365P Day 5

I have to start carrying my camera with me so I don't wait until late and not have anything to post so I take a photo of the first random thing I see! I got mail from Oprah today! She sent me a Lifeclass journal. Well, I requested it, so I suppose it's really not that impressive.

Tomorrow, I promise to carry my camera!

Day 4 of my 365P

ok... Day 4 and I am already behind! But I took my photo, so here goes...

well, I remembered very late that I hadn't taken my photo yet. This is the first star I saw tonight; I thought the colors of the sky were pretty. Not the best capture I have ever made, but I got my daily shot.

Day 3 of my 365P

I feel the need to point out that I am the only person following my blog, but I am doing it for me, so I will continue.

My photo today is of my friend Lori's dog, Rosie. She is an English bulldog that her family got from her brother who breeds them, i think. In this photo (one of like 50 that i made in 10 minutes) Lori's daughter is rubbing her back and Rosie looks like she is in heaven! Actually, I may go ahead and post my favorite two, they were so cute!

365P -- Day 2

When I started really thinking about this 365 project, I promised myself that from now on, when I saw something I wanted to make a photo of i would be ready and i would take the time to do it! Today's photo was taken a few days ago at my friends' (Lori and Beth) mom's house. I had driven by the day before and saw these beautiful little mushrooms on the side of the road. I imagined little smurf houses or something I guess, but they intrigued me so much I made a mental note to stop when i drove by again. Actually, Beth and I walked to the end of the road together and laid on the ground to get this shot. I think it's perfect!

Taking My Time...

I am taking my time coming up with my resolutions. I have actually been thinking about this subject for over a month, but I have not committed anything to paper just yet. I had a conversation with a good friend of mine named Melonie in which we discussed how we are both really good starters, but horrible finishers! I want to be different. I want to be a woman with follow through. I want to be so much more -- not that I think I am just a terrible person. I just know I could probably be so much more!
I'm even smart enough to know how to get there. I know that if I want to lose weight, I have to eat less and move more. I know that if I want a better relationship with my husband, I have to put him first and be more kind, considerate, and thoughtful to him. I know these things, but it's the follow-through that I lack. That's really what I want to work on this year -- follow-through! I have wonderful ideas on a pretty regular basis. I set lots of goals for myself regularly as well. But when you can't even make it through your daily list, how do you find resolve to make it through a year? i think I need therapy!

My 365 project

So for several years now, I have contemplated attempting a 365 project, which involves posting one photo every single day for a whole year. To me, this sounds like a really fun way to grow as a photographer. In education, I remember a training I attended that taught us that when you ask students an open-ended question, the first set of answers will be super easy and usually not very creative. But if you keep accepting answers, after a while you force students to think outside of the box and they generally come up with some mighty cool and off the wall ideas. In my mind, the 365 project is the same idea... January will probably be fairly easy, but after a while I wonder if I will run out of easy things to photograph.
Here are my own, personal rules for my 365P...
1. I must post one photo every day of 2012. IF by some strange twist I miss a day, I must make it up within 5 days.
2. The daily photo may be taken on the day of the post OR it may have been taken in the previous 5 days. I have to allow myself this window as I will be back in grad school January 17, teaching full time and still trying to figure out how to organize my house and life.
3. I really probably should not take on this project as I have no room left on my plate, but I just feel like I need this for me creatively, so I will not beat myself up if it ends up like 99% of my projects and doesn't get finished!
I am still debating whether or not I want to utilize the 365P site and/or facebook. I guess I will come back to tha later. You can find details about this project at http://365project.org/.
My first photo is titled "Absolute Freakin Chaos!" This is how I am starting my New Year, but I am determined that I will not end it this way! That's my daughter in the middle of all that. She is texting. And not doing laundry. Why do we live this way?

New Year; New Resolve!

Here we go again. For just about the 36th year of my 38 year existence I am starting my January 1 with a list of dreams, wishes, projects, and general resolutions that, honestly, I have no real idea if I can handle. My mind constantly swarms with ideas about how I can become the person I want to be -- and in a way, I suppose those 36 years of failed resolutions are just a part of me becoming who I am. But this year, 2012, I resolve to be different! I am determined that this is the year I will become someone I genuinely like; someone I would be proud to call a friend. This is my year to become the person I was put on planet Earth to be!