*Click*

I'm gonna start making a conscious effort to photograph more of my life.  I've started reading this blog that Laura (whose teacher blog is here) directed me to - you can find it here - about this woman's day-to-day with her family.  Early last year they welcomed a daughter with Down Syndrome, and it's just neat to read about the things they do and look at her gorgeous pictures of her beautiful daughters.  I know I'm not a good photographer, but I think regardless of skill or equipment, picture-taking is a really neat way to kind of preserve things.

I go through phases where I take a shitton of pictures, and then I take none.  Sometimes I take pictures of myself, to see how I look-

I take pictures with my dad, because he's adorable a I love having them to look at when I'm not at home -

I take pictures of my kitties when they're doing adorable stuff.  Which, since I'm a crazy cat lady, is pretty much all the time.

I take pictures of stuff I think is pretty, like the tree in Grandma and Grandpa Knetter's yard that I used to get yelled at for climbing when I was a kid.

I take pictures when I think things look neat because of the colors, or when I think I'm artistic and am really just taking pictures like a 12-year-old-

I take pictures of things that make me happy, like the cute pencil case I scored for $3 at Walmart for the coming schoolyear

And I take pictures of stuff that makes me laugh.  Because, after all, laughter, love, and music make life truly worth living.

So I guess for now I'm gonna try harder to post pictures sometimes.  I'm not making any promises, because these phases leave as quickly as they arrive.  But I'm gonna try.  Because it makes me happy.

And I'm the boss.

Happythankyoumoreplease

Today I watched a movie.  It's called "Happythankyoumoreplease".  I'm kinda feeling like this is something that everybody needs to see.  Maybe it's not something everybody will like (I'm pretty sure THAT movie doesn't exist), but the message in it is so important.  It's basically about knowing that you're worth being loved, and it's ok to let somebody in.  I don't know, I can't explain it right.  But I loved the way it made me feel.  It also contained one of the most beautiful lines I've ever heard:

"I always thought of that as the moment you came into focus...like, 'Oh, there you are.'"

*Sigh*