TWO THOUSAND SEVEN: A YEAR IN PICTURES
Long time, no post. I thought I'd catch you all up on my year. At least, my year in pictures.
WARNING: There are a ton of pictures in the blog. If you have dial up (and honestly why the hell do you not have cable or something faster yet?) then you might want not want to click on the cut.
2007. What a year. It's had the highest high I've had in a really long time and the lowest low. I've lost friends, made friends, taken my first vacation ever and nearly lost my home town. This blog will cover the good and bad from this year. Plus feature a bunch of pictures taken throughout 2007.
THE GOOD
There's no question that the trip to Chicago is the best thing I did this year. Getting to spend time in a town I've never been to before (and which I fell in love with) was so much fun and so relaxing I can't tell you. Thank you to Nathan and Christina for being such fabulous hosts! It wouldn't have been as much fun without you, that's for sure. And, to be honest, it wouldn't have happened without you both. I had so much fun. Got to see a TON of the city and ate some fabulous food. Saw 3 different types of theatre. And had a blast. Thanks also to Jim and Lynne for some lifesaving things that you both did.
THE BAD
The Greensburg tornado. Nothing can compete with an EF5 tornado that devestates my hometown and manages to destroy both the house that I grew up in and the home my sister was living in. The week after the tornado hit was probably the most emotional week I have ever experienced. Seven months later I can still barely believe it happened. But life will go on. But it will never be the same.
OTHER STUFF
So much other stuff happened. I got kicked off the board of WCT. I won't lie. I'm still pissed about that. To be honest, I'd been thinking about leaving the board for a while, but the way that it was handled bothers me. First off, a friend who's on the board told me. To this day I still haven't ever heard anything official from the board. No note or letter telling me so or thanking me for all the hard work I've done for the theatre over the past 10 years. No word from other people on the board that I know. It hurts. And it pisses me off. So much so that I've debated about seeing the one show that I still have to see for the MJT committee and then making up not seeing shows there by seeing more Crown shows. And anyone who knows how much I HATE seeing shows at the Crown can tell how pissed off I must be. But I'll get over it. Eventually. But I won't have anything to do with WCT for a long time. If ever. Before I left the board, I had designed a new logo for the theatre. Since it'll obviously never see the light of day again, I thought I'd share it since I'm rather proud of it.
Lost one of my closest friendships this year as well. To be honest, I don't think it was as close as I thought it was because that's the only way to explain how easy I was to drop. But I've learned some lessons from it. I don't trust nearly as much as I did before. I've learned to be happy to hang by myself and be all right if I go weeks without doing anything with anyone. But the friendship gave me huge trust issues and those are things I'll have to work out. But I doubt I'll ever completely trust anyone again. Protecting myself is probably the most important thing I've learned from it.
Having said that, I've had a ton of fun with friends this year. Some memorable ones are hanging with Holly, Sarah and Justin at J's and Fantasy, Thursday nights at My Room, All Star Sports with Justin, movies with Jim, going to the Cosmosphere with Jim, movies with Liz, Jeremy, MJ and Amber, my birthday with Lindsey and Kelsey, and numerous other times I'm sure I'm forgetting as I sit here typing this. Plus, I'm sure that New Years Eve with the gang at Kobe's and the Biltz's is going to be on that list.
FAVORITE MOVIE: HAIRSPRAY (Runners-up are THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM and LIVE FREE AND DIE HARD). Yeah, I like escapist movies the best.
FAVORITE TV SHOWS: CHUCK, HEROES and PROJECT RUNWAY.
Ok, enough words.
PORTRAITS
STILL LIFES
THEATRE
THE GREENSBURG TORNADO
McCONNELL AIR SHOW
CHICAGO
WARNING: There are a ton of pictures in the blog. If you have dial up (and honestly why the hell do you not have cable or something faster yet?) then you might want not want to click on the cut.
2007. What a year. It's had the highest high I've had in a really long time and the lowest low. I've lost friends, made friends, taken my first vacation ever and nearly lost my home town. This blog will cover the good and bad from this year. Plus feature a bunch of pictures taken throughout 2007.
THE GOOD
There's no question that the trip to Chicago is the best thing I did this year. Getting to spend time in a town I've never been to before (and which I fell in love with) was so much fun and so relaxing I can't tell you. Thank you to Nathan and Christina for being such fabulous hosts! It wouldn't have been as much fun without you, that's for sure. And, to be honest, it wouldn't have happened without you both. I had so much fun. Got to see a TON of the city and ate some fabulous food. Saw 3 different types of theatre. And had a blast. Thanks also to Jim and Lynne for some lifesaving things that you both did.
THE BAD
The Greensburg tornado. Nothing can compete with an EF5 tornado that devestates my hometown and manages to destroy both the house that I grew up in and the home my sister was living in. The week after the tornado hit was probably the most emotional week I have ever experienced. Seven months later I can still barely believe it happened. But life will go on. But it will never be the same.
OTHER STUFF
So much other stuff happened. I got kicked off the board of WCT. I won't lie. I'm still pissed about that. To be honest, I'd been thinking about leaving the board for a while, but the way that it was handled bothers me. First off, a friend who's on the board told me. To this day I still haven't ever heard anything official from the board. No note or letter telling me so or thanking me for all the hard work I've done for the theatre over the past 10 years. No word from other people on the board that I know. It hurts. And it pisses me off. So much so that I've debated about seeing the one show that I still have to see for the MJT committee and then making up not seeing shows there by seeing more Crown shows. And anyone who knows how much I HATE seeing shows at the Crown can tell how pissed off I must be. But I'll get over it. Eventually. But I won't have anything to do with WCT for a long time. If ever. Before I left the board, I had designed a new logo for the theatre. Since it'll obviously never see the light of day again, I thought I'd share it since I'm rather proud of it.
Lost one of my closest friendships this year as well. To be honest, I don't think it was as close as I thought it was because that's the only way to explain how easy I was to drop. But I've learned some lessons from it. I don't trust nearly as much as I did before. I've learned to be happy to hang by myself and be all right if I go weeks without doing anything with anyone. But the friendship gave me huge trust issues and those are things I'll have to work out. But I doubt I'll ever completely trust anyone again. Protecting myself is probably the most important thing I've learned from it.
Having said that, I've had a ton of fun with friends this year. Some memorable ones are hanging with Holly, Sarah and Justin at J's and Fantasy, Thursday nights at My Room, All Star Sports with Justin, movies with Jim, going to the Cosmosphere with Jim, movies with Liz, Jeremy, MJ and Amber, my birthday with Lindsey and Kelsey, and numerous other times I'm sure I'm forgetting as I sit here typing this. Plus, I'm sure that New Years Eve with the gang at Kobe's and the Biltz's is going to be on that list.
FAVORITE MOVIE: HAIRSPRAY (Runners-up are THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM and LIVE FREE AND DIE HARD). Yeah, I like escapist movies the best.
FAVORITE TV SHOWS: CHUCK, HEROES and PROJECT RUNWAY.
Ok, enough words.
PORTRAITS
STILL LIFES
THEATRE
THE GREENSBURG TORNADO
McCONNELL AIR SHOW
CHICAGO