Drowning in creative juices

Well, I have to admit that this blog was a pretty great idea. It's really gotten my creative juices flowing. The only problem is that they are flowing so fast and in so many different directions that I haven't had time to sit down every day and blog.

Baseball season has started and I have gotten a lot of photography work in. This is our first year of kid pitch. We're playing with the big boys now. It's been so much fun watching the kids learn the mechanics of pitching. I've gotten some fantastic shots of a couple of the boys that I am going to submit to our local paper for printing.

And that brings me to my latest endeavor. I've finally thrown my hat into the ring for a board position with Green Baseball/Softball Federation. Jim and our friend and fellow coach, Kyra, have been trying to get me to join for over a year now, but it was never for something that I was interested in. And I know me, if it's not something that rings my bell, it would be completely non-productive to have me in there.

With all the practice I've gotten writing blogs here and on MySpace and Facebook, words just flow out of me whenever I sit at a keyboard nowadays. So, I decided to try to make that work for GBSF. I came up with an idea for e-mails that can be sent out at strategic times of the year to kids who did register with us and for kids who registered with us in the past, but didn't this season, for whatever reason. My main focus was to emphasize what GBSF offers versus Little League. That Jason Elkins and his brother, Mike, are going to rue the day that I deided to make it my mission to see that their mission fails. (Muahahahaha... and other silly thoughts like that.)

I have also discussed several other ideas with Kyra over the last year or so and she suggested that I bundle them all up and submit them to the board. So, I did. And the president of the board loved them. He sent me an e-mail response that was so enthusiastic that it got me even more excited and now more ideas are flowing. I can't hold them all in.

We are going to get together and discuss exactly how we can use my ideas, starting with taking pictures of several of the teams in action, captioning them, and sending them into the local paper- which I already mentionsed. We're also going to use them on the website.

Next is organizing the players for the Memorial Day parade and making banners and fliers to hand out. It's going to be so much fun. I also am going to look into getting window clings made up with the GBSF logo (which I will design) and selling them in the concession stands.

I created a new GBSF banner:

and I thought we could put it on t-shirts for the kids and any parents who are interested. I just want to get the GBSF brand out there wherever we can. Little League is banking on people who don't pay attentnion and generically call all youth baseball, "little league". And, trust me, that has caused a lot of confusion, which I predicted last fall.

Well, so that's a little of what has been occupying me lately. Add to that the family picture project, the family tree stuff, baseball practices, church, bowling, my FROGGS, Easter, etc... It's been busy.

I will continue to push myself to blog when I can.