It's Never Too Late for Resolutions

Or at least, that's what I'm telling myself: That just because I've waited until January 4 to make any resolutions at all doesn't make them invalid. Not allowing myself a resolution would sort of be like eating the whole bag of cookies because what the hell? you've already eaten four of them!, only the opposite... or something.

Anyway, is it absolutely crazy of me to resolve to post every day? I feel the same nervousness I did when I signed up for NaBloPoMo, so something tells me that this is indeed crazy, but also the right thing to do. Writing every day was a good thing for me in November; why wouldn't it be in January, February, March, etc.? I might not catch up with all I want to say with this resolution, but at least I will have *some* record of my life in 2007.

Speaking of having a record of my life, I've been uploading a gazillion photos taken over the holiday break to Flickr, with more to come. (Actually, I think I started uploading the ones from New Year's weekend before I finished uploading the Christmas ones, so my photostream will be slightly out of order.) I realized when we were in NYC over the weekend how LONG it's been since I've gone on a photo walk, and how much I've been jonesing for one. I tried to get a few snaps of the city while also documenting The Beaner's adventures with his cousin, aunt, and uncle, and the little I got only made the ache to go on a photo walk stronger.

I can't remember if I mentioned that the two-month period of bliss where The Beaner never woke up before 7:20am has ended; sometime in November we went to an erratic schedule of him waking anywhere between 5:45am and 8:45am (and usually on the earlier end of the scale). It's made getting up for a walk in the morning nigh impossible, but I'm thinking that I'm going to have to come up with a solution to that problem. I NEED my morning walks, dammit, and I think they could be a way to assuage some of the photography jones, too. If I could stay out for an hour, I could get a walk *and* some photos in at least once a week.

In the meantime, here are a few of my favorites from the NYC photos I've uploaded so far:

swing 3 henry street
96th Street station family stop
self-portrait with beaner at otto

And oh! Before I forget: I got one of my most-desired items on my Amazon wishlist from Al for Christmas—namely, the Canon Speedlite 580EX Flash. I didn't use it for any of the NYC photos (too big to carry around when traveling with kids), but I tried it out on Christmas morning, and I'm going to try to practice more with it this week.

Posted by Lori in bloggity goodness and photography at 3:09 PM on January 4, 2007

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It is never too late for resolutions!

After building up a good head of steam with NaBloPoMo, I posted every day in December except for Christmas Eve. Not sure what happened there. But I forgave myself, and am back on the posting horse.

Which maybe is a hobby horse, of sorts.

That boy of yours is just darling. He's really a wonderful combination of the two of you. It's so cool.

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It is never too late for resolutions!

After building up a good head of steam with NaBloPoMo, I posted every day in December except for Christmas Eve. Not sure what happened there. But I forgave myself, and am back on the posting horse.

Which maybe is a hobby horse, of sorts.

That boy of yours is just darling. He's really a wonderful combination of the two of you. It's so cool.

Posted by: ratphooey [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 4, 2007 4:14 PM

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