I ripped a contact early in the week last week. I HATE me in glasses, so getting pics for this weeks Flip Side has been painful…in more ways than one:
Youch
*You would THINK I remembered how I got this bruise. Nope. Took this pic last week, the bruise is still going strong.
Pre-run spectacled
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It is very rare an occasion that the husband and I can get Christmas presents for each other. In fact, the last time was 3 years ago and we had maybe a $50 budget. We focus on the kids, and making the day about them.
This year, thanks to some planning ahead (like starting to buy in June and actually putting money away for this reason)…we can actually buy each other Christmas presents. Our budget is a little more roomy…room for one larger ticket item, and a few small things.
In making my Christmas list I have two bigger ticket items on it. Just about everything on my list revolves around my camera…and since we can’t afford a new camera or lens, I have two things that I really want and I can’t get them both…unless I win this giveaway.
See, I’ve been eying the idea of a nice camera bag for a while. When I saw this Rose bag in the color Clementine from Jo Totes, I fell hard. Archie thinks I’m strange for wanting this orange color, but I’ve been falling in love with orange slowly over the past couple of years. And this bag is beautiful in orange.
Then there’s an extension tube for my camera. I really would like it for a number of reasons…and though I’ve been coveting it for less time, it’s still something I really want.
So, when I saw the giveaway at Lotus’ review site I had to enter…because if I win, the conundrum is solved. Otherwise one of these items has to wait longer, until I can afford it out of pocket.
Choosing between two big wants is very much not easy…and winning this giveaway would ease that so much 😉 Cross fingers.
P.S. Archie, so you know…the other things I want for Christmas are here:
Wireless Remote, Tripod, EAS Sports Active, Cook or Be Cooked, Lens Hood, a gift card to Knit Picks, Truly Victorian, or Barnes & Noble, of course, a new robe and slippers are always good 😉
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*Yup, I hardly ever blog about giveaways…despite the extra entries it can get you…but this giveaway was too good to pass up….plus the post also served a dual purpose, by giving the hubby my Christmas list in one place. So forgive me for my indulgent post…we go back to semi-regularly scheduled posting tomorrow 😉
**Oh, and please don’t go to Lotus’ for this giveaway…no matter how AWESOME it is…The few people that enter, the more likely I am to win…I know…you’re already on your way over. I’m so screwed *G*
All taken w/ Canon Rebel XTi. ALL SOOC.
For week 10/24-10/30/10
No real solid theme for this week, so it’s ‘scattered’.
Trick & Treating
*No idea why I adore this picture & how all that’s in focus is Angel’s hat…but I do adore it.
Gorgeous (& SOOC)
Light Play
I was cleaning and saw this spray of light. Love that it photographed well
Handy Helper
Mmmmm….Frosting
Dash
Pause
Dreamy-sicle
I’ve made pettiskirts every year…never have I had such gorgeous fabric as this year.
I got my book on my camera this week. I’m looking forward to keeping reading and experimenting as I do. Hopefully even more as weeks go on!
That’s all for this week. Head on over to Lotus‘ digs to see more!!
This was what she’d wanted. There were no regrets. There never had been.
The choice was gone, the grip of menopause growing ever tighter. She dealt with the hot flashes, the swinging moods as well.
She focused on the joy of it. The relief of not dealing with pain and ick.
Then it hit. Unbidden. Unwelcome.
Tiny movements. Kicks. Little grasping fingers. Giggles. Smiles.
She’d had them. 3 times.
But they would never be hers to feel again. Not through any means but memory.
It was what she’d wanted.
So why did it hit her so hard now? Years later?
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I do the 100 word challenge regularly over at my writing blog. For some reason this week I was inspired twice over. This came out so I posted it over here.
In just a few weeks it will be the 4 year anniversary of my emergency hysterectomy. I never regretted my choice once it was made, even lying in the women’s center recovering, listening to the sound of newborn babies crying. Not once in the past four years. Until recently when I had a moment. A moment where regret hit me hard…before going away again.
Thus this post.
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The earths’ parched lips gasped for refreshment. A drop of water to save its barren surface.
When the skies finally darkened, the world reached up to receive it. Leaves curving up toward the sky. Cracked blades of grass stirred in the gentle wind. Soothing drops fell. One. Two. Three. Soaking into the landscape, welcomed, invited.
Unbidden it turned. Pouring down so fast the world could not receive.
The winds whipped up tearing the fragile world.
Shattering dry, fragile limbs of trees.
Stirring up the dusty remains of the dry earth, spreading it far.
Devastation.
Tornado.
Mother Nature can be cruel.
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