Phew! Anybody still here?

I can't believe it has been over a week since I blogged! I had all intentions to start blogging more, even if I blogged about mundane stuff, but I still am just not finding time! My problem this time was I was editing the photos I took from the wedding a couple weeks ago. So, any quiet time I had was spent working on the photos and blogging was pushed to the WAY back burner.

But the photos are done and delivered this morning!!!! WHOO-HOOO!!!!! I feel SO happy that I am done. And I am pretty happy with most of the pictures. There were a few that I made dumb errors on, so I ended up spending a LOT of time trying to save an "OK" photo. A photo that any experienced photographer would probably have gotten almost perfect SOOC. Oh well, I guess everyone starts somewhere.

OK, so, what is new? Well, last week we were all going to die from the swine flu. This week, well, maybe not. Crazy.

You know, we got rid of our extended cable tv a few years ago. We did it mostly to save a few bucks, but it is actually nice NOT to have too many channels. TV can definitely suck you in for hours. When I go to our local Y, I get my fill of all the cable news channels. Almost every few days, there is some story that makes you think the world is coming to an end. And I often think I am glad we don't get any of these channels - it can make you go crazy! Remember all these "scary" stories?

SARS? Bird flu? $6 gallon of gas? Stocks plummeting into oblivian? Our economy heading into a depression? Elimination of the honey bees? Terrorism? And I am sure I am missing a million more...

Yes, all these things are things to be concerned about, but our wonderful media has, at one time or another, made many people almost panic over these "possibilities". None of which has ever turned out to be as bad as we originally expected (except 9-11, but that was really never predicted).

Anyway, as of next week, thanks to a great deal, we will be adding all our cable channels back while paying even less than we do now. And I will try my hardest to not watch the news channels - life is a little less stressful when you don't let the media try to freak you out unnecessarily.

On the homefront - all has been fine. Kallie has turned into a question queen which can drive me a bit batty on some days -

"Mom, why you doing that? Mom, why you put that there? Mom, why you say that? Mom, why we have trees? Mom, why we have leaves? Mom, why we have couches? Mom, why we have chairs? Mom, why we have legs?" And she will literally ask ALL of these questions one after the other, without. a. break.

Yes, it drives me batty, but yes, I will miss this so much some day!!!!

And this picture? Has nothing to do with anything, but I snapped it while driving one day (don't worry, I was safe). The clouds looked absolutely amazing!!!

Well, until next time!