Concentration and Projects, and Friday Photo Challenge

I can't concentrate anymore. I think it's because I'm pregnant, have two young kids, work full time, and still have all the chores to do in between all of that during the week. When you take pregnancy out of the picture, then it becomes much easier, because I have energy, I sleep better and I exercise more. It's amazing what taking those three things away from you can do to your ability to concentrate. And really it's not only the concentration, it's the memory (mine is shot), my creativity drains out of me (notice no scrapping and fewer photos these days...) and mood deteriorates significantly (I'll save that dicey subject for another post!). It doesn't help that I read a million blogs (well not that many but enough) and surf the scrapbook pages at Designer Digitals. So that takes up a lot of precious time also. But when I do find a page or something I really like at DD, like this POSTER I think - So cool, I want to do this, it's so simple!! Yet requires concentration!! So last night I saw this. Opened Photoshop, created a new 16 X 20 300 dpi document..... and, then that was that... I realized it was 8:45 pm, I was totally exhausted from the week, so I resigned myself to watching a few shows we had taped, then went to bed at 10 pm. So another project for the project list! I won't even bother update you on project 365. I think I'll rename it project 25 (as in 25 days, hahahah!)

Last weeks Friday Photo Challenge (which I realized just now that I didn't post on my blog!!) was a composition one, focusing on symmetry or repetition. Here are my two for the challenge:




Oh... here comes Gillian, looks like computer time is over! Can't wait to see your photos! Have a good weekend.

It's Tuesday and I don't know what to write...

The problem with going into work each day and doing what I do is that it doesn't lend itself to very interesting blog posts. I could gripe about work, but I'm not fed up with it enough to start doing that publicly and it would just bore you all!! I'm actually enjoying myself. I could write about a problem we have with someone on our team, but I don't want to get myself in trouble and it's not fair. My days are fairly boring in that nothing too crazy happens. I did get to go to Houston last month, and I will be going to Toronto in October, but not much traveling goes on for us. There is an interesting conference I'd like to attend in Las Vegas in Jan - E-Learning technology, but it may be hard for me to get the ok to go... but I'll work on it! But generally the day to day is just that, day to day!

For excitement I come home and hang out with the kids (although perhaps excitement isn't the right word!!) and then i get to play on my computer at night and scrapbook, scan photos, chat with Beth and read other people's blogs. What was really exciting for me, was this weekend my layout of Gillian was chosen as a spotlight for the Creative Inspirations blog I follow. It was exciting to read in Beth's blog that my layout had been chosen! I'm working on their next challenge, but finding it more difficult to put together than that one. Maybe I'll finish it tonight and post it.

Otherwise life is good, the weather is just perfect these days and the leaves are starting to change colour - my favourite time of year... stay tuned for fall photos! That's it for a regular Tuesday!