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dogs and cats to sit on

October 28th, 2004

uh.. i mean.. for. -)

so i’m dog sitting/cat sitting right now. it’s fun, but i miss my broadband wireless internet already. -P

not much to update you all on.. cept a request for prayer. just a quick one though. i have been getting lots of migraines lately… it’s becoming a bit distracting and very frustrating for me. i don’t know where all these headaches are coming from.. but they sure are kicking my butt. it’s not a good thing.

anyways.. say hi to my friends for the week:


thor
(thor)

loki
(loki)

tigger
(tigger)

and there is one more cat, “tueseday” but he’s always hiding. he did come out a couple times and look at me though. which is a big thing for this cat. -)

anyways.. i should get back to work. yay for flash *gag* -P

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workin fool.

October 28th, 2004

i really don’t want to post anything tonight. at least nothing really in depth.. since i’m so busy. lets just say the past week has been amazing, and also very stressful. but it’s all good. God’s awesome… and that’s all that matters! -D i had a great time at twenty something tonight… and… oh yea.. i start dog sitting … oh.. today. (man.. i need to go to bed) so i might not be online very much to post here this next week. we’ll see.

yea. that’s about it. *yawn* i’m tired. but i have work to do. sooo.. back to work for me. (man. i’m hungry too.. i didn’t notice that until i started typing this post. grr.)
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woah! an award!

October 26th, 2004

yay!!

wow. praise God for such encouraging people! thanks SOOO much ganns for the award and the kind and encouraging words! *warm fuzzies*

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shooting

October 25th, 2004

a photo shoot.. that is.

here’s some of my favorite shots from the photo shoot i did for tammy this morning.

if you couldn’t tell from the last picture.. we did have a lot of fun. it was great that amy could help out with hair and makeup again. i’m not sure if i told this story on here before or not.. but this was photo shoot #2… because my camera was really messed up the first time we did the photo shoot. and that was a huge bummer, cuz all the pics turned out blurry. (turns out there was something messed up in the alignment of the mirrors and prisms inside my camera? *shrugs* i donno, i have no clue how the camera works. i only know how to take pictures -P ) but yea.. this is round two. anyone want to hire me to take pictures for them?

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worldwide conspiracy!

October 24th, 2004

i write this entry in concern. concern for the well-being of the world.

where do YOU want to go today?why you ask? well i feel that i have uncovered the conspiracy of the century. a conspiracy that puts all other conspiracies to shame. and no one is safe from this conspiracy.
no one.

see the picture on the left? looks like a normal elevator panel… right? all of you people who live or work where there is an elevator, will think this is a normal sight. you got all the buttons of a normal elevator. everything is fine and dandy, right?

well that’s just the problem. this conspiracy is everywhere. and we don’t even notice it anymore. we never have.

the button in question.have you ever tried pushing the “close door” button? you know, when you are in a hurry, and there is obviously no one coming, no reason to wait for that couple seconds for the doors to automatically close. makes perfect sense right? well i am here to tell you that that button doesn’t really exist. i know you are saying right now.. “but tracy, i see it, i know it exists.” this is true. but that button is only there for decoration, for pretty, to make us feel better, to keep the population from rioting! we feel that if we push that button, the doors will close faster. but this is NOT true. it is just there to be a distraction… and never really works! (i know, this is shocking news, but please, remain calm… ) in thinking about this problem even more… i have come to the realization that this must be the work of the government. yes. the government. they put that button there, to occupy us from seeing the real issues. to distract us from the elevator doors that which we cannot control. (yes. hard to believe… but.. hey.. put that blowtorch down… please….) the real truth is that we do NOT have control over how fast those elevator doors close (uhhh.. please step away from the knives… )… and in this day and age when we can control everything by pushing a button.. clapping our hands.. turning on a switch… clicking a mouse… this is appalling news to the masses! the government knows this and this put this button in place to keep us at bay.

now i have done my part in warning you about this conspiracy. it is now your job to pass along the message to your friends. and don’t worry, they will look at you like you are crazy. they are just too deep in the “elevator button conspiracy” to heed your warning.

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ever see a ballot wasted?

October 23rd, 2004

ok. all you who know me, knows how un political i am. but these video ads are WAYYY too funny to not post here.
clicky click here

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take a byte out of crime.

October 22nd, 2004

You are Apple Dos. Simple and primitive with a good understanding of the common man. You're still a work in progress, but a good start.
Which OS are You?

man.. i’ve really been in a survey taking mood today.
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click here.

October 22nd, 2004

this site is pretty cool. i got the link from nikki and i’m just discovering all the fun things at blog explosion. go sign up and add your blog. tell em’ tray sent ya. -)

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time to burn

October 21st, 2004

so i’m burning a dvd on my laptop.. so that means i have some time to burn. heh. funny eh?

but seriously. here’s a post. (yes annette, a new post. happy?) i feel that i have been slacking on my “fun” internet endeavors. why you ask? well… work internet endeavors have been taking up most of my time and energy. i have been desperately trying to figure out advanced flash stuff in order to modify the restoration project‘s website. and sure enough.. last night i made my first major leap in progress. i somehow figured out how to rearrange the photo album, and add new pictures. go me. *dances*

secondly, i have been working on a cover design for tammy ann winn, and that has been going pretty well, with the exception of the photos from the photo shoot not turning out as planned, due to a much more broken camera than i had thought. (yea… i just thought the light meter was busted in the camera… turns out the mirrors and prisms and whatnot were all messed up as well… what does THAT mean you ask? well.. basically the focus was off. so when i had it focused for my eye… it was not focused .. not even CLOSE… for the film. major stink i tell ya.) but that will all work out.. i’m sure it will. and now i have a new old camera body to replace the trashed one. bleh. hello $200 out the window.

ummm.. lets see.. do i have any other words of wisdom? not really. i’ve been having a total blast hanging out around milwaukee the past couple nights. i must say.. i absolutely love the east side of milwaukee. i see a lot of hurt, a lot of pain, a lot of searching and despair in the people around there… but i feel God rising up Christians in the area to help shed light on the answer to the questions there. it is really an arty, liberal, deep intellectual sort of area… an environment that i am both drawn to, and frightened by. what a strange relationship i have with a neighborhood.

ok. maybe i do have some deep words to share. i was thinking about this the other day. the gift of words. and yea.. i write here in this blog… and i reflect .. sometimes deeply… on the things that happen around me. but i don’t feel that God has given me the gift of words. let me explain. yes, i can sit and type about something that happened to me earlier. but it usually takes me a little while to actually be able to explain such things in words. many conversations and debates i run through in my head… minutes.. hours.. even DAYS afterwards… and much later i think of what i would have wanted to say or ask. it makes me wonder.. what good is THAT? i mean.. isn’t that ‘too late’ to “get it”… *shrugs* maybe it is. but maybe that’s how God created me. i find myself much more able to express myself in pictures… in my artwork… in music.. even sounds. not words. and when first seeing this aspect of my person… i thought of it as a downfall.. but in thinking more about that… i think of it as a pretty cool thing. first off… we as humans were created in the image of God. do you REALZE how many variations of personality and ways of expressing oneself there are? well.. if you put ALL of those together… we might get a better picture of how vast and how awesome God is. praise God that i can worship him through pictures. and he understands. so what if i’m not good with words.. there are people out there who are. we are the BODY of Christ… so put us all together… and look at how many ways we can reach out to ALL people in this world and show them Christ’s love.

ok. that’s all. i used up all my words -P

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hello journal.. my old friend

October 19th, 2004

so i really haven’t updated all weekend. and for good reason. i’ve been busy. -P

it’s been a real blast having julia visit for the weekend. i love having friends randomly drop by and visit. and if you know me, i also love ‘networking’ friends (you know… having my friends meet my other friends … so we can all be one big group of friends). that’s one thing that has been such a tremendous blessing in my life… that i have a group of friends that knows each other in some way or another. and actually, when i reflect on my group of friends in my life right now, it’s pretty amazing to think of how God weaved all our lives together. man.. God’s cool! -D

so here’s a quick rundown of this past weekend. friday night, me and julia went to see the concert in chicago (it was ginny owens, monk & neagle, and randall goodgame). saturday night was the 50th anniversary of university christian ministries at uwm, and there was a banquet that we attended, and i had the opportunity to do a brief sharing at the dinner. (a talk, under five minutes, about how campus ministry effected my life at uwm) sunday morning was church at westminster…. where i played with the band for the first time in quite a while. sunday night me and julia hung out with my friend naomi on the east side until the wee hours of the morning. (man.. i love that area.. not to mention jimmy johns! -D ) monday we hung around my apartment and acted nerdy on our laptops…. now it’s tuesday morning.. and i need to go to bed.

so there’s the update. happy?

-o- i found this link on nikki‘s site… and i just have to link it. can a real Christian have depression? from relevant magazine. it’s right on. read it!

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