It’s not the greatest picture, but you get the idea.
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I don’t want to be a whiner and complain too much about the heat. But the sweat! I’ve been making do okay and enjoy every opportunity I get to lie still and let any breeze and all cool me off. I don’t have any pictures, but Biggie does a pretty good illustration of how I cope:
In a very short talk on TedX Matt Cutts talks about creating mini challenges for yourself. As he presents it, 30 days is just long enough to break yourself of a habit or to incorporate a new one into your life. Following in the footsteps of Morgan Spurlock, who created and hosted the short-running series 30 Days, Cutts challenged himself to write a book in 30 days, take up hiking in 30 days and quit sugar in 30 days.
I’m curious how this would work for me. Growing up I often gave up something for Lent for 40 days and I don’t think any of those things stuck as permanent. But then my goal was never to change my behavior, just to make it through 40 days.
I think I am going to give this a shot. Among my 30 days goals are blogging (I’ve gotten close), taking pictures (I aimed for 365 days and quickly fell flat) and working out (the yogurt helps tremendously).
What would you be willing to attempt to do, or not do, for 30 days?
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At my photography class on Wednesday I sat next to a woman who saw me scrolling through pictures on my camera. There were photos I took at the animal rescue / clinic at which I volunteer so all images of cats. She asked me how many cats I had. I explained that not all of the cats in the photos were mine and that I had two (The Notorious B.I.G. and Addy). I then went to show her the funniest picture I took.
I am not making this up. She completely freaked out and covered her eyes saying she was scared of cats. Then she got up and moved her seat to the other side of the room. There were like 8 students in class so it was pretty noticeable. Cat hater.
I understand that cats can look creepy sometimes.
But those same cats can also be super cute.
Even Mr. Tongue has his handsome moments.
And a lot of cats are so much more scared of people than we can ever be of them. I was able to snap some good pictures of Wesley only because I poked my camera behind a shelf and luck struck.
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I am loving my photography classes and very proud that my 100 List helped motivate me to take them. Each session we focus on something new and I always learn some new fact or skill. Last class we focused on metering. The teacher said this is a powerful tool. I think I need to play with it some more because in my hands it was a useless tool.
This week we learned about depth of field. I loved this because it’s something I play with anyway. I love taking pictures as up close as I can get. My zoom lens helps sometimes but mainly I just get all up some peoples’ and animals’ business. That’s what makes flowers so easy. They just sit there cooperatively.
I also continued my ironic streak of bug photos but it’s not quite as good as the others. The point of focus is about ½ and inch to the right of the critter. But now, thanks to my class, I can articulate what could be improved on the image.
My teacher would say that this spider photo is très boring because I have him centered. I get his point (now, thanks to the classes) but still like the picture.
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Starting sometime last summer my hair started falling out by the handful. My house went from having cat hair on things to having Kate hair on everything. It took me a while to catch on but it was undeniable when my hair bands went from two twists to hold in a pony tail to four twists. At that point I just moved to kid-sized hair bands.
When I found out the hair loss could all be attributed to a thyroid condition I was relieved to know the cause but completely paranoid it wouldn’t come back. But it is definitely coming back. My head is covered with new growth so that on a humid day I look like one of those kids at a science museum.
Or just like this kid.
Truly, though, I cannot complain. I am so happy to have back my full head of hair! Right now the new growth is nose-length. It won’t all stay pulled back into a ponytail if it’s humid or I’m really active, but it does pretty well.
Since my hypothyroidism diagnosis I’ve gotten one haircut and that was just to trim off the length since my thin hair was looking so stringy. A few days back I went for my first real haircut in a long while. I know this won’t have impact for anyone but me, but I got layers. Do you know what you need to have in order to get layers in your hair? Ample hair. And I have that again!
My goal is to get ponytails like I used to have. Someday.
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