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2010-09-08T14:23:00.001-07:00

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Aquatint Etching _ Edition of 8

2009-12-04T13:03:00.001-08:00

Top Ten Tuesday - Things to do when you are sick

2009-06-30T20:50:00.001-07:00

1. Edit your Blog
2. Sleep
3. Watch Seinfeld
4. Play Instruments
5. Play Video games
6. Use it as an excuse to eat candy such as Werthers
7. Drink Hot Tea
8. Make other people be your slaves
9. Take a nice long shower
10. Sleep again

I'm not doing so good on these top ten Tuesday things.... but hey nobody reads them anyways

Top Ten Tuesday - Ten Reasons that Today is a Great Day

2009-06-09T08:48:00.000-07:00

1-10. It's my Birthday

Top Ten Tuesday - Ten Reasons the Red Wings Suck

2009-06-02T19:38:00.000-07:00

1. They cheat just enough to get an unfair advantage and yet it is subtle enough that they get away with it
2. How do you get all those players into your salary cap? cuz its a scam... just to get certain players to win the cup... who wants the same team to win every year... lame
3. Datsyuk a star player, mvp? Ya right... he plays like crap the whole playoffs... lets blame it on an injury
4. Ducks are better.... the goal that put detroit past ducks only went in because they shoved our goalie into the net
5. Penguins will prevail. Crosby, Malkin, Kunitz = much better players
6. Osgood kicks the net off during any time of pressure in his zone, what a scam
7. Holmstrom cries like a little girl
8. Hossa goes to Detroit from Pittsburgh to win a cup? I think he should have stayed in Pittsburgh
9. Zetterburg and Franzen are pretty good... so they are not a reason the Red Wings suck
0. What the crap does an octopus have to do with the Red Wings

Top Ten Tuesday - Ten Excuses to Avoid Going to the Ballet

2009-05-26T11:05:00.000-07:00

1. I'm on a cruise that weekend.
2. I have to stay home and nurse my sick pet lizard
3. I promised my grandma I would take her to see lawrence welk that night
4. Espn is showing the knitting championships that night and I can't miss it.
5. I had my palm read yesterday and it predicted bad things if I see people in tutu's
6. I took a tumble in the sand dunes, broke my coccyx
7. I need to stick around my home base and wait for news
(if you dont watch Seinfeld you probably wont think this one is as funny as i do)
8. My arms got sucked into the vacuum and I cant get them out, I'm gonna have to stay home.
9. I got locked in my refrigerator and I have to eat my way out before I can leave the house.
0. I told the telemarketers that I would be available that night between 5 and 10

Luckily the first one was legitimate for me and it was the only one i had to try.... If anyone has better excuses i would love to here them.

Top Ten Tuesday - Ten Things to do at Work

2009-05-19T10:58:00.000-07:00

1. Work (you should always work hard and get everything done that needs to be done)
2. Extra Work (its always good to go above and beyond)
3. Eat, food keeps the mind going
4. Send Napoleon Dynamite quotes to friends over IM
5. Make updates to your blog
6. Find an instrument and play it
7. Pretend your computer is a cave that you must tunnel your way out of
8. Read the Christian Singles Magazine, or just flip through it and laugh
9. Color Coordinate the office
0. Join Online Mailing lists in order to get free stuff on your Birthday.

Seriously, if anybody reads this... i'm gonna run out of top ten ideas real fast, cuz lets face it, as true as that fortune cookie down below in my posts is, its tough to think of new ideas, and i'm really not putting much time into it. so if you got any requests let me know

Top Ten Tuesday - Ten Things You Should Never Leave Home Without

2009-05-12T14:47:00.000-07:00

1. Clothes
2. Money/Wallet
3. Keys
4. A Writing Utensil
5. Cell Phone
6. Moleskine
7. Fresh Breath
8. Fresh Armpits
9. Sleep
10. A Miniature Screwdriver Kit

Doyald Young

2009-04-28T13:16:00.000-07:00

I went to a lecture given by this guy (Doyald Young)
on campus the other day. He's been around the
block a couple times, lots of experience, lots of wisdom,
quality lecture. Check him out.

HERE IS A GOOD ARTICLE AND EXAMPLES OF HIS WORK

The Chinese are very wise

2009-04-17T11:48:00.000-07:00

They hit the nail on the head with this one

Scratch Boarding

2009-04-09T18:26:00.000-07:00

My first attempt at scratch board drawing today in illustration class...
it's actually pretty fun once you get past all the scraping sounds.

04.06.09

2009-04-06T11:32:00.001-07:00

I wish i were an Oscar Meyer Weiner... not really though

James Day Photography

2009-04-05T21:07:00.000-07:00

This is good stuff... he has a large portfolio and some impressive ways

of looking at everyday things... you should check him out.

The mind of a woman will never be understood

2009-03-03T22:03:00.000-08:00

The following is a true story:

Couple walks into McDonalds as i sit there with my sprite talking to Corwin Smith

Orders at the counter

They then venture over to the drink dispensers

Male says, "you've been asking me for 3 hours what i want for dinner, and you dont even get anything?"

Female replies, "I wanted Taco Bell."

I rest my case

College & Career Winter Trip

2009-02-14T22:10:00.000-08:00

I'm slowly putting up the few pictures i took on the trip over on my flickr page so go check em out if you would like....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jipjian/

C.S. Lewis says -

2009-02-04T09:59:00.001-08:00

"I do not think any efforts of my own will can end once and for all this craving for limited liabilities, this fatal reservation. Only God can. I have good faith and hope He will. Of course, I don't mean I can therefore, as they say, 'sit back.' What God does for us, He does in us. The process of doing it will appear to me (and not falsely) to be the daily or hourly repeated exercises of my own will in renouncing this attitude, especially each morning, for it grows all over me like a new shell each night. Failures will be forgiven; it is acquiescence that is fatal, the permitted, regularised presence of an area in ourselves which we still claim for our own. We may never, this side of death, drive the invader out of our territory, but we must be in the Resistance, not in the Vichy government. And this, so far as I can yet see, must be begun again every day."

- and i needed to hear that

Clay Figures

2008-12-20T13:39:00.000-08:00

Just some recent work in the free time.

Long Beach Marina

2008-11-20T14:13:00.001-08:00

Painting for my class.

click on it if you wanna see it bigger

admiring the work of others

2008-09-28T15:20:00.001-07:00

Check out these awesome state posters done by Frank Chimero

Steve Schofield Photography

2008-08-16T07:54:00.001-07:00

This one is for Jourdan because she seemed to appreciate my last post on a photographer... This guys Land of the Free gallery made me laugh a lot.... its definitely worth a look.

NEW LIZARD

2008-08-13T15:51:00.000-07:00

So i got a new lizard... its a green anole... i dont have a name for it yet so if you have any suggestions please let me know

Cracker Barrel

2008-08-04T12:23:00.000-07:00

so summer is too quickly winding down... and the worst part is that i have not even got to eat at cracker barrel this whole summer.... so what am i gonna do about that?

Well my family has decided that a cracker barrelless summer is not a summer at all... so in just under 2 weeks we will be driving to Arizona for a quick breakfast, lunch , and dinner at the closes Cracker Barrel and then heading home the next day.

Breakfast will definitely include bacon and hashbrowns
Lunch will be fish... either the trout or the catfish with okra and sweet tea
Dinner = Chicken and dumplins and much more goodies i havent decided yet... i better go check the menu that i have on my desk..

If you have never eaten at a cracker barrel.... im not sure i can speak to you....ever.... or at least until you do.

Gigi Cifali Photography

2008-07-28T12:47:00.001-07:00

I stumbled upon his site today... it is quite impressive stuff... i suggest checking out the singleviews set on the site.. its very interesting

Who is excited for the days to come?

2008-07-19T11:39:00.000-07:00

I am

God is doing a lot of good in my life. Hopefully I will live in a way that can reflect that

Bass Lake/ Yosemite College Retreat

2008-06-30T13:55:00.001-07:00

Here are some of the pictures from the trip... there are a couple different ones on my flickr page at www.flickr.com/photos/jipjian/ .... i have a few more but it was taking way to long to load them so if you want any pictures just let me know and i can email them to you

hope you enjoyed the photos.... oh and on a side note.. any of you who have met Jamie... she now has a blog if you want to drop by and say hi she just started it.... Jamie

Catalina

2008-06-18T10:32:00.000-07:00

Catalina was awesome as always... fishing was pretty good.. not the best its been but still an awesome time...here are a few of the things i caught..

John Piper's view on drinking as a Christian

2008-06-01T20:40:00.001-07:00

http://www.soundofgrace.com/piper81/100481e.htm

Just something to read

Something i agree with

MUSIC OF THE DAY

2008-05-20T22:29:00.000-07:00

Joe Purdy

Check him out

its good stuff

Video of the Day

2008-05-18T15:39:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icMTVV5Lwaw&feature=related

watch it

appreciate it

Music of the Day

2008-05-16T20:18:00.000-07:00

www.virb.com/oldcrowmedicineshow

It's Old Crow... as it so often is.

Music of the day

2008-05-14T22:31:00.001-07:00

http://www.virb.com/liamfinn

check it out... its pretty calm and relaxing.. .with a little bit of upbeat

overall pretty spectacular

Tozer

2008-04-03T10:23:00.000-07:00

I was reading Tozer again this week (because i defenitely don't read good books as much as i should) when this line hit me and was just an awesome reminder of how perfect God is. In talking about God's Self-Sufficiency, Tozer makes the statement, "He needs no one, but when faith is present He works through anyone." This really made me think and I thought it was an awesome and true statement.

Hospitals are depressing

2008-02-16T13:59:00.000-08:00

Today I visited a man in the hospital. His condition is far from good. It is really quite sad, but I will be praying for improvement. What is really amazing about this man is his appreciation for God, and everything God has done for him. He is a Quadriplegic and has been for a long portion of his life. Which makes his recent sickness a much harder condition to work around. His only way of communication is to talk, and he loves to talk. But due to his condition and being on a respirator, he cannot talk and therefore can only communicate with his eyes, and that is only when he is awake and aware enough to, which is not that often. The amazing thing about this man is his attitude. Right before going into the hospital for his original surgery which has got him where he is, he made an amazing comment and testament of his love for the Lord. Upon knowing he would be having a surgery, someone said to this man "God bless you," and his simple and powerful response was, "He already has." I'm pretty sure I have nothing in my life to complain about at all.

2008-01-12T14:00:00.001-08:00

Um...... so I bought a banjo....pretty awesome

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