Photo of the Week

Some pink/orange to perk up your Monday.

Photo of the Week

Learning my new camera setting while at the zoo.

Word of the Year

For several years, I have read great blogs by wonderful women who all choose a word for the year. It seems like a nice twist on New Year's resolutions, so I thought I would give it a try this year. It was hard to come up with a word for me, but after much thought, I have decided my word is going to be:

 prompt

I am usually paralyzed by my perfection issues. So much so that I don't get any project done that I start. Or often times, I don't even start the project for fear that it won't be as perfect as the image in my head. This has plagued me since childhood. My thesis was a nightmare of a time and even though I knew I had to finish it so I could graduate, I still put it off and put it off until I had to spend weeks up late every night to finish.  I can't even bare to open up my 300 page thesis these days. And it isn't bad, in fact the writing is surprisingly good, as well as my idea which due to the economy is very relevant these days.
Some of you might be wondering if you are such a perfectionist, you would get everything done and that you can't actually be a perfectionist.You are just lazy. It is hard to explain the anxiety I have from doing almost anything, including work which I could get fired from for sitting there paralyzed, so I figured this year I would work on less analyzing of everything and more of just doing. In December, I was very sick, but functional sick. You know the kind where you are sick, but not so sick you can't just lay there doing nothing. I got so much done because I was too sick to sit and worry about every little thing. It was quite refreshing to not have all the anxiety, although the coughing and mucus was not.

Here's to hoping  that working on being prompt helps me out this year.

What's Wrong

Sort of like what can happen while redoing a floor. Poor guys

Ponder Post

This was placed in a yard in my neighborhood. What a fun addition to the scenery. I like when people do something unexpected and I look forward to seeing the new ponder for the month.

Seals

A sample of what I was up to last week at this time. Rockin it at the beach with the seals!

What's Wrong

I am I not a fan of minivans because they don't look good and people driving them drive like morons. I had to drive one this weekend while on vacation with some awesome people. While driving, I discovered why all people driving them drive like idiots. The mirrors are too tiny and there are crazy blind spots. I constantly kept adjusting them, hoping for full visual of the road and my surroundings. Nothing.
For how big the car is, the mirrors are like tiny ears on an elephant, they do almost no good. Look at the photo, it is like they just stuck them on the side because they had to and called it a day. In the future, I hope designers figure out a way to add in mirrors on minivans that are at least the size of truck mirrors. It isn't like the mirrors are what makes the car ugly. Then there will be less blind spots and I won't have to adjust the mirrors every damn time I want to parallel park.