The Blog of James Jay

apple cider rocks….

it kinda helps after seeing a ad of yours butchered in a magazine…

they stretched it and now all the proportions are off…

logos are distorted…

damn it…

its been some time since i posted anything about a full week. i have been super busy and tired, i have am still riding my bike and enjoying it very much, haven’t had any run ins with cars so thats a good thing. i rode 3 times this week totaling 36 miles all week, it amazes me some people do that in a day…
30 miles to work and home again. thats crazy…
life is continuing like always, Chloe had her 4 month shots the other day Thursday she had a slight fever yesterday but other than that she is fine. we are starting to go out even more now that the weather is perfect.

i hate when i type on blogger sometimes it lags…
silly blogger

in other news i haven’t really been shooting much cause i have been busy with design work not that i mind I’m actually been getting work done.

thats a good thing mind you.

im listening to this crappy trance mix cd i made along time ago, me mixing records and Talia was laughing saying i was playing my records way to fast…

i told her i only had 45 minutes to record so i did them fast.

a mix that will never leave my possession,

to crappy to even let Stuart hear it.
now im listening to one of my first mixes i ever made…not as crappy but i went crazy with the flanger and i didn’t watch my levels…

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no now on to some shots taken with the little super shine camera….
all plastic massive light leaks fun stuff! these where shot on Walgreens 400 film, at about f11 or something at least thats what it looks like…

celia

chloe

Raffy Roy

my basket

thats it from this roll. i love this little crappy camera. gives me fun pictures…
wish it was a little sharper but what do you expect out of a plastic camera with plastic lens.

well see you all later time for a shower and pizza!

Yesterday was one of the best days i have had in along time . Well me and Talia went to lunch at ponchos. Ended up in downtown phoenix driving around, then to Indian school park we sat under a tree while Chloe had her lunch, it was really nice just to hang out with the girls then we went to Talia’s moms house, i rode my bike over and later on in the night we went bike riding for some ice cream. We were really tired when we got home, me and Talia put Chloe to bed and ended up falling asleep on the couch.

Cant ask for a better day than that.

today we are just sitting at home I’m in the process of washing dishes Talia is watching a movie and Chloe is sitting in her chair starting to fall asleep.
another lazy day we might venture to the park later on today sometime.

saw some polaroids on this website. very cool stuff here, art, photos all of the best things rolled into a online magazine. take a look, downloadable pdf files.

http://www.fivetoninemagazine.com/

saw this on notcot.org

going to go eat at ponchos on baseline and central.

cant wait chips, salsa, maybe a cheese crisp, and a lunch menu which i will get taco rice and beans and tostada!

YEAH
one of the best mexican places in phoenix…

good thing i took that bike ride this morning.

then who knows what the day may hold.

for a select few it is Native American day, and so some Natives are enjoying the day sitting around the home or actually going out into the world. i love these unsanctioned holidays the tribe gives, mostly because i know all the natives are free to roam the lands again and everyone else is stuck in work. its kinda cool. you can go the the movies and just hang out or go the mall or just drive anywhere and you aint flooded by so many people.

i love how for a moment the world keeps going and for a instant you are just able to see everyone else continue in there lives. not that i don’t feel bad i really do, Americans work to hard. but there is something about going downtown and just seeing people running around and you just being able to take it all in.

on another note i didn’t get to ride to work Wednesday i was to tired and woke up late i did ride Thursday but had to have talia and chloe come and get me there was this big storm that came out of nowhere and left me stranded at work. its also funny cause i pass a school and i think its cool when all the other kids are looking your bike up and down even adults too as they drive by in there cars and suv’s.

and i think i earned it.
today i started what i hope is a daily thing, i rode my bike to work almost 7 miles one way. i know it aint much but I’m proud of myself mostly beacuse i hate driving.
yes my legs are pretty sore but it feels good. i left the apartment about 6:30 this morning thinking it would take alot of time for me to get there it took about 45 minutes so it wasn’t that bad. i arrived at work about 7:15 so i was a little early.

but i got right to work working on design stuff, the day was a little long but it was nice. all i got to do is jump back on tomorrow morning. im hoping to continue with this as much as i can. i know i wont be able to do it every day but its a start. im going to try the rest of this week, we will see what happens.

and another plus to leaving early is there was no one on the road it was so quite and nice just to have the road to myself. the ride home was a little bit more busier, didn’t get hit so thats a plus. there was a mini van mom that wasn’t paying attention but it wasn’t so bad she stopped. its funny i felt i had to keep my guard up more in the neighborhoods more so than the actual road.

but honestly people really need to slow down, its not a race out there. i mean I’m going down a road with no bike lane and cars are speeding by me like at 30 miles a hour sometimes even faster, and to make it even worse they wont even go into the other lane even though it is open.
its just crazy how much our society relies on cars and big ass trucks for survival.

i saw these some time ago…
Jeff Mermelstein

part one

part two

part three

i don’t know why, but for some odd reason i have always loved funyun onion’s with a cold dr pepper for breakfast.

my brother was telling me my little niece has grown to love funyuns also. Its funny they name this little girl after me, well the middle name at least, and she grows to love funyuns.

you don’t have to tell me this is the most unhealthiest thing to ever eat but for some reason i really enjoy it. i don’t usually eat like this for breakfast but today just seemed like it would taste good, and it did.

the girl at the chevron, even said they looked good. i say to here its not the most nutritious breakfast but she says “they still look good”…

so someday you all should grab a bag of funyuns and dr pepper and enjoy a nice morning breakfast. you wont be sorry.

neglecting the blog for a couple of days now, been busy. labor day weekend was fun Chloe went to her first baseball game and received a free t-shirt from baxter! it was fun, diamondbacks won so it cant get better than that. we also had dugout front row seats so that was fun. thanks Talia and bank one you rock!

and the rest of the weekend was spent at home watching movies and hanging out with my girls was really nice just to spend time with them it seems like every time i look at Chloe she is getting so big already.

thats life i suppose.

in work related news im busy designing 2 logos and working on flyer type stuff…lets just say lots of revisions…

till next time…

i have been awake since 5:18 am. Sometimes i have dreams of things and cant get back to sleep, most of the times they are nightmares other times they are just dreams of people that have passed on and they make me sad. I am not one of those people that tries to dwell on the past or lost loved ones, a great man told me what’s done is done, life goes on. for us people still here we need to make the best of every day we have left here. there is to much to see, to much to love, to be mourning for the dead. i miss them and its ok to miss them but not to dwell on it.

i did fall back asleep at 7:30 with Chloe and Talia…
babies can make you lay back down and look into there eyes and all is well in the world.