Never is there a weekend, (my fiancée can attest to this), that I have been able to just sit at home and do nothing alllll weekend. And this Sunday's new interruption? Emma is preforming at Cornfest! Which is great and enjoyable and fun because I am suppose to be getting out there anyway right? Today I'm going to get all gussied up and look adorable for absolutely no one but me and take some photos of Emma getting to play for a couple few people in the rain at Corn Fest. But hey, rain is another thing that I get to take pictures of. I've never captured it fully in all its glory so I suppose its about time I tried.
On top of all that. After a loud and uncomfortable bout of yelling by parents on the sidelines this soccer game, mom had to go about making amends with all the soccer directors. Which turned into the soccer director making a point of telling her how soccer isn't a competitive sport. 20 years of coaching has given the opposing view on that and I now foresee a war. Honestly the whole thing was blown out of proportion simply because the man didn't let mom do her job.
----- Historical Reenactment-----
4 minutes to end of game, tie game, high tension...
Referee Eileen: (at stoppage of play): Time!
Time Keeper: 4 minutes!
Soccer Director (comes up in his golf cart): Hey you can't be coaching and shouting the time out at the kids. You have to stop that!
Time Keeper: Hey man, you aren't important here, get back in your golf cart and leave. Let our kids play.
(ongoing sideline banter)
Game ends...
Soccer Director: You know Eileen, you can't have parents telling people the time. It makes kids act differently than they ever would.
Eileen: No. I only ask for time from a timekeeper during stoppage of play so I know where we are at. I don't have a clock. Apart from that it does nothing for the kids.
Director: I suppose but I want that guys name, he's suspended for the season.
------end of reenactment----
Okay so it really was no big thing. I mean, he shouldn't have said it, but for the season! And then mom abide by it having been a paid regional ref for so long knew she was right anyway. BUT THEN! After writing up a report, and then writing our parents an email telling them whenever this happens there are repercussions. Some people can be removed from games and others can be removed for the season. Then in reply to her email, the director says. Soccer isn't competitive and shouldn't have the score tracked at all. which has turned into destruction of mom's faith in soccer. Every year its something...
Oh well. Off to Corn Fest!
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Make-up Fun with Emma
There's nothing more enjoyable than a lazy afternoon, doing nothing on the couch and thinking about your next tasty dinner. I can think of nothing I appreciate more apart from! Getting out my makeup and designing Emma's face for a house party! I've been practicing for doing up a mask on Halloween, but before I can get that advanced I thought I'd test my hand at something a tad different. This mask was just made from powder eye shadow and liquid eyeliner. Can't wait for Val to come around so I can try it on her. And maybe one of these days mom will let me try on her too, but Emma has more patience I think. She likes being made up like a little fairy princess. So without further drawing out the process!
Photoshoot Day 3!
Photoshoot Day 3!
I took several others, and tinkered with them, but since this one I did nothing to, I just snapped the picture I believed it should be the official picture of the day. Please to discover my radial blur tools though, they look great on the others.
Friday, August 24, 2012
Soccer is...
Soccer is an amazing thing I have got to say. It starts out with the shinguards. Putting on the equipment and tying back your hair knowing that as soon as you step your feet on that grass the game is on! I see the kids run and instantly I'm running beside them. Asthma is no longer and issue, the stitch in my side is gone, and the pain in my ankle no longer exists for those brief moments and there is nothing but, the ball.
I have such a great time playing the game and teaching it as satisfying as running the field. Being able to share it with my sister and my mom is something that just brings me joy. This week we had Kate's parents, Elizabeth and Tonya come out and play a game after practice. Neither had played the game before and Tonya had never played another sport in her life. Yet they were both their, bitten by the bug, and couldn't stop playing no matter how tired they got.
Soccer is simply great. Plus of course the fact that I can still outrun all the kids and mom makes me pleased beyond all reason. Of course mom agrees I should be able to outrun a 50 year old, but that's just still amazing to me. So much fun. Maybe when Val comes back for the week she'll play with us and I can earn some well deserved bruises.
Anyway today was day 12 of 60. Tomorrow I'll weigh myself before the game and see how well the routine is working. As long as I've gained nothing I think I'll be pleased. AND! For the picture of the day.
I have such a great time playing the game and teaching it as satisfying as running the field. Being able to share it with my sister and my mom is something that just brings me joy. This week we had Kate's parents, Elizabeth and Tonya come out and play a game after practice. Neither had played the game before and Tonya had never played another sport in her life. Yet they were both their, bitten by the bug, and couldn't stop playing no matter how tired they got.
Soccer is simply great. Plus of course the fact that I can still outrun all the kids and mom makes me pleased beyond all reason. Of course mom agrees I should be able to outrun a 50 year old, but that's just still amazing to me. So much fun. Maybe when Val comes back for the week she'll play with us and I can earn some well deserved bruises.
Anyway today was day 12 of 60. Tomorrow I'll weigh myself before the game and see how well the routine is working. As long as I've gained nothing I think I'll be pleased. AND! For the picture of the day.
Picture of the Day #2
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Photo Focus
Take up the challenge! A photo a day! Post it up with a story or anything else you care to share or make up for it! Be creative, get involved. Seize the day!
Day 1!
The dawn of time and the end of time....
In the beginning there was life just starting to come forth! And in the end? It all blows away.
Excited Much?
Yes, I believe I am.
There is something really satisfying about starting new journeys in your life, or even changing things that you have had the same all your life. So I am. I have been considering for some time now. The fact that my job, one that I have been grateful to have for the last three years, appears to be coming to a close, as well as getting ready to be married are so close at hand now I can actually see it in my mind, have inspired me to become a person worthy of such gifts. I should have started working on myself years ago, those tiny lazy cells in my body just seemed to multiply though and now I find myself wishing back all those days I spent pretending everything would go on forever would allow me to take it all back and make it right. I have had a wonderful opportunity in this job and this life and I think its time I started remembering everything like this before its gone. Its time I stepped up.
I can't guarantee a job for myself, or make the world change its views. But I can work and improve upon my person. No more compromising my integrity because of mere boredom or laziness. As to that I am going to begin the process once again of making myself into a better person.
Sadly there are so many things I need changing. I feel those things that I will focus on most though are those that will somehow make my life and the life of the people I love, better. The first of which?
Health.
I spent a good portion of my life the last few years working on building myself back from being overweight and also from having very low self esteem. Well I think for the most part, I was a success in terms of weight-loss. 40lbs later I feel much better when someone asks to take a family picture or having Mik put his arms about me. However, that's not the only thing I had hoped to achieve. Health is not just the weight of a human being, but its also their state of mind. I have been fighting for some time about my idea of myself and have always been the person to look in the mirror and cry. Even now. So its time I start reminding myself just who I am and how beautiful I am. Its not so hard right now, looking at it the way it is. I just have to remind myself that this is really who I am. I am the person God made, and the person Mik is marrying. I have a beautiful family who love me, and I am a soccer playing, limb all intact, human being. From now on, if I start thinking otherwise, its time I came back here and reminded myself.
Language.
Well some people might not understand this one, but I believe that in a society where language is starting to leave us all for the digital era to take over with voice connected trash... that I should be more true to me and really work to communicate like an adult. As a kid I grew up where swearing wasn't an option, and I liked it that way. I understand some people enjoy it but I do not. I have insulted myself falling in with those who like to generalize using the words like crap, etc. I am better than that. So from now on the piggy bank on my shelf has a post it note on it that says 'the swear pig.' I am hoping not to falter in this. Language is a most important thing.
Order.
Just like it sounds. Who's going to hire someone cluttered and dirty? No one if I had my way of it. So its time I cleaned up my act and got it together. Calenders everywhere if I need it, and lists of things to do so I don't forget them, but its time that order and function became a staple in my house! With so many great things happening in my life, I can't afford to be someone I don't want to be. And laying in a bed I haven't made in three days is one of those things...
I'm making a list and checking it twice and as of today I am giving it my all.
And as far as things go? Time to get my camera back in action. A photo a day no matter what the circumstances!
-Justine
A busy bee.
There is something really satisfying about starting new journeys in your life, or even changing things that you have had the same all your life. So I am. I have been considering for some time now. The fact that my job, one that I have been grateful to have for the last three years, appears to be coming to a close, as well as getting ready to be married are so close at hand now I can actually see it in my mind, have inspired me to become a person worthy of such gifts. I should have started working on myself years ago, those tiny lazy cells in my body just seemed to multiply though and now I find myself wishing back all those days I spent pretending everything would go on forever would allow me to take it all back and make it right. I have had a wonderful opportunity in this job and this life and I think its time I started remembering everything like this before its gone. Its time I stepped up.
I can't guarantee a job for myself, or make the world change its views. But I can work and improve upon my person. No more compromising my integrity because of mere boredom or laziness. As to that I am going to begin the process once again of making myself into a better person.
Sadly there are so many things I need changing. I feel those things that I will focus on most though are those that will somehow make my life and the life of the people I love, better. The first of which?
Health.
I spent a good portion of my life the last few years working on building myself back from being overweight and also from having very low self esteem. Well I think for the most part, I was a success in terms of weight-loss. 40lbs later I feel much better when someone asks to take a family picture or having Mik put his arms about me. However, that's not the only thing I had hoped to achieve. Health is not just the weight of a human being, but its also their state of mind. I have been fighting for some time about my idea of myself and have always been the person to look in the mirror and cry. Even now. So its time I start reminding myself just who I am and how beautiful I am. Its not so hard right now, looking at it the way it is. I just have to remind myself that this is really who I am. I am the person God made, and the person Mik is marrying. I have a beautiful family who love me, and I am a soccer playing, limb all intact, human being. From now on, if I start thinking otherwise, its time I came back here and reminded myself.
Language.
Well some people might not understand this one, but I believe that in a society where language is starting to leave us all for the digital era to take over with voice connected trash... that I should be more true to me and really work to communicate like an adult. As a kid I grew up where swearing wasn't an option, and I liked it that way. I understand some people enjoy it but I do not. I have insulted myself falling in with those who like to generalize using the words like crap, etc. I am better than that. So from now on the piggy bank on my shelf has a post it note on it that says 'the swear pig.' I am hoping not to falter in this. Language is a most important thing.
Order.
Just like it sounds. Who's going to hire someone cluttered and dirty? No one if I had my way of it. So its time I cleaned up my act and got it together. Calenders everywhere if I need it, and lists of things to do so I don't forget them, but its time that order and function became a staple in my house! With so many great things happening in my life, I can't afford to be someone I don't want to be. And laying in a bed I haven't made in three days is one of those things...
I'm making a list and checking it twice and as of today I am giving it my all.
And as far as things go? Time to get my camera back in action. A photo a day no matter what the circumstances!
-Justine
A busy bee.
Grass is Always Greener
here.
I think its time that communication moved on from the one liners people make on facebook, or the over abundance of personal information that no one should ever have a right sharing. So on that note, I have decided that this blog will be the vessel that the information of my life will be stored. Interesting or not it will merely be the place that people can come to see pictures or watch ongoing projects, or in the moments I actually wish to share, talk about what life has been treating me with. Over communication is a vastly large issue these days and I have had my fill of people's war on opinion. If you truly want to know a person what they choose to say about themselves says far more about them than the one line 'I lost my keys' on facebook. Certainly it is important to you, but who hundreds of miles away can do anything about your keys. So here I am making an effort to take a stand about information overload. Please feel free to chime in and welcome!
I have had two prior blogs to this, my garden blog, and my photo blog, they are now all one and the same. My happiness is with those things so why not keep it in the happy place? If you haven't kept up to date on it, that's cool, now you know they exist and feel free to join in the adventure! The one thing that blogging enables that Facebook doesn't? Talking to yourself in mass quantities. Life can not be described in one sentence, or a corny picture someone found. This allows the person that needs to say something the space to say it in. And I welcome you all to experience it as you please.
Welcome to Express Yourself!
-Justine
(these are the prior journals)
Garden Blog
Photo Blog
I think its time that communication moved on from the one liners people make on facebook, or the over abundance of personal information that no one should ever have a right sharing. So on that note, I have decided that this blog will be the vessel that the information of my life will be stored. Interesting or not it will merely be the place that people can come to see pictures or watch ongoing projects, or in the moments I actually wish to share, talk about what life has been treating me with. Over communication is a vastly large issue these days and I have had my fill of people's war on opinion. If you truly want to know a person what they choose to say about themselves says far more about them than the one line 'I lost my keys' on facebook. Certainly it is important to you, but who hundreds of miles away can do anything about your keys. So here I am making an effort to take a stand about information overload. Please feel free to chime in and welcome!
I have had two prior blogs to this, my garden blog, and my photo blog, they are now all one and the same. My happiness is with those things so why not keep it in the happy place? If you haven't kept up to date on it, that's cool, now you know they exist and feel free to join in the adventure! The one thing that blogging enables that Facebook doesn't? Talking to yourself in mass quantities. Life can not be described in one sentence, or a corny picture someone found. This allows the person that needs to say something the space to say it in. And I welcome you all to experience it as you please.
Welcome to Express Yourself!
-Justine
(these are the prior journals)
Garden Blog
Photo Blog
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