Read-a-thon anyone

Okay, so I have decided to start reading again. Doesn't that sound funny, start? I can't tell you the last time I have picked up a book and read the whole thing all the way through. To be quite honest, it has probably been years. I am an admitted workaholic and I fill my spare time with editing which is quite pathetic. I even feel like work has dumbed me down a bit. I am not stimulating my mind at all, just mindlessly editing away in hopes that at some point I might catch up.

I think I am going to give myself a realistic goal of one book a week.

I haven't decided what book I want to start off with first.

Any suggestion?

LOVING MY JOB

One of things I enjoy most about being a portrait photographer is being invited out to peoples homes. For one it breaks away from the norm of the typical parks and locations that I choose along with offering the challenge of unfamiliar territory. Usually my customers already have certain ideas in mind or props they want to use which poses even more challenges. Every so often you might even come across unexpected photo opportunities as well especially if they have animals.

Its not just for those reasons that I love my job or that I am doing what I trully enjoy, but I get the opportunity to know and meet so many people. Enjoying them individually or watching the dynamics of one family to the next, it's trully satisfying.

I, like many, have complaints every so often about this or that, my complaint mostly being about the many hours of editing that goes unrecognized to get those perfect pictures. But at the end of the day all is over looked.

It all started 9 years ago, and with patience and practice, many years of hard work, I can finally say that my perserverance is paying off.

When the world says, "Give up,"Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."~Author Unknown

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. ~G.B. Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession, 1893

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. ~William Feather

Caillou should be banned

Just a short note about Caillou... the kids rented Caillou from the Library and I actually sat down and watch it with them. I quickly learned that Caillou is very whiney.

"She has my toy mommy!! Give it back!!!!" Caillou yells to his little sister. Mommy nicely says, "(sisters name) give Caillou his toy back."

What is wrong with this? What happened to "Caillou, you need to talk nicely to your sister and politely ask for your toy back. Don't yell at your little sister."

Caillou wines, "Daddy, I wanted to go the park today!" Slightly throwing a fit. Daddy changing all plans for Caillou, " Okay, well I'll tell you what Caillou, that sounds like a great idea, we will go ahead and go." WHAT?!!! Seriously, is this show catering to giving in to tantrums and whininess?"

Caullou is banned from our house. Seriously, that little rugrat annoys me.