Random Thoughts and the Dinosaur
Well, I certainly hope today goes better than yesterday! This is just going to be one of those posts full of random things just so I can get them out of my head.
I haven't heard back from the local magazine I told you about in the last post. I'm really not holding my breath expecting to hear from them. I just figured it was worth a shot. Friends and family have told me I should send photography submissions to other magazines, along with greeting card and calendar companies, but I honestly have no idea how to do the whole query and submission process. Besides, my camera is not a digital SLR, so I am unable to shoot in RAW and, therefore, my photos do not meet most resolution requirements.
I'm keeping myself up at night worrying about money and my lack of earning enough. Heck, who doesn't worry about money? It's a necessary evil. I'm realizing I'm going to have to figure something out... and soon.
The issues in my post entitled "Give Her a Real Life" (It's just two posts below this one, and I sincerely request that you read it) continue to go through my mind and make my heart ache. As I said, I can feel this child's emotions, and I can hear the thoughts that go through her head. How? Because I've been there, and as a grown woman now with a completely different life, I still suppress the memories. It's strange how even now, so many years later, unexpectedly a memory will creep into the forefront of my mind, and I will find myself standing in the shower and so absolutely grateful that I am now able to bathe anytime I feel like it or grateful that I do not have to hide food under my bed. What Jamie is going through is not something she will forget. However, we can help give her the opportunity to be able to look back and only have those events as memories which make her grateful for a better life. I really want us to do that.
Hubs is still quite ill. He does say that he thinks the breathing treatments are helping though. He still stands strong with forbidding me to take his photo with the sexy purple dinosaur mask though! He says it's bad enough that I already blogged about it. So, let's go one step further - introducing the Barney Breathing Mask...
When in use, the medicine-vapor smoke comes out the sides of the mask and it looks like the dinosaur is breathing fire. Now, why would my husband not want his picture taken wearing this?
Now ladies, I realize you all want one of these for your husbands too - don't the purple eyelashes just make it totally HOT? My favorite color too!
Don't worry, if Hubs doesn't like that I posted this, it doesn't matter. He's sick - I can run faster than him! I'm not afraid! Sometimes you have to take risks for the sake of your blog ;-)
I am totally procrastinating on getting the things on my to-do list done. Ummm Taxes - Yeah, I better get on that! Preparing portfolios to receive experiential credit for some of my college courses - yeah, those were supposed to be done a LONG time ago. Yeah, I'll get to it... sometime.
I'd like to be off on a fabulous vacation right now. I wonder what the rates are for a hotel in Vegas. Yeah, who am I kidding? Nah, I'll just grab the camera and go for a walk.
