7 posts tagged “me”

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?

A Mosaic of Me

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, 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.)

I have updated my Project 365 photos over at Flickr to include my moving weekend (which is still kinda in process...).  So stop by over there to see a few glimpses into my weekend!

... that you will know after this post.  Since I have been tagged by Jen I thought I would give this a go.  If you don't read my blog, you may not actually know that much about me (since most of the time I am just doing the QofD or Vox Hunt here), but I'm still not actually sure what 10 things to share... I guess I'll have to think of something.

1:  I was a band geek.  Don't get me wrong, I'm still a geek, I'm just not in band any more.  I played the tenor sax in wind symphony and the bari sax in jazz band.  It was pretty awesome.  All my closest friend were in band and we were pretty tight.  Sometimes I miss those days... other times not so much.  We played in Carnegie Hall once in New York: in-freakin'-credible!

2:  I am addicted to Coke... well usually Cherry Coke actually.  It is, along with Mountain Dew, an amazing beverage.  Period.

3:  I hated reading for much of my life.  My mom was really worried that I would never read much (or well) because all I read were Garfield comics when I was little.  I started taking more of an interest my senior year of high school, but it really wasn't until my freshmen year of college that I actually got excited about reading as a means to learn more and for pure enjoyment.  I am still not a huge fiction fan (except for the classics), but even those are growing on me.

4:  Some say this is late in the game, some say quite early: I knew I wanted to go to the University of Washington since my freshmen year of high school (it was the only college I applied to) and knew I was going to major in physics and astronomy since my junior year.

5:  I NEVER ever wanted to be a teacher, ever.  My dad was a teacher, my aunt a teacher, my grand parents were teachers, my sister is a teacher.  I refused to go down that line.  Then late in my sophomore year of college (it may have been my junior year actually) I felt clear direction from God that I was going to be a teacher.  I had never felt any specific direction of this sort in my life and haven't since.

6:  I am addicted to the internet.  This might be obvious, but it really is true.  Since I haven't been very busy this last year I am on pretty much all the time.  I secretly wish that my friends and family would all have blogs so I could interact with them more often than I generally get to (especially when living away from them); I think most of them think it is somewhat silly that I blog so much.  I say "get with the program!" ;)  If I could make a living off blogging, I totally would.

7:  I grew up in a church-going Christian home (I still really appreciate the Presbyterian church, its structure, governance, and dedication to God and the church family) but it wasn't until my dad's death just before my freshmen year of high school that I realized that I had to make my faith my own.  It became such a black and white issue: either God exists and loved me and wants me to draw closer to Him OR God doesn't exist and life really doesn't have much meaning.  I examined everything that I learned growing up, I looked at the examples of my parents, friends, and family, I read, I prayed, I pondered.  I came to the conclusion that God truly does love me and care for me and wants to be in relationship with me.  Since then my faith has been nothing be strengthened by study and worship (in a wide variety of ways) and I truly cannot think of anything that could pull me from God.

8:  I have (only?) had three relationships in my life (and I am not sure if the one in high school counts because, well, it's high school).  They all had their ups and downs (especially the second one... it was over three years long) and while it was difficult when they ended, I have been able to look back and appreciate them for what they were and learned lots from them.  While I have never really felt like I needed to be in a relationship, I am getting to a point in my life where I would actually really like being in a relationship and headed for marriage.  I am perfectly fine not being at that point right now, but it is something I think about.  Sometimes (and really, I do only mean sometimes) I wish I was better looking so it would be easier to find sometime... but most of the time I don't care and am just happy being me.

9:  Not only am I a geek, but I am also quite a nerd.  For example: I love computers and have been using them since I was 4 (which isn't a big deal any more, but it was 1983 when I was 4).  I have loved building a variety of computers and learning how they work.  My next goal (if I can get enough in student loans) is to build a laptop (I have only ever built desktops).  I am a nerd in a lot of ways, that is just one example.

10:  I think I am a cross between an extrovert and an introvert:  I can spend multiple days in a row with my friends and can thrive being with them, but having spent essentially three years apart from my friends (two up at Regent in Vancouver BC and one in Bellingham cause I thought I was going to go to school here...), I also know that I can be completely alone and really enjoy myself as well.  So feel free to visit... or stay away. ;)

I don't know if those were the best 10 things to share and I think I got a bit more personal than I intended, but they are what they are.  So there ya have it!

Oh, right, I am supposed to tag someone... how about KristIn, Lindsay, and Amanda?

No, not like that!!  I am finally admitting to the world... well at least the few that check my Vox... that I am a closet Gilmore Girls fan.  Yes, that's right.  I have actually seen every single episode.  I know I am opening myself up for ridicule and mockery, but hey, I am secure enough in my masculinity that I don't care what you think!  Please still like me! ;)

Project 365 - Day 6

Here is my Project 365 submission for day 6.  It is out now, there's no taking it back!

Since today is my birthday I thought that I would start up the (somewhat ambitious) task set out in Project 365: take a picture every single day for a year.  My first photo comes from hanging out with middle schoolers.  I am a middle school Young Life leader (for those that knew me in high school they might be somewhat surprised by this as I was not a big fan back then... to say the least) so I periodically get to hang out with some crazy 7th graders.

If you want to see an example of what happens when you let them borrow your camera, see my Flickr set Hanging Out With Middle Schoolers.

To keep up with my progress (I won't be posting my daily photos here), you can see my daily snapshots at my Project 365 photo set.  I will be contributing to the Project 365 Flickr group along with the Project 365 group @ Vox as well.  When the photos are of me, I will also be adding them to the 365 Days Flick group (which are all self portraits).

Wish me luck!  Oh, and thanks to K.C. for his amazing birthday card!

Cross posted at Random Acts of Verbiage

Here is yet another blogging platform... and here I am using it.  Really, I am all over the net, you cannot escape me.  Might as well give in and head to my real home: Matt Jones' Random Acts of Verbiage.  Everyone's doing it.

Here is a picture:

Seattle Space Needle

Me and Napkin

It is the Seattle Space Needle.  Yep.  Here is another picture:

It is me with a napkin on my head.  Yep.

Enough of this nonsense.  Go visit MattJonesBlog, it is better, I make more sense there.

Oh, and I am still reading "That Hideous Strength" being the third book in the Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis.  Clive rocks.

That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy (Paperback))

C.S. Lewis