Hiya

Long time no post! I’ve seriously slacked this year .. sorry ’bout that. Its not like I’ve been super busy .. well I kinda have, but I’m always at the computer and should make time to post a picture or two of what’s going on with me. When friends have told me they want to start blogging, I always tell them to blog often, even if its about nothing, because if you wait, you wont know where to start, you’ll have too much to share So that’s where I am .. where to start .. ? I guess I’ll update my resolutions .. how are they going? Well I have a bunch of celery in the crisper in its originally packaging, the dogs were walked twice since the 1st of the year, and I’ve been on my computer all morning .. in bed .. because its cold. No seriously .. its like 55 degrees here in Florida! Ugh! I’ve been keeping up with my bag resolution .. basically because Publix is the only store I’ve really gone to in the past 2 weeks Hey .. I’ve got a whole year to get these resolutions started, right? I mean they’re more like guidelines anyways!

So what have I been doing? I started the new year off with some marketing for my photography business. Yesterday I sent out thank you cards to all my 2008 clients with moo cards in them that feature a few favorite shots. The idea being that if they liked their pictures, they’ll want to show them off to friends and then my contact info is on the back. The entire project was less then $100 and if I book one session from it.. it will be totally worth it. I also put up a design on FurryFoto.com, my pet photography site. I could use some models for that site. I might need to host a free photo day at one of the local dog parks or something. Anyways the photography biz is growing, slowly .. but it is growing

Next up .. for christmas my mom and dad got us an invisible fence to keep the dogs from running away. Last week I started the process of laying out the wire, hooking it up and testing it. But when I got to the task of burying it I burned out quickly. I did about 100 feet and finished for the day, fully intending to finish up on Sat or Sun .. but of course I was sore as hell from all that work, and by monday something in my back went out of whack. Tuesday night was so bad that I actually took a pain killer I had from when my cat attacked me 4 years ago (I dont think it worked anyways) .. but today I’m soo much better. I’m considering taking up the task of digging the trench again, but I have a sub job tomorrow and the last thing I want is to have to deal with middle schoolers and killer back pain at the same time. 

How’s the family? Well .. yesterday was my mom’s 60th birthday! Seriously she does not look 60 to me Apparently liz made her a purple cake and dad brought her home some lobsters .. a perfect meal for my mom. Next week (the 22nd) is Liz’s birthday, so I’m planning a visit to south florida sometime next week. Liz leaves for washington dc on saturday and depending on if my mom needs help with ella or not, I’ll either be heading down before tuesday (dont want to miss the inauguration) or closer to the 22nd. Yes, if you haven’t read liz’s blog lately .. her boss has been invited to perform at the native american ball, so she’s going to an inauguration ball! And .. President Elect Obama is scheduled to make an appearance!  She’ll be working back stage the whole time, but that means she might have a good chance in getting to see him .. live .. upclose & in person .. like .. holy cow! Needless to say she’s super excited

This post needed a picture .. here’s one of Ella that liz took last week. The rest are on her blog, its from her legwarmer shoot

Now that you’re all caught up .. I promise to try to update more often. I’m trying to start cooking again, so I have more recipes to share. And I’ve been taking pictures .. mostly of the dogs .. but as I go through them I’ll share the good ones