“The connections we make in the course of a life--maybe that's what heaven is.” ~Fred Rogers

So...

Emily, Pappy and I attended a funeral today.  Emily's ex - Greg Egan - passed away on January 17th.  Apparently, he had been battling colon cancer for about a year and a half.  The last time Mara and I saw him was when I was getting dressed at the hospital after second knee surgery.  THAT was weird...and random.  He had lost a lot of weight, but we weren't sure if it was intentional.  Even though we didn't see eye to eye, cancer is a horrible way to go and I wouldn't wish that on anyone. 

He was only 43. 

(I haven't been able to stop thinking about him this past week.  Now I wish I had said "Hi" to him when we saw him - instead of freaking out and hiding.  Kinda petty on my part.)

After we left the funeral, we had an adventure.  I had to pick up my new Tibetan woven wall hanging at an auction house (it's pretty cool!) and then Emily wanted to try and new carry-out restaurant she follows on Facebook.  It's call Sweets & Meats BBQ (located in Mt. Washington) and holy crap...it was delicious!!  After our picnic in the car, we went across the street to St. Vincent de Paul.  I found a couple of things (nice watercolor of a sailboat and a vase for my anthurium) and Pappy got a really nice cane.  We went to the Goodwill in Bellevue next where I found a (holy crap!) Frankoma Pottery Prairie Green pitcher marked $3.00 and since, it was 50% off store-wide, I only paid $1.50!  Score!

Back to the grind now, though.  So demanding of my brains....NOT. 

Here's the last of the first batch of randomness...well, that's convoluted.

Enjoy.

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Oh, the weather outside is frightful....

So...

More randomness.  (This is what it looks like inside my brain...can you imagine the cacophony?)

Not much happening lately.  I'm redecorating my bedroom - buying plants and shelving to get my "stuff" organized a little.  Maybe I'll do a little photoshoot when everything is in place. 

I need to get Chuck out of hiding and get on the ball.  Come on Spring!!

Enjoy.

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“Little by little one walks far” ~Peruvian Proverb

Well...

I guess I should get back up on the horse - so to speak.

I've been slacking on several fronts here: 

• I haven't really been carrying Chuck with me when we go out as I have been experimenting with the camera on my cellphone.  Trying to get a better grasp on how I can manipulate the (inferior) thing to make the photos I wish to create.  It is certainly a study in frustration.

• I spend a LOT of time walking still, trying to maintain my weight loss.  I have gained 10lbs back since October - thanks in part to:  Vacation road trip to Las Vegas, Wedding, Reception, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's and to the fact that I'm a fat chick who LOVES her sweets.  I have since started cutting my calories and I am happy to report that I have lost 6lbs.  Now I want to lose that extra 30 before the beginning of June (hey, I did it before, I can do it again).

• I'm just plain lazy.  My boss was out on medical leave for 9 or 10 weeks (it's all still a blur), so I was filling in as the interim Site Supervisor - trying to take care of crap while still working 3rd shift....you know - four hour-long, required conference calls a week (each week) that occurred during the day.  You know, my MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT!  Off the clock even!  That's a whole week of pay I VOLUNTEERED.  Then one of the officers got fired the second week...so we had 3 of us splitting 168hrs a week (I was working 68-72hrs).  Yay.  Needless to say, I was kinda glad when he returned.

• There was another officer (finally) hired to replace the fired one but this one only lasted a couple of weeks.  So, back to working 7 days/64hrs for a couple of months.  All's well now.  New hire is working out well and I'm again working my normal 48hrs.

Now I need to get back in the groove of processing this backlog of photos I've made since September.  These first few posts are only going to have six random photos as I try to set a routine.  No surfing until I finish my blog post of the day.  Them's the new rules...we'll see how long it lasts.

I'm also running out of acceptable, non-repetitive content for my Instagram page. 😁

Enjoy.

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
~Harriet Beecher Stowe




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“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.” ~Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

So...

THIS crap....

I have such a freaking backlog of photos to process.  I haven't posted anything at ll from our Epic Adventure out to Las Vegas.

Best get on it....

How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if real stars fell and lodged on my coat. Nature is full of genius. Full of the divinity. So that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

 

~Henry David Thoreau

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