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Take Me Away..A Sweet Escape...

A Secret Place...for better days..

Location: My secret hiding place to ponder

When: Saturday.06.19.08

I woke up to take my photography class this morning taught by Kathy Adams Clark. Massive, massive information i learned!! I mean the drive behind the motivation was found in this 6 hour class...so much so that I decided to go straight to taking pictures afterwards.
I went to my precious spot like the smeagle creature I am... and peered into the man-made lake. after looking at something that i thought was horrific and finding out that it was my reflection in the water (lol) i decided to just walk around the lake. I made this friend first:

Fearless Freddy froggy. now fearless freddy froggy had many friends chillin with him on that block but they all jumped in the water when they saw me... not him. I waited for his friends to come back..i was laying on my tummy when i took this pic and instead you could see the water ripple where the others were to just waiting for me to leave so they could jump out. I honestly think i annoyed the shiii out of these frogs... i could only compare it to the annoyance i cause my ex lol...they just wanted to chill and i was all up in their personal space. ribbit. hahahha everyone loves me i dont care. tsk..tsk..

so i keep walking, walking, walking... and i meet my friend #2

Clingy Chicharra. What is a Chicharra? Well boys and girls, not only am i equipped with a camera, i keep you in touch with your mother-nature.... and dont think you can find it on wikipedia....A chicharra is an insect that makes those loud noises in dry areas..such as memorial park..where u hear this real loud rattlesnake type sound... yah...that noise is caused by a bunch of these critters on the trees and in the grass. Eventually it grows wings and has irradescent colors..really interesting. I have to buy a $1200 lens in order to take close enough pictures of these guys at a 300f4 stop... its ok if u dont know what that means...photog talk... (sticks nose up in the air..lol)

alright so here I am poking around trees and poking around lakes in my secret spot in houston. The irony of it all is that this location is right on westheimer, the busiest street in houston. How da hell is that peaceful? I've yet to solve that mystery, but it just is. Its a wide nice man-made lake as seen here:

It would be a nice spot for a picnic or to stroll along with someone. I might also add that I released my little turtle i found about 6 years ago into these waters... his name is Squirtle. My biggest fear is that he mutated into a teenage mutant ninja... lolz... im sure I'll catch him there at another time. Last time I saw him was two years ago...

Ok so back to poking around.....poke...poke... lol...so um there was this hole... hahhaha noooo a hole in one of the trees.... so my curious a$$ goes reaching into it with a stick because I saw this camera canister thing wrapped up all funny. I grab it with sticks and pull it out and now i want to open the canister. At this point i'm thinking and hoping to find a million dollars wrapped up in a kodak film canister... hahah at the same time im not wanting some nasty spider or blood or something crazy to fall out. Instead, after peeling off the cap with two sticks (took me 10 minutes) this is what falls out:

what da???? Papers???!!! lolz.... where's da reefa?!!! hahhahahahhah so um, maybe my secret place isn't so secret???? daaaaaaaaaaaamn bamboozled again. lol.

Otays, thas enough of my adventures for this week. Anyways, I plan to buy more lenses - actually writing all this off as a business expense, will have a company name registered this week. I'm contemplating on becoming an underwater photographer. Ms. Kathy Clark is a full time Nature Photographer and she said she makes as much as she did as HR at a hospital when she worked in the corporate world...finally she was able to leave and do her passion full time. THAT is what i want! just in the water.. i am pisces.. i need to go back to my realm dammit! hahah cuz im a mermaid. hahhahahahhah omg ur retarded. yah anyways so my next endeavor is to get scuba certified sometime next month!! ooooo i can't wait!! sharks aint ready. lol hmm.. man thats not funny...

Swarmin around town..

lol. It's actually fun riding around Houston, although i do it at 35-40mph... the bike can go 60 but my killa bee wings are not fully developed... sooooo keepin it slow. Last Friday was the first time I drove it to work.. turns out im only 8 miles away, so why does it take me 30 minutes in my car???? that's annoying. Cool part is that I was still on full tank hahahhaha ... i went to the gas station to fill up.. i told the cashier $7 on #3 ... well i go to fill up and it stops at $3.84... yesssss! ha! so i screw the gas cap back on, huge smile on my face, walk back into the convenient store and i'm all "i need my change back.." hahahhahahah luv it!! never would those words be uttered while filling up da gator.

hmm a little calculation... i get 100 miles per gallon, 8 miles of gas to work... 40 miles a week... so yah i gotta shell out a whoppin $3.84 about every two weeks roughly... whoooot! hehheh so when i drove up to work, next thing i know everyone wanted to ride it.. and they did... pretty soon i'm gonna have a whole troop of power rangers riding at my side!! u think im kidding, but im not! they all want to get one! hahahha and on the road i was surprised to notice that all the houston drivers are somewhat respectful of me.. they dont ride to close to me, and i've yet to get honked at... although i do get tons of people waving and smiling at me.. hahahha i was at this one stop light and this guy was in a drop top convertible and he was all "you go girl!" lolz!! omg embarassing. what am i? some child prodigy or poster child for scooters? yesss i would luv to see that billboard around houston. hahhahah bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!! my stuuuupid buddy told me that i should ride around with that bee theme playing... hahahha messed up.

anyways.. i can't wait to move already. then i will be 5 blocks from work... lol gas will pretty much be non existent issue for me. niiiicely played. AND i will have a nice swimming pool yay yay yay! i think this time i will hire movers to take care of all my boxes. the idea of up and down three flights of stairs.. no. i think i been working out hard enough lately, that would b overkill. which by the way.. im back to training with rafael my original trainer. doing core workouts... i been real good lately.. the last time most people saw me i was about 160 pounds.. im down to 148 now... pretty crazy how fast i dropped it. its called counting calories and running 3 miles twice a week. yups. im actually training for the aramco half marathon that will be in january... eeek... i can do 5 miles... damn i dunno about 13... and no ipods allow... yah so thats my goal...

Other updates - just been messing around with the whole SLR camera and taking nice pics... i havent really posted much... actually i have a trip planned to return to cancun in October - main reason being i honestly want bad ass pics of the Mayan pyramids that I was not able to get the first time around. Cancun was my best trip ever, ironically considering how i got there in the first place. This time it will be with all the girls i pretty much know which is under 12 lolz... so that should be fun.
















Oh let me show you my crazy skills at work
That right there is our new IP voice over phones installed for our company. On the screen is my graphic artwork for our logo!! yay me!! work is real awesome, ive completed many projects such as the company brochure and creating our European website... its great. So yah work is real well... lots of changes im going through lately.. everything is in order except the luv life.. as usual... lol so i just keep myself busy with activities.. been doing a lot of salsa dancing lately, luv it, really sexy dance ... oh and last night when i was out with Kylene and company we went to that one place called "the Drake".... wow.... hands down that has to be the best club in Houston.. i mean i know its hard to get in and the door guys are real jerks... but the inside is like the clubs in Miami and the DJ was insane!! definately my favorite in houston. plus the people are no where near ghetto.. gotta say that the heights area is growing quite rapidly. i've yet to find anyone who tears up the dance floor like i do.. hahahhahha conceited a$$... lol joke only.... ok thats all the updates i have at the moment! i plan to start putting more pics up once i get the motivation. lol.