Though I am definitely still in the amateur stages of writing, I've been working hard on getting this one up to par. I'm still in the "moving in" phase. I've got almost all of my crap here; now I'm just doing a lot of rearranging. I can't decide if I want this font, or this background. It's coming around. But I'm anxious to get it done, the way I want it to be done. Which, if any of you know me at all, could actually never happen. I'm always changing things around. Even in my real life. My living room, bedroom, shelves, kitchen cupboards. They all get switched around about once a year. We still look to the north wall of the dining room for the clock.... It's been on the east wall for over a year. Old habits die hard. If you happened to follow any of my previous blogs, you'll know that I was constantly changing things there as well. One thing that I've obviously never mastered in my life is Consistency. While being consistent in a lot of arenas can be a good thing, it seems to me that in some areas it's equal to being boring. I get bored easily with how things look and I want to constantly change that. (ok. I'm consistent with being inconsistent.) Changing the view, inside, outside and online, feels like I'm gaining a fresh perspective. It's refreshing. It kind of feels like I'm renewing myself too. I'm not a psycho-analyst by any means, but I think it's because.... Never mind! We're not going to go there right now. So one of the major things I'm waiting on right now is my photo. I absolutely suck at selfies and I'm just not very photogenic at all. So I've asked a photographer I know to help me out. Actually I've been asking her for at least a year now. I've been wanting a photo of me that looks nice, professional, yet casual that I can put on my blogs, my Mary Kay website, my LinkedIn profile and to possibly use if I ever decide to move forward on e-publishing my stories. I've never had any good photos of myself without them looking like they were taken 20 years ago. Well, it took a lot of bribing and threatening, but I finally got her to take my pictures. Right on my front porch. Now the real fight is on. I feel like I'm being held hostage; or at least my pictures are. I thought we could go through them right away so that I could pick which ones I wanted her to edit. Nope. She was busy. The next night? No. Working. Monday night? No. She was a bit grouchy when I asked her about it. She said we could go through them this evening and then she would edit them on Wednesday and I would have them by Wednesday evening. ... ... At this point she is currently sleeping on my basement couch. I'm seriously starting to doubt if I'm going to see these finished photos any time soon. I suppose that's what I get in exchange for a free service. ![]() This is me at Christmas. My sister cleaned out our old barn and surprised me with this last Christmas. It's a board that I had used during my years at the fair. I had pigs each year and the pig's name would be written vertically on the silo, and then it would hang above the pen at the fair. I hadn't seen this since I was a kid! Pretty nice memories.
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