A Laugh a day....

My outlook on life seems to improve exponentially when it gets warmer outside after being so cold. I have always loved cold weather, but I'm ready for it to say bye bye this year. Is it because I'm getting older or what? Who knows. I drink a lot of milk, so I know my bones are not brittle. I don't know why I think that has anything to do with it.

Anyway, I want to remember the things that make me laugh. Ohhh, the favorite parts of my day are laughing into hysterics. It doesn't happen that way everyday, but there's something that makes me laugh at least one time a day. So I'm going to remember it by trying to post it.

Today's LAUGH: Meg's bulletin on myspace that was the Dude commercial from Bud Light. Dude, dude, DUDE! It was so funny.

And one more: Ebbie the cat came into my room. When I walked around the corner, he hissed at me. The nerve! I immediately said out loud...alone...with this cat. "You come into MY room and hiss at ME?!?" (Tracie, I promise we made up after that.)

Here's a picture from a session I've been editing with my friend, Nicole, and her six month old baby, Mack David. Love it, love it, love it!!!

Just Do It

My big question for the day has been this: What do I do in the face of adversity? When facing big, huge monsters that scare the blazes out of me... It hasn't really been a question that I couldn't answer. Because I run, and I know it. Just dealing with the truth has been pretty profound. If I continue this way, my goals and dreams for my life simply will not come to pass. I can stay in a place of safety and security forever, and that's fine. But am I happy with that? Well, of course not. I'm writing this now to get it down somewhere and not forget it. So many times just in the last two weeks, I've decided in my mind to give up, no more...I can't do it. I've made mistakes and most of the time feel like I have no clue what I'm doing in more than one area. Someone that I highly respect told me a couple of years ago that I give up too easily. I thought he was just crazy and didn't really know me, because that was SO not true. How funny that it took me so long to agree! This is a proclamation to myself that I am moving forward, taking another step and getting myself off this wretched plateau. I'm sure they're not really big monsters anyway.
Yes, this is cheesy, and I hate being cheesy. I am Mel Gibson in Braveheart with my sword and that blue paint. Or Abraham taking his son up to kill him as a sacrifice to God (ok, well not really.) But it just means that I have to do some things that I don't want to do to get to where I really want to be. Or Tom Hanks on the raft with Wilson going over the big waves to escape from the island. Or Frodo carrying the ring to the scary place because he's the only one that can do it. I think I'm getting the point across.
Time to go! But I can't guarantee that I won't use the same method I use when I watch horror movies - and that would be covering my eyes so that I can only see a small sliver of the screen. But at least I'm watching!

Blog Overdue

I like to blog - I really do. But the last few weeks, when thinking about blogging, I didn't feel that I had anything good to say. Like all that would come out would be blaaahhh. So I ignored my blog. Sorry blog! I still don't have much to say, but I wanted to post.

Here are some things going on:

*I finally launched my new website - www.sozophoto.com. I still have some tweaking to do before a grand, grand, grand announcement. I would like to add some music to it, but every time a good idea comes along, I find a reason to veto it. Do you have any ideas? I want something with a light, happy beat - not cheesy - not annoying - good flowing - meaningful.

*Today my main thought was this: I choose who I want to be. I can choose more than I think sometimes. Maybe I'm satisfied with myself only because I'm lazy and don't want to change. I can make my day better or worse. Or make my life better or worse.

*I love my house shoes. They are soft and warm.

*I need a couch. I looked at one today that I like, but even though it's not really expensive, I want a better deal. Tracie and I only have a loveseat that sits right in the middle of the living room pointing towards the tv. But the brown throw looks marvelous and compliments the orange rusty color of the loveseat.

That's about it.

Hope you have a great day.