I have been terrible about keeping up with my blog lately. I suck! I’m going to LA for Thanksgiving, so the terrible-ness will probably continue. I have no excuse…I’m sorry!
Well, to update:
The boy is doing much better. I took him up to his dad’s on Sunday, but he got over the thing with the sitter last week, and was expressing, a lot, how much he missed Mr. W. But he is happy with the sitter, once again, and was bragging to me about how good he has been. I’m glad that passed. At the suggestion of one of my readers (thank you Y!) I asked Mr. W to send the boy a letter or card addressed just for him. Maybe that will help a little. He is very anxious for Mr. W to come home. I can’t quite get him to understand that Mr. W will be gone for a long time (really long in kid years) but will come back. I don’t want him to forget, or worse, think he just left us, but at the same time I don’t want to stop talking about Mr. W and reassuring that he will be back. I’m trying to find a balance that works for the boy…trying to find balance…story of my life!
Over the next three weeks or so, my intent/goal/plan is to get my other sites up and running. By other sites, I mean my writebrite.net blog…yep, I’m going over to the dark side…sort of. I want to install the wordpress.org software on my computer and stick with them, but I like the idea of having my own blog, you know, that I own…sorta, kinda. I’ve been procrastinating on setting it up, although I did buy the address…so we shall see.
Also, I will be working on my site for my new semi-business. I have been hesitant to talk about it, as I was afraid it was too good to be true, but all has been confirmed so I think it is safe. Just over a month ago I got a comment on my photo blog (click here) which has sent me in a whirlwind of wonderfulness! Confession: I have always dreamed of being a photographer. I love to take pictures. i actually walk around sometimes and see things in squares, like in the frame of a photo. Weird, I know. Anyway, it’s a dream, but it’s always been one of those ridiculous never ever in a million years going to happen dreams that you don’t even talk about because it’s so far fetched…until now. So I got the comment, and of course immediately contacted her. Long story short, she bought that picture, then contracted me to go up to Philly on 3 more trips to take more for her, paid trips mind you, very well paid trips, and she bought those pictures too! All together I think I took somewhere around 700 photos for her…and enjoyed every freaking minute of it! I could have done it for free! Yeah, Philly was like 40 degrees for the most part, and yeah I got lost a lot, and yeah I walked about 10 miles in the city on each of the 3 trips, but it was great. Walking around a beautiful city, taking pictures of its beauty…and oh yeah, getting paid to do it!! Who could ask for anything more??!! (Can you tell I’m excited??) Apparently they are doing some promotional work-ups for the NJ Transit Authority and Septa joining in a way that allows you to use them both on the same fare. My pictures will grace the website and train stations and other advertising materials. Yea!! I’m so very excited! So I’m trying to put together a web site for my work in the hopes that others will want to hire me for their photographic needs. We shall see! I’ll keep you all posted and my fingers crossed!
And at work…oh wonderful work…(blah) I’ve been promoted…not exactly, nominated…um, no, tasked..there you go, tasked with the training program. Silver lining; I’ve been busy. Very busy actually. That is part of the hit on my blogging time, and my homework time, which sucks. But it also makes the day go faster, which makes the week go faster, which makes the months go faster, which brings Mr. W home sooner. So it’s not so bad. Now if only I could motivate the ones standing in my way of making some real progress on the training program to either help or sit the $#%@ down. Hmmm…
So that is that. I plan to take the laptop to LA with me and take tons of pictures…so I shall share my Thanksgiving, sunny California style with you while I’m gone, I promise!
*side note…why does “blog” and “blogging” come up under the spell check in a blog? Things that make you go hmmmm….
