Me - November 30th

In all the madness, I did remember to snap a photo of just myself at the Gingerbread Building - since it was ALSO November 30th, and the day to take my Once A Month Me photo.... I am almost done here with my year of photos. Just one more to take on December 31st, and then I guess I'll be scrapbooking all these photos - Cara? You started me on this crazy project - you gonna help me finish?

Me - October 31

Here I am - at the party E planned for a group of about 15 high schoolers, and 4 middle schoolers. I was documenting the event, when E took the camera from me, and turned it on me! I said "Yay - I need a picture - it's the last day of the month". However, I see that I never actually curled my hair!! Oh well.

Halloween was a beautiful day! The kids all had a 1/2 day for the end of the card-marking - and E and A and the gang had a great time eating donuts on a string, bobbing for apples, having a balloon battle, having Light Saber Battles (this was just the guys), and winding up the night with a spirited Halloween Trick 0r Treat Photo Scavenger hunt, that the whole neighborhood had fun helping them complete! I'll post some of those photos next!

Me - September 30

OK - Actually this was snapped 10/1. YES, I had my reminder buzz me about 20 times on 9/30 - but I didn't ever fix my hair after my shower.... and because apparently I'm not capable of sticking to the "Let's keep this real" portion of the assignment - I put off snapping a pic until 10/1 when I DID fix my hair. Anyway - note the sweater - It's officially getting a lot cooler around here! I need to study more on my SLR - I thought I had the settings such that with the ambient light from the front window, I'd get a clear shot. While the shot is acceptable - it's a bit grainy. Youngest daughter A agreed to stand on a chair and operate the camera for me.

Me: Last Day of Summer!

It's the last day of the month - and the last day of Summer Vacation! So what better place to have your monthly photo taken, than at the beach? Yep, this is me on the shore of Lake Erie - and this photo was ACTUALLY taken on the last day of the month - just like I'm supposed to do!

Me - July 30 (OK, August 1st)

So, my computer reminded me ALL DAY on the 30th to go take my photo and blog it - but it was such a crazy day, with getting E ready for dance camp, and her National Showcase send-off - that I never had a chance to get the photo. But TODAY - I had time, before we left for A's performance, to go outside and play a little with the Rebel. I'm still learning a lot about this camera. I've been reading up on ISO's and Apertures and Shutter Speed and all that. But on a whim, I put the camera in the Portrait Mode for dummies - it did all those things I'd been reading about! I'm sure I can learn to tweak it more - but I was happy with this result.

July has just flown by - and August won't go any slower! Before I know it - the kids will be back in school!

Happy Birthday to ME!!

That's right - it's been 30 days, and I caught up to J! The night before my birthday, J's parents came up and took us all out for my birthday dinner. We went to Benihana's - I just love a Japanese steakhouse, and watching them cook at my table. I forgot my camera - so the pics we snapped were on my cell phone! E took this cute one of us!

After dinner, J handed E the keys and told her to go pull up the car. A went with her, and as they pulled up in front of the restaurant to pick us up - this is what A was doing! Too funny!!!

A went home with Grandmom and Poppo, and will be heading to the cottage later this week for some "Camp Grandmom" time! E had dance practice, and I had a skating club board meeting - so it was a good thing that we went out the night BEFORE my bday! Although - thanks to my skating friends for celebrating my birthday with me! Christine baked brownies and stuck candles in them for me!! SO very cool!!

I also really enjoyed the e-cards, and the phone calls that came in from all over - Brighton, Grand Rapids, New York, Texas, Shelby Township, Hartland, Warren.... It was so nice to talk to everyone yesterday! And after talking to most of you- I know you are out there reading this... even though you never leave me a comment to let me know you are there!! :-D

Well, off to be 42. Here's hoping it's a good year! (Oh - and I'm counting this as my June 30 photo!)

Me - May 31

OK - I must confess... once again, I missed the deadline by a few days..... I just went into my basement and snapped this shot (it's 6/3!) BUT.... I was scrapping on May 31st; so I think it still counts! I did put a reminder into Outlook in ALL CAPS to come up on the last day of the month from here on out. You'd think after messing this up for several months now, I would have already done that. Nope. But it's done now... so hopefully we'll have no more late pics!!

You can see the layout I did Saturday (sort of - the lamp blocks it a bit) posted on my magnetic board - it's the lower layout. I'll be posting a better shot of it in about a week. Hoping to use to as an inspiration for a challenge over on the GLMM Community!

I got A's Ice Show album all caught up - now I'm working on E's. I really want to do the current challenge on the GLMM Board - but I can't think of what to do - I've racked my brain and reviewed my photos - and NOTHING is jumping out at me!!

Toodles... here's to a great month of June. E starts driver's ed... now THAT'S scary.

Me, April.... and a new car!

Here it is, finally! My new car! I actually took these photos a few days ago, but this is the first chance I've had to post them. It's funny to watch people's faces when you tell them you bought an orange car! But see, it's a pretty orange - not construction barrel orange!!

Admire the pretty brick sidewalk, leading up to our house - that was J's idea - we had it done last summer - and I really like it! Good idea J!


So, the day I ran outside dragging E with my camera to take these photo's was May 1. Remember that project to take a photo of ME on the last day of every month? Well, I missed it by one day again. But here's ME - and it COULD have been taken April 30 - because I did have the new car by then! I need to put a recurring appointment in my calendar so I remember to take my pic for this ME album!!

Have I mentioned I love my sunroof? Even with all this rain - I have found moments of dryness to open up and enjoy the sunroof!!!

This last photo is a zoom in from the previous photo, just to show you how my airbag injury is healing. It looks even better now than it did that day! Thank goodness for seatbelts and airbags that allowed E and I to walk away from an accident severe enough to total the van! I find that I'm driving completely differently - no longer taking for granted that the driver's around me will follow the rules of the road.

GLMM preparations continue around here - we stuff goody bags later today. This will probably be my last post until after the GLMM - unless I have another morning of insomnia and catch a few minutes like today!

Me - March 30 - OOPS

I don't know what made me think of it - today - on April 15 - but I just realized I never did the self-portrait on March 30!!! My trusty scrapping buddies either forgot too, or forgot to remind me!!


So, here's the photo taken on the closest day - it was taken on Friday, April 4th. The closest I can find to a photo of me on March 30. It's a good representation of what was going on at the time though - that's me in the locker room at the Ice Arena with fellow skaters Sue and Sarita - and former coach Laurie (who moved to the East Coast - but came back to see us!!)

Leap Day

Once again - it's the last day of the month - and so I sent out a reminder that it was time to take the end of the month photos for our 2008 scrapbook project. At first I thought "I'm not taking the photo until I've showered and dressed" - and then I thought - "Hey - this is supposed to be the REAL me - each month this year!" And so, even thought it was noon - and I was still in my PJ's, and I had a slight case of bed-head - I took my self portrait. This month I put the GLMM website in the background - since other than our breif escape to Hawaii - I have spent February living and breathing GLMM details!

Me - Today

OK - so Cara has talked me into doing a scrapbook project for 2008 with her. It's really kind of cool. The last day of the month - you take a photo of yourself - and then you do a mini-book of you - throughout the year - capturing the things you did each month. I agree with what Cara posted on her blog... I think having this blog-diary to look back on will help with this book!


I did another 2007 album about me that was different than this - but this will be good - I don't scrapbook me enough - but this seems like it will be just enough - and not too much.

So anyway... here's me... today... complete with the telephone headset because I was still on the phone with Cara when I snapped this. Gee whiz my eyes are blue, eh?