07 july 2011

Thursday.

I was trying to think of what to shoot today with the prompt f8. I put away all the minifigures I got out yesterday. I also did some reorganizing. Finally ready to start building something and I remembered my new kit. I pulled it all out and did some shots at f8. I also did some at f22, f16 and f11. I need to upload them to see how they look.

We went to the pool late because I was thinking (hoping) it was going to rain. I just felt like staying home. Andy was happy to go. The clouds began to roll in but no rain.

POTD. None of the shots done at f8 are great. But they are good enough.

I went to Dr Weil's site today to look up some diet info. He says that The Zone diet is one of the better ones but pushes too much protein. He says that too much protein can be hard on the liver and kidneys. I looked at what Dr Weil had to say about the Paleo Diet. He thinks parts of it are good. But he thought they were missing out on some protection from cancers that certain fruits and legumes provide. Basically, he agrees with any diet that agrees with his. I feel better when I follow his diet.

Worked on purging photos.

Got up and showered so I could dry my hair. It was raining. the bar in inside and outside. My hair freaked out. And I didn't know until I got in the car. Yikes!

I went to The Brass Tap to celebrate Mike's birthday. It was nice to see Bridget and Reneé. Mike and Joe. But the rest I did not know. OP did not show up.

The Brass Tap only has beer and wine. I had sangria. About four of them. Too much acid. Bridget brought her own snack mix since the bar has no food. Bridget ordered pizza from next door. Each flatbread pizza only had 8 slices. Certainly not enough to feed the crowd. I felt guilty eating 2 slices but it was just sitting there.

I got home just after 8.

Card of the day.

06 july 2011

Aunt Flo is early. Ugh.

Woke up to the cable clicking on an off. Only the set top box in my room works. FiOS site is very slow so we gave up.

Started to gather the minifigures. Ryan was helping. And by helping I mean being a goof just to get a laugh or an eye roll. I didn't get any photos taken since it was time to leave.

MOSI did not cost as much as I thought, only $40 for the three of us. Still, we don't spend more than an hour or two there. they now have giant air slides which are not free. I thought the sign said 2 Tokens per Slide. $1 for two tokens. Or $5 for an all day pass. I figured the pass would make more sense. Ryan did not want to go so I walked back to the front and got a pass for Andy who was eager to go. He did the obstacle course a couple if times before climbing up the giant slide. Then I saw that the sign read Two Slides per Token. Oops. And did love the fast slide. He tried the Velcro jump but he didn't quite understand and it was kind of lame. Ryan was anxious to leave so a few more trips down the slide and we left.

I forgot to switch my lens and had my 50mm macro on there. On the Olympus system, 50mm means 100mm so I couldn't do much but close ups.

We went to lunch and went home.

I did my POTD while Ryan watched Looney Toons. They played the Wagner Opera, Kill the Wabbit and I sang along. I don't think Ryan understands that I used to watch these when I was his age.

I worked on purging October 2008. And organizing more supplies. I definitely have too much. With digital scrapping, there is no fear of running out of a special paper. But there is no joy in using a product up. In theory, you could reuse your kits forever. But all that stuff eats up hard drive space and slows down the process of choosing a kit.

Card of the Day.

Tomorrow's photo prompt is f8. That will be a challenge. I shoot macros at f22 or f16. Sometimes I can get away with f11. F8 is a very shallow depth of field at that scale.

05 july 2011

Tuesday.

I reworked my iPad home page. I took off all the folders and moved them to the second page. Then I moved in the apps I use on a daily basis and apps I wish to use more often. I found myself forgetting about some because I did not see them. It is a little odd to see my apps now instead of folders. But it is less clicks and I will get used to it quickly. I may do the same thing with my iPhone. (I did do the same with my iPhone. I don't have as much space there and seem to use more apps. We'll see how long it lasts.)

Waiting at the lab. There was no paperwork forwarded so I am delayed.

Blood work done. She had trouble finding a vein but managed it without any pain.

A kind Target pharmacist found a way to save me $57 on my meds. Hmm... the same amount needed for MOSI tomorrow.

POTD. Prompt was just a part. I shot a bunch of Lego close up. As close as I could get.

Design your life layout.

I did more photo purging. September 2008 is finished. October 2008 POTD.

I am really pushing the limits of my ram. But I think I need bigger hard drives first. Maybe I should play lotto?

Card of the day.

A few days ago, it seemed that the Ghirardelli Toffee Interlude tasted different. It actually seemed not as good. I made the mistake of looking at the ingredients. The label says All Natural. But they include high fructose corn syrup. Dang! I will not be buying any more. At least their regular dark chocolate is free of HFCS.

Andy asked about the day I was gone for 11 hours. I didn't remember anything and he said it was the last day in March. Again, I could not remember. I checked my calendar app but it was blank. I don't like that my calendar items archive after 30 days. I want to see what I did in the past. Thank goodness for momento.

03 july 2011

Starbucks. Iced chai and carrot cake. They combined cards but the new app does not have the SDN. Not that it was reliable.

Pinterest app is nice but doesn't show me everything.

Five Guys Little Cheeseburger with lettuce, tomato & mayo. Yum.

Ice cream machine at McDonald's broken. Boo.

Layout for Design Your Life. I had to alter the template. I changed it to 12x12 but just adding canvas. Then I add 3 photos to the right and eliminated the journal box. I don't need to journal a portrait session but I did want to include more photos. I didn't realize it when I got the photos, but the originals were pretty dark. I lightened them up. And whitened the teeth. So far Design Your Life is easy. Next is a color challenge.

POTD. Prompt was multi-colored. I had this new kit with the colorful dragon.

Napped.

Ryan said he room was clean. I went to look. It was cleaner than before but still not clean enough. He has too many books for his shelves. And he had stuff on his floor. I helped him clean up and moved the behemoth eMac out. I zeroed out it and Andy's old eMac and got them ready to give away. Right now, there are four people living in this house. We have seven computers, one iPhone, one iPad, and three iPod Touches. I am going to give away one of the iPod Touches. Now if my dad would do something with the laptop sitting collecting dust. Andy did like to use it until he got my old iMac.

Working in Ryan's room also reminded me of the projects I have yet to complete. I want/need to put up shelves in Andy's closet so some of the stuff in Ryan's closet can be moved. That will free up some space for Ryan's board games. Ryan also needs a mirror with hooks hung up. I have a hanging mirror for Andy too. And both boys have chalk boards to be hung.

Card of the day.

02 july 2011

So happy I remembered to try MobileMe and found Andy's iPod. No one was excited as I am. Well maybe Andy. I love that I used technology to locate it. It make it worth all the years I paid for MobileMe. AFter I gave Andy his iPod Touch, he was back to his normal self.

Ryan came out excited that the Tour de France was on. He turned on the big TV. He watched for about an hour and got bored. I don't blame him. I remember being in Hawaii in 1986. I learned about the Giro d'Italie and watched a lot of it. But there really wasn't much else to watch.

Did my POTD. Had to open some glitter I have had for years. Yuck! I like building the vignettes but realize I do not have many building pieces. Most of my Lego are sets.

I was going to go to the Fresh Market. I worked on my POTD instead. But I still got out.

Went to Target. Oreo Cakesters sample. So dry and so sweet. Curiosity abated. Blech.

Meds not ready so walking slowly and sampling. S'mores! Jet-puff is now making Jet Puffed Stacker Mallows, 8-Ounce (Pack of8)
just for s'mores. But sample made with cinnamon Grahams. Too much sugar.

Getting Pizza Hut for lunch. Personal pan pizza at Target. They now have sausage and egg or veggie and egg breakfast pizza.

The pizza hit the spot. The spot that constantly craves cards and cheese. Dad had already fixed lunch for Andy. He had one quarter of his grilled cheese then ate 1 1/2 pizzas.

My printed layouts came today. I started to put them away. Something was wrong. Then I realized that I didn't have all of them. Somehow I missed some pages. They will get done the next time. I need more album refills. And I need to label the albums. I don't feel the need to have them all match. It would be nice but then what happens when American Crafts stops making these albums? The digital layouts look so much bigger in real life. When I am working on the layouts, I worry that the photos or the journaling will be too small. It is not. Maybe I need a bigger monitor?

I changed up the way I present POTD. I decided to do it by month I stead of year. I did June 2011 since our blog hop is coming up.

Card of the day.

01 july 2011

At the pool.

This morning I made new headers for the blogs. Then I took photos of hot. Very subtle on the theme. I think we had hot last week. I do not like these esoteric themes. I had trouble importing into Lightroom. It kept saying the files could not be read. I restarted the computer and all was well.

It is humid. It is going to rain. Hopefully it will stay away until Andy is done with swimming.

I am such a dork. Katrina makes up the prompts at the beginning of the month. She puts them on a PDF. I have been downloading the PDF but not looking at it. They are the same prompts that are emailed out. So I no longer need to wait. Tomorrow's prompt is sparkly. Do I pull out my glitter?

It started to rain. Andy got out. I told him he could swim and he went back in!

Andy can't find his iPod. We went home but couldn't find it there. Grabbed his iPod Nano but it doesn't seem to be working.

Andy is sad. His nano does work but he doesn't want to listen to it. He is just lying down on a bench.

We went home and Andy stayed in his bedroom for a few hours. I did my POTD and a layout for Designing Your Life.

Andy finally came out after Savi arrived. He hadn't had anything to drink. He came out and had a snack and juice. He even started using his nano. I really hope we can find his iPod.

I helped Savi download podcasts and audiobooks and get them on her iPad and her iPod shuffle. She is going to Germany for six weeks.

Card of the Day

30 june 2011

No swimming today. There was light rain and I was concerned it would get heavier. I would rather reschedule than have to leave early. Andy was OK with that.

It gave me the excuse to get some work done. Though I spent time playing with a new app, Tab Launcher. I like the look of it better than the dock. I tried another app, LiteSwitch. I did not realize it was an old app that was no longer supported. There is a web site and I downloaded the app. But later a dialogue box popped up saying I needed to pay the shareware fee. But the link is a dead end. I deleted the app and started using the built in app switcher.

POTD prompt: the letter s.

http://www.linnecards.com/2011/06/30/sweet-summertime/.

I did finish the photos from the party. That feels good.

I placed my order at Persnickety Prints and they are already on their way.

I did a layout, Happy Birthday.

Dropbox sync error. First it happened on my iPhone. But then I realized my iPhone wasn't connected to the interwebs. Why does it keep disconnecting from the wi-fi? Then it happened on my iPad but my iPad is connected to the internets. I checked online and found that dropbox is doing maintenance at 5 pm PST on a Thursday. WTH? So many people rely on dropbox. Why would they not do maintenance in the middle of the night like most other web companies?

29 june 2011

Bonnie's dad has a broken back. He fell off a building.

We went to Pinchasers for bowling. Ryan said he wanted to play three games. And he didn't want me to play. I remembered to switch every camera setting except for the timer. Wondered why it was taking extra long for the shutter to release. Andy won the first game 78-70. Ryan did manage one gutter ball even with the bumpers.

Second game was better. Ryan got a couple of spares. Ryan won 82-79. Ryan wanted to quit after the second game.

The boys played video games. I gave each one $5 in tokens. Ryan's were spent quickly. Andy takes longer. Ryan didn't win many tickets so he he got a cheap plastic ring. Andy had tokens left and wanted to play air hockey. It was broken last time we were there. Ryan beat Andy easier. I wonder if his eyes do not see the puck well. The boys played two games. Andy had 3 tokens left so we each took one and played the lights game. Ryan does best at this one.

We left and went to McDonald's in Zephyrhills then to CFA in New Tampa. We need more CFAs.

Came home to find my new camera! I post more about it tomorrow.

I took my POTD. The prompt was invisible. Huh? I came up with Emperor's New Clothes. I have a king and some knights. But I have no castle. I spent too much time setting it.

I assisted Doyle at a model shoot. We went to Howard Park in Tarpon Springs. I drove through the town of Tarpon Springs. I never knew it was there! It is a nice little town, from the few things I saw. I will have to plan a photo walk there.

Howard Park is nice. Another good place for a photo walk. The shoot was on the beach. It took a wile to get organized. It was supposed to run for 2 hours. I was there for 2 1/2 hours and there was still a lot of photographer who had not shot all the models. Doyle had only gotten through 2 models. Mostly because he lets others go first.

I told Doyle that I felt like an alcoholic at a bar. So much to shoot and I couldn't. I did have my gear but I was there to assist. Something that Doyle kept forgetting. Instead of asking me, he would do things himself. I would like do some portrait sessions out there.

I realized that shooting models is OK but not something I want to pursue. I would rather shoot portraits for everyday people.

I left at 7 so I could make it home for bedtime. I went to Arby's because Taco Bell drive thru was down. Arby's tea was gross. Mozarella sticks burned my mouth.

I did make it home it time. Then I talked to Savi instead of working on anything. Now at 10:30, I am going to make a card.

28 june 2011

Ugh. Another lazy day. I had highs hopes to get stuff done but my brain just didn't engage.

POTD. Prompt was simple enough, the number eight. But I spent an hour with my Lego trying to come up with something. And in the end, I was not enthused.

Card of the day. This one is better than the first one I made for Bonnie.

Lunch.

Worked on photos while listening the 5 by 5 live.

Junk food. Ate a roll of thin mints. One roll left. Had leftover popcorn for dinner.

Did the pre class layout for Design You Life. Then I listened and watch the slideshow and video. The slideshow was almost 40 minutes. So I flattened the remaining layouts from 2011 left to print. It turns out there are only 18 which is less than the $50 required for free shipping. Maybe I will upload some more tomorrow.

Just found out that dad has a dentist appointment on Thursday so Ryan has to come to the pool.

Bonnie called. Her dad feel off a building/ladder. She had to hang up before she could tell me much.

Andy wants to go bowling tomorrow. I have to see if anyone had open bowl in the morning.

Ryan wants to me move computers around. He has stopped using his older eMac and uses my old iBook instead. He wants to move the iBook to his room.

27 june 2011

Ryan comes out of my bedroom where he is watching cartoons. He looks in the little fridge and goes, "Huh?" There are no open cookies. I tell him to open some. He does and finds that they are all stuck together. It is a problem with fudge grahams in the summer. He won't eat them but Poppa will. He goes back into the bedroom afraid to miss anything. I open up another package of cookies. Yes, we have several. These are not stuck together. I take the package to him so he can grab one or two. He grabs the whole tray. It is 7:10 am.

Did my photo. Kind of lame tie in to the theme which is miracle.

Wasted time on Bag Check today. Life today is all about me and what I have.

Spent $10 on tweetie for Mac. Probably a mistake. As in I shouldn't start tweeting again.

I wish I knew how to make that sort of grid on any sized layout.

I read through Digital Designs for Scrapbooking
. Most of it I knew. I will grab the templates on the CD.

So crowded at CFA. We had to wait for a table. And squealing girls in the play area made Andy stay out.

Just talked to Doyle. He has a shoot Wednesday and I am going to assist.

Came home and finished my POTD. Also worked on photos for the party.

Bought Sing Yourself Sillier for Andy. He has been watching it on YouTube and then recorded it on his iPod. I thought the purchased version might be nicer. Now he wants another video. I told him he could get one next week if he was good. "I am being good now." Andy is good about taking out the trash and recycling. But I want him to keep his room cleaner. He throws his blankets on the floor along with everything else. So he has to keep his room neat if he wants another video. He has already picked out which one he wants.

Dinner.

I goofed and didn't know about one of my grand-niece's birthday. It is coming up this week and I had no card made. I did one after dinner. Card of the Day. I love those number templates from Scrapping with Liz. She also make letter templates which I think I will use tomorrow. Bonnie's card came today and it seems too pale.