Saturday, August 30, 2008
So It Begins....
Ricky & I from our seats in Section 118
Crappy Weather Prior, During, and After the game
Knightro!
Ricky & Robin during half timeUCF WINS SEASON OPENER AGAINST S.C. STATE:
17 - 0
If I had to pick 3 words to describe today's game, I would have to say:
WET, DEFENSE, & DISAPPOINTING
WET, DEFENSE, & DISAPPOINTING
I know there are those of you that will say... "What do you mean disappointing? It was a shut out and UCF won." To this I say, "Yes we won, but the game was incredibly boring and didn't have that true UCF game feel." It kind of felt as though many people were just watching this game because they have to, but are really just waiting for next week for the game against USF. We didn't even score the spread they predicted (which was 27... we were 10 points off of that). Granted, the weather was not great. We got rained on multiple times, the field was so nasty that O'Leary didn't want the bands to perform at half time, and I am sure they were having trouble with the slippery conditions. Ricky's theory is that UCF is just playing the game as sparingly as possible so that we don't give away any of our good plays to USF. I want to believe that is true, but I must say that if we play the way we played tonight for next week's game, we might be in trouble. Our defense can only save us so much... we still need to score a few points. If nothing else, at least this game puts a 1 in the win column.
Friday, August 29, 2008
Pretty Interesting Clouds...
Aren't these cool? I took these photos of the clouds that were off in the distance over the swim meet last night. They were there the whole evening and once it got dark, there was heat lightning jumping between the clouds. Unfortunately, I couldn't get a good picture of the lightning, but I still thought these were cool.
Swim Meets are Boring???
A Green Geek
Green Team: The Green Geeks
A White Lightning
White Team: The White Lightning
A race to the finishLast night, Kenneth and I were reacquainted with the how truly boring a swim meet can be when you do not have a direct connection to it in some way or another. Since my mom is the varsity swim coach for SPHS, Kenneth and I typically create their end of the year video and their season yearbook. For the past couple of years, we have gotten photographs and video from the parents and the swimmers which we then use to compile the final products. This year we are changing it up a little bit. On top of the parent/swimmer provided material we are taking video and photos ourselves. Since Kenneth only has 3 classes this semester and I am still without a job, we are taking advantage of those opportunities in order to actually attend a good portion of the events this year.
Last night, SPHS held their Green & White Meet. This meet separates the team into 2 halves (one being green and the other white). They compete against each other in order to boost team spirit and to practice a meet-style setting. As Kenneth and I were there filming, we were reminded of our swim team days and could see a few little differences in the feel of the team. The main difference we noticed was the fact that swim meets are actually rather boring. Since we didn't personally know any of the swimmers, we weren't parents, and we weren't participating, the time seems to drag on quite a bit. For myself personally, never truly realized how long the 500 yard freestyle is during a duel meet, because I always swam that event. It went by very quickly for me while I was swimming it. When you have to watch it, that 6 minutes can seem like an eternity.
But, all in all, we managed to get some really great photos of the swimmers both in their themed garb as well as during their events. It was a beautiful evening, and a success overall.
Last night, SPHS held their Green & White Meet. This meet separates the team into 2 halves (one being green and the other white). They compete against each other in order to boost team spirit and to practice a meet-style setting. As Kenneth and I were there filming, we were reminded of our swim team days and could see a few little differences in the feel of the team. The main difference we noticed was the fact that swim meets are actually rather boring. Since we didn't personally know any of the swimmers, we weren't parents, and we weren't participating, the time seems to drag on quite a bit. For myself personally, never truly realized how long the 500 yard freestyle is during a duel meet, because I always swam that event. It went by very quickly for me while I was swimming it. When you have to watch it, that 6 minutes can seem like an eternity.
But, all in all, we managed to get some really great photos of the swimmers both in their themed garb as well as during their events. It was a beautiful evening, and a success overall.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Tailgating Saturday!
If you are going to be at the UCF vs. SC State season opener on Saturday, you should drop by and say hello. We are going to be tailgating in the afternoon, so you can give Ricky or myself a call and we will let you know where we are set up at. It will most likely be relatively close to where we set up last year.
We hope to see you there!
GO KNIGHTS!
*Also... if you need a good t-shirt for the USF game, Game Day Sports in Waterford has the Smack T-shirts in stock. Ricky and I got ours last night.
We hope to see you there!
GO KNIGHTS!
*Also... if you need a good t-shirt for the USF game, Game Day Sports in Waterford has the Smack T-shirts in stock. Ricky and I got ours last night.
Creative Memories Scrapbook Crop
So this past weekend, the girls (me, my mom, my aunt, and my cousin Sarah) all went to the big Creative Memories Scrapbook Crop that they held at the Fairgrounds. This was the first time I had ever really gone to a large cropping event, so I was excited.
Once we got there on Saturday morning, we found our designated table and started to spread out our stuff. We had a decent amount of room to spread out in so we were able to get fairly comfortable. I planned on working on my Epcot Festivals album. For the past 3 years we have been going to the main festivals that Epcot holds each year (the Flower and Garden and the Food and Wine) Since I tend to take a lot of pictures when we go, I decided to dedicate an entire scrapbook to them. My goal was to catch up on all of the past festivals so I would be ready for this year's Food and Wine Festival starting at the end of September. I had about 19 pages I needed to do to get to that point and I was ready to accomplish my goal. As it turns out, I more than accomplished my goal and my album is ready for the last festival for this particular album. I will have to start a new album for next year. I was going to post some of the pages so that you could see them, but I need to get more batteries for my camera. Once I do, I will post them.
Throughout the course of the day (on every hour) they do drawings for prizes. Now last year my mom called me from the crop to tell me that she actually won a prize (this coming from the one who doesn't win anything). This year we figured that none of us were going to win anything. As we were chatting and they were drawing names, Sarah made the comment that if we do win something, it will probably be something we can't use. Wouldn't you know it, right after she said that, they call my mom's name again. She won again... and what did she win... something she can't use, page protectors for the wrong size album. We couldn't stop laughing. Fortunately, I actually asked for an album that size for Christmas so I have a feeling I will be appropriating them soon.
As the afternoon went on, we found out that they had a special drawing for people who had completed 25 pages or more. Since Sarah and I went above and beyond that number, we went up and picked out a number. We figured that there wouldn't be too many people who could finish that many pages so we thought we would have a good chance to at least win something pretty decent. So as the lady goes up on stage, she says that there are 57 people who completed 25 or more pages. Sarah and I looked at each other in disbelief. Our pages had been so detailed that there was no way 57 people could have the pages we had, but we kept our fingers crossed. The lady said if she read off your number you have won. So she begins reading numbers and neither of our numbers are chosen. She must have called 20 numbers at least, but neither of us won. Needless to say, we were not happy campers. We knew that there were several of the people that won who only used a tape runner and put 5 pictures on a page and they were done...no paper no stickers, no nothing. Sarah and I were kind of disappointed, but we figure we will get them next year.
By the end of the day, we could all tell that we were getting a little loopy. As we were trying to come up with little titles for some of our pages our true comedians were being released. The only problem was that they were our pun-driven bad comedians. We came up with some of the cheesiest things and at that point we knew it was time to hang up our photo splits and go. After all, we had cropped from 9am to 7PM.
After the crop we had a nice dinner and proceeded to head home and pass out. It was such a great day and I am definitely looking forward to doing it again next year!
Once we got there on Saturday morning, we found our designated table and started to spread out our stuff. We had a decent amount of room to spread out in so we were able to get fairly comfortable. I planned on working on my Epcot Festivals album. For the past 3 years we have been going to the main festivals that Epcot holds each year (the Flower and Garden and the Food and Wine) Since I tend to take a lot of pictures when we go, I decided to dedicate an entire scrapbook to them. My goal was to catch up on all of the past festivals so I would be ready for this year's Food and Wine Festival starting at the end of September. I had about 19 pages I needed to do to get to that point and I was ready to accomplish my goal. As it turns out, I more than accomplished my goal and my album is ready for the last festival for this particular album. I will have to start a new album for next year. I was going to post some of the pages so that you could see them, but I need to get more batteries for my camera. Once I do, I will post them.
Throughout the course of the day (on every hour) they do drawings for prizes. Now last year my mom called me from the crop to tell me that she actually won a prize (this coming from the one who doesn't win anything). This year we figured that none of us were going to win anything. As we were chatting and they were drawing names, Sarah made the comment that if we do win something, it will probably be something we can't use. Wouldn't you know it, right after she said that, they call my mom's name again. She won again... and what did she win... something she can't use, page protectors for the wrong size album. We couldn't stop laughing. Fortunately, I actually asked for an album that size for Christmas so I have a feeling I will be appropriating them soon.
As the afternoon went on, we found out that they had a special drawing for people who had completed 25 pages or more. Since Sarah and I went above and beyond that number, we went up and picked out a number. We figured that there wouldn't be too many people who could finish that many pages so we thought we would have a good chance to at least win something pretty decent. So as the lady goes up on stage, she says that there are 57 people who completed 25 or more pages. Sarah and I looked at each other in disbelief. Our pages had been so detailed that there was no way 57 people could have the pages we had, but we kept our fingers crossed. The lady said if she read off your number you have won. So she begins reading numbers and neither of our numbers are chosen. She must have called 20 numbers at least, but neither of us won. Needless to say, we were not happy campers. We knew that there were several of the people that won who only used a tape runner and put 5 pictures on a page and they were done...no paper no stickers, no nothing. Sarah and I were kind of disappointed, but we figure we will get them next year.
By the end of the day, we could all tell that we were getting a little loopy. As we were trying to come up with little titles for some of our pages our true comedians were being released. The only problem was that they were our pun-driven bad comedians. We came up with some of the cheesiest things and at that point we knew it was time to hang up our photo splits and go. After all, we had cropped from 9am to 7PM.
After the crop we had a nice dinner and proceeded to head home and pass out. It was such a great day and I am definitely looking forward to doing it again next year!
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