I have really fallen down on the job this week in terms of food photoblogging, but I have all sorts of excuses. I had a really bad cold, like a mild flu really, and I was so exhausted I basically did as little as possible Tuesday-Thursday. Carole’s baby shower was on Saturday, so all my energies were in preparing for that and entertaining and cleaning up afterwards. I ate way too much and did not track it in any way. I was so far off the wagon, it makes me fear I won’t get back on again. It’s gotta happen, so it will. Photos are back in production tomorrow! AND I’m going to write things down. It’s gonna be even MORE hardcore. Roar.
I am finally pinning down my holiday plans, so that’s another item about to be off the to-do list. My shortened hours this fall have really screwed with my vacation time, but I’m going to make it work.
Oh! Also went to a rockin’ Neko Case concert on Friday, that was really fun too. Carole and I were both so tired from party prep and me from being sick all week that we ducked out before the encore and went to bed. We’re such crazy nightlifers, let me tell you.
I hope to get more posts posted sometime during Thanksgiving Break, and hopefully with some purpose aforethought. It probably won’t happen any sooner than that as this week is not gonna be pretty, and I am especially reluctant to see what’s in store for me tomorrow. No point in worrying about it too much now, so I’ll suspend thinking about it until it becomes eminently necessary.
I had a major case of the Sundays today. I hadn’t been inspired by my homework, STILL, this morning, but I had to get it done today, so I turned in something I’m pretty sure I will have to re-submit at least once. But it’s turned in on time, and resubmitting is perfectly acceptable, so I shouldn’t feel so pouty about it. Too bad I do anyway. I have continued to food-photo-blog, but I’m going to spare you the pictures unless it’s something noteworthy. You can still go to my Food Photoblog set on Flickr if you really want to. It’s been about 5 days without coffee, soda, or juice. I think it’s a good start, and I feel much less…puffy. I think that’s the word I’m looking for. I hope I can get through tomorrow without having the little breakdown I had last Monday when I realized how much work I had to do after working on my homework all weekend. I just have to realize it’s going to seem impossible on Mondays and doable by Wednesday. Really. It’s going to be okay. I’m totally sure of it. Well, pretty confident. Or…”fake it till you make it” is a good backup plan anyway.
I don’t like how much I crave outside praise and approval. I just got a bit of a buzz off an e-mail about an e-newsletter I put out at my job, and as great as it makes me feel & as much as it probably will help me do my job through yet another grueling week, it makes me realize how demoralized I get without it. I got a great compliment from my Photoshop Techniques instructor last week and it lifted the entire class, which I’d been feeling really crap about, out of the gutter. What if I hadn’t really nailed the assignment, though?
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