Tag Archives: personal
You say that like it’s a bad thing!
Main Entry: ob·ses·sion Function: noun Date: 1680 1 : a persistent disturbing preoccupation with an often unreasonable idea or feeling; broadly : compelling motivation 2 : something that causes an obsession I’m adrift. I’ve got plenty of project ideas, but not one that is demanding my attention. It’s been much too long since my last [...]
Moon & Wires
Last night while driving home from the movies I snapped a few quick shots out my window of the full moon through the overhead lines (to be clear, I wasn’t actually driving, I was passengering.) Of course since I used my iPhone the quality of the photos of a distant white light in the night [...]
Tracking 2010: The photography thing
So I’ve mentioned that I plan to buy myself a DSLR camera by year’s end. Of course, now that I’ve made that decision I’m anxious to get one and start taking pictures, but fiscal reality dictates that I wait. I have a perfectly good (better than good, pretty sweet in fact) point and shoot camera, [...]
Working on Some Cool Stuff (at least I think it is)
When I find some time I’ve been working on a couple new projects. Both are curated collections of things that interest me- and might interest you, too. The first is (just another) Distraction, which is pretty much what it sounds like. When I find something online that grabs my attention, I share it there so [...]
Tracking 2010: eleven days in and…
I’m planning to periodically post updates about where I am with certain goals I’ve set just to keep myself on track. This is the first of those. Feel free to ignore. Weight loss The goal I’ve spent the most time on is weight loss. I haven’t started an exercise routine yet, but the diet is [...]
Plans and goals and what-not.
I’m off to a cranky but good start this year. Seems like lots of little annoyances are getting to me, but I’m doing my best to shove past them. I decided on a whim to join Weight Watchers online on January 1. I downloaded the iPhone app (geek) and so far so good- day three [...]
November 6, 1979
Thirty years ago I invited a cute boy to a high school dance. I remember it so clearly- the nerves, the fear, the determination (I wanted to go to that dance!) the competition (another girl wanted to ask him but I got there first.) I cornered him backstage at DBP (literally, I backed him into [...]
Spirit of Halloween Past
I used to love Halloween. I never got into it a much as some others but I’d dress up, trick or treat, go to parties, even hosted a party or two. When my kids were little I liked coming up with costumes. I bought my fair share from the store but I made a few [...]
What I learned this summer
I took a bit of a Freelancer Vacation the past month or so (something I planned and executed before the term hit buzzword status .) I’ve been focusing on learning new skills, building up my business walls a bit, and sucking in information and ideas so I have more to stack my own skills and [...]
I was so not a morning person…
I started my day early. Maybe a little too early- my clock read 4:44am when I opened my eyes (ugh!) but after trying to doze back off just to find my eyes popping back open, I eventually dragged myself out of bed and into the shower. By the time my husband was up and showered [...]
Sailor’s delight
Crazy summer this year, huh? Drenched June, the first half of July so cool we needed sweaters (but beautiful, the type of weather we’d love year ’round.) The last week or so has seen more rain than sun, but as I sit here I see a little pale blue peeking out as the sky begins [...]
Forty years ago…
I was just past my sixth birthday when Neil Armstrong took that step on July 20, 1969. My parents got me out of bed to watch on our little tv, I remember it very clearly. What it must have been like for my grandparents, born at the start of the 20th century, to see so [...]
Out of reach
It’s a beautiful day. After a June full of rain it’s been a July of mostly dry, sunny, even cool days, and today has been another. It’s quiet here. Only my oldest son is home, and he’s keeping to himself. There’s nothing I really need to be doing (it is, after all, Sunday) so I [...]
Yesterday… and Today
Yesterday began, not as a typical day, but as an inauspicious one. Then little by little things started to go wrong. Stupid things at first. A meeting not going as smoothly as I’d hoped. A coding error that refused to be tracked down. Then I heard some bad news about a friend, and some bad [...]
Realignment
What happens when your creative job starts feeling more job and less creative? Read about it over at Pixel Currents.
US Open Photos (in my head)
My husband was given tickets to attend the US Open by a colleague. I’m not a golf fan, I don’t play and I only occasionally watch. I appreciate the sport, it’s just not my thing. But a day at a major event with my husband sounded like fun, so I happily went out to Bethpage [...]
Working with what works
I’ve been paying very close attention to they way I work best. The time of day I get the most done is the morning. By around 2pm my brain is done, and sadly it doesn’t matter if I got started around 7am or 11am. I generally get a little spurt of energy in the early [...]
The wobbling has let up and the brain has kicked in.
I guess I’m no longer being buffeted by memory-fed emotions. I’ve always been such a “look forward” vs look back person, so it was a bit like being on an out of control rollercoaster. Things have most definitely calmed down. But it was quite a ride. There’s nothing going on in my life that makes [...]
bounce wobble
I feel like a superball bouncing around in a 2ft square box. A slightly warped superball. No control over where I’m heading, but slowly feeling the equilibrium coming back. Eventually I’ll settle into a slow wobble then sit there silently until someone picks up the box and shakes it again. Things happen when they happen [...]
Bye-bye Bunks