Riding The Bus - My Time

I take public transportation every day when commuting to my paying job.  I enjoy the 25 minutes of solitude even when I am in a crappy mood.  Today was no different.

Bus Selfie - Check out the Blue Light behind me

I think about a lot of things on the bus.  Random thoughts such as:

• Will anyone sit with me?
• Soccer for the week
• Snakes - I think a lot about snakes
• Naughty thoughts
• Blog topics that I need to write about
• Sunrises
• Things I have not done or completed
• Work stress and anxiety (I wish I could get rid of this)
• Skinny dipping (oh - I already said naughty thoughts)
• Ruzzle - my new word game addiction
• People - yes, I love to people watch

My 25 minutes on the bus is very special.  It is quiet.  It is peaceful. It is mine.  Once I move on from this job and onto my passion (hopefully this is going to happen soon), I am going to have to find a new place for my random thoughts.  Any suggestions?

 

Morning Light - 16 September 2014

Here are a series of photos taken from my bedroom all the way through my bus commute which was made longer by stop and go traffic this morning.  Enjoy the Colorado sunrise.

You Must Be A Wimp

Yes - I called you a wimp.  Maybe that is not the smartest thing to do considering you are my readers but that is what you are.  Why am I calling you all wimps?  Well - you are not sending me selfies as I challenged you to do last week!  Here is my original challenge: Selfie Challenge.

Okay - why aren't you sending me selfies?  I will guess 5 reasons and five new selfies that will hopefully inspire you to send me your selfie right now:

First - you may not have seen my blog.  I will forgive you for that but you just don't know what you are missing if this is the case.

Drinking the #1 Beer

Second, you may not have read my blog.  In this case, you are not forgiven.

Chilling with a baby bullsnake

There I go again - insulting and alienating potential readers.  Oh well - I think the next few reasons why you haven't sent me a selfie yet are worse.

Third - you read my blog and ignored my challenge.  Yes, you are a wimp.  Just get out your phone right now, take a selfie, and email it to me at cayoung@snakeconservation.org.

Eating just picked plums with my youngest

Fourth - you read my blog, took a few selfies, but did not send them to me.  You are a total wimp!  What are you afraid of?  Someone might recognize you in the selfie?  Send me that selfie now!

post-run getting the couch sweaty

Fifth - you read my blog and hate selfies.  This is more of a reason to send me a selfie.  You need to do it.  I was asked over the weekend about my own selfies and why I take and publish so many if I hate the way I look in them.  My answer was simple - They make me think about my mood and myself in a positive light.  No one ever wants to look bad in a photo (this is why I avoid cameras - I think I have horribly out of shape and that it really shows on film) so we will take selfie after selfie lifting ourselves up with each photo.  Why is this uplifting?  It just is - TRY IT NOW and send me your selfies to cayoung@snakeconservation.org.

Collar popped yes I am crazy

I am posting my selfie blog this Wednesday with or without your photo.  I know you want your photo included so just send it to me.  Make it happen right now.  Stop being a wimp!

Stop Hating Selfies - Selfie Challenge!

I came across a post on my Google Plus feed that was titled "Why You Should Stop Hating On Selfies" and linked to the American Jokes website.  While the post and website were clearly a knock on women taking erotic or half-naked photos of themselves, it made me pause and think about why I take selfies again.  I came to the conclusion that selfies are a good thing and that we all should be taking and posting them.  

Before I go into my selfies, I have to make my challenge to you - 

I CHALLENGE EACH OF YOU TO TAKE A SELFIE AND EMAIL IT TO ME!  

I will include all the selfies I receive via email in another blog post next week.  My email address is cayoung@snakeconservation.org - yes, that is my real email so I am very serious about this challenge.

Why I like selfies - 

1. They capture my mood
2. They give me a visual for my mood
3. They enhance my mood
4. They save my mood for eternity

As humans, we are very VISUAL creatures.  We communicate non-verbally over 60% of the time.  Selfies are my way of communicating with myself through pictures.  Think about my list above for a moment - how can capturing my mood be a bad thing?  All those things are positives.

Now there are all sorts of selfies that you can take - here are some of my favorites:

The Office Selfie

The Bus Selfie

The Goofie Selfie

The Snake Hike During My Lunch Break Selfie

The "I Am Drunk Laying In the Flowers" Selfie

The Chicken Selfie

 

The Snake Selfie

 The Cooking Naked Selfie

The Shower Selfie

The Workout Selfie

The Beer Selfie

The Sleepy Selfie

The Bathroom Selfie - This is the one everyone takes

The Blue Sky Selfie

The Soccer Dad Selfie

The Dog Selfie

The Driving Selfie

The Crossing Guard Selfie

The Foot Selfie

The Pro-Athlete Selfie

 

The Snake Hike Selfie

The point I guess I am trying to make is that selfies are an absolutely INCREDIBLE way to document your short life on this planet as well as make yourself happy in the process.  There are No reasons not to take selfies.  Even the risque selfies are worth it because they show how you were feeling at the moment you took the picture.  We can never go back and recreate a moment in our past but we can take selfies to help us remember it. 

So, I challenge each of you to take a selfie, add a caption, and send it to me at cayoung@snakeconservation.org.  I will then collect all your selfies and publish them in another blog post.  Let's have fun!

Let me end with an example from my parents - their first selfie with their first smartphone.  My parents sent me this selfie with the comment not to post it on Facebook - they said nothing about me posting it in my blog though so here it is:

My parents' "Double Selfie" along the Meig's Creek trail

First Light - 4 September 2014

I got out of bed a little later than normal today so I was treated to watching "first light" during my shower.  What a great way to start the day!!!

First Light - 4 September 2014

Captions?

Here are some captions I made up today during my resistance period - some are so stupid but that they might be funny at some point.

When chickens tell jokes...

Stoner Chicken

Just Gross!

Yes - humans are stupid.

Writer's Block - The Universe's Ultimate Patience Test

Writer's Block - Go F*%K Yourself!  Damn - the resistance is killing me today.  I think I will write stupid photo captions all day in an effort to break through the walls in my head.

My First Stupid Caption for the Day