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Copyright Susan Ogden
1.} i am tired.
2.) i am not in the mood to wrap anything....even tho here are a bazillion Bean things to wrap.
3.) The Beans were here for almost 3 hours this morning, even tho they were SUPPOSED to be here an HOUR....so i had to rearrange my whole morning and ran out of steam.
4.) There are still things arriving via UPS and Fed-Ex and i have not a clue what else i ordered that has not yet arrived...
5.) it is yet ANOTHER rainy gray day and that causes me a flare up of S.A.D and i NEED sun.
6.) I used up most of my morning energy taking a shower, feeding the Beans breakfast and supervising them and then when their dad stopped in for lunch i quick made an escape to the Post Office to mail my daughter and her boyfriends gifts.....yes, i know they will not get to Manassas on time.....sigh....
7.) i have a print to do up and frame for someone....not a gift....a prize for being the 100th like on my boutique FB page. Bless Unique Photo for shipping me ink yesterday that arrived today :)
8.) i had to clean out my closet and organize all the stuff for charity to a local church....then photograph it, for tax deducition purposes. Done!
9.) Had to take apart and redo the beautiful centerpiece that was a gift from my cleaning girl....it was shedding blue spruce like whoa! ( I went out in the rain and clipped a bunch of different evergreens and holly and dismantled it and redid it for the dining room table. tick this off the list!)
10.) it is 4:30pm and i have no idea what i am making for dinner...but the way i feel it might be oatmeal!
11.) oh yeah....i have had to reset the internet 3X today and am about to give Comcast a piece of my mind....they are the pits lately, as this is becoming a daily challenge.
On a brighter note...the tree is done. The house is about 75 percent back to normal. I am not cooking for Christmas....FINALLY!!! . My daughter and Luke ARE coming....late Christmas Day. YAY!! Christmas day will be blissfully quiet with my middle daughter cooking dinner. The better part of the day will be spent quietly in my pajamas with a good book with any luck! Double YAY!
On a less joyful note, the annual Christmas Gathering will happen on Saturday. These take so much out of me...my recovery time is getting longer and longer with each one. i am not built for turmoil and noise. i am not built for kids running amuck in my house....breaking things and screaming, or party games. The debate raging in my head at the moment is what time to have this gathering, that the least amount of time possible is spent having to open gifts, entertain, referee, eat, play the silly game that is planned by Crazy Aunt Sandy, clean up, and retreat to my bubble for recovery time. Would it be rude to say 5 to 7 pm?!!? Yeah....i thought so. :-/
I actually told my husband not to get me anything and i will not get him anything. It is so pointless. There is nothing to get him....he has no hobbies....he has no friends to have a hobby with...he used to golf but has not done that in a couple years. All he ever does is work...and when he needs things for work, he mentions it in the 3 weeks leading to Christmas and then suddenly goes out and buys it all. pointless. Sigh.....
Happy Night Before the Night Before Christmas :)
This picture comes from a friend asking me to make a shot with "procrastination" as theme: this is what came out, I hope you can appreciate it.
I decided to try to upload some pictures taken with my mobile phone (Sony Xperia Z1) I already had on Instagram: I was basically having fun looking at what I could do with more technical limitations.
Some of the things I got up to when I ran out of inspiration for the project that actually NEEDS doing.
Lavender heart sachets that I was suppose to deliver to a shop last week. I found every reason possible to not work on them. It's midnight and I just got home from work. Guess what I have to do before I get to go to bed. The price of procrastination.... ugh.
It is a lifestyle. I spent most of my afternoon and well into the night obscessing over a small problem I needed to fix. I took my camera out early this afternoon but had a dog with me so she occupied the seat my camera likes. Tonight when I went out a second time I forgot it. as the last seconds ticked down to midnight I paniced and had to shoot something for the challenge and my 365. So here it is captured seconds before midnight. Thank goodness for fast flashes for I am often under the gun.
ODC - Lifestyle
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I could clean my bedroom, or I could take selfies sitting in my bathroom sink. Hmmmm
Damien Jurado - Ohio (Filous Remix)
I drive by this little log cabin in the quakies, close to the Idaho Montana border, every time I drive to Yellowstone. For years and years as I drive by I always think about stopping and capturing this spot, but it seems I can always find a reason to push North up the road. Now that the roof has collapsed, I've finally gotten around to making this simple stop... I think there is a word for that!
Procrastinated today's shot again. AND my camera's battery died so I had to recharge. Maybe that's a good thing. I had time to get some inspiration.
Anyway, I sort of like this photo. It's pretty daring for me. And I look exhausted....this is what happens when you procrastinate your photos every day...haha. :]
I wanted to thank everyone for your overwhelming support during this 365. Anyone who has commented or favorited a photo....it is so appreciated, you have no idea...I love you all.
Day 60 - 15 February 2012
It is a fine art form, not many can do. There is discipline involved and perseverance. It does not lie in just anyone's bones to twiddle thumbs, or wood - or hair. Some motivation is required to, to make you want to do it. Pep talks, and a few hours of surfing the web. Ah yes, a true Procrastinator must practice to reach excellence.
Canon EOs 550D
f/5
1/40 sec
ISO 800
I'm supposed to be doing yardwork. Instead, I'm taking pictures of the yardwork.
Explore #97 - March 28, 2009
'Never put off until tomorrow, what you can do the day after tomorrow.'
--Mark Twain, who totally rocks.
I shot this Klein bottle in a dark room, and illuminated it using a red laser pointer.
The Klein bottle has a little water inside (i.e. outside). View On Black
A mathematician named Klein
Thought the Möbius band was divine.
Said he: «If you glue
The edges of two,
You'll get a weird bottle like mine.»
Explored #139 on Dec 15, 2007
Now, this photo was not taken by me, and it is revisited also, as many may recognize from my old profile... although, I did do the editing!
I've been tagged by Flickr friend Banquo to post a shot & state 10 facts.
Now I also recall doing this tag game in my old profile, so I will try to state 10 different facts about myself.
#1- I have a sinus infection at the moment, hence why I do not want to take "new" photo of myself, because I really do look like shit, and mucus is just flowing from many of my orifices, so I bare myself the shame & post a wedding gown shot instead... which brings me to.......................
#2- That is not a real wedding portrait, just a fun photo shoot done with a friend. I fear marriage for many reasons, and honestly, I don't even know what those many reasons are!
#3- I have minor obsessive behaviors. One being, I brush my teeth for about 15-20 minutes in the morning, but I will not elaborate on that one because I believe it was in my last 10 facts. Although, my other obsession is that the volume on my TV, car stereo, anything MUST be at an even number. I will cause a traffic accident if I must focus on getting those numbers even before I put my eyes back on the road.
#4- I have mutant feet. I swear to God. I'm a little over average height, and my feet are a little over average length... but they are too damn skinny. I can't find any fucken shoes that fit me. Serious. Everything is too wide, even my 14yr old proved my point this morning when she put on a pair of my shoes on today that I do not wear because they are too lose, and they fit her. Fucken fuck.
#5- I swear a hell of a lot. (not sure what made me think of that)
#6- I practice yoga, (have been slacking it lately out of having an ongoing cold that has turned into a horrible leaky nose). I practice yoga for many reasons. I love the strength & flexibility I have been able to acquire. I am more toned than I have ever been in all of my years in weight lifting. I practice because I find a balance between me & this world we live in. I practice because I want to know more about all factors of yoga. Yoga is not just stretching my friends, not at all!!
#7- I can't say no to a Bounty chocolate bar. I don't know what it is... its like heroin. I look at the chocolate bar on the shelf & I say to myself, "no, Sheila, you don't need it"... and somehow, it finds itself in my hands, consumption only moments later. I'm pretty sure I can overeat to the point of vomiting, given a case of Bounty bars!
#8- I never wear matching panties & bras, (unless of coarse for a special occasion for Ben, hehe!), but I will match the colors from time to time.
#9- I'm antisocial. Believe it or not, I am. I don't like people. I don't have many "real" friends, why virtual friends are most probably perfectly fit for me. I certainly do not like being in crowds with people. People often come across as stupid & ignorant, and useless, and annoying. I hate people in traffic, I hate people in shopping malls, I hate people waiting in the doctors office. I hate the way people react, I hate the way people smell, or stop in the middle of the sidewalk with their strollers & expect you to swerve around them, I hate women people particularly. Considering all this.......... I am the nicest person you will talk to if ever you bump into me on the street!
#10- It was hard enough to come to #9, now the last one. I am a hermaphrodite. Haha, just kidding!! I drove for close to 15yrs daily, to & from work, on long road trips, sometimes with a drink or two in me... without a license. VERY irresponsible... and I really think it was a matter of giving up that "Rebel Sheila" I was as a teen. I wanted to remain that much more reckless. I wanted to seem cool or something, but I surely wasn't proving anything to anyone, except to myself, that I am a complete procrastinator that needs a damn life! So I did it, finally, this month is one year I've had my license & a couple of months since I've purchased insurance for my car. I am all grown up now! :)
So, for those I tag, do not feel the dier need to play along. Yet, It would be appreciated, it would make it seem like you're a team player. And if you've already been tagged, I don't particularly care. Take another photo & come up with 10 more facts about you. I had to.
Have fun! :)
I now have 16 days before I have to deliver my thesis. The end of five years at the university is closing waay too fast.
"The Procrastinator's Hereafter. Take a friend's advice: Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today--Answer that letter." Sign: "Bottomless Pit Drop In."
Pity the poor procrastinator who doesn't answer his letters! This pathetic fellow obviously failed to keep up with his correspondence while he was alive, and now in the "hereafter" the devil is looking over his shoulder to make sure he responds on time--and for all time!
In order to avoid falling into the fiery "Bottomless Pit" below, the procrastinator is precariously perched on an endless roll of paper as he scribbles out his message. The last few lines he's written on the paper suggest that he's trying to explain away his current predicament: "...in my new home. Although everything is up to sample, I'm not stuck on the place but circumstances over which I have no control impel me to stick...."
Reverse of postcard:
Postmarked: "Hartford, Conn., Aug. 25, 1912."
Addressed to: "Mr. W. J. Ross, 131 River St., N. Adams, Mass."
Handwritten message: "Dear Will: What do you think of this for a card? I don't hear from Flora very often. I'm working and not having much fun either--just existing. Not as tired as when I came here. Hastily, Cora."
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Originally posted on Ipernity: The Procrastinator's Hereafter.
See also Crafty Dogma's copy of this postcard: The procrastinator's hereafter.
I'm curious how much others procrastinate over shots they put up?
I seem to be getting worse as time goes by - previously I'd just post any old thing but now I worry about them tooooo much I think. Maybe I should just chuck em out there and leave it to people to view them ? Anyone got any thoughts on this ?
taken August 06 in County Cork.
and best viewed large imho!
no photoshop on the colours at all :-)
only cropped to get rid of nasty telephone wires at the top and crappy bushes that served no purpose in the photo at the bottom !
oh and this was a full on zoom of the same scene.
How will you push yourself to be different?
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I believe that in order to unleash who you truly are you cannot be afraid to be different or stand out. Granted, I realize that my extrovert self is saying that but if there is one thing that I have learned while being a marketer for a start-up real estate company is that being different WAS EXACTLY what we needed to do. Since I resigned my full-time marketing position and delved into art full-time, I have been FORCING myself to do things that are normally out of my comfort zone. .
You see, one of my greatest challenges is battling complacency and procrastination. It is so easy to say, “There will be a next time or I will do it tomorrow.” But tomorrow stays as tomorrow and life rides along with outcomes that are “just good enough”. .
So, what better way to step out of your comfort zone than by taking a skull in your carry-on bag on your next plane ride?