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i started this as part of the Daily Community here on SmugMug. it has morphed into my photoblog, something apart from the rest.

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hoffalady > July 28 '09 day 378 thyme i got my 8 solid hours Monday nite and they were divine! i was draggin a lil today but not nearly as bad as i was yesterday. funny, Monday is usually my favorite day of the week. yes, i know i am demented., i can't help it. but this Monday all i wanted to do was crawl into bed and pull the covers back over my head and sleep for a week. :0) it rained most of the morning and when i finally got myself together (thank you coffee- i love you!), i got a lil done. it's getting down to crunch time. i've got a lil over 2 weeks until my trip to Boston and a week and a half until school starts. my Mama is coming up from Baton Rouge to stay w/ the hubby and the boys while i'm away. i've gotta make sure the house is completely clean before i leave and get a stuffed fridge and pantry. plus leave her a basic schedule for the boys and a list of what i will need her to do while i'm away- keep those evil buggers off my tomatoes!! i know i'll do what i usually do when the hubby is returning home from a deployment- wait until the last minute. LMAO i wanna get to the zoo sometime this week. there has been far too many green things in my dailies. i need more peoples.....
hoffalady > July 27 '09 day 378 exhausted two nites of interrupted sleep leave me a zombie. i accomplished nothing today and frankly that's more than i thought i'd manage. sleep......
hoffalady > July 26 '09 day 377 fisherman my boys are Lego masters. they could build, create and play for days on end with those lil blocks. they make up games and back stories for each character. they are really creative kids. this is King Fisher, tho he's wearing Jock's shirt. (don't ask me. i don't make the rules!!) he's got a magic fishing rod. he tosses out his line, says the name of the fish he wants and catches it instantly. Saturday nite we had some wicked thunder and lightening, not much rain tho. Brady came into our bedroom as soon as it started. so when his whimpering and whining wasn't keeping me up, the light flooding into our bedroom was. i just wanna sleep for a day or two.....
hoffalady > July 25 '09 day 376 caterpillar well the boys had a birthday party & sleepover w/ Vernando. the hubby and i have almost 24hrs without them. so we did what any self respecting adult would do- watched horror movies!! :0) the one lil black rain cloud on my day was finding this guy and 2 of his friends on my massive tomato bushes. i found a couple small black one and one slightly fuzzy brown one also. i'm sorry to say that they were all slaughtered. i really do love all critters, even the ugly ones, but don't mess with my tomatoes! that is where i draw the line!! i chose to limit my focus on the end of this lil buggers body because... well, he's got a face only a mother could love, hasn't he? and before he was a temperamental lil thing too. i'm sure that knowing he would meet his end shortly played into why he didn't want so pose nicely for the big mean human. go ahead.... call PETA. i'll be waiting. :0) oh and one more thing, i would like to publically announce that i absolutely adore Miss Carole (irishmurr)!! i know most of you know her and think she's great as well but i have to say every single day, she's there to encourage me, to make me smile and basically make my world a better place.
hoffalady > July 24 '09 day 375 hobos my boys are a mess. we went to see our new nurse practitioner today. the boys changed doctors when we moved because the drive went from 30 minutes to 45- one way! not the best thing when you're sick. we got a referral from a friend about a little clinic in our little town. i changed as well since there is never any open appointments on base. over a year and a half and they are still short staffed?? sad. anyway, we show up for the boys physicals and right away they are making the nurse taking their vitals laugh. T getting excited because he weighs a whole 91lbs and Q grumping "oh man!" when she says he's all of 4ft 7 inches. but the biggest laughs where saved for Miss Deanna, our nurse practitioner. first it was rubber glove chickens a Hoffman ER favorite. then it was T giving her crazy eyes when she was giving him his exam, making me and Q giggle all the while T shushing us and reminding us that Miss Deanna was "trying to listen!" next up was Q and he didn't disappoint. when asked to inhale and exhale, he produced the loudest most dramatic sigh you've ever heard.i was crying from laughing so hard. T didn't make things any better when he had his rubber glove chicken, aptly names Mr. Chicken, attack his face sending all four of us into fits of laughter. the boys agreed to let me shoot them on the way home, but the blazing sun and ruthless horse/deer flies didn't leave many smiles. i did get a lovely shot of some echinacea tho. woohoo!! hope you had a great day!! :0)
hoffalady > July 23 '09 day 374 single i had planned on spending a lot more time outside today. instead i spent hours "running the numbers" on the new ultra strict 2 year budget for the household. if we really stick to it, we can transfer debt free. it's not going to be easy at all. we're very loose with the spending. very. it's a realistic plan and a worthwhile goal. i'm sure it's not gonna be easy but we're going to do it. i ran outside after dinner. the sun was making his crawl towards the horizon. i could literally see my time/shooting opportunities slipping away with him. i went and bothered my neighbors dogs, but they were too excited about me being on the outside of the fence for once. barking and running around like crazy. no shot there. back to my yard. boring. boring. and more boring. the sunflowers and vinca have taken over my rose bed. both sprouted up without my knowledge. i really didn't want to shoot anything green, but my options today were limited. the single water droplet caught me eye. hope you've had a good day. :0)
hoffalady > July 22 '09 day 373 silhouette another day of stormy skies. tho today they didn't amount to any real rainfall. the boys ran errands with me. i stopped at our new doctors office to pick up paperwork. you know all those forms they make you fill out while you're waiting? well filling out 3 sets at once always leaves me flustered. plus i always end up leaving something out! so i figured i'd avoid the annoyance that accompanies all that and fill 'em all out before hand. the reseptionist practacally called me a saint for wanting to do it all before hand. i'm so happy that the hummingbirds have discovered our feeder. it took a while to get the sparrows, mockingbirds, finches and cardinals to the seed and suet feeders. so i knew it would be a bit before the hummingbirds showed up. since they have only been eatting from the feeder for a few days, i wanted to give 'em a lil more time to feel comfortable. so thus far i'm shooting from inside. (i gotta clean that window!!) the light was terrible! the grey sky just made it worse. i was shocked at how dramatic this shot came out when i converted it to black and white! definately my favorite of the bunch. tho this shot was so cute! i love their lil curious faces. (oh and i know my last few dailies have been pretty devoid of color. hopefully the sun will make an appearance tomorrow and this will change!)
hoffalady > July 21 '09 day 372 watcher thunder storms kept me inside today. i wanted to do some lightening shots. it's been forever since i've done 'em but the rain was coming from every which way. being out on the porch was not an option and the windows were taking a beating. nothing around the house really sparked anything creative. Stevie is a brave pup. she knows that a lil flash and crash aren't anything to be afraid of. she laid there by the front door for hours. Brady on the other hand.... when i laid down on the floor behind her to get this shot, Brady laid down on my legs! that dog is the biggest wuss in the world! as soon as the rain starts, he's right there at my feet- all 100lbs of jello. geez. i thought about shooting the boys but they were too busy w/ Vernando who has just returned home from his summer visit to his dad. the hubby is still working on his LDO package but he took his math final this morning. yay for a 3 week break from college!
hoffalady > July 20 '09 day 371 camped T has been camping out in the backyard every nite since last Friday because the weather has been so great. he's loving it! i wanted to get a better shot of him all snuggled in but didn't want to wake him..... and nothing else i shot today looked better. ha! thanks for all the well wishes yesterday. i'm feeling better and need to remember that an empty stomach and pain meds do not go great together!
hoffalady > July 19 '09 day 370 nauseous i should know better. taking pain meds on an empty stomach lead to nothing but a miserable evening. blah.
hoffalady > July 18 '09 day 369 denied today was a whole day w/ nothing that i absolutely had to do! the hubby suggested that we take a drive. a coworker of him told him about a lake nearby that we haven't been to yet. typically, i'm a lil anal retentive about directions because i really hate getting lost. this time i just went with the flow. turns out we didn't find the lake. but the weather was BEAUTIFUL and it was a nice drive. when we realized how close we'd drive to the Mississippi River, we started heading towards it. i figured at the very least, i shoot the muddy flow. this shot greeted us at the end of the road. figures, right? it wasn't until we were on our street that it hit me. we'd been driving for 2 hours! when i walked in the house, i was not happy. Brady had pulled up and destroyed two of my potted plants. i was so angry with him. i tossed his 100lb butt out back and cleaned up the living room. it's so strange because he's never done anything like that! he's a big dork but he's pretty well behaved. i wonder if it's not this beautiful weather that's making him frisky and being locked in the house, alone (Stevie would have no part of his shenanigans!) for 2 hours didn't help. who knows. btw, i shot this from the car while flippin a U. i did straighten it but ended up not liking the look. weird, huh? :0)
hoffalady > July 17 '09 day 368 unwinding what an absolutely beautiful day today! it only reached 83* and the humidity was so low it was like being back home!! i turned off the AC and opened all the windows!! it's supposed to drop into the 60's tonite too!! omg! heavenly!! the only hiccup in the day was the boys! sheesh those two! this time it was fighting in the pool which earned them both being sent to their rooms and me swimming alone. i'm rereading Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. just reading the first few pages i'm reminded of how much was left out of the last movie. i know they have to make "creative" changes to enable to flow of the movie and keep it within a reasonable runtime but still.... i really wanted to shoot the hubby when he got home for work this evening but he's had a really rough week and just wanted to relax. so after dinner, we all took a lil swim and then it was a beer and our beloved Red Sox. i even let him choose today's photo. that's love for ya. :0)
hoffalady > July 16 '09 day 367 alien school needs to start right now! not in another 3 weeks!! this morning T & Q got into a fight. it was over the most ridiculous thing, leaving the shampoo bottle in the same place after each use!!! i really try to stay out of their fights if it's just bickering because they usually work them out with little drama. not in this case. they were both in the bathroom. T had just gotten out of the shower and Q was getting in. i stood at the door and listened when the yelling started. everything was okay until Q crossed the line with "i wish you weren't my brother!" that was it for me. time to step in. i know he said it in the midst of a fight and was all worked up and emotional but stuff like that cuts me deep. i am the oldest of 5 kids, the only girl w/ 4 brothers. the two oldest ones Chris (who moved to Northern CA) and Mike are only 2.5 years apart. they fought terribly when we were growing up and it went unchecked for the most part. it ended up putting a huge strain on their relationship when they got into their late teens and early 20's. i really don't want that to happen to my sons. needless to say, Q is now grounded for the rest of the week from everything, except playing outside and being in the pool. tho i don't know if it's a punishment for him or me as he's now asking every 5 minutes if he can help me or do something with me....... he did however help me spot this guy on the sunflowers growing in the rose bed. he was a bit sketchy and i had a hard time getting his entire body in sharp focus with me macro. so i tried to sharpen him up in LR. does he look overworked?
hoffalady > July 15 '09 day 366 net first of all WOW! thanks for all the nice comments and encouragement on completing year 1 in the dailies! and omg DOUBLE WOW! it's been a loooooooooooooong time since i've had a photo in the top spot and i don't think it's ever hung on to it all day long. thanks guys! my day was the usual domestic loverliness- laundry, vacuuming and child rearing. while watering my lil veggie box the droplets of water on the netting caught my eye. nothing funnier than me funning around my in bathing suit w/ my camera trying to get the best angle. thankfully the boys are used to my need to get the shot... everyone else looks at me like i am crazy! lu is getting anxious about the surgery. so i am trying my best to reassure/distract her. it's since i'm so far away but i keep reminding her that i'll be there to take care of/abuse her. anything to make her laugh, including emailing her pictures of ugly babies. (inside joke. sorry.) and i'm jumping into year 2 with both feet.....
hoffalady > July 14 '09 day 365 me today marks the completion of my first year on the dailies. i've spent a lot of time today thinking about what this 365 project has meant to me, what i've gotten out of it and what i will carry on with me..... for me this "project" started out as one thing and morphed into a completely different one. i started it with the intent to get into the practice of shooting every day and hopefully learn something along the way, but it quickly became my photo blog. it enabled me to share not only my photos but a piece of me as a person. it also gave me a greater appreciation of just how personal my photos are to me. i've learned that nothing in the entire world gives me more satisfaction that capturing a laugh, pure emotion, a personality or love. while i still prefer to keep it simple and unprocessed, playing w/ a shot or too can be fun too. i take my photography seriously but really try not to take myself all that seriously. i've come across a few people this year who took it all waaaaaaaaaaaay too seriously and, for me, took so much joy out of the process. i've met some really great people here, who have only enriched this experience for me. i appreciate you. everyone has room to grown and i think i know a few ways i want to push myself. i'm going to work on those in Year 2. on a side note is it gross that i used a pot of two day old coffee to make an iced coffee for myself? just checking.... oh and John, on day 80 something you asked how long i could keep up my one word titles. i'm still going.... :0)
July 28 '09 day 378

thyme

i got my 8 solid hours Monday nite and they were divine! i was draggin a lil today but not nearly as bad as i was yesterday. funny, Monday is usually my favorite day of the week. yes, i know i am demented., i can't help it. but this Monday all i wanted to do was crawl into bed and pull the covers back over my head and sleep for a week. :0)

it rained most of the morning and when i finally got myself together (thank you coffee- i love you!), i got a lil done. it's getting down to crunch time. i've got a lil over 2 weeks until my trip to Boston and a week and a half until school starts. my Mama is coming up from Baton Rouge to stay w/ the hubby and the boys while i'm away. i've gotta make sure the house is completely clean before i leave and get a stuffed fridge and pantry. plus leave her a basic schedule for the boys and a list of what i will need her to do while i'm away- keep those evil buggers off my tomatoes!!

i know i'll do what i usually do when the hubby is returning home from a deployment- wait until the last minute. LMAO

i wanna get to the zoo sometime this week. there has been far too many green things in my dailies. i need more peoples.....
hoffalady > July 28 '09 day 378 thyme i got my 8 solid hours Monday nite and they were divine! i was draggin a lil today but not nearly as bad as i was yesterday. funny, Monday is usually my favorite day of the week. yes, i know i am demented., i can't help it. but this Monday all i wanted to do was crawl into bed and pull the covers back over my head and sleep for a week. :0) it rained most of the morning and when i finally got myself together (thank you coffee- i love you!), i got a lil done. it's getting down to crunch time. i've got a lil over 2 weeks until my trip to Boston and a week and a half until school starts. my Mama is coming up from Baton Rouge to stay w/ the hubby and the boys while i'm away. i've gotta make sure the house is completely clean before i leave and get a stuffed fridge and pantry. plus leave her a basic schedule for the boys and a list of what i will need her to do while i'm away- keep those evil buggers off my tomatoes!! i know i'll do what i usually do when the hubby is returning home from a deployment- wait until the last minute. LMAO i wanna get to the zoo sometime this week. there has been far too many green things in my dailies. i need more peoples.....
July 28 '09 day 378

thyme

i got my 8 solid hours Monday nite and they were divine! i was draggin a lil today but not nearly as bad as i was yesterday. funny, Monday is usually my favorite day of the week. yes, i know i am demented., i can't help it. but this Monday all i wanted to do was crawl into bed and pull the covers back over my head and sleep for a week. :0)

it rained most of the morning and when i finally got myself together (thank you coffee- i love you!), i got a lil done. it's getting down to crunch time. i've got a lil over 2 weeks until my trip to Boston and a week and a half until school starts. my Mama is coming up from Baton Rouge to stay w/ the hubby and the boys while i'm away. i've gotta make sure the house is completely clean before i leave and get a stuffed fridge and pantry. plus leave her a basic schedule for the boys and a list of what i will need her to do while i'm away- keep those evil buggers off my tomatoes!!

i know i'll do what i usually do when the hubby is returning home from a deployment- wait until the last minute. LMAO

i wanna get to the zoo sometime this week. there has been far too many green things in my dailies. i need more peoples.....
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