13 posts from 2008

In honor of Independence Day, show us something patriotic.

 

I hope everyone has a wonderful Independence Day celebration!  And remember that our freedom isn't free; this is a day to be thankful for all the rights we have been given!

And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

Show us a picture of your father.

He is still greatly missed.  Me and him at Enchanted Village circa 1984 (ish).

To mix things up a bit, I thought I would do something I don't often do: a meme.  I stole this from Cori, no, I am not original. (Cross posted at my blog.)

The Instructions:

a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker.

The Questions:

1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name.

Can you figure out what my answers were?

1. Rannie and Matt - A wordpress guy.
2. New York Steak
3. Gig Harbor High School
4. Dark Blue Night
5. The Office: Jenna Fischer
6. Special Fashion Week Cherry Coke design
7. Massa Lubrense and Vesuvio
8. chocolate cheese cake
9. Still Life For Teacher
10. In God's Country
11. Tender Love and Care - cheesy much?
12. Project 365 - Day 137 - I guess "mattithyahu" doesn't show up that often, my pictures were the only ones there!

Well if you would like to know what I do on a typical Friday (haha, right), you should read my post: A Trip to Mount St. Helens @ MattJonesBlog.com.  Stop by and say hi!

Show us the comic strip you read most often.

 

Get Fuzzy is the best thing to happen to comics in a long time.  I can consistently laugh out loud when reading about Bucky, Satchel, and Rob.  Funny Stuff.

Well, Amber tagged me so I guess I had better think of something clever... or something approximating clever.

Summarize your life in a six word memoir, with optional photo illustration. Then tag six others.

"Happiness is only real when shared." -Chris McCandless

It is truly tradgey that Chris didn't figure that out until it was too late.

Oh, I guess I am supposed to tag people now... I don't really like doing that... but I guess I will (I kind doubt many people stop by here any more anyway!): Cori - Jen - Kristin - Lindsay Erika - Steve Betz - Noelle

Well, the big day happened.  As of Saturday night at 10:44pm I have entered the last year of my 20s.  How old do I feel right now?

I'm still young though, right?  RIGHT?  Really though, I am feeling pretty good about things.  Yeah, I am a little late getting a career started... I am still in grad school... massively in debt... and no dates on the horizon... humm.  

I brought in the new year by visiting the family down in southern Washington for a birthday/Mother's day weekend.  It was a very relaxing and fun weekend filled with a wonderful family, tasty food, amazing gifts, and, of course, shopping at Powells Books.  On Saturday night Erin and I drove down to Portland to see the Lonely Forest play a show, it rocked and I got wished happy birthday from on stage, so that was cool.

All-in-all I am looking forward to this year.  I am sure it will be as blessed as all my previous 10595 days have been.

Gifts are still being accepted. ;)

(Cross posted here.)

Show us your bible.
Submitted by Connie.

Ummm... Which Bible?

 

While I have a number of BIbles for various uses, my "primary" bible is a New American Standard Bible.  It has decen student notes, and the NASB is my prefered translation (for a number of reasons, feel free to ask why).

 

Another version that I use frequently is the English Standard Version.  The ESV is another fairly literal translation that my church uses.

     A late night challenge: Show us a photo of the full moon.

Here is the full moon during the Feburary 20th, 2008 eclipse taken at Gas Works Park in Seattle.  Saturn is the bright "star" to the left of the moon, Regulus is the bright star above the moon.

And again at Gas Works Park with some airplane trails.

Show us a photo of cherry blossoms in bloom.... Or, if you don't have cherry blossoms where you live, show us a photograph of any flower in bloom!

A few pictures I took in the quad at the University of Washington a number of years ago.