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Annbee — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 05:22:28 +0000

Been so busy with life and taking photos I haven’t really had a chance to sit down and breathe lately. Last night I finally had the chance, though, so went about processing the 7000 some odd photos I’ve taken in the past 14-months.

Here are a few shots from a trip to the butterfly house in Seattle with Mack and our friend Jas:

view the rest over at flickr

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Glimpses of Spring

Annbee — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 02:32:15 +0000

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Weekly Photos for January 17-23, 2011

Annbee — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 05:42:24 +0000

I know I’m two days late in posting these. Trust me, I know. I went down to San Francisco to visit a friend for her birthday this weekend and got back late Sunday night. Excuses, excuses, I KNOW!, but I got lots of photos and man I really need to post some of the bazillion photos I have sitting in Lightroom right now (as well as sharing their many stories!).

Anyway: onto last weeks photos!

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365 Challenge

Annbee — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 06:15:26 +0000

At the beginning of the new year I decided to once again try the 365 day challenge. Thus far I’ve been successful (hurrah to 16 days strong!) and thought I’d be a good idea to post on Sundays the photos that from the week past (for those of you who don’t to check out my fancy blog dedicated to it).

Since, however, I’m just starting this new tradition I’m going to show you all I’ve done up to this point thus far… by linking them TO the photo blog. Am I pimping the link enough? I think not.

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The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Breaking Faces

Annbee — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 06:24:52 +0000

Text exchange between my brother and myself while I was watching The Sound of Music. I’m glad that being weird is apparently genetic.

Me: Shits about to get real in Austria.
Mark: The hills are fucking alive with the realness.
Me: Don’t fuck with Maria since she and her favorite things will fuck your shit up.
Mark: Rain drops on roses and whiskers on kittens and fucking up Nazi’s and singing on hills.

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To Process or Procrastinate?

Annbee — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 04:53:01 +0000

For some reason the month of November escaped me. One minute it was the beginning of November full of hope and endless possibilities then BAM! Shit explosion of all this stuff happening at once!

Figuratively speaking with the shit explosion.

Looking back I can’t even really tell you all that happened other then work, family visiting, and the death of a family friends grandson. Yesterday I attended his funeral to pay my final respects and the enormity of it all didn’t really hit me (although I cried a few times at the funeral) until last night when I sobbed for the loss of life and the unknown of it all.

During November and even into December I find myself still in this weird funk where I can’t focus when I get home on anything but being a sloth. Last weekend I sat myself down and went through a few of my photographs to make some prints to a) fill one of our frames and b) bring some to work to bring some life to my cubicle. Now I face the daunting task of needing to pick out more of my photographs to print out by Saturday and I’m looking at the 7,000 ish photographs I’ve taken since January with just my Nikon and going through them and processing ones I might not have processed if they’re good enough.

Gulp.

Notice I didn’t include any pre-2010 photographs that were taken with my other cameras? I think that would simply make my head explode.

How do you bring yourself to focus and get stuff done? Especially as the holiday season is upon us and working on personal projects is considered so selfish?

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A Few Shots from the Snowpocalypse

Annbee — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 02:58:43 +0000

In case you missed it the northwest was dumped on with lots of snow, ice, wind, and all sorts of winter joy this holiday season. I for one am a big fan of snow… as long as I don’t have to go anywhere. Luckily I work for a very understanding company that realizes I don’t want to die trying to go into work (since on a good day my commute is usually 45-50 minutes) and really? what use would I be to anyone dead anyway?

Sunday it started snowing and it wasn’t until that night that it (finally!) really started to stick. By Monday morning the northwest was enveloped in a winter wonder land which caused headaches come nighttime and mass chaos all around.

Again, have I mentioned I love the company I work at?

Without further ado: a few shots from our snowpocalypse!

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Pushing Through The Writer’s Block

Annbee — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 05:17:01 +0000

I was figuratively beating my head against the keyboard tonight trying to figure out what would be the best topic to write about. I know already within the first week I’ve failed with my “post a blog post everyday”. I could go into the various reasons, some of which are pretty personal, but rather I’ll share the excitement that Mack’s sister Emily was visiting and we all played mighty adventurers while she was in town.

Tonight was particularly hard though to think of a topic while pissed off. I was suppose to meet up with a friend tonight who I haven’t seen in a few years. Without going into great detail I’ll simply state I got flaked out on again after waiting around for almost an hour.

I get it. Stuff happens. I’m a very punctual person by nature so these things will get under my skin.

So after getting home and eating dinner I brought back from the Asian market (much to Mack’s pleasure for his own take-out dinner surprise treat) I stared at the keyboard perplexed as to what to write. Should I try to force humor when I’m irritated? Explore the unknown? Or better yet…

Share random images on my desktop!

I have a habit of dragging images I find amusing onto my desktop thus I don’t know all the sources of these fine images. If you know leave a comment and I will rectify the situation!

First off…

This cat kills me dead. The expression on his face says “I will kill you while you sleep and make your skin into a nice overcoat.”

For all the nerdy animal people in your life you know (not that I’m pointing fingers Emily)!

SLAYS me. If you actually click on the cat spinning the record it’s an animated gif and your life will never be the same again.

This one was actually one of my volley’s for the layer tennis my former coworker Micah and I do whenever we get around to it. I think he still fails to see by amusement with this particularly fine image I made.

And finally:

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A Little Bit of Ridiculous

Annbee — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 05:14:12 +0000

Have had a hard few days and instead of going into detail I thought instead I’d give you all something a little ridiculous.

I’ve been told this needs a caption and all I can think of is what I posted on facebook: “Scholar Kitty is perturbed by your illogical argument.” I challenge you to think of something better! I dare you!

Bucky looks so much like Jabba the Hut in this photo it’s not even funny.

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Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Force Political Discussions

Annbee — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 06:07:51 +0000

Contrary to popular belief, I actually do enjoy a hearty debate. If the atmosphere is right and I know that I am talking with open-minded individuals, I feel that I can safely express my views without fear of it turning into a personal attack. If, however, I know the individual will brand me “narrow minded” while they try to force feed me their views, I get quiet, tune the person out, and quickly become angry… especially if it’s not an appropriate time and place. Take, for example, when I want to go out for drinks and a relaxing evening and it quickly turns into a nasty political debate?

Check please!

Below are a seven reasons why the next time you think about getting into a political debate you should remember: there’s a time and a place for it.

Distracting from the true purpose of the get together. Take tonight, for example. Per our habit, Mack and I usually go out to a local pub with a group of friends for trivia night. Now, the group of friends happen to be Atheists who, by and large, are a bunch of liberal Democrats. It’s their political leaning and I can respect that. However when I go out on a Wednesday night with this group? It’s because it’s not the “serious” night and I can unwind and have a great meal and drinks with friends while discussing b.s. topics. Get politics involved though? It tends to get nasty. And not in a good (kinky) sort of way.
It causes people to argue. Again by nature I can be a turd when I want to be. I’ll pick apart what you’re saying and can be a light hearted jerk who’s sole purpose is to tease and get a laugh out of you. Politics on the whole I have found people take way too serious. Like if your view is different from theirs you’re a) narrow minded, b) idiotic, c) against human rights, and d) obviously don’t know what the issues are really about. Before you deny it, I’m quoting directly from my Facebook friends pages as to their views on people who have my political views. I guess I got off lucky since my friend has been called a Baby Killer for voting Republican. Go figure. I guess what I’m trying to get at is people take politics way too personal so why don’t we discuss something safe like the weather? Or diamond encrusted unicorns? Cause those would be awesome.
It’s self serving. Despite how neutral you claim you are when in political debates at the core of the issue is that you’re selling your beliefs and ideals and trying to perhaps convert people to the “right” way of thinking. Granted, I know people who do debate with an open mind without the underlying agenda of conversion (usually the people play devil’s advocate; trust me I know since I’m dating one). However, most people are trying to sell something. Put another way: very few people debate just to debate. Most people debate because they want to prove something.
Excludes the people who don’t want to debate. I think in all of the Wednesdays that we have gone out to the pub with the Atheists I can count on one hand how many times I have gotten into political discussions. Now granted political discussions don’t happen EVERY Wednesday night but perhaps once a month at most. My point, however, is usually on a Wednesday evening I rather discuss other things and relax since it’s halfway through the week and I still have two more days to get through at work to get to the weekend. I respect that some people may be coming for “serious” discussions but what of those of us who aren’t? Way to make us excluded since we don’t share your views or agenda for that evening!
Angers the people who don’t want to debate. Along with the point made above my mood will rapidly deteriorate the longer the debate goes on. I think I wouldn’t get so angry and be so against them if they were just one of the many discussions that happened during the evening. Unfortunately though when the topic of politics come up it’s a subject that won’t get dropped and escalates where people will get riled up and keep it going for hours. What of us who have no intention or inclination of joining the talk since they want to have a light hearted non-serious discussion? I now perhaps have the best personal score for Tetris on my phone. Just what I wanted to do when I went out to the pub!
Effectively isolating. I think the points above pretty much explain why.
Forcing your desires upon other people. I think one of the few things that will amuse me when the political discussions come up is that it will show how hypocritical people are and how many won’t practice what they preach. I have found it amusing that typically the people who tout themselves as being very open minded are some of the most narrow minded people I know. They spout their political ideals while simultaneously stroking their own ego that they’re so open minded because they believe one thing. If you come along with a differing political view? Heaven help us you’re a grade A bigot who no sense of human decency! Right. Because my views are different from yours it means I don’t think about stuff and never think of others. Wait, what? Don’t think I’m pointing fingers at any particular political party since both sides do it and both sides need to grow the fuck up.

So there you have it people. The next time you think about getting into a political debate think to yourself: what is the purpose of this debate? Am I trying to covert them to my warped perception of reality? And will this isolate people who may not particularly want a political discussion? I don’t know about you but next time there is a lull in the conversation and people are wanting to debate something fun I’m going to stick with a safe topic: sex. Or diamond encrusted unicorns.

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