saw less wildlife than we see at our house. But that’s okay because we did get to go on some adventures, like renting bikes and rafting down the river…

Cale got a way short bike. It was kind of hilarious.

adventures around mirror lake

Seeing some cool waterfalls…

Cale, Brent, Cait, and my dad climbed up through the rocks to get to the falls. My mom and I hung back and were chatting it up with some locals. Because we’re cool like that.

Posing at viewpoints because that’s required when you’re a tourist…

Cait’s head is covering half dome. Psh overrated.

Okay there’s half dome for y’all

That’s an armshelf/legshelf combo you’re looking at right there.

And taking more pictures…

Cale’s got the shot, don’t worry.

I’m in there!

How about capturing some running water

It was a great weekend, and I loved not only hanging out with my family, but getting to see Yosemite. Cale treated us all to some great cooking, and we had fun getting use out of the cabin my mom rented for the weekend: its hot tub on the deck, .5 billion DVDs, and pool table.

Have you ever visited Yosemite? And most importantly, did you see any bears???

It’s been a hard day’s night

Friday, July 17th, 2009

This week I’ve been feeling like a high schooler. Not in the insecure, pimple popping ways, but in the Oh my gosh there are so many things I could do, who needs to sleep way. I’ve determined there are several things for which I will forgo sleep. This is pretty rare because I’m not one of those people who can function on four hours of sleep. Or six. Or even seven. I need my eight hours (hence one of several reasons there is no baby Corwin). So what in the world has gotten into me this week? I have no idea. I must be so tired that I’m delusional. But the following things have kept me up this week:

  • Work. Yeah not fun but for whatever reason I can channel my inner college student to cram in work when I need to.
  • TV. Well to be specific, Dead Like Me on Hulu. We now have the iMac set up with hulu desktop and have it linked to our Harmony remote. So that basically controls my life. I’ve determined that if a show is on Showtime, I will most likely love it. Weeds, Californication, Dead Like Me, Dexter, United States of Tara. Yep we’ve watched them all. And I forsee Nurse Jackie being added to that list very soon.
  • Fixing computer issues. Not that I obsessively spent four hours into the night trying to fix some random hosting issue. No I would never do that. Except I did. And literally had to drag myself away and into bed when I still could not figure it out.
  • Cutting Cale’s hair. At midnight. Because that is normal. The spending an extra thirty minutes assuring him that no it’s not too short, and no you don’t need to shave it all off now.
  • Folding laundry.
  • Surfing The Knot because I’m shooting a friend’s wedding next week, and I am so not prepared whatsoever. Thank goodness it’s pretty low stress being a backyard wedding. But still, new territory freaks me out.

Maybe it’s the lack of sleep but I really cannot believe it’s already Friday. This week has been pretty darn exciting though. I went to Shaver over the weekend. Came back with a nice tan. Monday found out I am being promoted at work. Which I would totally be over the moon about had everyone in my start class been as well. But it’s a total bummer that not everyone has something to celebrate. (Shakes her fist at the economy) So while I am definitely happy and glad to be recognized at work, it’s not as great as it could be.

Cale and I have also been day dreaming about this completely abandoned, rundown cabin for sale in our town. I know, such a random thing to drool over right? But it’s super cheap, and even though we weren’t planning on buying in the Bay Area for a long time, it’s a small possibility that we might look into, should we get the information we need from the county on what needs to be fixed and approved through them. But even though we’re not committed to it, we’ve been having fun picking out kitchen and bathroom stuff and talking about it like its ours. Maybe it’s our way of making up for the lack of the HGTV or TLC channels since we canceled our cable. We won’t be heartbroken should everything not work out (to be honest, I think it would save me one giant headache), but we’re casually looking into it.

I’m in a pretty good place right now. I love when I can look back on a week, overlook the occasional bad mood I encountered, and be very pleased with how it went. I struck a good balance (regardless of the sleep issues), and I know my life’s headed into the right direction.

Another Self Portrait? Okay. I guess.

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

This evening, I got tagged by Allison and Sarah. There are a few rules of course. There are always rules. But given that this is: a) an easy blog and b) well, fun. I played along. Twice!

The Rules:
Take a picture of yourself right now.
No primping or preparing.
Just snap a picture.
Load the picture onto your blog.
Tag some people to play along.

First I got Allison’s in my reader and took this:

photo tag #1

And while I was editing that.. (Come on give me a break. I MUST edit. Especially with the yellowness of my house’s CFLs.) I got another tag in my reader. So I took this:

photo tag #2

And if this post doesn’t have enough pictures of myself, here’s my actual daily me, where I had some fun with PW’s Seventies action (by far my favorite).

April 14, 2009

Why don’t you join in the fun?
Miss Cay Cay
Alyssa
Talia
Kristin
and
Lauryn

Because sometimes a mid week post is nice

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

What is with my blogging ethic lately? Pales in comparison to my work ethic. But should you yearn for some Stephanie during the week.. I recently started another daily photo set in my flickr. This one has no rules. In other words, they are not going to be just me, though those will be continuing as always. But now.. I have a Daily Photo. Because as I was preparing for Exposaroonie’s Best of 2008, all I saw in my pictures folder were pictures of myself! Quite creepy and pathetic. Here is a peek at the Daily Photos I’ve taken so far.

January 11, 2009

January 12, 2009

January 14, 2009

January 15, 2009

How has your week been? How is it already Thursday night? At least there is a new episode of The Office. Right now actually.. And OMG Michael! This is crazy! Must end this blog post now so that I may watch the rest of this trainwreck that is Andy Bernard.