Actually just a wedding, not of sorts, as the title says... but it's more poetic to add in superfluous phrases like that.
Anyways, I had the incredible pleasure of attending one of my best friend's (and former roommate's) wedding tonight at a cool little spot in Titusville, FL called Birdsong. There's really nothing at all in Titusville except this, and a cool beach, and maybe the best flats fishing spot in America... but other than that, nada... well maybe that's not entirely true... I know a couple awesome people that live in Titusville or are from Titusville, etc...
But all that is not the point. One of my best buds, Sheriffe, got married to his beautiful bride there tonight, and it was just an awesome celebration watching them commit themselves to each other, dedicating their future to Christ, and beginning a new life together as one. It was a time of great friends, sharing great memories, enjoying great conversations... oh, and enjoying great food as well.
Myself and about 10 other guys threw a bachelor party for him the night before, played some indoor laser tag, and had an awesome time afterwards sharing and recalling fun times we've had together late into the night over a few beers at a vacant lakeside park in east Orlando. That was really good experience... getting to hear and share stories of the craziest, most exciting things we've done together to the most serious and heart to heart conversations we've had. This broad spectrum of events and categories defines who we've become as men, and seeing how this one man has had his piece in each of our lives and in different ways was a really cool thing to be apart of. It made me wonder what words would be said in a similar setting on the eve of my future wedding day... oh, there will definitely be a looooong list of stories of adventure, no doubt, but my hope is that I will be most remembered by the lives I've changed, the character I've displayed, and the passion in life with Christ that I've shared.
So we shared, offered up words of encouragement and challenge, and then wrapped it up with a water-side prayer time.... all this in the wake of the festivities to come the day after, today. The wedding was wonderful, and I am so excited to have seen these two friends grow over the past two+ years, and now to see them finally get married in an awesome celebration... that's pretty sweet.
Sheriffe and Kayla, congratulations my friends!
Saturday, February 25, 2012
About Me... Kind of
Well it's been quite awhile since my last post...
Many things have happened over the last couple months. Big things. Little things. Inspiring things. Disappointing things. Exciting things. etc....
For readers who don't know me, this will serve as some sort of about me explanation. I have to write one for my personal website I'm developing currently, so this will serve as a brief duel-purpose bio.
My name is Evan Travelstead, and I'm finishing up my final term for my BFA in Graphic Design at UCF. A long road it has been, but the past five years have been the most amazing of my life thus far. So many adventures, so many highlights... maybe, I'll write a book one day on all these exciting happenings. Anyways, back to now. I just started as a designer/production artist for Ligonier Ministries, an organization dedicated to educating in the study of Reformed theology. This is exciting because I've accepted an offer to continue with them full-time, post graduation. My first 'real job' you could say. This is something that I just kind of fell into. I didn't even apply. They sought me out for this... never would have expected that.
I'm learning more and more God has a timing for everything. This new job seems to have absolutely perfect timing, but I guess that's just how God works. Although I'd really like to speed this timing up for other areas in life, I just ask everyday for patience and contentment.
Anyways, that was just a tangent on this about me thing. I also work as freelance designer under my unofficial company name, Aerostudio. I've been doing this for about 4 years now, have handled probably 60 clients by now, and hope to continue this on the side. I also work on the weekends as a youth sports photographer for Bishop Photo's Florida Team. Oh yeah, and I also work as team building instructor/manager for Outdoor Adventure's Challenge Course at UCF. This has been an incredible job, and I have logged nearly 400 hours of instructing leadership and team-building development courses for them over the past 3 years. It seems I work all over the place... kind of a workaholic actually... trying to change this though.
Next category would be hobbies I suppose, or interests. I'm pretty much into most everything. I know everybody says that, but it's true... aside from dancing (it's gonna take that perfect girl in the future to get me into that).... I'm not really much of a cook and not into old movies. That's actually all I can think of at the moment. Things I especially like though are sports (basketball is the fav), being an artist (design, film, motion graphics, photography, drawing, building) and definitely anything outdoor adventure related (fishing, climbing, kayaking, shooting, exploring).
Well that's all I have for now... NBA All-Star weekend events are on, and I definitely have to go watch those. I probably won't use barely any of this in my aforementioned website 'about me' section, but it was a good time to think. And for all the readers who I don't know but would love to meet, this can serve as some of brief self-portrait or background info.. haha. Maybe even an 'About Me' part II will follow soon.
Many things have happened over the last couple months. Big things. Little things. Inspiring things. Disappointing things. Exciting things. etc....
For readers who don't know me, this will serve as some sort of about me explanation. I have to write one for my personal website I'm developing currently, so this will serve as a brief duel-purpose bio.
My name is Evan Travelstead, and I'm finishing up my final term for my BFA in Graphic Design at UCF. A long road it has been, but the past five years have been the most amazing of my life thus far. So many adventures, so many highlights... maybe, I'll write a book one day on all these exciting happenings. Anyways, back to now. I just started as a designer/production artist for Ligonier Ministries, an organization dedicated to educating in the study of Reformed theology. This is exciting because I've accepted an offer to continue with them full-time, post graduation. My first 'real job' you could say. This is something that I just kind of fell into. I didn't even apply. They sought me out for this... never would have expected that.
I'm learning more and more God has a timing for everything. This new job seems to have absolutely perfect timing, but I guess that's just how God works. Although I'd really like to speed this timing up for other areas in life, I just ask everyday for patience and contentment.
Anyways, that was just a tangent on this about me thing. I also work as freelance designer under my unofficial company name, Aerostudio. I've been doing this for about 4 years now, have handled probably 60 clients by now, and hope to continue this on the side. I also work on the weekends as a youth sports photographer for Bishop Photo's Florida Team. Oh yeah, and I also work as team building instructor/manager for Outdoor Adventure's Challenge Course at UCF. This has been an incredible job, and I have logged nearly 400 hours of instructing leadership and team-building development courses for them over the past 3 years. It seems I work all over the place... kind of a workaholic actually... trying to change this though.
Next category would be hobbies I suppose, or interests. I'm pretty much into most everything. I know everybody says that, but it's true... aside from dancing (it's gonna take that perfect girl in the future to get me into that).... I'm not really much of a cook and not into old movies. That's actually all I can think of at the moment. Things I especially like though are sports (basketball is the fav), being an artist (design, film, motion graphics, photography, drawing, building) and definitely anything outdoor adventure related (fishing, climbing, kayaking, shooting, exploring).
Well that's all I have for now... NBA All-Star weekend events are on, and I definitely have to go watch those. I probably won't use barely any of this in my aforementioned website 'about me' section, but it was a good time to think. And for all the readers who I don't know but would love to meet, this can serve as some of brief self-portrait or background info.. haha. Maybe even an 'About Me' part II will follow soon.
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