November 19, 2009
Holy Moly I'm Behind!
Look at that picture up there! The one in the blog header! Not only does it have my old blog name, which I sort of changed but didn't really, but also ... the "baby" in the sling is now 4 years old!And not only that, but It's missing AN ENTIRE CHILD! A child who is about to turn one year old!
It's almost like ... I've neglected my blog design!
Oh, right, I remember. I was going to revamp the whole thing.
Until I remembered how much WORK that would be.
What if I just re-do the picture and ... hm. I could PAY someone for a nicer design. One that's less cumbersome to edit and more stylish. I could muddle through something myself, with my latent artsy fartsy abilities, but they're pretty rusty and when I go into creative mode I tend to forget everything else in my life. Which doesn't really work so well when there's laundry, meals, dishes, school, and children already on my plate. But it's hard to decide to pay someone for something you know you could do, if given the time and attention. Not that it's about the money, it's more about the CAN do thing.
But wow, is that picture out of date.
I should make a new picture, at the least.
Look for that in the next ... um ... few years.
yeah.
In the meantime, here's the baby, in the leaves, from a few weeks ago. 'Cause I'm a little behind.
oh, ha ha ha, funny story. At least, funny in the sense of "What a dork I am!" -- Just now, after posting this, I went to edit the picture and I found the Christmas picture I was working on two years ago. No, 2006 was THREE years ago. That I never sent out. All of you who didn't get our Christmas Card two years ago, or three years ago, and thought you were rudely omitted from our list? No, I just didn't send any out. And same thing last year, except for the part where I even tried to work on the picture. Maybe I should start working on Christmas '10 right now?
Posted by Kim at November 19, 2009 1:24 PMHa! Yeah... I, uh, recently updated my profile pic on Facebook(which takes all of, what, 6 seconds?) to be a picture of our littlest guy because for the first SIX MONTHS of his life, my profile pic was an old family picture that didn't include him!
Posted by: Christina at November 19, 2009 2:59 PMJust 'cause you CAN do something doesn't mean you have to. You know me: I'll sooner pay someone to get something done that's way overdue, than beat myself up for not doing it myself. Life is short: hire help!
Love the Seven photos. I mean the three Seven photos.
Posted by: linda at November 21, 2009 8:23 AM"it's not about the money, it's about the 'can do' thing." exactly! i am the same way. with about the same results.
and i have apparently passed that trait on to my cildren. when i told my oldest that i wanted to hire a friend to come take some family pictures, he said, "why would you pay someone to do that? you have a nice camera and a tripod; why don't you take them?" um, yeah, so i didn't call the friend. that was july and now it's december and do you think we have pictures? (hint: no.)
Posted by: 40winkzzz at December 5, 2009 1:09 AM
