tuesday truth on a sunday...

so...if you know me at all,
you will know that i like to play games
when i am doing some kind of
menial or repetitive task...

like dishes.

we don't have a dishwasher...never have....
i do a lot of dishes by hand.
i play this game
where all of the dishes go in the soapy water
but my goal is get all the plates in the dish dryer
before the bowls...
(cause they are easier to stack that way)
but
i can't dig around and find the plates in the soapy water
i have to take the first thing i touch.
and same idea when i take it out of the rinse water...
i can see what i am taking there
but i can't take it if it's under another dish.
aaaaaand
there are a bunch of other rules
but i don't think you need any more detail
to think i might slightly losing it
(i have done this for years actually...years.)

so now with the fitbit,
i am doing a different game.
i used to have a little game for putting away laundry
but now i have incorporated the fitbit...
i play music really loud and dance while putting away the laundry...
but if i put something in the bottom drawer of my dresser,
then i do like 15 jumping jacks or squats or something...
same thing when i empty a basket...
and so far...it's working!
i'm hitting my step goal
AND all of my laundry is getting put away!
now...if only it would make my clothes fit better.
 

friday i'm in love....

-- with my fitbit...and the fact that i just realized i can do challenges which has really made me
up my game.  i am totally determined.  :)  oh...and i really, really, REALLY want to upgrade to this...

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-- with this photo of me trying to figure out how to work the timer on my phone so i could take a photo with the pug...please note casey in background...i'm not sure what she is doing but it does not look like it's going to be good.

-- these videos of cookie monster!  this made my day!  :)

-- this UH-MAZING "week in the life of" photo series which makes me want to break out the big camera again...i mean i love my phone...but...sigh...these photos took my breath away.

-- THIS!  i want to make a 60 second photo, too!!!!  go look at this site...i was totally lost in these...

-- i love everything this site offers!!

happy birthday little blog...

today you are 11.

11 years that i have been coming here,
sometimes sporadically,
sometimes religiously.

11 years of posts and prompts,
photos and doodles and
ongoing proof that i am a dork
to the 9th degree
and totally ok with that.

thank you, little blog, for always being there...
no matter if i said i was going to come
every day for a month
and then showed up once
and late at that with store bought cookies
from the day old section.

when people ask me how i got into photography,
the truth is
it was totally because of this blog...
i started the blog so that i could comment
on another person's blog
and really, i had no idea what a "blog" even was.
but i was working from home then,
with kids all day every day,
and finding out that there were other people out there
in the stratosphere that
were like
me
that liked to try things like knitting and crochet
and painting and writing and that talked about books
they had read and fairy houses they had built and
poems they had loved...
i was stunned.
and hooked.
hook, line and sinker.
and i wanted to try making things and sharing photos of them, too!

but my photos sucked.

(poor old kodak easyshare...my first digital camera)

so i got a new camera (my fuji)...
and eventually,
it became to be about the photos rather than the knitting
(cause, truthfully, my knitting sucked.)

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when i first started,
there were TONS of people blogging...
and likely, there still are,
but when i started,
it was more like a community
rather than a business.

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but i still find myself drawn to this page,
to the flickering light of this computer,
to put down some words, an image, a doodle...
it's my creative outlet.
sure, i check my stats & visitors every now and then
but really,
even if no one ever read it,
i don't think i could stop now.
it pushes me to try new things, do things i wouldn't normally do...
and it always reminds me not to take myself too seriously...
and it is so funny to be able to go back
and see where i was at any given point...
when i first started, my kids were 9 and 5...
i often came here to deal with things like the first day of school,
of turning 13, the stress/competition/judgement of parenting,
i shared stories of what a loser i can be...heeheehee
i tried series like friday i'm in love,  poetry thursday, whatcha readin'
wordless wednesday and tuesday truth, among many others...
 

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{now...when i say i'd be ok if no one ever read it...
i should also say
i AM SUPER EXCITED WHEN PEOPLE DO READ IT...
or comment...or share...
so thank you to those that do stop by!
it's always interesting to see what caught people's attention...
that maybe something i thought i was alone in
was actually something that other people
relate to.}

so...happy happy birthday, geek ink...
can't wait to see what the new year brings!
:)

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tuesdays truths

• i ate a yellow tomato...and i liked it!
• i have started taking a multi-vitamin.
• sometimes i fear that i am never going to lose weight,
  no matter how many steps i get on my fitbit.
• i am getting impatient for spring.
• part of me wants to cut out diet coke...but a
  bigger part of me wants to cut it out but not stop drinking it...
  it's a puzzle i can't finish.
• i just realized april is national poetry month & i have not blogged
  about it at all.
• i also just realized though, that by posting this blog, i will have
  technically blogged about april being national poetry month.  Yay me!
• my dryer is making a high pitched squeaking noise.
• i hate high pitched squeaky noises more than i hate turnip...
  and that's a lot.
• the cats are obsessed by the wrong kind of mouse...they are
  obsessed with the computer.
• i have decided i am going to pay to get my hair colored (and if you
  know me, you know that i am notoriously cheap and normally do it myself,
  which usually results in a poorly done job AND a ginormous mess) and i
  have decided to leave one silver (i'm choosing to call it silver...really...it's gray
  but...tomato/to-mah-to...silver sounds cooler...like a rock star or a super hero!)
  streak in my bangs.

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