Yellow!

Okay, it's not that great quality but it seemed like a good excuse to blog ... since I haven't in FOR-EVER! lol I finally succumbed and joined the "taking pictures of myself in the bathroom mirror" club. lol I actually only did because that's the easiest place to take a picture of yourself on your phone! :-P Oh well. So here it is! Hi, from me, to you, and glad to know that you're still around even if I haven't been! :-) Thanks!

Just Poppin' in for a Second!

Hi! Remember me? I'm the one that invited you here not too long ago and then abandonded you! lol Still computerless at my house so I'm harking back to the old days when I would make the treck to the library once a week to use their free internet. :-) Ah...the good old days. lol Maybe, maybe not. I have to repeat though that I am actually really enjoying not being on the computer all of the time. lol It's a little hard to keep yourself off of it when it's right there to jump on every few minutes. I miss being in daily contact with some of my friends but that's about it. And most of the really important ones I'm still in contact with through other means. :-)

I have to say that as I continually type out a sentence or a paragraph and then delete it because sending it into cyber space might send anyone who reads it into major boredom...I'm realizing again that the blogging juices just aren't flowing the way they used to. lol So I guess I'll go ahead and close this...yet another failed attempt at a blog. Oh well. At least I succeeded in telling you that I'm still here, life has it's downs but also many ups (such as late night phone calls from far away friends...walks with my walking buddy in the cool of the moring...quiet time with my Lord....a good book...learning that I'm going to be an Aunty...and more :-) )....and that I'll probably be back again one of these days, hopefully with a more interesting post. :-) Until then! Praying life is well and blessed with all of you my readers (if there are any anymore :-P)!

PS Was going to add a photo to this blog to liven it up because, as a friend once said, "blogs are more fun with pictures..." but...I don't have my camera with me and blah blah blah...so I'm not going to. Maybe next time I'll be better orginized!

HA! :-P

Beggers Can't be Choosers

My mama always said that to me and it is so true. It's amazing how hard times make you more appreciative of whatever you can get. Right now that is computer time at the library because the mail computer I used at home is on the fritz (majorly). lol Hence why you all haven't heard from me in quite awhile and why most of you have probably forgotten about me. :-P
The funny thing though about being on a forced computer fast is, I've kind of enjoyed it. :-) While I love keeping up with everybody on FB, love my blogs (all 5 of them!), and love reading other peoples blogs, etc., it's also been nice having the extra free time at home to do ... whatever. Read a book, clean the kitchen, sleep... lol
Autumn is in the air and I am loving it. Back during Spring I spoke of my going back and forth between Autumn and Spring being my favorite season. I have to say, as the weather cools and the wind picks up and the Autumn smells begin to fill the air, I really think Autumn is my favorite time of the year. I love Spring and the "newness" in the air, but nothing beats the feel of an Autumn evening. The one unfortunate of the season is the memories it brings back. Let's just say I'm looking forward to making new one so that the old ones will stop haunting me. Still my favorite time of year though. ;-)
With more time on my hands, I've been reading more and now with the cooler weather I hope to be baking and cooking more. Yay! :-) Probably the best thing I've been picking up more often is my Bible. :-) What about you?

Back on the flip side, less computer time seems to have clogged up my creative juices so this blog isn't coming together very well. In an effort to remain in touch with the cyber world though I will post this anyway. Hope life is wonderful for you all out there! :-)

My Old, New Camera!

I looked into renting an SLR camera for the wedding I was doing last weekend and ended up renting this one from a friend. Then she sold it to me! So I am now the owner (OWNER! :-D) of an SLR!!! I have to admit, I have been a Nikon photographer for awhile now, but I am very thankful for this camera and will use it to it's full capacity and enjoy every moment of it until I can save up for a new, new camera. :-)

This is a picture of it from the internet.

It was really cool how the Lord worked it all out for me. He knew I'd been wanting one but wasn't seeing being able to afford one in the near future. So now I forgive my other friend who wouldn't send me her camera through the mail. Other wise I wouldn't have rented then bought this camera. :-P Just kidding!!!!!!! :-) 

I look forward to doing many posts in the future with amazing pictures in it thanks to my old, new camera. :-)

P.S. Yes, I already had a camera and yes, it was and is an amazing camera. But there are just some things that an SLR can do that a point-and-shoot aren't capable of. :-) If none of this made sense, go look it up. :-P

P.P.S. The amazing picture of my brother's sandwiches in the last post were taken with my old, new camera. :-)

I Greatly Dislike My Brother

This...

was my brother's lunch today. If you haven't yet realized the point of my irritation, I will point it out to you. There are three sandwiches here. For one meal. Let me also point out that my brother is of the ... slender body type. Even though he regularly eats three sandwiches for one meal. I guess I need to get over it. To realize that it is a fact of life that I can only enjoy one sandwich per meal ... lest I become the size of King Kong. 

Oh, for the record, he also had a Yoo-hoo. 

Kitchen Counters.......Couches...... ...Same thing

EW! Gross!!!

Just thought I would get that out of the way for you so that we waste no time and get right to the "ooh's and aah's". :-) This is a first for me and so much fun. I was bored, biding time until I had to leave for a piano lesson so I was wandering the yard looking for photo moments. I originally got my camera to capture a Cardinal who had landed in my yard...and promptly flew away as soon as I had camera in hand. Anywho...I got some pretty shots of some flowers, a weed clover, and a blade of grass... But the pièce de résistance came from a spider. Yes, a spider. :-) Any girl who has a true artist in her soul has to be able to admit that spiders and their habitats are truly beautiful things. (just so long as their habitat doesn't involve mine that is...) I was fiddling around the neighbors tree when I noticed this itty bitty spider. My red-headed stubborn streak kicked in and I determined then and there that I was going to stand there and "half-way press" my shutter button until the camera focused properly and I got a shot of this spider and it's web. Well, after much patience and suppressing of feelings like, "I'm going to throw this camera across the yard!!!!"........

:-) I'll save the other photos for a desperate blog moment. :-)

P.S. You can click to enlarge if you dare.