Technology is taking over the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today I had to do a photo shoot for my Editorial Photography class. My concept was on how technology is everywhere and how it is starting to take over the world. Almost like death by technology where instead of somebody hanging themselves with a rope they might hang themselves with camera cords or computer cables. Maybe instead of a dead body on the floor with a gun in there hand it could be a cell phone. Somebody in the bathtub wrapped in cords as if they electrocuted themselves. This was what I was trying to portray so I had to check out a Bowens light kit from school and lug it home. It contains two stands, two lights, two umbrellas and other little things so although its on wheels it is still very heavy!
I used Kristi as my model since she can be instantly available if I need her. We did some shots in the bathroom and then moved downstairs and took some more pictures down there. Overall I think the photos turned out ok but I need some photos that have computers, cell phones, ipods, cameras ect. in them next time. I need to portray technology further in my pictures. This was just a start, I think it went well though. At least I'll have something to show my teacher, will see what he thinks.

Shark City

So I ended up stopping at Woodfeild mall after school since it is right there. I went to a store called Spencer's instead of going to Factory Card and Party Outlet. There was alot of typical 21 birthday stuff there so it was definitely a good choice. Chandra collects shot glasses so of course I had to get her a shot glass. The shot glass I got her said 21 on the front and the back had some recipes for different shots you could make. I also got her a large cup that said birthday babe and a headband that said buy me a drink. It was great!
At midnight my friend Celia and I drove over to Shark City and met up with the birthday girl and some of her friends. When we went inside everyone went directly to the bar of course! Chandras roomate/best friend Stacey made her do a few shots and she also had a mixed drink. By that time they were already starting to take the last orders at the bar. It was a Monday night so they close much earlier and they stopped serving around 12:30. The security ended up kicking us out around 1:00 am because they were closing down. Since we had to leave everyone started making plans to go over to one of Chandra's friends house and have some more fun. Since I had school in the morning and my friend Ceila had to get up for work we ended up leaving. It was still a good time though!
By the time we left Chandra was already kind of tipsy just off of those few shots and the mixed drink she had. It was quite funny seeing her like that. I'm not sure what shes doing for her offical birthday today but I'm sure she'll have fun.

Happy Birthday Chandra! We're all 21 now, you were the last one. I cant believe it!

Chandra's turning 21!!!

Tomorrow is my good friend Chandra's 21st birthday so tonight at exactly midnight we're meeting up at Shark City. Shark City is a bar in Bloomingdale that is near Spring Dale restaurant, Jewel and Blockbuster. I've never been inside there but I've seen it and driven by it a hundred billion times. It should be a good time! Even though I have to get up at 7:30 in the morning to get ready and be at class by 9:00 am tomorrow you only turn 21 once so I'm not passing this opportunity up. I'm gonna go and we're all gonna have a really good time! Luckily I only have one class tomorrow and it only lasts until 11:00 so I'll just be a little tired tomorrow, that's all. I can sleep the rest of the day if I want to. However, I will not be sleeping the rest of the day because I have a million things I would like to get accomplished. Tomorrow should be a fun and successful day.
Right now I'm just about to get out of class so I'm gonna race over to Factory Card and Party Outlet to pick Chandra up something for her birthday. They have alot of party, costume/ funny birthday stuff there so I'll see what I can find. If I don't find anything there I'm gonna have to think fast and go somewhere else to find something before anything closes for the night. I don't know how much time I'll have so hopefully I can find something at the Factory Card and Party outlet.

AmazingHammTastic

I'm a huge YouTube fan, I watch hundreds of videos and follow a bunch of other youtubers on there. Its a whole community of friends really, I love it.
I also create and edit many of my own videos and post them onto my own YouTube channel, Hammbonee529. I've had that channel for quite sometime now and I have around 60 videos posted there. I thought it was time to create a new channel and start fresh. My new channel is AmazingHammTastic, just a random screen name I came up with. I hope to post videos regularly there and maybe someday I'll become a YouTube partner. The YouTube partner program gives you the opportunity to earn money from your video views. If you have an ongoing fan base and people who are subscribed to your videos you'll get constant views. It also depends on the content of your video as well, some videos being more popular then others. Any who...Hammbonee529 is my old channel, I might still be posting some random videos on there every once in a while. However, most of my videos will now be posted on my new channel AmazingHammTastic.

Busy Busy Busy!!!

Busy Busy Busy, that's all I have to say. I'm still here at Aunt Debbie and Uncle Gary's house pet sitting for them until Sunday. I've been getting up at 6:00 am every single day to make it to school by 9:00 am. On Monday I had to wake up even earlier at 5:00 am because I had to be at school by 8:00. I was mad tired that day seeing as though I had worked until 11:00 the previous night so I didn't make it home until a bit passed midnight. Physics at 8:00 in the morning after you worked until 11:00 and had to get up at 5:00 definitely doesn't go together.
I've been driving back and fourth to work almost every day this week also. I think I could drive the route blind folded I've done it so many times this week.
I have a wedding coming up very soon as I'm sure everyone who reads my blog posts already knows about. Thus, I have to be all prepared to shoot tons of pictures for that. My good friend Chandra is turning 21 this week so that's gonna be a late night. I need to go to the DMV to get my license renewed this week which is going to be a major pain! I hate going to the DMV, are people there only hired if there mean? After this week once the wedding is over with I have to drive straight back home and over to my cousin Owens house to pet sit again while there on vacation. Its been a busy few weeks but in the end I'm making alot of money so I suppose its all worth it. Tonight I'm gonna catch up on my sleep. I only have one class tomorrow morning so as soon as I get back to my Aunt and Uncles I'm crashing on the couch. Maybe eat some good food, break open my newest season of x-files and sleep. I'll be in heaven tomorrow not having to go to work. Well this was a pretty random, jumping all over the place blog post but I got out everything I felt like saying.

Pet/House Sitting

This week I'm house sitting for my Aunt Debbie and Uncle Gary while there all away on a Cruise until next Sunday night. I arrived here at there house around noon and I'll be living here all week until next Sunday. They have two cats Buddy and Ziggy and a dog named Snickers that I will be taking care of. I will also do some other little things around the house while there gone like getting the mail and watering some plants. I also have to take there cat Buddy in to the vet for his kidney shot once on Tuesday and once on Thursday.
Unlike our pets at home there pets have a food and bathroom schedule that they follow so its much different then home. Any who, I have work and school all this week so it will be pretty busy going back and fourth but I'll manage. It should be a good week and everything should work out very well.

Ziggy, Buddy and Snickers

Wedding Preperation

Today I have started to prepare for the wedding I'm photographing on July 31st. My two good friends from work Coty and Emily are getting married. They are both still very young, only 19. However, they've been dating for many years since they were in middle school so there tying the knot young. Thus, they don't have much money so they basically just wanted to find somebody who likes to take pictures. Somebody to show up and document there special day, not a crazy expensive photographer. So they have asked me to be the photographer.
A bunch of other people we all work with are going to be there as well so it should be a fun time. Since there from Wisconsin the wedding is going to be in Wisconsin but its only in Beloit which is right on the boarder. My boyfriend John and I are going to drive down early on that Saturday the 31st and then stay over night in a hotel after the wedding. The bride has asked John and I if we would want to stay in a room with her and her soon to be husband and her two friends from Michigan. It would only cost $20 per person and it would make more sense then driving all the way home so late at night after the wedding has finally ended. Apparently there is two double beds and a double sofa bed in the room so that's what we'll be doing. There is going to be about 30 other people staying over at the hotel from the wedding so it should be a fun post reception party as well. The weddings almost here, it is definitely coming up very fast so today I went to best buy and bought a spare battery for my camera. I also got some extra memory cards and I bought my dress for the wedding. I'm praying for no rain because the ceremony and the reception are going to be outdoors at a pavilion.

Back to school

Today was my first day back to school for the start of my summer quarter after a nice three week break. I definitely wasn't ready to go back but I dragged myself out of bed at 6:00 am and some how managed to make it to school. As I was about to drive off I realised I didn't have my student I.D card which is not a good thing because you need that for pretty much anything you do at school. I barley had much time so I quickly ran back inside and shuffled through everything in my room and there was no I.D card! I only keep it in my wallet and I never touch it so I don't know where it could of gotten to.
Anyways, I drive to school and I go to pick up my schedule but since I have no I.D card I cant get my schedule. They tell me to go downstairs and get a temporary I.D card for today so I go and do that and then I go back upstairs and I wait in a huge long line. I get up to the front and they give me a hold sheet which means I have issues with my accounting and payments so I still cant get my schedule until I get that taken care of.
I go back downstairs to accounting and they tell me I need to pay my balance, "why haven't I payed my balance?" They ask me if I'm going to pay it right now and I tell them that I need to talk to my parents first. "You cant continue at this school if its going to be like this, when are you going to make your payment?". Then they wont sign off on my hold so I can get my schedule but instead they make me go to see a financial advisor who just gives me more loan information. We're already on the staford loans, we don't want to be on ten million loans! Will be broke for the rest of our lives!
Anyways, the start to my day was insane and to top it off I have to take physics, ewwwww. However, I'm taking Editorial photography and Digital photographic production so I'm hoping those classes will be fun. Social/Behavioral Science is my fourth class and although I'm not completely looking forward to that, at least it will be better then physics.

Fourth of July

Our fourth of July was spent at our lake house. That day it was raining in the morning and by late afternoon it was poring. We were bummed and didn't think people would be setting off many fireworks with the rain. Minocquas local fireworks display was canceled as well so we didn't really know what to do with ourselves that day. Later on though we had some luck because it cleared up to the point of no rain. They could of shot off the local fireworks display, however they still did not. We still ended up having a great time though! We were fishing and then started cruising around on the boat and pretty soon it was pitch dark out, almost 11:00 pm and we were still cruising around on the boat yelling and cheering at other boats just for fun. We road all over the place and there was fireworks being shot off in every direction. It was a great time! Now I could type and type about what we did on Fourth of July but the videos I took explain things much better and are much more interesting then anything you might read.

Back from Vacation

I'm back from my vacation sadly, I didn't wanna leave but unfortunately I have to go back to work tomorrow. It was a fantastic vacation though, I had a really great time! The weather wasn't so great half the time but at least we got about three sunny days out of our week. We arrived on Friday July 2nd around 10 pm so there wasn't that much to do then so we basically just unpacked and watched tv. On the third of July it was our first official full day in Minocqua and it was beautiful! It was very hot and sunny that day. A good start to our vacation! The next two or three days it rained all day long so we went up town and just hung around the house. The rest of the week they were predicting rain all day everyday so it kinda bummed us out a little bit but in the end two of the days it was supposed to rain it ended up being very sunny instead. We still got in a bunch of swimming and tubing and we went out on the boat alot to. We also got to do quite a bit of fishing which was nice because I absolutely love fishing! I tried to get as much fishing in as possible seeing as though I had to pay $25 freaking bucks for my fishing license. Since I'm 21 I cant be included on the family fishing license my dad gets anymore and so I had to buy my own. I got my moneys worth though because I went fishing at least two or three times each day. Caught maybe about seven fish total the whole week. At first they weren't biting much but about half way into our vacation I just got lucky and started catching some.
It was a full house this week at our cottage but its nice having alot of people up there. My parents and I, my Grandma and sister were all able to come up this year. My sister brought along her friend Dan and also Jessica and Carl came up for the week as well. A few days into the week my cousin Arayana from Michigan drove down to stay for a few days so it was nice to see her. We barley ever get to see her, the last time we saw her was at Jessica and Carl's wedding in June of 2007. Three years is far to long, I hope its not another three years before we get to see her again.
So in the end my sister decided she was going to come home a day earlier. She decided she would come home today (Thursday) instead of Friday like we had originally planned. She said they were going to leave at 5:30 am so they could make it home before noon and surprise her boyfriend at summer school. In the end I found out I was scheduled to work on Friday when I wasn't supposed to go back to work until Saturday. Thus, I ended up having to come home with her and Dan at 5:30 in the morning. It wasn't so bad, I slept the whole way back while they were the ones who had to watch the road. However, It would of been nice to have another day and a half up there before coming back. I was having to much fun. I didn't wanna leave!

Feeding the chipmunks


Tubing- Dan and Kristi


Kristi driving the boat


Jessica and Carls Dog Tybalt. He cant swim very well because hes a smaller dog so he has a little life jacket.


Dad caught a fish!


Dan, standing out on a rock in the middle of the lake


Minocuqa Sunset- Taken from our boat while fishing


I caught a fish!


Our good neighbor Norb Brost who lives two doors down from our cottage. Slalom skiing (skiing with one ski) at 81 years old.


Cousins Holly, Kristi and Arayana- Updated Picture


Sail Boat racing

Getting Ready for Vacation

Today my family and I head up north to Minocqua Wisconsin for a whole week at our cottage. I've been so busy these past few months with work, school and other crazyness so I'm really looking forward to this vacation! I was lucky enough to get my request off accepted at work so I am able to come along this time. YAY!
I started packing my clothes and personal items yesterday but today I had to charge all my cameras and video equipment, charge my cell phone, update my ipod and make sure that it was all charged up for the ride. I never really pay attention to how much technology and equipment I have but packing up all my things was definitely an eye opener! I had to document the moment with a couple pictures of course!




Equipment Checklist:
Cell phone, cell phone charger, Nikon D60 camera, Nikon battery charger, Nikon USB uploading cord, Nikon spare battery, Nikon spare memory cards, Nikon sports lens and 50mm 1.4 lens, Kodak digital camera, Kodak battery charger, Ipod, Ipod charger cord, HD video camera, video camera charging cords, video camera USB uploading cord, HP laptop cords for charging.

A week away from home is a decent amount of time so this stuff is all very important. It is the key to me having the most wonderful vacation in the whole world. I cannot go on vacation without it!

I finally feel like summers arrived.