This is the pile of mail that greeted us when we got home last night. It's about half as big as the pile of paperwork on my desk when I returned to work. I am thoroughly overwhelmed. I have no idea where to even begin with everything I have to do now that I'm home.
Help!
I got this penguin at the flea market in Cabo. I picked him out amid a bunch of other, better looking, trinkets because I liked his little gimpy fin. Being unique is something of which we all have the capability. But here's the secret: you can't be unique when you're trying to be. You can only pull it off when you are truly yourself - when you are no longer concerned with how you compare to others.
That is the challenge.
Month 9 is complete! That's right, I only have 3 months left! The end is near...finally.
Today as I took pictures of the sunset, I was sad to know they would be the last pictures I took with this awesome lens I rented from Borrow Lenses. I rented this same lens last summer for my family reunions, and I can't express how much I wish I didn't have to give it back. It's too expensive for me to justify the purchase, but if I rent it any more times I will completely nullify that excuse. The rentals aren't cheap, and soon I'll have paid the same amount in rental costs as I would have if I'd purchased the dang thing.
One day...
I'm so glad RoseAnne came over tonight for our regularly scheduled girls night! She was all dressed up for an appointment she had before she came over, and she looked so cute! Jack was his usual adorable self, chasing the cats around the house in his speedy crawl, making faces at us, and being generally captivating for the camera.
I really love my family!
I'm used to seeing trees turn red during the fall, but I'm not familiar with red trees with no leaves. I saw these today in a parking lot and had to stop and capture them. In the slanting winter sunlight, the bark on these trees shone a vivid red - almost fuchsia. I wish I still had that lens I rented because it would have been able to capture these better.
Ah, well. No use thinking about it.
Note to self: put makeup on before taking an extreme close-up of your face.
If I had taken any other pictures today, I would have posted one of them instead. This picture required an obscene amount of touch-up to make it even slightly acceptable, when all I needed to do was dab on a bit of cover-up and eyeliner before I hit the shutter button. I guess I'm still shell-shocked from my return to work this week. I can't believe how busy I was, and yet how little I got done! So frustrating! I guess all I can hope for is to do better next week.
Whenever you see a picture of my cats on here, you can almost be certain it's because I forgot to take a picture until right before I went to bed. The cats seem to be my last resort subjects. If I'm too tired to think of something original, I just run upstairs and snap a few of the cats and call it good.
I need a new standby I think.
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