I was tagged by Sarah to take a picture of myself and blog it! I was going to read some blogs at work this morning but I got distracted by projects and I’m glad I didn’t so I could take this lovely picture with my iMac.

Now I’m tagging – Rachie Ann, Wishcake, Shannon,  Ev’Yan, Laura Melanie, & Elizabeth!

The rules are:
* Take a picture of yourself right now.
* No primping or preparing.
* Just snap a picture.
* Load the picture onto your blog.
* Tag some people to play along.

Now let’s see your lovely pictures!

I’ve never appreciated rain before until I moved here to Arizona. Arizona is the only place where I’ll appreciate any kind of weather we have whether it’s rain, snow, monsoon, thunderstorm, sun, sun, and more sun! Tyler and I both were born and raised in Seattle, the ‘Rain City’ and people in Seattle don’t go outside to watch the rain when it does rain.

Last night when it was raining, Tyler and I went outside on the balcony to absorb the smell, sound, and calmness. I was trying to take a picture of the pool from our balcony and there was a man on his balcony on the other side. He probably thought I was trying to take a picture of him.

Coconut & Cozy anxiously watching us

I love it when Tyler wakes up in a cleaning mode, because I prefer to clean anytime except in the mornings after I wake up. We went and did our Easter errands today. We were the only ones that were walking from our car to the store while everyone else was running in the store so they wouldn’t get wet from the rain. Once we got inside the store, the workers were drying off the shopping carts as they were putting them away. This is the first time I’ve seen this. I’m so used to getting a wet shopping cart and dealing with it.

After all, I have to remind myself that we’re in Arizona.

Vlogs. I noticed that more and more people are starting to do vlogs. Years ago there were no closed captioning on televisions and now we have that option and a lot of shows/movies are now either closed captioned or subtitled.  We faced another problem when television shows and movies were being uploaded on the Internet (Hulu, iTunes Store, etc) and there were no subtitles and finally after a while most of them have subtitles. With vlogs that’s not going to happen…

Vlogs are created by people themselves and I know it’s a lot of work having to create the subtitles yourself. I noticed a lot of bloggers are starting to do vlogs and I could just watch it and not understand it unless there’s a transcript to read along with.

I have seen some of my deaf friends’ vlogs and they’re interesting and fun to watch. Last night I created a vlog and I hate seeing myself sign. I hate the way I sign — my “style” that is. Everyone who signs have their own “style”. With hearing people – everyone’s voice doesn’t sound the same. I know some deaf people who sign beautifully and smoothly.

I hesitated about showing my vlog because I think it’s lame. At least I warned you. (Subtitles included)

Vlog: Seeing Myself Sign from steph anne on Vimeo.