Good things for the week
Scrivener March 14th, 2008
- I have been pretty-much hired (i.e., we have a verbal agreement that I’ll do it but haven’t settled on how much I’ll charge, but I’m fairly certain we can work it out) to take photos at a child’s birthday party next month. Very cool.
- My friend Ellis showed me a few new tricks in Bridge to use when converting from camera RAW that will make a big difference in streamlining my processing. Almost exactly a year ago, I couldn’t do anything at all with Photoshop Elements, and now I’m starting to feel like I’m halfway competent with CS3.
- Earlier this week, I tried out an idea from jo(e) with the kids: speed cleaning (I can’t remember if it was in a post and I’m not going to hunt around for links right now). I set an alarm to go off in 10 minutes and told the kids that our job was to clean as fast as we possibly could for 10 minutes, then we could stop and have a snack. They had fun racing against each other and in less then 10 minutes they had done a pretty good job of straightening up their room and I had done a pretty decent job of straightening mine up. I’m planning to make this a weekly thing.
- Lots of exhausting dissolution meetings in the last week, so I’ve been pretty wiped out, but there has been progress toward an endpoint, which is a good thing.
- I have not improved much with the guitar of late, but I have stuck with it through all the chaos enough that I least I haven’t gone backward I think, and I think that’s not a bad accomplishment.
- I’m singing in the church choir, which is fun, but crazy-weird given that before a couple of weeks ago the only people I had ever sung to at all were my two kids.
- Apple pie and ice cream, always a good idea.
good things are good, now of course I have a hankering for apple pie and ice cream though - and another good thing - Thank you for being one of my inspirations when it comes to self portraits, seeing what you have done and what you do always sparks my imagination.
well, she inspired my recent foray into self-portraiture, and since she inspired you, I guess that means you inspired me, too. indirectly.
the church choir, huh? cool.
Awesome… I sometimes think to myself that I’d love to be a professional photographer, but I’m not really good. I just like to take photos (and I do take then for my friends’ kid’s parties, friends’ weddings and stuff, I love it, I truly have fun).
Well, yeah! Speed cleaning. *I* need that too, not just the kids. I guess we have to start doing it here too, thanks for mentioning.
Oh, the guitar… I want my husband to start taking lessons, but we need to buy one first. Would you be able to tell me (email is OK) whether any guitar is OK or buying a specific brand is more desirable? (sorry, I’m really really clueless when it comes to guitars).
Church choir — AWESOME again! Singing is so… I don’t know how to express it, healing, fun, essential (at least to me it is). We direct a singing group at our church… and I’ve sang in choirs all my life (until we moved to the U.S. back in 1996
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OK, long enough comment. Gotta go dissertate now!
Hang in there, I’ve been there and it’s misery but you’ll get through it.
Yay for church choir! 
I’ve sung in mine for *wow* 20 years this June! We’re getting ready for the big Easter cantata, lots of fun. Have a great week.
All good indeed!