Project 365 - Day 18

OK, so if you read the post before you already know that I started a new project for the year taking a photo every day and posting it to this blog. You will also already know that I promptly forgot the new year's resolution after the second day and did not remember it again until today.

So, without further ado, here is my first post...

It's actually some of my son's left over Christmas candy I brought to work with me today. I was fooling around with the macro button on the new camera and I think it turned out kind of nice.

Now please remember, I am NOT a professional so if you are going to critique my work, be kind! :-)

P.S. I know that this doesn't really have anything to do with being a single christian mom. I'm just hoping that posting here will give me the kick I need to actually continue with this. Plus, you will get to see lots of interesting things in my little family life. Think about that! YIKES!

Project 365

Long before the holidays, I started to search for the best digital camera on the market for myself and my tight budget. I finally found and ordered one that would fit my style, photographic ambitions and again, small budget.

While searching for user reviews, I came across a photo-blogging website that suggested trying something for the new year called Project 365. It's basically a decision to take a new photo everyday and keep it in some sort of organized fashion so at the end of the year you can not only see how you have progressed as a photographer but you will also get to experience your past year in vivid full-color detail.

OK, so this takes some devotion or reminding but I was adamant to my son that this is what I was going to do this year. I took a great shot (see left) for January 1st and also another one for January 2nd (see below) and then, of course, January 3rd rolled around and I promptly forgot about it.

So I was thinking today, because I just remembered it, that I should use this blog to remind me. I will post a new photo everyday and that way I can hold myself accountable. :-)

P.S. The camera I finally decided on is a Canon IS S3. I used some coupons and a sale at Dell.com to get it at $125 off the retail price! Oh, and the photo to the right is of the snow plowed off of I-90 at the top of Snoqualmie Pass in WA on our way home from Seattle.

How nerdy are YOU?

So, in my travels online yesterday, I came across a blog with a post to a Nerd Test. Being a self-proclaimed Geek, I thought I would click on the link and give it a try...see how nerdy I really was.

Long story short, I RULE!! Lol, just kidding. I've been doing the whole computer thing since I was 5 so I should be good at a quiz like this but I was shocked at the results. Now I'm starting to wonder if maybe this is why I can't get a date. Well, that and the fact that I don't go looking to date. :-)

Check out my score below and click the little picture. You can take the quiz yourself and gloat to someone you know if you are super-nerdy too. Or maybe being un-nerdy is the real cool factor now. Hmmm. I guess I'm in trouble then. Haha.

Read any good blogs lately?

I really don't remember quite how I stumbled onto it but I recently found a blog called "Rocks in my Dryer". I got to reading and clicking and 4 hours later, I had 20+ new friends who just happened to also be moms who like to blog.

Now, don't get me wrong. These girls have never met or spoken with me but after reading their daily lives through their archival links, I feel like they are some of my closest friends. I laughed till my new coworkers started to wonder what I was doing and I cried till my contacts literally floated right out of my eyes.

A lot of them have been blogging for years. I feel like such a newbie. Anyway, I wanted to share of my favorite blogs I found yesterday from fellow moms.

Rocks in my Dryer
Living in Grace
Everyday Mommy
Antique Mommy
Don't Try This at Home

I'm Baaacccckkkk!

OK OK, I know I said this like 8 or 9 months ago but I'm for real this time! I'm going to commit to this and really post things everyday, or every other day, or whenever I get a second. :-)

In my defense, I have been slightly preoccupied with family and friend events such as death, marriage, illness and to top it off, I applied and was offered a new job last month. Two weeks before Christmas. With training in another town. 200 miles from my son. Two weeks before Christmas. :-(

Anyway, I promise to write more. I really do. Really. Seriously. Lol, OK now you are just being mean.