Hey everyone,

It's been a while since I've been on. I've had some major problems with my computer, internet, and been frustrated with my camera. The computer now has a backup (i.e. laptop), I have internet again, and I miss my camera so I'm hoping to spend more serious time with it again.

I need to get ahead on my schoolwork and then I'll go through some of my photos to put up. I'm taking an art appreciation class this semester and I have to say it's been much more enlightening than I expected it to be. Well that's all for now. Just wanted to say hi again.

I have a class assignment to do mock tourist photos for a brochure of the city. So go out to the National Park. I hike around for 4hours or so only to get a few pictures. On my way back I decide to pull off the road briefly to let the tailgater by. BOOM!! Like that I have a flat tire. Oh fun.

So I pop the trunk to pull out the spare. I get the spare out and start to close the trunk to discover there is something wrong. Hmm. The one side won't go down right. Turns out the most necessary part of the hinge broke. Aye, what fun. Of course I didn't have anything to tie down the trunk with, but I finally was able to push the hydraulic in enough to put the trunk down so that the other hydraulic was wedged so it would stay down.

As I'm driving home I realize that the only thing keeping people out of the car now would be my back seats. Wouldn't it be lovely to go out to my car tomorrow to find that it would only take 5 secs to get through the seats or something like that? So I unloaded my entire car into my living room. Including my tire from the trunk. Remember my spare is on the car, this is a regular sized tire and I live UPstairs and have beige carpet. Then I had the trunk light to deal with. Can't leave it on all night to drain the battery. So I went through the fusebox pulling fuses hoping to find the right one, but strangely I couldn't find it. So I broke the cage around the light and pulled the light. Good night.

I started the day off at church. After church I noticed that the hinge wasn't wedged well enough and I was afraid of it bending my trunk. So off the trunk lid went. Up the stairs and into my living room with the rest of my car junk. Got the tire fixed and then off to my Dad's house to get his thoughts on how to deal with this trunk thing. So out came the trunk lid. And where would a trunk lid ride on such a trip? Well in the front seat of my car naturally. It took a couple tries, but I finally figured out how to get it in there. LOL This whole ordeal must have looked quite funny to onlookers.

The kicker is today was a vacation day. And what better way could there be then to spend it getting my car fixed? 2hours getting a new tire. Another 2 to get my trunk closed. And it's still not fixed. It's just shut. All and all it wasn't so bad I was pretty fortunate. It looks like this whole think will only cost about $80 including the tire. Now I suppose I should actually look at those pictures and see if they were worth the money. Sigh.

Sorry not to get gym photos up sooner. My motherboard died and so I was out of the computer age for a week and a half The horror!! I got all stressed cause I had an assignment due so it was a lot of fun


I'll be looking for more pics to add after (or when) I get my galleries uploaded on my site. I have like 3 meets to go through. Though I seemed to have lost the two cds from the last meet. There aren't many good action pics though. I switched to the better jpg setting and my cards are too slow to handle it. I have just ordered a 60GB portable storage device which I'll have by the next meet and hopelly I'll be able to take more than one shot at a time (a real bummer in gym). Hopefully this Wolverine storage device is all I hope it will be and more.

So it's that time of year again. Yep time to be sad that I won't have Saturdays to sleep in and know that my time it about to become short. Yep school is about to be back in. I'll be taking Computer Information Systems 100 and Digital photography. I'll a little concerned about both classes. CIS 100 cause I'm afraid it'll be either too easy and I'll have wasted money or it'll be really hard for me. Oh well I'm probably being silly. I'm still a bit scared of college, I keep thinking my 3 classes so far are just flukes that they are easy. (which I think is true, though writing wasn't all that easy)

Then there's the Digital photography. I've NEVER taken a photography class and I'm a little scared to. I'm sure I'll learn lots but then you always hear these horror stories of how people who love art take an art class and then have the love sucked out of them. Then again I am sure some of those stories are about those people who think they are the cream of the crop when really they just never had competition and everyone LOVED their work. Then of course some are those crazy teachers who think it's their duty to tell students how much they suck instead of trying to motivate people.

The good news is the NCAA gymnastics season has officially begun. We are now in week 2!! The first home meet is next Sunday so hopefully I'll have something for you by Tuesday. The kick off is ASU vs Arizona what could be better? Ok Arizona winning.

Oh and next Sat is my birthday.


Hope everyone has been doing good. Sorry to be so absent. I've been busy.

So I have been saving up and have finally got the paperwork done and the newest member of my family coming this way as write this. It's so exciting, we should be together in time to spend our first thanksgiving together. I have been waiting for almost a year for us to finally meet. Yes that' right I have ordered a Canon 50mm 1.4. Yay! It should be here on Tuesday, but I have to wait till Wed morning to get the package.

Can you believe it's almost Thanksgiving? And there's only a little over a month till Christmas? This year I will definately try to get my shopping done early I hate the christmas shopping. So far I have one down

What's everyone going to do for thanksgiving? Anyone going to brave the crowds the day after?

I still don't know what's up for thanksgiving plans are clashing , but I will probably go out for the sales. Those computer sales are just too good to pass up.