Top 5 Reasons Not to Read Your Blog Archives

I decided for some odd reason to read every single entry in my archives. I realized that doing so, wasn’t the best idea and I shall explain why!

#1 You Used to be Stupid

Well… maybe not stupid. You simply thought animated gifs, chunky cgi scripts, layouts done purely with tables, and having a domain name made you fucking awesome. You were SUPERIOR to everyone because they had a website on geocities or angelfire. Not you… oh no. You were a bad ass with a purchased name that probably cost $20 and hosting that cost $40 a month. Hells yes.

#2 You Were Miserable

Oh yes, full of emo woe and catastrophes! Never posted the good in your life, just how the falling rain made you {insert emo lyrics here}. If you couldn’t find something to bitch about, you turned your crankiness to unsuspecting people online and would call them out with random comments like, “Yeah, you know Lisa? SHE HATES KITTENS, RAINBOWS, GOODNESS, and EVERYTHING NICE IN THE WORLD!!”, and then hope she would retaliate so you could have more woetastic entries. You start posting song lyrics as entries.

You also hated your own website and threatened to close it every 2 weeks, always with a dramatic ultimatum, “Just so you know, because I didn’t get 30 comments in the past 5 minutes filled with praise and wishlist items, I shall close this site 4-EVER! Do not expect me back! I will fade from this universe like those actors from Perfect Strangers!”, and then 30 minutes later write an apology blaming too much caffeine and pizza.

#3 You Were Happy

Going to the park, kittens, and rainbows all deserved entire entries filled with flowery language about the joys from that day, “Rainbow oh rainbow, how bright and shiny you are, with my kitten snickerdoodle prancing beneath you like a fierce lion!”. You will love your website, plastering it with web cliques, fanlistings, webrings, a billion affiliates, covering your photos with large watermarks, taking pride that your tabletastic layout made it to #2 on the Glittery Fantastico Topsites. It will practically become your crowning glory. You will post every single time you figured out a script, your camera, dvd player, that you can change extensions from .htm to .html and have the same coding work! Hallelujah!

#4 You Shared Too Much

Posting your sexual exploits in great squishy (eww) detail, ranting about your workplace with names and addresses, used little to no punctuation unless it was exclamation points, are all examples of what not to share with the world. Especially if it’s a sexual exploit at your workplace that you describe using a ton of exclamation points. You posted about your friends and family without regard to them finding the entry in a week, year, or 10 years. Yay for internet caching to find all those posts you thought you deleted. You shared every injury, cut, scrape, infection, and more. Seriously. Don’t do that anymore.

#5 Just Don’t Do It

Lastly, it will cause you to write entries just like this and cause many people emotional suffering because they are now going to read their archives.

Forget It

I’m playing around with the OSN layout yet again since I had to take some Excedrin earlier so now I can’t sleep!

I am still so shocked that I was featured on the official Zooomr blog! Also, OneLotus has far exceeded my and Jess’s expectations by far! Over 100 members and so far healthy participation! Just fabulous this week for online photography goodness.

I guess I will try to go to bed since it’s about 4am!

Gone Forever

I know I know… another pink flower with water droplets… well to that I say… nibtastic!

Tomorrow is going to be such a hectic day. Not only will it have the normal Friday crazyness but it’s payday and the last day at work before Christmas. I’m pretty sure my boss is going to order pizza and have a nice lunch of it which will be nice. I then not only have to go do the bank stuff (oh yeah, it’s supposed to rain tomorrow too!) but haul myself to the store to get the present I want to get for my son! All during rush hour traffic. Can not wait!

Tonight I was so pleased to see that I was featured on Official Zooomr Blog! As I was telling Heather, not only is it a photo I shot, but it’s a photo of me personally! Also photography related, I am excited that the new episode of the Scoble Show is out! It’s Photowalking #4: shooting Polaroid with Flickr’s Heather Champ, and I am in love with the photowalking series so make sure to check them all out! Make sure to give me your input about photographing strangers.

If you use Expression Engine, make sure to check out Jambor-ee which is an EE online magazine!

Lastly, I have the urge to do something drastic but I don’t know what. I partially want to get my tongue pierced ever since I got my twin sister to pierce hers. Or… something else that is drastic but that isn’t a tattoo basically. I don’t know. I always get this way. Wanting to change and such. My inner drama queen. Apparently, I was wrong to feel this way.

Strangers in the Night

The photo is of a pink flower… no clue what kind but they were pretty so I bought a couple.

I am so freaking thrilled. This Saturday… one of my ultimate favorite movies will be on. That’s right… SOUND OF MUSIC!!! I have a lot of songs from that movie on my podlet. The only thing that will suck is that they will cut parts out and have commercials.

I can’t believe this year is almost over. So much has happened… it blows my mind. I need to come up with a time line and a soundtrack of some sort. I am going through my podlet for soundtrack like music and naturally come across The Righteous Brothers — Unchained Melody. I actually used to be able to play this on the organ but that’s besides the point. I want to cry the ugly cry right now. How is it that music can affect a person so deeply? I have such issues.

I just realized I don’t have much to say at the moment. So if you don’t mind, I would love it if you could add your thoughts to my entry regarding photographing strangers. Also go and check out my Heather’s new layout because it is pretty!

I will possibly add more to this entry depending if I’m cranky or not!

I’m Like a Butterfly

I’ve tweaked the layout just a bit. The photo (which will be updated with each new entry) was taken while I was in the city, I really like the contrast of the dark birds against the washed out sky. ETA I changed the photo. Because I wanted to. This butterfly was shot at the nature museum.

Is a person with a DSLR or a more “professional” looking camera more likely to be harassed while out shooting compared to a person with one of those teeny point and shoot cameras? Why or why not? I do think that people with a DSLR are harassed more which doesn’t really make sense. A photo of a building is still a photo of a building regardless of the camera used to take the shot. Why are people so threatened by photography? Would you be uncomfortable if you were in a public place and a person took your photo? Why or why not? Would you be more comfortable if the person introduced themselves, handed over a card with their name, email, and URL, and asked to take your photo? I am really curious about this. I want a lot of responses about this because I’ve been thinking about this topic for quite a long time now.

Don’t Ask Me To Stay

This photo was taken at the Notebaert Nature Museum and is what I used for the challenge this week for OneLotus.

The last few days I’ve reverted back to coffee drinking. You can’t go wrong for a buck and a quarter for a large coffee, as much as I wish I had enough money for a daily Starbucks vanilla latte. Although, it’s gotten quite offensive that people tell me constantly to switch to decaf as some sort of joke simply because I talk fast. I also type fast, cook fast, and trying to control the urge to drive fast. It’s just… super irritating. It’s all I can do to fake laugh and not straight out ask the person why they would say something cruel to me. It’s not “funny” to make fun of me simply because I talk quickly when in a good mood. Has anyone else had a similar situation happen?

I managed to do laundry and my grocery shopping today which was a feat in itself because I had a migraine that lasted through 5 pills and almost 24 hours. I feel better now but really worn out. I can’t wait already for the farmer’s markets to re-open. I feel like I am eating way too much meat and carbs which make me feel sick after awhile. Oh and not sure if anyone even notices but I’ve lost 41.4 lbs so far. I should really figure out a way to work out.

I seriously need to keep a car kit or something because this afternoon when I went to do my shopping, my tire was practically flat! So I went and filled it with air (yay for free air from gas stations!) but I can’t believe I never noticed that it had a problem before. So if you have one, what do you keep in your vehicle for maintenance and emergency situations?

More

A very interesting article, The Right to Bear SLRs. A Wired reporter followed Thomas Hawk around for a day and the article is about a security guard that decided to have a temper tantrum when Thomas was taking photos.

Breakdown

I actually wanted to start this layout off with a richly colored photo but well I am not feeling richly colored at the moment so here’s a photo of a poem I wrote oh geez… back in 1999 or so. I found a lot of my old journals which, emotionally, is very difficult because I was in such a bad place within myself for such a long period of time. It doesn’t help that I would make my ex (my son’s father) write in my journals too as some sort of bonding experience. Re-reading everything makes my heart ache for that young girl. I was so completely lost. I had no purpose. I disregarded my own safety and my own life at times. I still haven’t come to terms with a lot of things I did in my past.

Perhaps I can start to in the upcoming year…

This weekend I took my son to the Notebaert Nature Museum. Has anyone ever been? It was ehhh it was ok. Then I took him to the lake which was nice, it wasn’t too bitterly cold yesterday. Then we hung out at my sister’s apartment and played video games, went out to dinner to Qdoba which is super yummy. I also got hit with a major migraine that is only now almost 24 hours later starting to subside. I have to do laundry and grocery shop but really not feeling physically up to it.

So in this incarnation, however brief it will be (y’all know how I get!), I cut back on the sidebar stuff updated the about chunk in the sidebar, the Imagine photo will be the top photo above the entry, and you can comment on the entry or the photo or both in the comments area.

I feel so guilty that I haven’t mailed out my holiday cards yet. I am such a procrastinator. I still need to buy stamps.

Let Go

Just as a reminder, go join and participate in OneLotus (a flickr group)!!

It’s been raining so sure enough, got a migraine last night, I actually had myself convinced it was me catching a cold until it got to the point where I couldn’t type, I was all slurry then it dawned on me… migraine! So I took my meds and all is well today for the most part.

I am pondering tonights dinner. I’m thinking italian sausage, rigatoni, tomato sauce… not sure what else to put in it lol. With a salad of course!

I still have emails to write/respond to and I got an awesome gift of tarot goodness from Melissa!

I am going to be purging members that haven’t logged in the last 30 days fairly soon so if you want to remain a member (read private entries so on and so forth) make sure to log in today or tomorrow!

I will add more later!

Give It To Me

I’ve not done anything this weekend except for grocery shopping and going out to Sweet Tomatoes last night with my sister, her fiance, and my son.  Since I planned ahead, I got all the goodies to make ribollita tonight (I got some lovely prosciutto and crusty bread) for dinner if it turns out I will try and remember to take a few photos.

Speaking of photos, Jess and I have come up with a Flickr group, OneLotus! OneLotus is a weekly photography project to help y’all try and stay motivated when you are lacking or just something fun and inspiring to participate in. Basically, each Sunday we’ll post a theme which could be very specific (water drops), to a word (naughty), or even perhaps an inspirational quote (uhhh something inspirational here!). So you can shoot some photos with the theme in mind, discuss it, add it to the pool and have fun! Whew! Go check it out and join because you love me!

Danny wanted to make dough (flour and water) so I cleaned the kitchen completely up and now he is in cooking heaven. I seriously need to crack down and decide what big gift I want to get him for Yule. It’s a toss up between a child’s guitar or a cheap digital camera or a toy kitchen, although I don’t have room for the kitchen it’s super neat. All I want for presents is whatever is on my wishlist.

I will try and add more to this entry later!

Say Ok

I haven’t been doing so good this week. It’s been bitterly cold outside which isn’t helping since I like to spend a few hours outside each day. I have zero inspiration photography wise which again, isn’t helping my mood. My skin is breaking out which is making me crazy, (I normally have really clear skin, same as my twin sister, good genetics from our mom). I also dealt with my ex (my son’s deadbeat father) who IM’d me for 4 hours yesterday and called me a whore among other hateful crap, unsurprisingly. Then this morning I was out of my oatmeal so I ended up getting a McDonald’s breakfast and coffee which although tasty is making me feel sick because I haven’t really had junk food in a long time (love on the coffee though).

I think all of this has been making me subconsciously seclude myself from everyone. I just don’t know what to say to anyone anymore and I feel bad because it means I tend to lean on Heather for emotional support constantly, I don’t want to be the friend that just takes and takes and bitches constantly and I hate being so cranky ALL the time.

I plan on mailing out my holiday cards next week, I just need to buy stamps and for those who wanted prints… get the prints and large envelopes. I tend to get a bit giddy when I see my photos printed out I guess because I work with digital and you don’t get the tactile experience like you do with film.

Late tonight I have to go to O’Hare to pick up my sister and her fiance from their Florida vacation. Both my son and I are excited for souvenirs and I am excited for the tons of photos she shot for me.

Lastly, know of any photography projects? I would love to partake and I know Jess and I would like to start a little something up. Thoughts?

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