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Thursday, November 16, 2006
Things I have not been doing
- Blogging. As is obvious.
- NaNoWriMo. I hadn't planned on doing this, but in case you all thought I'd vanished (if you noticed I'd vanished) because I was busy writing The Great American Novella, nope.
- Taking pictures. Except for the ones I took at a wedding on Saturday, as a favor to a friend, confirming in my mind that I do not want to pursue a career in wedding photography. MY GOSH THE PRESSURE! The terrible lighting and stark white walls that you can't do anything about! The dilemma: Do I bob around the building getting good shots and annoying the living daylights out of all the guests, or do I try to be unobtrusive and get a lot of great shots of the bride's and groom's backs?! The barely-eighteen-year-old bride and her bevy of high-school friends who give endless toasts consisting of long strings of inside jokes while everyone else looks first baffled and then bored!
I don't know what's up with the lack of plain old recreational photography. Maybe I can blame it on the fact that the sun goes down at 4:20 (thank you hill to the west), leaving me no time to go for a nice walk and take pictures unless I want to forcibly drag along my kids. Or on the fact that even if I do drag them along on a walk, I have taken pictures of EV ER Y THING within walking distance over the course of the last eighteen months. Or on the fact that my beloved and beautiful Dart will not have its brakes repaired until tomorrow, and I've been too skeered to go for long drives with the skeery non-power-assist brakes it has had for the past few weeks. High gas prices! El Niño! I don't know. I'm kind of getting the itch again anyway. I'm thinking Yosemite on Saturday. We'll see if I can get pulled over again; that was fabulous.
- Communicating with anyone not residing in my home. I don't call. I don't IM. I feel like a heel because there are people I love very much who never hear from me because I am so lazy and, I dunno, kind of... blah. Which probably also explains the rest of this list.
- Folding laundry. But then that's no surprise.
- Knitting. I keep meaning to. But then I don't.
However, all is not lost. Some things I have been doing:
- Reading. I all of a sudden got a hankering for Pat of Silver Bush and Mistress Pat a couple of weeks ago, so I read them. And I have a stack of library books, thanks to this site and this one too.
- Working on my husband's car webpage, whose link I won't share for Creepy Internet Stalker reasons. As soon as Google starts picking it up (who knows when that will be), if you know my husband's super-secret first name and, say, the kind of car he's restoring, you might be able to find it. If you cared. Not that you care.
- Stumbling. If you don't know what I'm talking about, get Firefox and then go here. Proceed at your own risk; do not blame me if you never work again.
And that's just about it. I had hoped to reach a total of thirteen, and this could be a weak attempt at a Thursday Thirteen, but I guess I'm just not cool enough for that.
Comments
well, I for one miss chatting with you and i feel so unloved!! =)
Posted by: debi at November 16, 2006 03:14 PM
Oh, I also wanted to tell you that you can call me and we can do laundry together! Like we do in MB!! SPEAKING OF MB! I guess it has been in the 80's there! wow!!
Posted by: debi at November 16, 2006 07:25 PM
Stubmling: TOTALLY addictive!
Posted by: Maria at November 18, 2006 12:56 AM
Heh, I disappeared too. I came to check on you to see if you had put up a missing flyer for me and here I see you've been under a rock as well ;-)
Blah indeed. Feeling better? Love you.
Posted by: jenn at November 19, 2006 08:45 PM
Must be something about this time of year. I've been not doing those things, too.
Posted by: thicket dweller at December 3, 2006 09:25 PM
