melting mama

I got my toes in the water...

After I threatened to sell the boy child for a new espresso machine, we got out of the house. When does school start again?

My camera isn't back yet, but I have my old one - these were taken with my old camera.

It pains me.

I started to do a product review just now -- and realized -- my camera is all boxed up and being shipped off for repair.  *single tear* 

Note:  When you buy a DSLR?  Get insurance.  Because, cameras fall down, and replacing them is Very. Expensive.

I hope to go get it dropped off at the UPS store today -- and get it back before the OH Event in Cincinatti.  Without a camera, I would feel like I lost an arm.  I would not know what to do with myself whilst being a semi-tourist. 

Thoughts on a fly-by trip to NYC.

I went to NYC for a brief visit during my stay at the OH Event (more on that in another post) and a few people asked me what I thought of the big bad city. 

I said, "Underwhelming and overwhelming."

It's not nearly as big and beautiful as I had made it out to be in my head.  TV does that to you.   Seriously, walking by ABC GMA windows, I was like, "This is IT?  WTF?"  Looking at it from a camera, I could find things to photograph potentially forever.  I am not so sure I'd have enjoyed it without looking at it that way.

But the speed of the people in the city would drive me ape shit.  And I Do Not Want A Bus Tour.  Thanks!  I have a thing for signs, ads and people, especially those who look beat down and sad.  There is no shortage of that in NYC.

How do you who live in town deal with that constant nagging?  I guess you learn to be blank faced and ignore everything.  I'm not a city girl -- I live in the biggest "town" in my state -- but it doesn't have anything like NYC.  Boston, a bit, but... Boston seems "pretty" to me now.  Go figure.  Going out to LA last year made Boston feel CLEAN, too.  Figure that out.

I need to see MORE of NYC.  We only spent a short time, walking what we could from a parking garage, hitting up the Carnegie Deli with no wait, in which I ordered a brisket sandwich but only ate a pickle (stupid) and couldn't imagine doing that on a regular basis. People shoved in like dirty smelly sardines.  Blech.  I thought for sure we were bringing home H1N1.  Don't breathe my AIR!  Shoo!

Overall, my trip was quick and dirty, and I would love to go back, and STAY IN TOWN. 

Hopefully I can make a reason to do so, because it's hella expensive to DO SO.

Good Morning.

I was packing lunches for school, and my daughter said, it looks like you need a picture outside.  I wanted to get far enough back to get the whole enchilada -- the rays, the fog -- but I was on the porch and this is what I saw.

Because it's icky and damp, and I feel like crap.

It is. I feel icky, my legs are aching today. Every so often this happens out of nowhere, and I feel like lead. Boo.

Unrelated - yesterday I was cleaning my daughters' room - and I felt 'off.'  I didn't know if I was crashing blood sugar wise, and I didn't have the brains or function to go get a meter, test, and treat a low.  I had been fine until that moment, and then, woozy.  I found myself staring off into la-la land, and I don't remember what I said to my daughter, but she came to me with a Fun-Dip, which apparently I ripped into, ate the sugar stick and spilled the powder everywhere.  I do not remember how long it lasted, or if the sugar brought me out of it, but, it pisses me OFF.  Mostly because I don't know what happened - I wish I had a little spy cam on my head to see - was it hypoglycemia or a seizure?!  I haven't had any since I started the new medication - or so I thought.  My husband thinks I had an event during sleep two or three days ago, and now maybe yesterday with these weird happenings.   I swear, if this stuff stops working, I will SCREAM.

Drops.

 

A liiiiiiittle better.  Still not doing what I want it to, but I have a book, and I will learn!

Um?

 

"Tissy is a monsah!"  this was not the first.  I took like, twenty photos this morning.  They are all horrific.  I gave up for the moment.  And now I am reading a manual and an online training guide.

I suppose there will be quite a giant learning curve.  I do not like reading books and learning.  This is why I am terrified of college - and self-directed online classes - telling me to take a book and go do it? Hahahaha.  I need bullet-pointed lists and hands-on visual learning.

• Take this.
• Do this.
  • Result. 
    
  
  

Played with this today.

Just to clarify, I did not get this toy. LOL. I wanted to. I played with it. I've played with it a couple times at the store.

It's very, very nice.

Lost in these eyes?

When things go nucking futs?  Just gaze into these little crystal balls.  In fact, if you go to Flickr and look at the larger size of this photo, you can see me standing in her eyeballs. 

Starting something new, but not so much.

Click.  And please subscribe when you do.  It's brand new, so there's nothing there yet, but I was sitting in front of a blank page last night at 1am and thought, maybe, maybe I will try this again.