This is Me. This is my brain on Life.
I don't know why that stupid line has underlined the words up there either. But I can't get them to go away.
I've been underground a bit lately. Been busier than usual. I've taken on a few projects that are awesome but it meant that an old dog had to learn new tricks. Luckily for me, I happen to know that old dogs can learn new tricks even if it cramps our their brains a little. After avoiding Photoshop for years, I finally had to learn a few things about it in order to do my best on one of these projects. My oldest son tried his best to help me over the phone from out of state, bless his heart. But I'm just too visual for that. My friend Brad came to my rescue and patiently helped me. Yay Brad! So I've had my eyeballs glued to my laptop even more than usual the last few weeks, and the headaches to prove it! But it feels good to have learned something even if I have a long way to go. And as I stated before, I will tell you about this new project soon.
Good grief, what would families do without moms!?!? Yeah, I know my kids think I sit on the couch and play on my laptop all day, drink diet Coke, eat Ruffles, get pedicures, have lunch with friends, take naps, spoil my dogs, and stay up all night watching my favorite shows. What a stress-free, cushy life! That's probably what they see from their perspective, though some of those things like pedicures and lunch with friends (and naps!) only happen occasionally. And when I'm "playing" on my laptop, I may zoom in to check on my Facebook buddies, but for the most part, I am working on photographs or blogging. I wish kids could see more of a behind-the-scenes perspective of all the things we do to keep our nutsy families running - while at the same time try to continually develop ourselves as people too. It's a hard balance. But it's really important to make that effort.
So since I've been a bit absent lately, here is my peace offering. My friend Elise posted this instantly recognizable cover by a duo called Pomplamoose, on Facebook. Pomplamoose has made a LOT of very cool stuff and they have it offered in all kinds of places, even on iTunes. So check them out on their YouTube music channel - with links to their other channels. Let me know if you think they're cool too.
P.S. Cindy, I hope everything goes well with your tooth today :/
Oh Megan,
ReplyDeleteGreat post as usual. And that's not just a passing compliment, a blah-blah-blah-compliment. it means, you alway do great posts. I am still agog at your willingness and dare I say it your ability--go on, admit it--you're getting the hang of Photoshop aren't you, you traitor you! :) I bow in humility and admiration.
But I want to thank you in particular for this one line:
>I wish kids could see more of a behind-the-scenes perspective of all the things we do to keep our nutsy families running - while at the same time try to continually develop ourselves as people too. It's a hard balance. But it's really important to make that effort.>
God bless you for saying that Megan, because not many women do say it out loud and it needs lots of saying and doing. If we don't keep developing as people how in the world do we help develop our children?
Keep up the great work!
xxxx
I love that girl's voice.. I have to admit I almost didn't look at the video because I thought the girl looked like Just Beiber or whatever his name is.. that is a little tween pop star.. but I take that back now.. she looks like a girl. It's just that front pic. I just didn't want to listen to the teeny bopper.
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