"You have to fall in love with the process of training to become a better player"
Blake Griffin
Yes, Mom I know that you hate it when I mention athletes, but this popped up at the top of my Facebook newsfeed on Thursday, and it just screamed use me for blogging purposes. I think he has a point here that goes along well with my Cyprus trip.
Wednesday could be considered as busy or not busy as you would like to call it. It was overall productive, and maybe one of my favorite days here.
I spent the bulk of the day watching confectionary footage and editing the documentary. We seemed to be fixated on the part where the baker puts together baklava, putting a layer of dough and a brush on butter on top, over, and over and over. Seriously there is 23 minutes of baklava dough layering. For editing's sake to make the process shorter, we put crossfades in to smooth the transitions where there is time-laspe, and there are lots of crossfades.
As silly as it is, Wednesday the thought finally occurred to me that I was making a documentary in Cyprus.
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| Me being cool 2007 style. |
I mean, how weird is that. If you would have told me that four years ago, I wouldn't believe you. I probably would have laughed in your face.
This month has certainly been a crossfade, an important transition period in my life. I feel that I've grown in tremendous strides as a person from week-to-week as I've been here. Seriously, go back and read some of the first blogs. Cyprus is some life training, becoming a better player, so to speak.
Here's another example from Wednesday: We all wanted Chinese food for dinner. Little did we know the lengths that we would go through to get Chinese food.
We found the delivery number of the restaurant. Called the first time to check the prices, but had no menu. So, we finally decided to drive to the restaurant to pick up menus, and of course the first time we saw it we drove passed it, turned around to go to it, and drove past it again, and then turned around a second time, and finally made it. We got our menus went back. It took us around another 30 minutes to decide what everybody wanted to eat, wrote it down and ordered. The delivery man then called us 30 minutes later to say that he was lost, so then we had to give him directions, and then after the 2-hour process was complete I was eating my much beloved sweet-and-sour chicken.
My point here is it's all about the process. Trying to figure out how to get the Chinese food is one of my favorite odd memories from the trip. If the process wasn't so lengthy, well I might not remember it one month from now.
Finally children's book. If you know me well enough, I've been saying for the past three years I'm going to write a children's book. I have some ideas and character names all picked out. When I told some of my friends they thought it was something like every other idea I have, kinda silly. So then I decided to take the challenge and prove myself.
Then I did something really crazy, I actually started writing my book. Yes, I spent three years saying I was going to write a book, but I never actually wrote anything. It's kinda like another favorite thing of mine, tanning. I adore my tan, but I spend hours in the sun to get this tan. I can say I want to write a children's book, but I just can't sit around and wait for it to just happen. You need to put some time into it, nothing is going to happen or change in an instant.
I am no NBA all-star, and I don't mean to preach. Most days I get frustrated and mad that things don't go my way, but Blake's got it right. This is just training, how are you supposed to grow into a better person ("player") if you don't enjoy life, have no goals, or don't do anything at all. Life is the process and love it.
I'm pretty sure you've been asking the question the whole time why base this whole blog off of a Blake Griffin quote? Well, one of my memories of my last night in Nashville was playing a NBA2K on Xbox with my brother. Of coarse I was Blake Griffin.
Check these out:
Blake Griffin talks about doing a reality TV show
The list of Chinese restaurants in Nicosia, the portal that started the infamous quest.
Where in the world did I pick out names for characters in my book? I won't tell you which ones, but I'm using two from this list.
This month has certainly been a crossfade, an important transition period in my life. I feel that I've grown in tremendous strides as a person from week-to-week as I've been here. Seriously, go back and read some of the first blogs. Cyprus is some life training, becoming a better player, so to speak.
Here's another example from Wednesday: We all wanted Chinese food for dinner. Little did we know the lengths that we would go through to get Chinese food.
We found the delivery number of the restaurant. Called the first time to check the prices, but had no menu. So, we finally decided to drive to the restaurant to pick up menus, and of course the first time we saw it we drove passed it, turned around to go to it, and drove past it again, and then turned around a second time, and finally made it. We got our menus went back. It took us around another 30 minutes to decide what everybody wanted to eat, wrote it down and ordered. The delivery man then called us 30 minutes later to say that he was lost, so then we had to give him directions, and then after the 2-hour process was complete I was eating my much beloved sweet-and-sour chicken.
My point here is it's all about the process. Trying to figure out how to get the Chinese food is one of my favorite odd memories from the trip. If the process wasn't so lengthy, well I might not remember it one month from now.
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| Me in Cyprus, still being cool. |
Finally children's book. If you know me well enough, I've been saying for the past three years I'm going to write a children's book. I have some ideas and character names all picked out. When I told some of my friends they thought it was something like every other idea I have, kinda silly. So then I decided to take the challenge and prove myself.
Then I did something really crazy, I actually started writing my book. Yes, I spent three years saying I was going to write a book, but I never actually wrote anything. It's kinda like another favorite thing of mine, tanning. I adore my tan, but I spend hours in the sun to get this tan. I can say I want to write a children's book, but I just can't sit around and wait for it to just happen. You need to put some time into it, nothing is going to happen or change in an instant.
I am no NBA all-star, and I don't mean to preach. Most days I get frustrated and mad that things don't go my way, but Blake's got it right. This is just training, how are you supposed to grow into a better person ("player") if you don't enjoy life, have no goals, or don't do anything at all. Life is the process and love it.
I'm pretty sure you've been asking the question the whole time why base this whole blog off of a Blake Griffin quote? Well, one of my memories of my last night in Nashville was playing a NBA2K on Xbox with my brother. Of coarse I was Blake Griffin.
Check these out:
Blake Griffin talks about doing a reality TV show
The list of Chinese restaurants in Nicosia, the portal that started the infamous quest.
Where in the world did I pick out names for characters in my book? I won't tell you which ones, but I'm using two from this list.
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