Election O8 is Complete!!!!! Three Cheers

As Tuesday night rolled around..  I has felt very accomplished as a citizen, I had done my civic duty earlier that day and voted like “I’m a big kid now” smile on my face probably cre eping out a few people over my excitement to vote!!! But have to admit having that power to impact a nation is something i find to be a very big deal. A country that gives you a voice a chance to be the difference … I love it!! So i voted and made my way back to Ruston. So as me and my remate began our trivial night of flipping from CNN and FoxNews to watch all the news people get overly excited over touch screens and colored maps. They even began predicting states when they had 2% votes in. ahahhahah It was quite funny. But at around the time that Obama was announced as President elect. we began to hear ear blasting shrills from outside our apt. door. Now being where we are in Ruston we kinda live in some ghetto apts. So my first thought was that there was  shootout going on and we were about to die!! So we open our doors and our african american neighbors had assembled together in a gathering shouting words such as “finally equality”… and “my president is black”… to which me and my b.f.f found quite funny b/c he is only half black… but anyway. So they had got in their parked cars to honk there cars. It was so amusing that we sat on our front steps and listened to the sounds of Ruston( yes located in the South) go wile for Obama. I have to admit that he was not my choice for president but he is going to hold that office and although i may not agree with his policies i know that ultimately no matter who is in the White House . I do love the fact that a racial barrier has been broken in our country which indeed is historical beyond imagine. BUt God still is king and reigns over all the land. He tears down andbrings up kingdoms. Change is needed in America and I believe God and prayer are the only ingredients for its start… But my election night was qute humorous.  So check out our video to our election night its a laugh in your belly!!!

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1020862601206

Winter is coming .. shhhhh don’t tell!

Winter is coming it is on its way. I woke up this morning to the slight chill of winter that was coming this way. I breathed in that smell of winter that i love so much. So since winter is coming I hope, because of Louisiana weather it could only last today so today I will enjoy just a few of my favorite things about winter.

Cold days come and bring snuggle times with friends and loved ones.These days are full of moments precious and dear to remind you why we are all here. You step outside to breathe in the smell that Christmas is very near. Its time to grab hats and scarves of colors so bright and wear knit gloves that keep you warm at night. A cup of caramel machiatto that warms up the soul is a delightful way to go! Grab the USAToday to hear the complaints of Palin and McCain. The Phillies sweep the Rays in Game 1 becuase the World Series has just begun. October means that winter is on its way! Feeling the sniffle of your nose from winter’s slight chill brings in hopes of a very cold cold year. Friday nights bring football and fright in hopes that the Rebels will beat the Bearcats tomorrow night. Its football weather at its best with hoodies and camo and all those renecks! Hunting is coming when the deer know that its time to run away. Calling the Hogs in November in the cool of night to beat those Tigers for a bowl game in December! Winter is on its way and makes my heart smile and my soul jump with joy for Winter brings many of my favorite things and great Holidays and so many other great things.

Back to School

HMMMM… So last night i went to my high school’s homecoming assembly and let me tell you when we have homecoming we do it BIG! I felt so strange entering the high school that was my home for four years of my entire existence of this lifetime of 19 wonderful years on planet earth. The same old crusty blue walls that yelled for a new paint job about 20 years ago still held the smells of my own senior homecoming assembly so vividly. My friends and I who all went to West Monroe decided we wanted to go and enjoy the assembly and see how it had all change. All week I was getting really excited bout it. The drumline, the court, the singers, and the hilarious videos. So as I arrived I saw fellow classmates that were scattered across the room and I began to realize something. We all want to go back to those days of simplicity and wonder that we had in high school not that we don’t in college trust me I love college I get to sleep alot and choose the classes I want to take and when, but something bout college doesn’t have that spirit that unity that air of being in high school. Some people may differ with me, but I just felt that when I was there last night that being at the assembly allowed everyone their young and old to go back to that time. When you were a kid but trying to be an adult when on Friday nights you dressed it up in Rebel colors while the drumline made their way through the halls and the pep rally gave you memories that would never be forgotten. It made me wonder why sometimes the good of college lacks these certain wonderfuls. The pep rallies we have but no one attends, on friday nights we don’t paint the town or get pumped up for the game. I miss that i think more than anything. It may only can happen on those certain nights in an auditorium of old but its nice to have it was nice to smell and it was nice to go back to school.!!!!!!!

 

p.s. Go Dawgs Beat IDaho

Election Overload

So I’ve been reading in the USAToday this past week about the never ending over-the-top election that could make even the crazies crazy. The never ending debates that happen in places called Nashville where country music makes its hallowed claim, or in a Southern Mississippi town where BBQ and football go hand in hand. If anything I think the media has given put coverage of the election on steriods and Red Bull. The backlashing and backbiting from both parties has become a headache. If change is to come to America it should begin with the two kindergarteners themselves. Obama is no better than McCain, nor is McCain any better than Obama. If there one concern is America and American people then they should get back on track to see what is going on around not just in their political bubble. I believe that if we don’t act now America could be headed in a bad direction. So no matter who wins, the man that does needs to be concerned less with himself, more with the people, less with how many TV stations are showing their interview and more with how many people are jobless, have no gas in their cars, and the economy. I know that is seems like I am gripping but I want the right man and the man that God wants in the office. So all this coverage of who said what, and down grading does nothing but push away voters and the confidence of Americans in their government and journalists. So let’s get back to the basics and focus on what this country once founded itself on. The values of freedom, justice, and moral ideals that made this the land of the free and home of the brave.

Ode to the SpOrTs gOds !

Chicago, Chicago wherefore art thou Chicago. You are in the East , but the Dodgers aren’t no Sun.

Now this inspiring tale of star crossed lovers not only applies to life as Shakespeare for saw it but the future as it is today in my world. Chicago is a never been there to that side of the town character itching for a chance to prove its love to the baseball gods of the golden trophy we like to call the World Series. Its fate seems to be inevitable to that of the death of Romeo and Juliet. Their fate has been written in the stars, they will never truly be together on this earth. So as for the golden trophy we like to call the World Series it too shall never cross paths with my beloved Cubbies. My Cubbies have been taken away by that elixir of death from sunshine LA. THE DODGERS! The hopes of a happy ending are fading just as Juliet does with her lover, so shall the Cubbies relinquish hopes of ever holding that title for its own. They must choose to accept what path has been given to them, that they will never be or not to be Champions of Baseball.

 

After my antics of craziness I just wanted you to see that my life as a sports fan is over. If my Cubbies can’t pull out the big stuff this year I don’t think they’ll ever see victory, and after 100 years you’d think they’d be tired of losing by now. So ode to the sports gods that a little push for destiny to be persuaded could be used at this crucial moment in time. THank you and GOODNIGHT

 

Whitney Ratcliff’s Senior Portraits

My beautiful friend Whitney is a senior this year at Ouachita. I love taking pictures if you haven’t seen by now I have been given a gift, a gift to see moments and capture them that maybe no one else chooses to see. My camera is like my baby I don’t let many people hold it and I take very good care of it. If I could have a dream job I would write and travel taking pictures of the moments forgotten in time or the moments yet to be seen my the world. So take a moment and stop to see the little things. A boy falling in love with a girl from across the table. A woman reflecting as she walks through the time of the past, or a young child twirling through her imaginative rocket taking her to the sky. The things we choose to see may actually change our lives if we just take the time to open our eyes and look. OKay so that’s my deep thought hahahahhah I didn’t mean to get all serious on you, but really enjoy the things around you, you don’t always have to see it through a lens to be amazed by life.

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Seuss

“Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.”

Do you ever have one of those days when nothing seems right. Well yesterday I seemed to have had an off day. I woke up late b/c my alarm clock did not go off. I just happened to look at my phone leaning over the side of my twin size, ,feet hang off th end bed. I shouted “oh my Jesus” and ran, jumped out of the bed. I threw on my shoes, not changing my clothes and jumped in my car. This is the start to one of those days. So I arrived late to my photography class, forcing at the end of learning to develop film for my film to be the one that messed up because I wasn’t there to learn to roll the film, just my luck. After four hours I drug myself to the gym to burn off my day of blah! If you want a remedy for getting rid of a not so good day her is a list:

a) pray, I don’t know what I would do if I didn’t have Jesus to talk to, to hold on to me when I just want to scream. Just being able to talk to him gives a boost to your day.

b) go to the gym run in a t-shirt and jeans turn on you tunes and let all that stuff just sweat off.

c) when nothing else fails pick a good movie (preferably Sleepless in Seattle or Steel Magnolias) and eat a big pot of popcorn.

But just when a bad day seems to be at its worst, the sun comes up again the next day. I didn’t wake up late. I woke up early in a great mood and energized. I listened to some great music on the way to class, grabbed a USAtoday and read till my English class. My day was a day just like any other day when sunshine shone down, the crossword puzzle was defeated, Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Oh and i ate a good bowl of ice cream!

’senior portraits TYLER Ainsworth

Man I took these in like July. So I have really been awful about posting. ENjoy.

 

 

 

 

First Week back @ college. IDK?

So since this is really my first official week of school after hurricanes blowing in and my odometer dropping down to zero it has been an eventful one. School is absolutely grand with people scuffling to their classes and people dragging to their classes it makes me excited because it only means two more years and I can go out and achieve all that has been taught to me. The worlds of Shakespeare, News, unfortunately Math, History will all impact my life now and later. Interestingly enough I have eaten ice cream, noodles, chick-fil-a, a wrap of turkey and bacon, and coffee all this first week. They were not consumed all in one day nor were they eaten in that order. I thouroughly enjoyed watchin our Bulldogs dismantle the Goliath Mississippi State, and then I almost lost my heart when my Hogs nearly choked against ULM! Whew. College is starting, new adventures begin, and I am so in love with Sarah Palin. She impedes the quintessential POWER WOMANNNNNNNNNNNNN! I love her style, the librarian glasses (excuse me where did you find those?), how she is a normal mom and does all that while tackling oil and the state of Eskimos. She is my new favorite person to stalk on Yahoo or USAtoday. So I hope everyone has a great weekend. I am going to the Rebel game to watch my adorable brother kick butt. Carly Hogg I wish you a Happy 19th birthday.

 

Hello world!

Hey everyone. I am doing a new blog for my photography I hope you like it.!!!!!!!