no pressure

this morning i was awaken by the husband giving me a peck good bye at 5 freakin 15 am! why he's going to work so early is beyond me. anyway, after kaylee came down to join me , i fell back to sleep singing rosanna by toto and private eyes by hall and oates combining one song with the other. weird. i know. i also had a short dream about me at a party with oprah and it was in an old castle, that i owned. very weird. i know. and once i work up from that, i decided it was time to get up and start reading blogs. still amazed at how many talented people there are in the world and it leaves me wondering why i'm so boring and plain with no talent. i find it not fair personally. and as i'm getting ready to hang up the photography hat i went to flickr and reminded myself that this is why i like photography so much. it captures moments. people and things. beauty is really in the eye of the beholder. so no more pressure for me to become "professional".

in other news, i am ready to send out my two swaps tomorrow. just need to get packaging supplies and ship them out. i hope they like what i did and bought for them. the first name swap was extremely hard to come up with an idea. actually, i had an idea but was just too lazy to go and do it. the name swap goes to france. i will post pictures of them tomorrow. i don't think anyone still reads my blog but one or two of you.

here's a pic from hawaii. {i know i need to post more pics of hawaii but i need to quit being so lazy and find just the good pics so be patient} anyway, as we were sitting there waiting for the boat to set sail mike gave me a diamond tennis bracelet for our 5th wedding anniversary. that schmuck, we both said no gifts this year for any occasion. but i love it anyway. and him too. mike's pa looks over and says the clocks moving and we all look over and all start to laugh. it was the boat that was moving. now the boat i do not recommend. {norwegian cruise lines} it sucked. it was dirty and small and the pools were tiny and they didn't have anything do on it especially for the kids. {carnival cruise line gets 2 thumbs up, they are a lot better} and all the dining that they had available sucked. the "buffet style" was all chaotic and the freestyle while the food was good, we had to wait for over an hour and they couldn't stick to the same procedure, it was a total mess. its a good thing norwegian is the only cruise that goes around hawaii or they would not be in business for much longer.