Time Flys -- Things Break

Aloha yet again from Maui, today I want to start off with just wishing my dad a very happy Fathers Day! One I know your reading this and two your card is lost in the mail by now im sure! So here it is, from thousands miles away, I love you and happy Fathers Day. "The greatest gift I every had came from God, I call him dad"

Now I few more updates on my life, I recently broke my phone. My key ended going threw the screen some how. Well good thing I had insurance is what I thought. Well I was wrong. Living on the sea makes everything so much harder. ATT needed a physcial addresss to ship it to, guess what that does not exist in my life. I am always moving! So they told me I had to buy a phone out right..... after almost some "Bows to the Nose" I ended up buying a new Samsung Tablet and a new phone. Lets just say we must of had some luck on our side, or maybe it was my friends good looks. But things worked out really well for me!

Other thank that another week is done! And I am starting to remember how fast time flys here.... Did you know its only two and a half weeks until FOUTH OF JULY! What how crazy is that! Back on the mainland Fouth of July is one of my most favoirte holidays! Parades, fireworks and the CARNIVAL! ohhh man there are some good memories of fourth of july! Carlosa, Red Cups, FLip Cup, Green Houses, Hot Strings, gold Fish and many friends!

I hope you are all enjoying your summer, I miss you all so much!

something new!

Well here I am trying to keep you up today on my life here in Hawaii.... I am currently sending all of my orders from the previous week. We did fairly well on sales, but there is always room for improvement! The attached file is this weeks top 5 images, I love the one with the tree... if you know anything about me you know that I love trees, owls, and octopuses. So this try really made me happy!! Last week was Roz's last week :( now Im back to sleeping in my own cabin, ugh. But lets keep our fingers crossed that she comes back! I dont know what I would do with out that girl! Since it was her last week we did everything possible to have fun! We saw waterfalls, black sand beaches and nut factories, well actually we just ate lunch at the nut factory, but it was a good lunch!! hahahah We also just chilled on the beach, got tattoos together, and drank some Kava! Wow what a week we lived, and ohhhh boyyy did I spend some money! Was it worth it? Heck yeah! Thats why I am here right.... spend money and have a ball!

This week I am all alone in the studio, my partner Melissa left for vacation! Im a little nervous but I know it will all be okay! I have a lot of great ideas, and I hope I can keep the studio going as good as we had it in the past! I am currently brain storming some promotional ideas, and a self portrait for a thank you card, so look for that in up and coming blogs!

I am currently in the works of planning my next vacation, and since you asked, I only have 97 days left until I leave on the epic adventure! I am trying to plan a trip to Thailand with Mr. Josh Bailey, and also doing a 4 day cruise to the Bahamas with Mr. Preston Dale, Mrs. Jessie Cable, and whoever else wants in! Im a super excited! I think I might be extending this contract a little bit just so I can be on the mainland for Halloween! Which you know what that mean, the epic festival Hallow freakin ween, with the famous SKRILLEX! Ohhhh epic times are approaching!

As you know my best friend Rob has been in the hospital... that kid sure did scare me! Things are getting better! He still has not opened his eyes yet, but he is taking one step at a time! He still needs a lot of thoughts and prayer, so please help him out! He is such an amazing friend of mine and I need all of you to support him as well!

Well hope all is well with everyone! Keep smiling, keep loving, and keep loving life! Ohhhh and do something new this week, no matter where you are, what you are doing, just simply try something new... it can be anything, take a new way to work, call someone random and have a conversation, jump out of an airplane, just do something new and tell me about it! Dont let life pass you by, remember each day, live each day, do it.

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An apology is in order

Hello world,

This blog is going to be an apology letter! I am sincerely sorry that I have not kept up with my blog, but as you will see reading more I have been quite busy, emotional, and changing these last two months! I hope you can accept this apology and we can still be the best of friends!

Now lets get on with it ----

The last time we had talked I had showed you my top five images from the studio, since than things have gone everywhere in every which way. I have thought about leaving the ship and starting new things, I had to be a penguin again, I had to be yelled at people by shooting restaurant shots. The moral of the story is I had to go back to the photo department for three weeks :( BOOOO. I was a really hard time for me because starting this new contract I was so set on working in the studio, being creative and doing my own thing! I had such an expectation for it, and new and great ideas, but once there everything was put on hold. It sucked. It made me reevaluate some of the things in my life currently.

Do I really want to be working the "ship life"? Do I still want to be in Hawaii? Why should I be here, right now in my life? Well those weeks I thought negatively about everything. I hate working on ships, Hawaii sucks, and this is ruining my life! Wow dramatic much?! I would say so! Well what I have come to find is that the "ship life" is a hard place to work in, but if you can stick it out there is a lot of potential. I would say 85% of the people working on ships all have to be there for a reason, everyone is running from something, somebody or recovering from something that dramatically changed their lives. I am not one of those people! So when your walking threw crew areas, its depressing. No one smiles, no one says hello, you can walk in the the lunch area and see three different people asleep with coffee and sugar spread all over the table. Its a hard thing to deal with coming from a small town where everyone is always so happy and loving. Then I started thinking why should I surround myself with these people!? Its making me depressed, then I started thinking Hawaii sucks as a whole. I have done everything there is to do, and Im over it, time to move on.... This all happened in my mind before, I found out some horrible news on Tuesday night.............

Robert Merrill, one of my best friends, a wonderful, kind guy, someone I use to live with, and share many many memories with was in an accident. When I found out the news, my heart sunk, tears came to my eyes, and I was ready to leave the ship at that instant. On top of everything that was going on in my life, this was the topper, this was the sign that I needed to leave this ship. So many thoughts went flying threw my head of what to do, but as my head started to over come my emotions I realized that there is nothing that I could do, besides hope and pray for my friend. Me being there was not going to solve anything, so why drop everything I have and go....

Well its been nine days since that time, and I have really put a lot of thought into my decisions, my future, and my life. During last week my corporate boss was on board doing a annual checkup.... great way to show off right.... but he sure did open my eyes to a whole different way of thinking of large corporations!

All and All I think I will be staying with the cruise life for a little longer. Lets hope everything works out, keep me in your thoughts, and please pray for Rob and his family!

I promise to try and keep this blog up to date from now on!

Love you all.