MCP Project March

So these are my first two submissions for the March challenges on MCP. These are for Challenge #2 and #3 which are Natural Light and "Transition", respectively. I am going to see if I can get the other two challenges in as well, but I couldn't find the opportunity for them today.


On this one, I did an auto correct for light and color, and then in GIMP, I bumped the brightness a bit, bumped the green and blue hues a bit, and added the fuzzy border. I loved this little flower sitting all by itself and the detail in the petals.


On this one, I loved that the blooms weren't all open yet and the color went from white to green. The afternoon light was great too! I did auto correct for light and color, and then in GIMP, I bumped the brightness, bumped the green hues, and added the fuzzy border.
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Six Years Ago on In My Words...Nice and Easy

$1 Million Lotto Winner Continues To Collect Food Stamps

All I can say is WOW! How does this happen? How does she even qualify her actions? I have to wonder if there is enough brain power here to even sustain human life...now she is all over the national news...no hiding from that!
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Seven Years Ago on In My Words...Parking Peeve

MCP Change Up

So I was checking into my photo projects to find out what the theme words are going to be for the month and found out that MCP's Project 12 has changed to a monthly challenge format with several challenges to promote a bit more photo taking. I am excited about this....will give me a bit more flexibility since I already have the Shutter Sister's project that is a "once a month" thing based on a theme word.

Another change is that the images are going to be back on Flickr instead of hosted at our own blogs or third party sites. I am glad for this in some ways because it is easier for me to just have both projects on Flickr, but I also liked the traffic I was getting to my blog from the project as well so....

Last month's theme for both projects was Leap and I just couldn't come up with anything...I am hoping that this new format will motivate me to take a few more pics this month.
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Last Year on In My Words...Elmer Byrd 1911-2011
It has been almost a year since my grandfather died.

Books Can Commit Suicide Too

I saw this image ages ago on Pinterest and thought it was hilarious, and then after hearing a segment on NPR about how a study was done that actually showed that viewers were not as smart after watching the show as they were before, I just had to find the image again so I could share it...

According to the research I have been able to find, the image was part of a PSA that Random House was promoting last year.
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Seven Years Ago on In My Words...Art Dilemma

Popcorn Math

Okay...I know I didn't stick with my math major in college in favor of switching to biology but I am pretty sure the math here doesn't "add" up. According to the top of the label each bag makes 12.5 cups, and a serving is 5 cups popped, but then in the lower section, where it refers to calories, it says that a serving size is 1 cup popped....so which is it? This would seem to indicate to me that the actual calorie intake of a serving size is 100 calories if you only eat about 1/2 a bag. This of course is still super small...I just think it is funny to see the discrepency on what is by law supposed to be an accurate label.

I found this error on all the different microwave popcorn I found so it is "industry-wide". My theory is that the law regarding the labels really only applies to the item in its uncooked state and since they have no idea exactly how much popcorn will be popped out of any given bag with any given microwave, they have to estimate that part and are not held to the law. It still is fun however to make fun of the label...
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Three Years Ago on In My Words...Peek-Boo
Definitely missing our furry friend...

Pub Table Balance

Went out to a pub the other night and while coming back from the restroom, I noticed that there was a pile of coasters on the floor....at closer examination, it seems they were being used to balance a table. I just couldn't pass up the photo opportunity...
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Four Years Ago on In My Words...Toenail Woes

Contagion

Just watched this movie on disc from Netflix....can I say, I will not be touching my face as much and will be upping my sanitizer use in the next few days...LOL.

I thought it was pretty good...really opens your eyes to how fragile the human system is, and how quickly something like this could spread.

They talk about Kowloon being the most densely populated place in the world (we stayed in Kowloon when we visited Hong Kong), and they also reference the casinos in Macau, another place we visited. That was kind of cool.
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Four Years Ago on In My Words...My Soup

Off To The Gym

So, today I am back at the circuit class...which is awesome because not only do I desparately need the endorphins, I need the motivation to get back on the exercise routine. I haven't been eating badly at all, but I know that the exercise is key for my piece of mind. I have a race in less than a month too, so I really need to get some training in, even though a 5K is not that long of a run.

I have been slowly working on other projects which is good, but I think when I am getting regular exercise, I am even better at knocking out the To Do list.
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Six Years Ago on In My Words...New Digs

Google's Valentine Doodle

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Seven Years Ago on In My Words...Squirrels, Squirrels, Squirrels

Reading Blog Update

I was able to get my reading blog updated with my reads from January and also created the year end for 2011. Check it out if you have time!!
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Four Years Ago on In My Words...Ebi Filet

Healing

My leg is getting better. The heat and ice thing has really sped up the process and I know this, but for some reason refuse to follow it at first any time I hurt a muscle. I am not sure what is wrong with me on that regard...LOL.

I am hoping to exercise a bit tomorrow, probably just a short flat walk (maybe at the track), and then work back up to things. I have circuit class on Tuesday and I plan to go, but will take it easy on the leg stuff so I don't reinjure it. I am looking forward to getting back to full capacity so I can run in a 5K in March.
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Six Years Ago on In My Words...High School Meme

Frustration

Somehow, this past week, I pulled the quad in my left leg. Problem is, I don't know when I did it, and it probably wouldn't have been as bad as it has been, if I had started doing the right thing about it right off. At first, I thought it was my hipflexor and it was spasming/cramping everytime I put any weight on it, so I tried to stay off it and when I did have to walk, I would modify my gait or stance (which comes with its own host of problems). My back started hurting because I was holding my leg up off the floor.

Super Bowl Food

We had the best food for the Superbowl... homemade guacamole, queso and buffalo wings. Top that with some good beer and a fun game and you have a pretty decent afternoon.

I didn't get a shot of the buffalo wings, but I am having some of the leftovers for dinner tonight. They were awesome, and my BIL did a great job of grilling and saucing them up.

I am actually getting hungry writing this and it is making the job of coming up with anything else to say very difficult.
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Three Years Ago on In My Words...Happy Endings

Update Fail

So, I guess in December Barnes and Noble came out with an update to the OS on the Nook color...you could go to their site and connect your Nook and download it manually (which a lot of people complained didn't work that well), or you could just wait and it would update itself when you were connected to a WiFi spot. My Nook Color is on the WiFi network I set up, but no matter what I did (short of manually downloading it), nothing seemed to trigger it to update.

Photo Projects

I can't believe it...both photo projects are using the word Leap for the month of February.....I could use the same picture for both projects but I am going to try to see if I can come up with two pictures. I have to assume this means February this year is a Leap Year (which I didn't realize). That has to be a good sign, right? Just makes the Year of the Dragon that much more interesting!!
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Six Years Ago on In My Words...Fashion Angst

Template Change

I decided that my old template was a little bit too hard to read without scrolling up to the light areas (because of the image) and a couple of my fellow bloggers have recently changed to white clean templates and I decided to give it a go...I might change up the header image again, but for now, I think I have something that works for me.

It took a bit of tweaking of gadget sizes and moving things around (since my old template was only two columns and this one is three), but I think I am happy with it. Seems a little "newslettery" but I like it. Of course this means that I am going to be mixing it up on my other blogs as well...they probably won't all end up looking like this one but for the ones that are hard to read, I will moving to something a bit more legible.
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Three Years Ago on In My Words...Tea Is Your Friend

January MCP Project 12

My submission for the MCP Project 12 for January. The theme is Resolution and my running is my resolution for this year...rain or shine! I didn't do anything to this image other than add a fuzzy border and the regular auto correct for light and color.
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Five Years Ago on In My Words...Observations

Maru Is At It Again

I just can't help myself. I am sure he is chasing a bug in between the mirrors but he is just so damn cute!!



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Six Years Ago on In My Words...Truth Or Dare
You want to play????

More Lost Inconsistencies

1. Okay, here are a few more for you...there seems to be an unlimited supply of tarps. I mean everytime there is a new character added to the camp, someone gives them a pile of tarps to build their hut with. I mean, was the plane carrying a cargo hold full of tarps???

2. John's dad has him go into a bank and open a safe deposit box that he has never signed a signature card for. You can't just walk into a bank with a key for a sdb and open it without being on the account (unless you have a death cert for the box owner).

3. They apparently get supply drops from the Dharma Initiative, even thirty years after the initiative has ceased to exist but yet you never see where all that trash goes....I mean, cans and boxes of food and you never see where any of it goes. Now of course, they could be burning most of it, but still, all that metal and glass is not going to just burn up in a camp fire and it isn't like they have this huge incinerator somewhere...

Photo Project Beginnings

It is a new year and time for both photo projects I participated in last year to start again...the one that was every week has modified to only be once a month and won't be using the Flickr group anymore but otherwise they are both the same.

MCP Project 12 is the one that used to be weekly and has changed to be monthy. This is a link to the post you can sign up with and you can upload pics on their blog rather than using the Flickr group like last year. I will probably use my blog as my hosting location for this one.

Shutter Sister's One Word Project is the second one. This one has always been a monthly themed project and it continues to be. They will also continue to use the Flickr group for their hosting which is fine with me...I almost always make a post from my image for the month either way so it doesn't necessarily matter where the image is hosted at. The theme for January is your own word...a word that signifies something for you and you can post your word and your intention to participate on this post.

I am excited to start taking some shots and getting some ideas brewing in my head for both of these projects.
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Three Years Ago on In My Words...Futenma Shrine Visit
I am bummed that I can't do this this year, but am excited that a couple of my friends are going and plan to help me out with some new stuff!!