Song Lyric of the Day:
And my heart beats faster than safe / Faster than the train in my mind / And I’m not / But I try to find out / What to do with my life
The Shout Out Louds / “A Track and a Train“
Wow — I didn’t realize a month has passed since my last update. Not blogging was a mostly conscious decision, though (as in I would have liked to update here and there but time/the desire escaped me). I felt like I needed to just step back and enjoy living my life instead of trying to document and share online what I was up to. (Hence my decreased Facebook activity, too.) Although, in all honesty, blogging helps me remember a lot of things as my memory is just horrible. My short-term memory, to be exact — I can’t remember what I had for lunch yesterday, but I remember phone numbers from 20 years ago without any problem. Weird, huh?
I’m aiming to update on the more interesting stuff that’s happened recently as time allows — my class reunion (very belatedly, but at least it will satisfy Miss A’s curiosity. Hi, Miss A!); a long-overdue visit with my aunt and uncle from New York; our trip to Asheville, including an accidental two-day Biltmore visit; and our visit to Hampton Roads, from which we just returned on Saturday. And let me just say — two days of doing nothing after eight days of doing everything, and Rich, Coraline, and I are exhausted. I took a three-and-a-half-hour nap on Sunday. Three-and-a-half hours! Our first day back at work today (and day care for Coraline) is going to be a long one. Fueled by copious amounts of caffeine (and juice for Coraline), no doubt.
Another reason I’ve stepped back from my online life is that I’ve been working on a massive photo archiving project, which has necessarily taken up a lot of my free time most evenings. I know I take too many photographs: I was down to less than 1MB of space on my MacBook (which has 80GB of storage) due to said photos. So I’ve been backing up photos from my laptop to a 500GB external hard drive I bought specifically for photo storage only. I’m up to a whopping 12GB of free space now. Even my iPhone was too full — I could only get maybe three apps to open because I had too many photos saved. Photos I couldn’t upload into iPhoto because I didn’t have enough free space on my laptop. It’s a vicious cycle. And yes, I wanted to be a photographer when I grew up. Hence my compulsive need to photograph everything.
I now return you to your regularly scheduled program.
Hi back! From Montreal this week!
You know, I agree with you, while I’d sometimes like to step back from on virtual life, I love going back and seeing where I was months, sometimes years ago, and it’s sometimes joyous, or painful, plain bland or not as bad as I thought.
Also, I made a very conscious decision to have very few online “friends” and to read very few blogs, thus allowing the time to really develop the ties between me and them, and to really read and enjoy.
Anyway, happy to read you back here. And while you’re archiving your photo albums, print as many as you can and make albums. My most cherish possession from my grandmother are the albums she left me, and there’s nothing like touching the pictures of my great grand parents, and knowing that their fingers touched the same paper. It’s really priceless.
Wishing you the best visit to Montreal possible, given the circumstances. 🙂 Tell Canada I said hi!
And I *know* you can relate.
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