Errands

Because I took Saturday off, I had many errands to run yesterday.  After four hours of racing to various stores, bank etc, I was utterly and totally exhausted.  Home to make a rather elaborate dinner and required family phone calls and then I could only melt into the couch to veg out in front of the tv.  My dog had only a short walk, I stole only a few minutes for photographing.  There’s got to be a better way.  I will try to make today better, by concentrating equally on what still has to be done and what I still want and need to do to save this day off.

Night & Day

The difference between a busy day at work and an okay weekend day is so dramatic.  I still haven’t recovered from yesterday and barely remember the days before.  The meetings, the feuds, the crazy vagueness, going, going, going.  Bleh.  Even my few minutes at lunch to take pictures didn’t work out and that has been my saving grace during the week lately.  Complain, complain.  That said – today is another day and I will try to look forward to what the day may bring.

Vague

The meeting yesterday was full of vagueness and bs and work to do and time to wait before anything is clear.  I don’t know why people can’t just be upfront and clear when they want something.  Frigid weather, but I discovered another new place to photograph in my 10 minutes of free time yesterday.

Another Day

of no alarm clocks and going at my own pace. Lovely. Feeling remorse over not knowing how to be relaxed and productive in areas I enjoy while working. First thing would be to try to get more sleep during the work week. Then how to get everything done and still leave time to relax and be creative. I didn’t work on my website yesterday, because after all of the to dos were done, I did not want to get in the technical frustration zone again, so I decided to spend a half hour a day and slowly finish this project.

Not as excited

I ran into some technical glitches last night, trying to produce web photo galleries, with my new adobe software.  Breathe.  There’s nothing quite as frustrating as not getting it when it comes to computers.  Other than that it was a good day and I do still feel good about setting goals and trying to get there.  Software usually comes very easily to me, so when I can’t figure something out within minutes, I get so annoyed that I have to talk myself down.  Saying that I’ve talked to four web designers who also don’t know how to do this doesn’t help.  But, bit by bit I will figure this out, realizing that I may not reach my goal of tomorrow night for completion, but then again I might…

A Positive Note

Today will be my seventh day of photo blogging – a photo a day – and I’m finding this frustrating (lack of light / lack of time), but also very fulfilling. It’s opening up my eyes and senses in the darkest time of the year.