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Ugh. Yesterday was an OK day. Survived an all day phone call. Went out on a mini shopping spree with Neil and then to dinner (which was OH so tasty). Now today I feel like I ran a marathon or two overnight. (I am not a runner, for the record, and am about 40 pounds overweight.) My lungs burn. Muscles in my chest and back feel torn. I think I cracked a rib from coughing so hard and so often.
First, I want to say that I am starting to really have some fun and enjoy the photo a day project this year...though, I am sure it helps that I am slowly but surely starting to feel human again. As long as I don't move much or try to talk much, then I also don't try to hack up a lung.
More playing with the 50mm lens today - I got a nice shot of OP hanging out in his favorite place. The kitchen nook windowsill. I am really happy with this photo. The only touch-ups to it were a little cropping off the right side (to hide the glass covered in kitty nose prints) and adjusting the black level down a bit. Go me!
The first work day of the new year and I have to take a PTO day because I can't think straight...let alone get any work done. What a waste of a day off.
Sadie has been my snuggle friend while I've been hanging out on the couch this past weekend. She always knows when I need some extra puppy love:
I am feeling extraordinarily pissy today. I am tired of being sick. And more than that, I am tired of having to be sick and still buck up and do all the daily household chores - feeding dogs and taking them out for potty walks (in below freezing weather, I might add...which for around here is cold), cleaning litter boxes, doing necessary laundry and dishes, and trying to conjure up food for myself (I've been living on delivery pizza for lack of any extra energy to use to cook). The trip to NOLA was not only pointless (in the big scheme of things), it was also the harbinger of this plague. I really should have just stayed home like I wanted to and chances are I wouldn't feel like death and would have enjoyed my vacation time. And Moo's knee would be much farther along the road to recovery instead of the major set-back staying in the kennel seems to have caused (another source of my majorly pissy mood these days). She's going to have to go back to the vet after I get paid again to see what's going on there, and if nothing else, will have to be on my Rimadyl, which I don't like.
I am so excited!!! I finally got a photo of one of the wrens that come to sing to me on my back patio each day! OK - I am not sure they come to sing to me, but they do come and sing daily. However, I am finding that they are a shy bunch and fly off at the first hint of motion nearby.
Ugh - I am getting off to such a not creative, slow start to this project...I blame the cold. But, I think it isn't just the cold. My skills have gone by the wayside and I have zero inspiration (OK, that last part is still getting blamed on the cold). It has been ages since I have been knocked on my ass by an illness, let alone a cold. I am very ready for this one to pass.
Day one, photo one. I chose to shoot my some of my cookbooks to document one of my resolutions for this year - to cook more meals at home. I have plenty of books to choose from, I just need to start using them! (Note: There are two more full shelves of them not shown in the photo.)
It could be the cold medicine making me a little obsessive about things, but I am really determined to complete this this time around (and have fun with it)! So, the more I think about it, I've decided to add a couple things to it...
I am also going to embed into this project a 52 weeks of the critters. Sadie is getting on in her years, regardless of how much she acts like a puppy. Moo - I managed to go over a year without any photos of her to speak of (how does that happen?). And the kitties...well, they are darn cute and I don't want anyone feeling left out. So, at a minimum, one photo a week will be of one or more of the critters with another minimum of one photo of each of them each month. (See? I can rotate through them each month with one a week...or so.)
Not that I really have to make a rule of using the animals as subjects since they are always my fall-back, but I want to be consistent with it so I have a year long monthly record of each of them. I'd try to do the same with Neil, but yeah right...I'll be lucky to get ONE decent shot of him all year. He refuses to be on the exposure side of a camera.
Anne's Rules for Project 365 - 2010:
- A photo a day, regardless of how mundane (duh...365, right?)
- An attempt at working on general photography skills when taking said photo. However, perfection is not a requirement...
- One photo a week will be of one (or more) of the critters, rotating so each critter has at least one photo a month
- I will attempt (though make no promises for the one-day trips, which generally aren't to any place fun, anyway) to shoot at least one photo in each city I travel to for work - typically I travel every week
- I will post my photos here on Vox at least once a week (I will also have special 2010 sets on Flickr for each of the critters as well as the entire 365 project)
