It has been a while since I was here. A very long while. Anyone who has ever
read my blogs knows that one of my pet peeve for small business owners is NOT having a
blog and, if you do, not keeping it up to date. WHOOPS. What follows will be a
series of excuses and I will admit that that is exactly what they are. Excuses.
They may be valid, but if anything is important enough to me, I know I will
find the time to do it. No matter what it is.
Life kind of began falling apart a year or so ago.
Besides, lack of a job, school and kids there were two major excuses ...
no... no wait.... I will make it three in this case. There are three major excuses
for why I gave up on my business.
Why I
have not taken time to blog for more than a year.
In March 2013 I found out that my house had officially been repossessed and
we had to be out in mid-May. We’ve kind of been living under less than perfect
circumstances.
In August I finally found a real job (that is not one of the excuses, but
instead is part of the story I am weaving.) I also agreed to do an internship
doing social media. YAY! Well in October the bookstore I was working for
decided to cut back and I was let go. One week later.....I was taking a shower
when I found what felt like a huge lump (bigger than a pea or marble for sure.)
I do self-breast checks, not monthly, but at least every three months. Where
did it come from? It seemed to appear out of nowhere.
My internship ended and they hired me--but not to do social media or
photography. Which is good, since that same week my camera died. The camera was reason
#3. The final straw. The camera is the big reason I stopped taking pictures and
blogging. You can take pictures without a house. Or without a job. And even
without boobs--IF you have a camera. Without a camera I was in limbo.
Since December I have borrowed cameras. Learned how to use my cell phone a
lot more. Scanned things. And used El Jay's little camera. As of today, I am doing a happy
dance, because my new camera is on its way from Hawaii. YAY.
Since every post, in my own blogging world, must have a photo.
I will share one here. You can all go
elsewhere
(I'll include a link here) to see more of my work and the Breast
Cancer story. However, this is a Selfie of me taken at my 2nd round of cancer.
Enjoy.
This was taken using my very old cell phone (I've had it for three-and-a-half-years. It is a Samsung, but any other labeling has been worn away. After taking it and sending it to my email and downloading it, etc.... I opened it in Adobe Photoshop, did some post processing and then played with it in Pic Monkey. I love
Pic Monkey. (if you're looking for a basic and fun site to process pictures.) I think this is an excellent SELFIE, considering what I was working with.
