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I know that it’s been a while since I posted anything – and I don’t want to let this blog just sit here with nothing for the new year posted. I’m prematurely excited for 2010; I’ve had this feeling for the last couple of months that I’m sitting at a crossroads. Both personally and professionally. I have this feeling that something is going to happen for me this year, this is going to be the year for me. I have a couple of posts in the works right now:
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I had a wedding December 26th(yes the day after Christmas), that I shot as a second shooter!
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I’m going to post my new year’s resolutions.
I know, I know (about the resolutions) everybody is making them and posting them on Facebook, Tweeting them, blogging them. But that’s not why I’m doing it. In the past I’ve made resolutions and then not followed through, because there didn’t seem to be accountability. They didn’t seem concrete. They were just words in the January air, they left my mouth and then kept going and going, until they were out of sight and out of mind.
Blogging, just adds a permanence to my thoughts, so that I or anyone can go back to that post and say “See, you said that you were going to do this and you didn’t” You broke your resolutions. I think that because in the past, I just like everyone else, seemed to make resolutions that we all knew in our heart of hearts that we weren’t going to follow through with, we were stretching too far. You know the “I’m going to stop smoking” resolutions – when you’ve been a 3 pack a day smoker for the last 10 years. Or I’m going to run 5 miles everyday, but you really haven’t been exercising on a regular basis. The goal is too big – therefore too easy for you to give up on. I’m going to make some smaller goals that I actually will follow through with, and there by giving me momentum to accomplish something bigger!
Now I know the rule with photographer’s blogs is that we can be serious with our words, but there usually has to be a photo accompanying the words, so here’s a self portrait of me looking serious…or looking toward the near future:
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While at work today, I got a text message from my friend Josh saying that he had left a present for me on my porch. It. Was. Awesome:
I always love Josh’s birds and other assorted animals that he draws, and I’ve been waiting for this limited edition framed print of Bela!
Thanks!
**I do love Field Notes’ motto: “I’m not writing it down to remember it later, I’m writing it down to remember it now” – something that I’m making a resolution to do next year, with a lot of other things (in an upcoming post)**
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Sorry! Don’t think that I didn’t remember to post the last port of call of the cruise! Cozumel, Mexico – a land of beautiful blue water (it was really that blue!)
Stephanie loved her fan that she bought, both for the way that she looked when fanning herself, and for the cooling effect. It was hot, not Cayman Islands hot, but still pretty hot!
After the little shopping that we did, we took in lunch at Pancho’s Backyard, a nice little place right close to the port. If you’re ever in Cozumel, I recommend it. We even got a free appetizer coupon from our cruise shopping director (that’s that tiny dish in the upper right corner…small, but can’t complain too much, it was free after all!)
Collecting some sand – taking in the view…
Oh Yeah, can’t forget the towel animal that we got that night!
We enjoyed this experience of traveling on a ship, can’t wait until we are able to do it again!
Tags: Carnival Cruise, Cozumel, Cozumel Mexico, cruise ship, Laidric Stevenson, Laidric Stevenson photography, life, Mexico, nikkor, Nikon, Nikon D300, Pancho's Backyard, personal, Steven Sow, Tamron 17-50
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Saturday night, my good friend Sai sent me this text message: “I got three tickets to the game with your name on one of them!” It took me about .5 secs to respond back that I was in. This is the second Cowboys game I’ve been to, both of them against the hated Redskins. Jerryworld or Jerryland (which ever you prefer) is a massive structure, truly a work of modern engineering art. The game could have been a little better, but we all were happy with the outcome. As Coach Phillips would say “A W is a W”
The massive JerryTron (bow down to its massiveness…), the new hole in the roof, and my collector’s ticket stub, gonna frame that baby!
The View!
Jon, $10 Nachos, Jeff and Sai…
Patrick “Fair Catch” Crayton with the game-tying TD catch.
And some final parting shots…
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Leaving out of Jamaica, the next day in the Cayman Islands. They said the temperature was only 90, being from Texas, we could take that right? Wrong! Walking in the hot sun beat us down, when we got back to the ship; we slept for about 3 hours.
B.B.D. was everywhere…
That night, in honor of our visit to the Cayman Islands….what towel animal were we surprised with??
Next up; last port of call – Cozumel!
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We arrived in Jamaica on Wednesday. We had a guided tour arranged for us through our travel agent. We got to do a little shopping, went up into the mountains to dine on some coconut, pear, and some type of bread I can’t remember the name of. Then we had some jerk pork at the Pork Pit(great place with some great atmosphere)
Cubans are Legal in Jamaica!
Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee….that big bag of Jablum would have cost over a hundred dollars over here, only cost us twenty dollars. So we took a bag home along with some cigars…
The Jerk Pork from the Pork Pit…
Rum Cakes!
Okay, we couldn’t figure out what this towel animal was. Even after we bought our towel animal book, we looked all through it and still couldn’t figure out what this was. Any guesses?
Next stop, Land of Pirates and Stingrays!
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This past Saturday, my wife Stephanie and I made our way out to Fair Park for our annual trip to the State Fair, we had a blast, spent some money, walked around enjoying the weather, which was unusual for us, because when we usually go by ourselves, it’s usually cold or raining, or both! Nope not this year, 72 degrees. Ate some good food, which what the fair is all about! We didn’t eat the Fried Butter though, maybe next year!
pics!
Tags: Alligator, Big Tex, Dallas Tx, Ferris Wheel, Fried Foods, Hyundai Gensis, Nikon, State Fair of Tx, Tamron 17-50, Texas Star, Texas-OU weekend, Turkey Leg
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The Daily Cruise paper with schedules for the activities, a Map of the ship, and for anyone who’s been on a cruise – a Towel Snake, we got a different towel animal every night and purchased a how to book of our own at the end of the week…