Time for an update.

Well, now I am feeling much more confident in my photographic abilities.  No, not because I took a self-portrait…or two, or three, but because I have all of the right tools {as far as I am concerned} for portrait photography.  Now, I just need to find some smiley people who want to pose for me.

So, today, if you were to visit me, I might run and hide.  You might think it all looks decent enough when you walk through my living room, except for the tripod sitting in the middle of the floor as I type; but then you would walk into the dining room area where my desk is cluttered with camera gadgets, an open checkbook, miscellaneous paperwork, a brand new package of ping-pong balls {that little man}, a couple of cell phones, keys, scissors, books, etc.  Oh, and the table….that has an empty box holding an empty box from the external flash that was just dropped off.  You’ll find a playmobil nativity scene spread out all over the place {from my boys, who must keep pulling it out – I do have a place in mind for it, not the table}.  Let’s not even go into the kitchen where there remains a few boxed groceries from shopping last night, still in need of cupboard hiding.  Dishes, not too many, but still plenty to do.  The bathroom?  Ummm…I cleaned it this morning, but didn’t put anything away yet.  Now, upstairs is entirely a different mess to deal with.  I started on putting the three baskets full of clothes away, and became sidetracked.  Each basket is still holding a few socks, etc.  I began organizing little man’s dresser in’s and out’s  - - piles of too small and too big and just right are everywhere, on top, in drawers and on the floor now.

Why am I writing then?  BECAUSE!  I just want to.  I sometimes feel like a slave to my A.D.D. behavior, a slave to the need to have everything in it’s place {which NEVER happens, well for too long anyway}, and a slave to my own personal expectations of self.  SO….I decided to play with the camera, take some new shots of self and sit here for a minute.

I suppose, I should now go find myself some lunch.  Maybe I’ll put those things away in the kitchen and bathroom, take down the tripod and I’d better get those clothes fixed up in little man’s room before he gets home and decides that we’re keeping everything.

I read this quote this morning in my new 365 devotional {oh…this is something, too…me….doing a 365, at the end of the year – but I don’t want to wait on it for January and I have every right to start where I want to - - doesn’t help with the A.D.D. though}.

If you, your heart, your will, are enlisted on the good side, if you are wishing and trying that the good in you should conquer the bad, then you are on the side of God Himself, and God is on your side; and ‘if God be for us, who shall be against us?’  Take courage, then.  If you are fighting against your worst feelings, so is God.  On your side is God who made all, and Christ who died for all, and the Holy Spirit who alone gives wisdom, purity, nobleness.  How can you fail when He is on your side?  On your side are all spirits of just men {and women} made perfect, all wise and good souls in earth and Heaven, all good and wholesome influences, whether of nature or of grace, of matter or of mind.  How can you fail if they are on your side? ~Charles Kingsley


Don’t you just love that????!!!!