I don't even know if the blogs are up and working yet or not, but here I am typing away.

I've had a couple of discouraging days.  Nothing major, just once again a bunch of little stuff.

Charlet had a 105 fever yesterday, has a UTI and blood in her urine.  I'm hoping this doesn't involve another workup.  I can not imagine putting her through a VCUG as old as she is now.  Yet not old enough to get that it's ok.

Paul's being grumpy and I don't know why.  I got my lanterns for photography stuff, fixed all of the wiring stuff myself, but I don't have anything to hang it from.  He wouldn't help me hang it, brainstorm about stands or anything.  So I had Charlet stand on my laundry soap bucket and hold it.  Not the best stand in the world.

I was misunderstood at my photography board, and when I tried to explain myself I was called ungrateful and accused of not listening to their advice.  *sigh*  I think I'm going to go back into lurkdom there for a while.  I know that true learning comes from critiques (which I can handle) but I'm not up for personal attacks.

I was just contacted about the intermediate class (which I want to take) but it runs until 10 Mon, Tues, Wed.  So now I have to find a sitter from 8:30 until 10 for 3 nights a week.  Not sure who to even ask.  *sigh*

I'm also trying to clean up my livingroom.  In a fit of frustration last night I grabbed the push broom and swept everything on the floors in the front part of my house into a pile in the livingroom.  It's getting closer, I was hoping to work on sorting the laundry today so I can get rid of the stuff that doesn't fit instead of it ending up in dirty laundry and me rewashing and refolding clothes that haven't been worn.

But thought I'd keep blogging anyways. 

For those of you who have never tried to shoot a self-portrait, I'll give you a few tips.

IT'S HARD!

I took pictures of someone else doing exactly what I was going to be doing in the same spot etc.  I had my camera on a tripod and didn't move it.  Set the time and ran to the yoga mat and got into up dog (which BTW is not a flattering position from behind)  Well, it didn't work at all.  I wanted a wide open aperture so that the real me was out of the DOF and the focus landed on the me in the mirror.  Yeah, I still think it's a good idea.

So, the guy I took the original picture of new a bit about cameras so I had him shoot it for me, thinking maybe the focus was funky because of the timer not autofocusing.  Even with my best explanation of what I wanted I didn't get that.  *sigh*

So, here is one of me (through the mirror) as I was trying to set up the yoga shot.




This one is a lot closer to what I was envisioning for the picture, but for some reason all of the make up ran off of my face before I was able to shoot this.




I have to turn one of them in tonight.  Not sure which one I'm turning in.