FRIENDSHIP

Here’s the deal, either you’re a friend or not. I wanted my ‘girl’ to love me so much that I wanted her to tell me everything.

I didn’t give her everything about me

she keeps trying and i keep buying

but i never gave it up

she’s my  

best friend

oh for chrisake

who cares

no one cares

she’s gone

(Just a weird poem that popped outta me)

AHA! Ya’ll thought you could …

Y’all thought you could get rid of me, ever so easily, right? Broken bones will stop me, right? NOPE.  A summer’s break from blogging will stop me, right? NO WAY! Lack of anything interesting or profound to say will stop me, right? HECK NO!!!

Although come to think of it, I have neither the profound nor the interesting to talk about … soooo I’m going to talk about my Photography class.

Before I do that … I have to go make some sense of something for work.  Hold tight!

SIT DOWN I SAY!!!

I’ll just be a moment!!

Okay … I’m back … now … ONTO the Photo class.

First of all, I want to tell you all I had fully intended on posting some of my prints on here (well there SweetPeaSurrySnaps ) but I’ve recently been reminded that to do so for the first few classes would actually require a scanner, as it IS in FACT a film loaded 35mm SLR camera that I am using for class.  So you will all just have to bear with me as I try to muddle my way through explainations and whatnot. 

(I actually DO have a scanner, but it’s been so long since it’s been hooked up, I don’t know if it works, the printer part of it died so I was planning on tossing it out.  I’ll likely get something soon though, I’m trying to budget for it, I really DO actually need a printer too!)

So … my current project (after doing the basics like Photograms and playing around in the darkroom) is to photograph moving objects while playing with Aperature and Speed.  (Speed = how fast the shutter opens and closes and Aperature = how far you allow the shutter to open and close) 2 rolls, 2 venues.

For the first roll of film; first venue, I took my niece and nephew to the park and started changing settings and snapping away.  That was really really enjoyable. 

For my second roll of film; second venue, I headed out to the racetrack to see my dad race his car.  That was really really loud!

Monday (when you will all likely be reading this) we will develop the film and if time permits start making some prints.  Wednesday will be actual print making day.

Did you know … that once film is developed you can view it in the light, but in order to develop it, you have to do it all in the dark.  There is no ‘safe light’ for film as there is for prints.  (The safelight has to do with the print paper and not the actual negatives!) Interesting … huh? Well … I’m in the class to learn … and I certainly learned that. 

That is pretty much it so far. 

A side note.  I have a film developing tank

that I use to develope the film.  See that little white reel over there? I have to load the film out of the film canister (the thing that goes in the back of your camera) onto that reel in pitch black darkness, by feel only. 

GOOD TIMES!!!!

(sometimes I just can’t wait to go digital but I know that what I’m learning here is invaluable! And often times, you get a better depth in your photos when you use film. *sighs*)

So … that’s what I’ll be doing in the ‘dark dark’ room this morning (Monday).

We’ll see how my snapshots turned out at a later date. (hopefully I can get one or two good prints out of it!!! Cross ya fingers and toes and pinkies!)

All my best!

S

Animals

“UNTIL ONE HAS LOVED AN ANIMAL, PART OF THEIR SOUL REMAINS UNAWAKENED”

 

 

Awfully profound and so true!
 

Sporadic Injections

I’ll be sporadically jumpin in here from time to time, as I ease myself back into the blogosphere!

I can’t believe that summer is coming to an end! I have to say I’ve been really impressed with many of the summer season (TV) line-up! Seriously though, if you recall from a post a very very long time ago, which for the life of me I cannot find … I watch a LOT of TV.  My line-up for the summer season was as follows:

The Closer, Rizzoli and Isles, Psych, Royal Pains, The Next Food Network Star, True Blood, Merlin, Army Wives, Mad Men, Hell’s Kitchen, In Plain Sight, Warehouse 13, Leverage, So You Think You Can Dance, Master Chef, Being Human, Eureka, Haven and Burn Notice.  (I’m sure I’ve missed one or two shows in here, and actually I was perusing through my dvr to do list and I know I have, I just can’t remember what I’m missing on this list now. Heh)

I know it sounds like a lot, but some of the shows were staggared from ‘off season’ to ‘summer season’ so really I wasn’t watching them all at once! HAH!

I have to say though I have been thoroughly entertained this summer.  Which has actually been working out really well on my off work days, as I’ve been tending to wake up at 3am when there’s nothing on TV.  So the shows I have on my DVR are a godsend!

I do believe my photog class starts around the second week of September.  (Gotta finalize all of that, one moment while I edit my to do list bberry style!) I’m really looking forward to getting this first class out of the way.  I’m excited to learn something new and to be challenged in a way I haven’t been in a very very long time!! Wish me besties of lucks folks!

So I know you all want a weight loss update, I haven’t ‘gained’ any.  But I’ve been pretty much off plan since I broke my ankle.  I have to buckle down and get back to good again.  I’ve been re-reading my plan book and writing down recipes.  We’ll be starting back up full force next week.  Don’t get me wrong, I haven’t been binging on big macs or tacos or anything … I just haven’t been sticking perfectly to the no oil, no butter, no dairy aspect of the diet.  So for the most part my meals are still 2oz of protein, 1/2 cup carbs and 1-2 cups veg.  I’m just not timing them the way I should, and I hadn’t worked out in a while.

I’ve also eased back into the gym routine, and I had seriously forgotten how much I actually enjoyed working out!  Tomorrow morning I’m off to the gym again! WOOT WOOT!

So … that’s all the updating I have at the moment.  I’ll try to sneak in with some recipes that I’ve been coming across. 

Brightest blessings,

~S~

 

A much needed breather!

Wow!

I really needed that little breather away from blogs.  I was .. haha … ‘blogged down’ and feeling like I was either reading blogs or writing one.

You’ll notice I haven’t been commenting on blogs as of late, my apologies, I just haven’t been reading them, not that they aren’t interesting or fantastic, but you all know. 

I’m still full tilt addicted to Disney’s Fairy Hollow game.  Actually it’s probably sad if you think about it, but I have a good time, and it’s keeping me out of trouble! It’s FLITTERIFFIC!!!

I’m actually just checking in here, as I don’t plan on regular blogs still for another month.  I’ve been watching all of my summer programs, spending time at the pool, trying to get more diligent about my eating plan again and just generally happily hanging out and sleeping.  I will probably be posting some ‘mid-point’ weight loss pictures in the next few days! WOOT WOOT … I’ll post the before picture too, I think ya’ll will be a bit amazed!

I hope you all are doing well.  I’m feeling good, strong and good!

Love you all and miss you,

~S~

News about town

Allo my loverly readers!

It’s always good to gaze upon your peepers as you stop by.  I have some good news and some bad news. 

The good news is … as most of you already know, I’m walking full tilt on both of my own pins.  Apparently broken bone recovery time is quick these days.  I swear when I was growing up … my brothers were in casts for broken bones for MONTHS at a time.  MONTHS I say!!! Not I, as I’m apparently super bone re-grower girl!

The bad news! I know .. no one likes bad news.  But hell … it’s there.  I had to postpone my photog class as I am in fact still recovering from the broken ankle.  I didn’t think it was a good idea to go trapsing around snapping photos if I could put the class off until September.  Which I have done.  So my Surry Snaps blog will not be active until then.  (and really, fall colors? well … there you have it!)

Some more … potentially bad news.  I’ll not be blogging here over the summer months.  I’m going to focus back on my blog at TV.com.  I’m literally just running out of things to say in this blog.  As I’ve mentioned before … my life is pretty dull.  I may pop in now and again with something interesting.

I’ll likely be posting here, what I post on TV.com as copy and paste is a function I can totally get behind.  Keep in mind folks, it’s mostly going to be about TV programming, so I won’t blame you if you ignore me for the duration of the summer.

Now … I’ll tell you what my goal is over the summer.  I know I’ve mentioned the culling out of clutter in my apartment.  While I do haul stuff out now and again … I’ve decided that a more aggressive attack is required.  (Please don’t think I’m a hoarder, I’m not … I sleep in a bed, one that I usually make every day. I do not sleep on a pile of dead rats and clothes with tags on them! I swear!) 

So I’ve enlisted a friend of mine and she and I are going to tackle the nooks and crannies and whatsinots that I have around the place.  We’re RE-ORGANIZING my life!!! I’m pretty stoked about this! This cleansing of mah life will likely occur sometime in July! WOOT WOOT

Last bit of news.  I have in fact lost a bit more than half of the weight I’ve set out to lose.  (Luckily I didn’t gain any back during my period of confinement) I’ve gotten back on track with my food and exercise plan in order to lose the rest.  In celebration of this fact, I got myself 2 pretty new summer dresses.  I can actually FIT into them now, (size small people!) although they’re a bit snug.  I’ll grow more into them in the coming months.  Then … ladies and gents … watch out because I’ll be ON the town and ON the PROWL! *giggles slyly*

That’s all folks!!!

Much love and happiness to you all,

~S~

 

 

I meant to …

I really did mean to put together a full post today … but honestly … I’m tuckered out!!!

Here’s a quick one, I’m still crutching/scootering around … only 2 more weeks PEOPLE!!! Then I should be walking in some capacity!!

I will create a post tomorrow that I will schedule to submit on Monday … I’m fairly SURE you people observe Sunday as a holy day of SOME kind. HEH

Blessings!

Scooter Mabeebity Beep!

 

Well, it’s the last day of my work week.  TGIF … for me anyway, for you folks, when you’re reading this … it’ll be Monday … which I suppose technically is my Saturday.  It’s all very complicated.  So, moving on.

I used my crutches at work all this week, it was pure and unadulterated fun HELL!!! I’m pretty sure I’m going to have some big guns come the end of this ordeal! Actually, no I won’t, because I broke down and rented me a ‘Knee Walker’

I do believe this will be my salvation! Plus it’s super fun! WEEEE

My cart doesn’t stear like a bicycle like the one pictured does. It has front wheels like a grocery cart, so it actually takes a bit of getting used to … but still, my armpits are partying like it’s 1999, and my hands are on a singles cruise celebrating their freedom.

 

 

In other news.  Wait, hold on … I’ve been confined to my apt (for the most part) for 9 days and really just went to work for the last 5 days, so I suppose there really isn’t any other ‘news’ per se.  However, my PLANS for these next two glorious days off … are to engineer a way to get my laundry done.  I’m pretty sure it can be done without bodily injury.  (although, I thought I could shower without bodily injury too, and my shower chair literally dumped me out today in the tub! Jeez I sound like a little old lady!)

I have a 3 section rolling laundry cart, which I believe I’ll be able to maneuver with my crutches at home.

I’m really just concerned about the actual ‘gathering’ of said laundry.  I do believe I’ll be spending a bit of time on hands and knee-padded-knees gathering clothes that have been strewn around my room.  Mostly they’re strewn because I’m a lousy shot when it comes to tossing clothes across the room into the laundry sorter.  I’m no A-Rod, yo?

Dog news.  After being at home 9 consecutive days, my dogs were a bit out of sorts when I headed back to work.  (is that really a surprise? NO? I didn’t think so either!)  They have finally adjusted back to our regularly scheduled programming.  Although, Kadee has been getting wise to my ways of getting her locked in the kitchen when it’s hobbling-out-the-door time. 

What I’ve been doing is putting my shoe and my cam boot on while sitting in my computer chair.  Then I wheel myself over to where Kadee is sleeping, pick her up and wheel her to the gate in the kitchen doorway.  I put her in the kitchen, lock the gate and then I’m off and running painstakingly jerking out the door.

The other night … she totally would not get into a position where I could get her from the computer chair … it was a nightmare.  I had to scoot on my bum across the living room floor with her in my lap.  Naughty naughty Kadee!!! But ohhhh what fun I had!

Okay … I mentioned in my last post … that I was going to rave about another one of my favorite products, and I AM going to do that … next post.  I just know you all are going to find this post so unbelievably stimulating that I’m afraid if I go on and on about this product, you’re heads will simply explode from AWESOMENESS OVERLOAD!!! I know … I just wanted to spare you that injustice!

Oy I nearly forgot to at least give you a quote:

ஜ~§Quote Of The Day§~ஜ

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

Robert Frost

So … That’s all folks … mabeebity beep beep and all that.

Brightest Blessings,

S

Welcome Back Crutcher!

Heya blogosphericals!

I’m pretty much back.  Well that is, I’m back to work … and I’m still hobbling around.

My surgery went great and OBVIOUSLY I woke up out of the death sleep they call anesthesia! Half the battle right there.  I have a nice little plate and a couple of pins to hold my anklet bones together, and all in all … it doesn’t look as mangled as I thought it would. 

Also, I think I can really pass off this Kung Fu fighting story I’ve been brewing.

(That’s right folks … I broke my ankle Kung Fu fighting, and I was fast as lightening, until Daniel San swept my ankle with the Crane move. DOH!)

Anyhoodles.  I went through most of the blog posts that I’ve missed, if I didn’t comment, don’t be offended sad, as I didn’t have a lot of time.  9 days away from the computer really puts me behind!!!

Now for the real ankle news.  As I said the surgery went off without a hitch.  After my surgery I recouped at my mom’s house for a few hours, and then my niece took me home and stayed with me that first night. 

My instructions were to lay supine with my foot elevated over my head.  (gutter heads … not that way!!!) Apparently lack of blood flow to the foot aids in healing! (Who’d a thunk it?)

So … I gave my niece a few little chores to do around the house so that I would have some room to move when I was able to.  She didn’t do much, I paid her anyway. 

9 days later, I’m back to work.  I can’t put weight on my ankle for another three weeks.  I’m hoping the doc says I can start walking at my next appointment.  Crutches are really annoying!

My mom picked up the new Nora Roberts Bride series book, and I buzzed through that and 3 other books during my confinement.

Today is my first day back … overnights … at work, I’m tired and ready to go home and fall dead asleep in my beddy bye!

I have a product that I’m in love with that I’ll try to blog about in the next few days … until then …

 

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~§Quote Of The Day§~ஜ

The heights by great men reached and kept, were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

Lovely Broken Bones Part Deux

Surgery went well. I’m on the good drugs. More later