WOW! YOU'RE MOST LIKE GWEN

gwen
Originally uploaded by BigFreaky.

Thanks to TheVixy I was pointed to The Harajuku♡Lovers Fragrance website for a free sample! Upon redeeming my free sample a small questionnaire was proposed to me to find out what type of Harajuku Girl (原宿ガール）I was. After completing a battery of questions the type of Gal I was was revealed. I was notified that I was most like Gwen. This comes as little surprise to me since we are pretty much mirror images of each other. We are both young slender, strong and beautiful girls! We have long sun-kissed golden flowing locks of hair and men adore us. Yet we both take Japan by storm in different ways....

Fate....Maybe...
Coincidence...Not Surprising...
The Future...Bright and Delicious...

運命・一致・未来

It's almost over.....

For the last 2 weeks I have been working a split shift. My 1st shift co-worker has been off so I am covering for her. I am only going in at 10am, but that means I have to wake up at 8am. I am used to 2nd shift hours where I would go in at 2pm. Normally that would mean I would wake up anywhere from the hours of 10am to noon. It doesn't sound like much, but just imagine having to get up 2 to 4 hours earlier then you normally do. I guess it is just a bit of complaining, but it is early right now, and it is almost over... Soon I can breath a sigh of relief, I will return to work for 2 days of regular hours and then get up even earlier the next day (Wednesday) and hop a plane to Las Vegas! Baby! The New Media Expo is right around the corner and I am so ready to go! I cannot even begin to list what will be going on while I am there, but I will be sure to share with you all, as it happens, and I am sure after as well.

But anyways... work has come too early and I must run out the door, to make it on time..

Chance of showers with light hugging

Sleepy announcer voice for my MeToday.. Should be sleeping, but I can't stave off the Vampire forever. I have been working an early shift at work. 10-6 instead of my normal 2-10. It is ok for the most part but the getting up early in the morning is still pretty much sucking. I guess by the time I get used to it, I will be back on my normal schedule. Also I will return to normality followed by my trip to Vegas,.. New media expo is going to be a blast, and all the extras that Vegas is going to bring.. If you see a BigFreaky, give him a hug, it will make him smile.

Because the internet is annoying sometimes...

I do wonder back when Jody Gnant was saying that her blog was being hacked on blogger/blog spot, that if it was really hacked or just the spam email that made its way through to her site by way of email. Which happens to be how I am composing this blog as you read. I had something that was not too terribly unique, and I think that is why I have been ghost posted in the last two days. The posts were obvious spam. The kind that some how is trying to get you to buy drugs from overseas, but never seems to be an actual link or anything to buy them.... But that's not what is important. Its the fact that these dumb spam bots are ruining the internet. As tough as gmail should be, spam still makes it through sometimes. Now they just continue the relentless attack on every possible word and number combination on the planet. Those same emails sometimes find their way into blogs (such as mine) or other Web2.0 sites. One thing that is a bit disturbing that some may contain links that will bring you back to their site and install software to make your computer a zombie, and this can happen to your unsuspecting friends. Once you are zombified you will just continue to help pump out the spam mail and infect more people. Unfortunately I don't have any real answers, but only suggestions. Do your best to never click links inside an email, (EVEN if it is from someone you know), also try your best to not click on anything that may seem fishy on someones Twitter. Some spam is easier to spot then others, but the most important thing is to always be on guard and keep aware on what you are about to click. This may seem like a lesson about the net from the 90's but it will always hold true. If it didn't then i wouldn't be posting this blog now...

P.S. even if you think you are an awesome internet user, you should run a firewall, and a Anti-Virus/Anti-Trojan program. If you need a free one, I suggest AVG. You can find it here.

Also... as you see I have posted links, you never know if this was really me or not... just keep on your toes. When in doubt, you can see a website name, and just Google it. You should be pretty safe that way...

easy like a Saturday Morning.....???

Here I am just sitting at my computer on a Saturday morning. Actually its still Friday night, cuz I have not gone to sleep. I got a new lens in the mail today from eBay. It cost .99 cents, but had 9 dollar shipping. But still a 10 dollar lens is awesome! I really want to go shooting with it, but it is night time... and that doesn't work out so well all the time. I think it might rain today, when I am ready to go out. But that might not stop me. I am so geeked to use my lens, I might have to hide under trees to get some shots. The photo bug has bitten me seriously since purchasing my new camera (which is good) but I am not coming away with many photos I like. I hope I am not becoming a photo snob. As someone so eloquently put it. I want to take photos that I and other people will both like. I know I am not going to get shots that have never been done before, but I want to get shots that might not have been seen so often. I am going to Vegas and then NYC in the next month, and I really hope my skills and luck will be up for both of those adventures, because I really want to bring back some good shots to share with everyone. Feel free to see how I progress in the learning of my new camera on my flickr site. www.flickr.com/photos/bigfreaky You will have to register if you want to comment. Please do so, it is awesome when I know peoples feelings about a certain shot. Good or Bad. Thats it for now!

5A

5A
Originally uploaded by Duck Ellington.

So here I am minding my own business... and some yahoo comes around with a film camera!!! I think this photo proves that I am 100% strait and a city slicker!


Plaid shirt : 17 dollars
Nikon D60 : 650 dollars
A hat that rocks your socks off : Priceless!!

フォォォ～

Sometimes people shouldn't be left alone with a camera.....

macbre dusk

macbre dusk
Originally uploaded by BigFreaky.

This is one of the first photos to come out of my new Nikon D60. Of course I tinkered a bit, but I love how the setting sun being not very evident can still show off the purples and reds in the sky. I think the beach and pier in Grand Haven, Michigan, (Hometown) is one of the best places on the planet to see the sun set. So grab a pronto pup and take a stroll down the boardwalk to see a sunset you will never forget.

1 month and 17 lbs

So... This last month at work there was a slim down competition. Teams of 5 people would get together and challenge other teams of 5. The competition would consist of points earned for doing exercise. (cardio and strength training)1 full point for an hour of cardio and an additional 1 point for a half hour of strength training. As well as a half point for 30 mins of cardio and 15 mins of strength training. Well how it works out is that no one added me to their team so I decided to do the competition by myself. My goal was to get every point possible. The total points possible in 29 days was 66 points. 2 points daily for exercise and 2 points MAX for 2 pounds lost a week (1 point per pound). They only allowed 2 points for 2 pounds because they stated that losing more then 2 a week is dangerous. Well anyways I set my own personal goal of 12 pounds. By some stroke of luck I managed to reach that goal in 3 weeks of the competition start. Also by some miraculous fashion I reached a total weight loss of 17 pounds by the end of week 4. I did not starve myself, I did not crash diet, and I did not only eat salad. Actually I ate no salad :) I had started changing the way I ate last year, and just continued to follow those guidelines all along. I did try to be a little more mindful of what I ate however. Skipped a few snacks, but never went hungry! But the exercise is where all the magic happened. I do know that an hour and a half daily of exercise is not really sustainable, so that cannot continue to be part of the equation. But I do know that exercise is the key to it all. You can starve yourself or eat a bunch of stuff you will not continue to eat, but that of course will never stick. Is much as I have heard "it is a lifestyle change", in fact the truth it is that, a life style change. I will not get onto a soapbox or rant for lines and lines. (I have defiantly not lived the way I should for long)But the most I can ask is that you try your best, be mindful of what you eat and what you do. Every little bit does help.

*disclaimer*
On the days of weigh in I would get McDonalds to eat. Just yesterday I also purchased a McFlurry to top off the end of the competition. That McFlurry contained 540 calories. That coupled with meal I purchased, probably contained every calorie I needed for that day, plus a few days worth of fat.

Be wary of Fast Food although delicious it is very full of calories and fat. One thing I will not say is that you cannot have it anymore. That is just crazy talk. The more you tell yourself you can't have it, the more you will want it. If you want some Burgers or something, go for it. Just don't go for it everyday. The same will go for whatever you crave, be it ice cream, candy and what not. During my month I did eat a candy bar or two, and did have some ice creme as well. As well as one night of drinks and pizza rolls :0 !

The Radomness of the internet continutes

Randomness on the internet continues! I don't think it would be possible to explain this video. It is just one of those things where you have to "know it, to understand it" It is my longest video to date...but I think the length is not what makes a video. A little bit of humor I am trying to inject into the internet, a place that can seem so desolate and hateful at times!

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