Guten Morgen Freunde!
I just opened up this window on my browser to write a new post and spied something to the right of my page. I dragged the window open a little bigger to discover that I can schedule a post to be posted at a certain time and date! What?! So, in theory I could write 20 posts today and have them scheduled to post every day at different times. So sneaky... However, I couldn't possibly write 20 posts in a day so you don't need to worry about me taking 20 days off.
Anyways.... It's kind of weird writing monologues day after day. It starts to feel a wee bit narcissistic. I guess it would be even more weird to post a dialogue to a blog. I've seen lots of blogs that are based on pictures that the blogger takes. I'm a visual person, so I love pictures, in general.
Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately) I outgrew the excessive picture taking compulsion of my adolescence. Going through old boxes of my stuff in my mom's storage locker, I find tons of random pictures developed from disposable and Polaroid cameras. When I got my paws on a digital camera I loaded my old computer with less than awesome snapshots of literally everything. At some point I got sick of hanging out with people who were constantly snapping pictures. Stopping every five minutes to pose and snap started to get old.
I noticed that when I went on trips and vacations with my family I was constantly thinking about the next photo opportunity. I wanted to post cool pictures on Facebook to show my friends. It was exhausting. Thankfully I weaned myself off of the picture addiction. Although I no longer have pictures of every trip I've been on, I have memories that I never could have made if I had been worrying about capturing every moment on film (er, memory stick/disk/chip, whatever).
I still love getting a few token pictures taken when the time is right, although I'll admit that I still feel sheepish asking someone to take my picture for me. It just seems weird to me. "Hi stranger, could you push this button and take a picture of me trying to look better than I do normally, so that I can post this picture to FB and show everyone how attractive I am and how fun I am? Take five pictures just in case. Thanks."
Maybe I should try taking purposefully unattractive pictures to break myself of the FB photo habit. Stay tuned for the results.
Love,
Charlotte
I always wish we took more pics of the puppies during their adolescent phase - we have lots when they were tiny, and lots now that they're big, but not much from the middle!
ReplyDeleteI hear you! I found a couple of Sammy in his gangly phase.
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