I’ve finally caught up with uploading all of my backed up images (well, most of it) onto my Flickr. I managed to upload images from 2005 to present day – wuhoo! I haven’t uploaded any TIGGUHH images yet but I will soon. My account was deleted because I had watermarks that said “tiggahtigz.blogspot.com”…do you think they’d do the same if I had a mark that just said “tiggah’s life in random” or “tigguhh”? I’m thinking I would just make all of those images private or perhaps I can make a small logo to put on the bottom right corner of my images.

Many of you might remember that my Flickr account was deleted because some of my images had watermarks. I was heartbroken because ALL of my digital memories were stored on my Flickr account. Luckily, I had a majority of my images on an external hard drive, however not all of them were backed up. Although I was disappointed with the outcome, I’ve always missed the ease of blogging with Flickr and the many things you can do with it. I tried Picasa but it just isn’t the same. I guess I just prefer Flickr’s clean interface and seamless 3rd party aggregation. The positive side of this all, however, was that it pushed me to create this site.

I decided to give Flickr another chance and hopefully I don’t get my account deleted again. This time I’ll be sure not to post any images with watermarks…just to be safe.

It’s pretty late and I need to sleep so I haven’t uploaded anything yet. Feel free to add me as a contact if you’d like. :) The more the merrier! Unfortunately, I was unable to retrieve my old username “tiggahtigz” but I was able to grab “Tiggah Tigz”.

You can follow this link to add me as a contact if you have a Flickr account:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tiggahslife

Pooh and I went with our friends to Big Bear this weekend to play in the snow. I grew up in Michigan and loved the snowy winters. I can remember walking to school in nearly 2 feet of snow with my face up to the sky and my tongue sticking out, hoping to catch a flake or two – hehe I guess I started at an early age. It would take me hours to get home from school because my friends and I would just play in the snow on our way home. When I think of my childhood, I think mostly of the snow – snow ball fights, snow men, snow angels, forts, castles, the most random stuff made of snow.

I haven’t seen snow in more than 17 years so I was extremely excited when Pooh told me we were going to go to Big Bear. We weren’t planning on going snow boarding or skiing, we just wanted to go and just enjoy the snow.

We had to stop by an Autozone to pick up some chains for our tires. Pooh wanted to get this but we sadly put it back and said “maybe next time…”.

Pooh and I have never been to Big Bear but our friends have gone before so they were our lovely tour guides. :) The trip up to Big Bear from our place is normally about 2 hours. Unfortunately, there were A LOT of people heading up the mountain so we were stuck in traffic. It took us about 3 hours to get there.

When we finally arrived, we were going to try inner tubing but they closed just as we got there. It was OK though. We ended up going to the city to just walk around, play in the snow, and grab a drink.

First stop, burgers and drinks at Murrays!

It was quite an experience. Although Pooh and I stuck out like a sore thumb, everyone was really nice and it looked like the whole bar was having a great time. They had the juke box blasting and everyone was dancing. It was a cute little bar and our bartender was the funniest ol’ lady. She stuck my credit card in her shirt! I was worried she wasn’t wearing a bra and might have left some titty residue on it but we were all having fun so it didn’t bother me much. :) We had quite a few drinks and played some pool.

Since we were all warmed up from the drinks. We went outside to frolic in the snow. We made snow angles, had snow ball fights, threw each other in mounds of snow – it was awesome!

After getting entirely covered in snow, we headed to Chad’s Place to grab a couple more drinks to warm up again. We had a couple Jaeger Bombs, some Lemon Drops, and played some pool.

I was a bit worried that we would have some trouble making our way down the mountain because the chain on one of our tires had come loose and flew off. Luckily, we found the chain and also another attachment that was randomly laying around that we were able to use to fasten it to our tire. As soon as we got the chain back on and made our way down the mountain it was a smooth ride the rest of the way. We had so much fun in the snow and it was definitely an adventure! It’s trips like these that brings friends closer. Being gay, and a couple, it’s definitely hard to make friends in the gay community. We have lots of friends that we go out and drink with, but we have very few close friends that we can just hang out with and have conversations with substance. I am so very happy that our friends Brent and Paul invited us to go up to Big Bear this weekend. Thanks guys! :)

Just thought I’d post my recent dance routine from my Thursday class. :) I had a lot of fun with this routine and it was great that some students that I taught yeaaaars ago came to take my class. After class we all went to True North to have some drinks, do some catching up, and reminisce about good ‘ol times.

My site was down for a while because I was updating my to Wordpress Version 2.9.1. I ran into a bit of a problem during installation but everything seems to be working fine now. Let me know if you see any glitches. Thanks!

I’m definitely looking forward to the Starz series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Pooh showed me a clip he downloaded and there was a lot of action, beautiful scantily clad men, and penis…just hanging around. I’m excited to see how it’ll turn out when the show debuts January 22nd.

TO SEE MY NEW YEARS POST.

I KNOW, RIGHT?!  FINALLY!!!!