My Life Through Trips and Pictures
To update on a few things from my life in the past several months…
Okay, so to pick up where I left off back in August…
I went to Dallas back in August, to meet up with some friends from HSA. Spent time with lots of awesome people and went to some fun places. I had met a lot of them in person already and knew them well, and I got to meet new people too. We played Ultimate Frisbee and Capture the Flag, went roller skating, went to downtown Dallas, and just generally had fun hanging out and talking. And…I got to fly for the first time and loved it! 
In case anyone is really interested, here are my pictures from that trip:
Album 1
Album 2
Album 3
Album 4
Album 5
Album 6
In September, we evacuated for Hurricane Ike. We stayed with family in north Louisiana. Thankfully, we had little damage done to our house and yard. We were without water for a few days, but really fared better than so many people. The following are pictures showing what Wal-mart looked like when we got home:
Then a couple of weeks ago, I flew up to Little Rock to see a couple of HSA friends get married. I’m so glad I was able to make it to their wedding! I’m friends with both the bride and the groom, and they really mean a lot to me. I’m so happy for them, and their wedding was beautiful. She made a beautiful bride too. While there, I stayed with my aunt for several days, and got to see my cousin and her new baby.
Wedding pictures
Baby cousin pictures
So yeah, I like taking a lot of pictures. 
If anyone is interested, I can be found here on Flickr.
Right now, I’m working on designing a website for my dad’s company, and want to learn and do more with web design. I’m also very interested in photography, as you may have guessed, and I want to improve my skills in that area a lot this year as well. I have a photoblog here.
I also hope to blog more this year, so hopefully you’ll all hear from me more often in the coming months.
Pictures and Stuff
I uploaded some pictures today on Flickr, and I’m starting to update my photoblog more again.
Also, I ordered a new lens the other night! A Canon 50mm f1.8. It’s supposed to be here Wednesday, and I’m really looking forward to playing around with it and learning to use it.
In other news, I’ve been doing some work at my dad’s office whenever they need help with the computers. I got all the internet and networking issues smoothed out a while back, and fixed some issues so they could access their office computer remotely. But they just bought a new building and moved over to the new place, and got a different internet service and new equipment. Which meant I was back at the beginning and got to set it all up again. It was touch and go for a while there, but it’s all working now. It can get frustrating at times, when I don’t know what’s wrong and can’t find a logical explanation, and I still have a lot to learn. But I do enjoy it.
Not much else to report right now, really. I’ve been sick a lot lately with sinus and cold type stuff, but I think I’m over most of it now. Still pretty tired, and still fighting weed pollen allergies. I’m praying for a good hard freeze early this year, to kill all the ragweed. I always feel so much better when it dies off.
Blog stuff
I really do plan on using this thing more. I’ve been putting it off until I redesign the site, make my own layout and such, and, well, I just haven’t gotten to that yet. I should go ahead and start using it again anyway. Maybe I’ll post a longer update later.
Meanwhile…I’ve started a photoblog.I think that’s a good way to share pictures with people who want to see them, and to encourage me to work at it more. It will also be neat to look back over later, after I’ve been doing this for a while, and hopefully see how I’ve improved over time. I have so much to learn, but I’m enjoying it!
I’m also working on learning more web design. I’m currently working on a blog for Caroline, learning to make my own Wordpress templates. I need to learn more PHP so I can code more stuff myself, but this is a good way to get started. I’m really enjoying it, and would love to do more with it.
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I put up some pictures from my new camera! See here if interested. I love my new camera.
Yay!
I got a camera on ebay tonight! I’m so excited! It’s a Canon 20D, and I really got a great deal on it. It comes with a lens and seven filters. I can’t wait to get it! It’s a better camera than I was hoping to get. It’s discontinued now because Canon upgraded, but it’s in the pro-sumer line, which is a step up from the amateur cameras I was looking at. I found it an hour before the auction ended, and really didn’t expect to get it. I was pretty excited at the thought of getting an SLR at all, but this is better than what I thought I’d get! I’ve been really enjoying learning more about photography and taking photos with my point and shoot. It will be a lot of fun to take it to a whole new level and start learning so much more. 