Oh, dear!

I can't believe it's been over a month since I updated here! I started using Tumblr more (Leather and Denim is my blog there, if you want to check it out!) and recently joined Pinterest (me), and have been trying to be more active in my groups on Flickr (my 'stream), not to mention the normal Facebook and Twitter song-and-dance....so I guess Blogger fell through the cracks. Too many sites to check; too little time in the day! :-O

Otherwise, not much going on. We recently experiencesd Snowpocalypse 2011...or, as I'm calling it, Mega-Snow vs Snowctopus...so I just got back to work from enjoying three whole snow days in a row. I felt like a little kid, all excited! My husband and I spent our time on the couch, watching "Monster Quest" episodes and working our way through the complete DVD set of "Daria" I got for Christmas.

Man, that show takes me back! But I've realized something, watching it...I'm so much happier with my own identity now than in high school. I'm genuinely secure in who and what I am now, and I feel no need to prove anything to anyone. If someone likes me, great! If they don't, oh well! It's very liberating. :-D

Collaborate and Listen

Strange as this weather has been.

It's that time of year, ladies and gents...late winter, that time when spring keeps trying desperately to break through winter's chill, but winter is fighting tooth and nail to hold on! The other day it was relatively warm, and it rained all day. Fog rose up from the wet ground and the puddles of snowmelt and rain and it felt, almost, like early spring. But by the very next day, all those puddles and all that squishy mud had frozen solid. The ground is like steel underfoot and the wind has teeth!

So I think for a while yet, I'll be focusing on taking shots indoors, while desperately searching out photos of springtime and sunlight on Flickr and around the web, to remind myself that it will come back!

In the meantime, my dear sweet kitty cat is always very accommodating about posing. All I have to do is pull the seamless paper out from its roll, and he will saunter over and sit down, looking at me as if to say, "I'm ready for my close-up! Make sure you only get my good side!"