My week in photos :: Week 7

The week of my birth. That is all. 😁


Tuesday

Feb 13: The birthday banner is up! 🎉



Feb 13: Birthday snacks 🧀🍓


Wednesday


Feb 14: Footprints in the rain 🌧️


Friday


Feb 16: Yay! It’s cold enough to wear my new sweater. That I bought, last summer. ❄️



Feb 16: What’s happening? What’s going on here? Where are all these waves coming from? This has never happened to me before. I guess 100% humidity is actually good for something. 🧐



Feb 16: My Work got a Starbucks. This may be a problem. ☕️


Saturday


Feb 17: Waiting to pickup dinner. Had a nice chat with a snowbird. 🙂



Feb 17: Backyard Lines ➿



Feb 17: Yay! Still no weeds in the backyard. I really got my money’s worth hiring someone to come and pull them all. Some were taller than my head. I hope the weeds stay away for a very long time. 🌾

My week in photos :: Week 6

This week was all about pretty flowers growing on trees. Which just happens to be one of my favorite things. It may have been only ONE tree, but that doesn't make it any less awesome.

Every time I walked down the hospital hallway, I glanced out the glass doors to catch a glimpse of said tree. It took me a while to get the chance to actually enjoy sitting under it though because everyone else seemed to have the same idea. That tree was never alone. There was always someone sitting under it. Sadly,  the flowers are gone now but it was beautiful while it lasted.


Sunday

Feb 4: Waiting for the Yum. Nothing better than realizing it’s Sunday (the only day of the week when one of my favorite sandwiches is sold) and the restaurant is still open (they close at 6pm). I always remember when it is too late. 👍


Monday


Feb 5: Spring for a day 🌸


Wednesday


Feb 7: Time to login and get to work! 🖥️ I have no style when it comes to decorating my desk, or anything actually. 🤷🏻



Feb 7: My hair is naturally straight, just not the good kind of straight. 🤓 #naturalfrizzball



Feb 7: Spring has arrived! Well at least it has for one tree. 🌸


Saturday


Feb 10: Almost time for sunset 🌤️

My week in photos :: Week 5

Another week filled with kitties, Hello Fresh meals and selfies.



Sunday

Jan 28: Those fangs though 😂


Tuesday


Jan 30: Work is over. Time to go home. 👏👏


Jan 30: Just one of the yummy meals we have had this week from Hello Fresh. So far, this one has been my favorite. ❤️ Cherry-Drizzled Pork Chops with Couscous Salad.


Jan 30: Thanks to Hello Fresh, I ate these red things. 😳🍅


Saturday


Feb 3: Oops I did it again! 😳 I can’t believe that I cut my hair again. I was going to wait until July but the temps around here already feel like summer, so I went in for a bit of a trim. 💇‍♀️

My week in photos :: Week 4

Boy did this week pass quickly for me. Although at the time it really did feel like the days were dragging. Nothing out of the ordinary happened either. My week consisted of go to work, come home, go to work, come home, rinse and repeat. However, I did get to see the sunset this week, so that makes it all worth it.


Monday

Jan 22: I spoke too soon. I saw the tail-end of a quickie sunset today. ❤️


Wednesday


Jan 24: Working hard trying to stay awake. I am so tired today and it’s freezing in this office! The A/C runs non-stop 24/7. 😟


Jan 24: Just a little color left. 🌄


Saturday


Jan 27: Hello, Fresh! 🥗 I was given a free week of Hello Fresh to try it out. Looking forward to dinner this week.🍴

My week in photos :: Weeks 1 and 2 and 3

I have no plans to start another 365-photo project anytime soon, but I really would like to start taking more photos again. I have gone from taking a ton to barely taking any at all. I always thought it would be fun to actually share all the pictures that I take on my blog too instead of just posting them on other platforms (like Instagram and Flickr).

I have wanted to post a week in photos type of post for awhile now, but didn't think it would work if I wasn't actually doing a daily photo project. Oh the silly things that go through my head. I have no idea why I thought that. There is nothing wrong with posting a blog post of a week of photos that doesn't actually contain a week of photos, right? However here we are 3 weeks into the new year and I have taken a grand total of 10 photos.

So without further ado......

Here is my first week in photos post (for the first 3 weeks of the year).



Monday

Hello 2018! Happy New Year! 🎇



Tuesday


Jan 2: Those last rays of sun, on that last day of a holiday, before having to go back to work. 🌄



Wednesday


Jan 3: Someone, who is older than I, had a birthday. 🎂



Friday


Jan 5: Darn you Apple and your super crisp screen! 😠 Nothing I look at now will satisfy.



Saturday


Jan 6: New computer in the house!! See ya, Windows Vista!! 👋



Wednesday


Jan 10: Kitty in a box 📦


Sunday


Jan 14: Another Sunday night sunset 🌅



Thursday


Jan 18: What a rare sight for me lately. I got to drive home with the sunset. I guess getting off work earlier than usual has its perks. 🚘



Jan 18: The sunset was still happening a few minutes later when I arrived home. Who knows when I will get to see another? ‍🤷🏻


Friday


Jan 19: The morning sun doesn’t shine for very long through the front window, so Olive has to catch the rays while she can. ☀️ I really do like the new (to me) iPhone portrait feature. It can be kind of hard sometimes to get a good picture though. Very happy kitty has BOTH ears in this photo. 😂

2017: A Year in Photos

Welcome to the 9th installment of my Year in Photos. I cannot believe another year is done. Of course, I say that every year. It was another year of very few photos and just like last year, I put them all together in a video along with my most played song for that month.

I have high hopes though that 2018 will be much better when it comes to taking more photos. I finally bought a new computer (good-bye Windows Vista!) and I am looking forward to maybe my computer actually acknowledging my big-girl camera now. I say maybe because I just bought the computer a couple of days ago and I haven't done anything with it yet. Hopefully, it doesn't take me too long to get used to Windows 10.

Thank you for watching.





January: "Celeste" by Ezra Vine

February: "Oh Sailor" by Mr Little Jeans

March: "Spark" by Fitz and the Tantrums

April: "Barco de Papel" by Gustavo Galindo

May: "Atlas Hands" by Benjamin Francis Leftwich

June: "When U Love Somebody" by Fruit Bats

July: "1996" by The Wombats

August: "Chicago" by Sufjan Stevens

September: "Hero" by Family of the Year

October: "The Wake" by a-ha

November: "Wait" by M83

December: "Parachute" by Ingrid Michaelson

behind

I am so behind in getting things done. I have photos I want to post online but I have a need to post it all in chronological order and needless to say, I am behind. I'm currently posting photos from September in November. Nothing like it being Christmas time and I am over here posting Jack-O-Lanterns. It's not like there are a lot of photos either. I rarely take any now. I don't even want to talk about my 2017 daily 1-second a day video project. I barely started choosing my daily snippets for April, last week. I think I need to choose just one thing and get it all caught up before I work on something else.

What do you do when you have a ton of stuff you want to get done? Any tips or tricks you can share with me?

Posting September photos in November

100 days ago

I find it hard to believe that it has been 100 days since I have been here. Time sure does pass by quickly when I am off doing nothing. I figured it was time that I tried out this blogging thing again.

I guess when the laptop hasn't been turned on for a while, the battery dies. Oops. I also only seem to have 20 MB of free space available on this thing. I really don't think I can put off getting a new computer any longer. If only I could decide on just what kind to get. I keep flip-flopping between a laptop or a desktop.

Nothing much has really been going on around here. Back in July, I did chop off my hair. So that's something. I went from having hair halfway down my back to above my shoulders. The last time I had my hair this short was 30-years ago. I have to admit though, I do like it. I may even cut it again. The natural silver white highlights are a bonus.

So, tell me... What have you been up to for the past 100 days? What's been happening in your neck of the woods?

sometimes

Sometimes I wish that I had kept my blog more annonymous. Back at the beginning it was all about sharing with family and sharing with others. The goal was to get people to read whatever I posted. I really wanted to have people that knew me, read my blog. But now... now I am hesitant to write.

Sometimes I toy with the idea of creating a new private blog. I would love to just write in a simple journal but my fear of people reading said journal has kept me from writing. It's not like I have tons of personal stuff to write, or maybe I do, but to have the option to write whatever I want without it getting back to say... my Mother, would be great.

Sometimes I just stop blogging. I haven't turned on the computer since I did my taxes back in April. My Dad is sick and he is not going to get better.

F is for Failing

I really seem to be failing in the Blogging from A to Z Challenge this year. I don't know, it just doesn't seem to be as much fun as it has been in previous years. There's a whole different vibe to it this year.

Am I the only one that feels this way?

E is for Everyday

I don't know what it is about daily challenges that intrigues me, but I always feel the need to do them.

I find that for most of the daily projects that I take on, I actually complete. Although, there are some that never really had the chance. Like creating an index-card-a-day and working in my mini moleskine art journal. The time to work on them daily just isn't there. So, I just do what I can, when I can.

Then there are the photo-a-day challenges, where I take everyday photos every day for a year. I do pretty well on taking a photo each day but when it comes sharing the photo with others or online, it can take me years.

(click photo to go to each project's album)

My most recent daily project has been to take a one second video of each day. At the end of the year, I mash all the video snippets together to make a yearly video. I recently posted a blog post with my video for 2016 but I will post it again below. I really look forward to creating a 2017 yearly video of the everyday every day.

D is for Disqus

Talk to me about Disqus.

Do you use Disqus for comments on your blog?

I have thought about using Disqus, but I always change my mind. It's not like I get a ton of comments, but I wonder if Disqus would just be better/easier than using Blogger's native commenting system. I think I worry most about the comments not being linked to the blog anymore and disappearing if I ever stop using Disqus. I believe that has been an issue in the past. Is it still an issue today?

So, tell  me... What do I need to know?

C is for Computer

This is so not the C post that I had planned to post.

My Computer Crashed and since I am Currently Composing this post on my Cell phone, it will have to do.

I really need a new Computer. Any recommendations?

B is for Blogging

When I first started blogging back in 2004, it was so very different than it is today.

Back then, I was coming from a Geocities website where I posted pictures and updates for family. Geocities ended, so I created a blog to post those same type of updates and also to use as an online journal for me to remember things.

I wrote about anything and basically just threw my thoughts out there into the World Wide Web. I posted whenever I wanted to. Even multiple times a day. I complained a lot. I had conversations through the comments. I joined Blog Exchanges, where you visit blogs for a set time to earn views for your own blog. I liked the exchanges. I found a lot of different kinds of blogs to read and some of them are still around.

I didn't really worry about what I posted. No one got offended back then. But also, not that many people who actually knew me were reading my blog, so I felt I was "safe" when it came to what I posted.

Over the years my posts became less chit chat, less complaining and more posting of just stuff. Stuff that wasn't as personal as it once was. Stuff that was "safe". Some days, I wish I had kept my blog anonymous so that I could just post what I was really feeling that day.

Below is a screenshot of my very first blog post.

When did you first start blogging?

A is for Absent

Some days I'm just absent.

No Internet. No blog. No phone. No apps. No Instagram. No Facebook. No news.

Just Me.

Saturday was exactly that kind of day.

One Second Everyday 2016

It only takes a second to remember.

I did something different in 2016. Instead of a daily photo project, I did a 366 daily video project.

I have no videos from my childhood. So, I am starting now. I don't want to forget the things that photos just can't show... Like the way someone or something moves and how they sound. I purposely didn't use any music in the video so that I could preserve that.

In 2016, I adopted 2 kittens so you have been warned. And just like with my photos, be prepared for lots of cats, clouds and sunsets.

And to those humans that appear in the video. Thank you, for being part of my life this past year.

Thank you for watching.

Blogging from A to Z 2017: Theme Reveal

I've debated on whether or not I should do the Blogging from A to Z challenge this year. Every year I have this same conversation with myself and every year I end up doing it.

The most fun that I have had with this challenge was during my very first year way back in 2011. Back then I had no theme and just posted about anything.

Over the years, I have found that not having a theme for the challenge is a lot less stressful for me.

So... My theme for this year will be No Theme. I'm just gonna do some A to Z blogging.

March is kind of looking up

March didn't start out all that well for me.

The last week of February, I took a couple of days off from work. When I got back to work, the network folder that I am supposed to use for all my documents was missing. There was 9-years worth of stuff in that folder, which also included all the manuals I use for my job and the 2 work-lists that I was working on. Calling the help desk every day didn't help as all they are allowed to do is give out ticket numbers. After 2 weeks of hearing nothing from IT and another email to the boss about how I would have to redo 3 months of work, my complaint finally got to the IT director. That day, IT called and another one came to my desk. They confirmed that my folder was indeed missing, deleted from the network. It took another week and an email from me to the IT director to finally hear back from them. It took 3 weeks for them to find my folder on a network backup and get me back to where I could do my job. The backup was a week old so I had to redo a week's worth of work but I am okay with that. I am sure that if it weren't for the IT director getting involved, I would probably still be waiting to hear back from the IT department.

While all of this was going on, some IT contractors were trying to setup a new computer for me. Finally after about a week, the new computer was installed. But it took me showing the IT contractors and the hospital IT department how to open a program from a mapped drive to get my main program to work. I cannot believe that 3 IT guys had no idea what I was talking about when I said the program needed to be opened from a mapped drive. I seriously should have gotten paid!

During this time, I also got sick. Covered in hives from head to toe. I have never had that happen before. I also ended up having my first Emergency Room visit.

Add to all of this the fact that we are currently a one income household and I will tell you I was ready for March to be over.

So, how is March treating you so far?