As some of you may be marking off the days on a special calendar and trembling in anticipation may know, Joe and I are leaving on Sunday the 22nd for an almost 3 week holiday in the States. Excitement abounds and I am even more busy than usual - what with the packing and preparing...
You would think that being busy would be bad for blog writing; but, in this case, it is forced me to get some stuff done. I've been wanting to blog about our Easter holiday; but the photos have been sitting - leering at me from my sadly neglected pictures folder. How do you choose 4 or 5 good photos of the 12 Apostles when you have about 40 photos of them in different shades of sunset? See... you understand now...
Well, Joe's mom (i.e. the greatest MIL ever) has planned an open house for us during our visit so that we can see the whole family without having to cram a bunch of individual visits into our time there. We decided to put together a folder of pictures so that people could see where we have been and how beautiful this country is... Well, actually, I was just going to throw everything into a folder and let it play at random; but Joe has been nice enough to put together something with some heft and depth. The photos will actually be in order and there will be some labels and explanations as needed. That will save us from standing next to the tv all day saying - "Yes, this was our trip to Thredbo" - "Oh, that's an Echidna".
Anyway, this whole process necessitated an afternoon on the couch with Joe going through my pictures folder. I have come to realise that I am not nearly as organised as I like to think I am... The pinnacle of embarrassment came when I had to show him a folder entitled "Random Australia" in which I had pitched an alarming number of completely random photos. Add to that the existence of additional random folders in my on-line Picasa account that I had uploaded from my phone; and I am truly feeling sorry for him. We had many conversations like this one yesterday:
"Oh honey, I don't really like that photo - you should really put up the one of the Botanical Garden"
"Where are those ones?"
"Oh, they are in the folder called Nature - Sydney - Garden"
"That one is empty"
"Oh..... Did you try Random Australia?"
"Yeah"
"Oh.... Here, let me have the mouse"
click.... click.... click... click...
"Here they are! On-line in my Uploaded Blog Pictures folder"
"Thanks (almost invisible eyeroll)"
Anyway, the upshot of all of this is that we went through all the photos from our Easter holiday and they are now sorted and done. I was going to have this blog post actually be about Melbourne with some pictures; but now it's sort of long and I don't want to blow everything at once!
Tomorrow my pretties - tomorrow....
But here's an arty picture of the Opera House to tide you over (I know that it doesn't have anything to do with our trip to Melbourne; but I'm feeling guilty for not having any other photos in this post!)
You would think that being busy would be bad for blog writing; but, in this case, it is forced me to get some stuff done. I've been wanting to blog about our Easter holiday; but the photos have been sitting - leering at me from my sadly neglected pictures folder. How do you choose 4 or 5 good photos of the 12 Apostles when you have about 40 photos of them in different shades of sunset? See... you understand now...
Well, Joe's mom (i.e. the greatest MIL ever) has planned an open house for us during our visit so that we can see the whole family without having to cram a bunch of individual visits into our time there. We decided to put together a folder of pictures so that people could see where we have been and how beautiful this country is... Well, actually, I was just going to throw everything into a folder and let it play at random; but Joe has been nice enough to put together something with some heft and depth. The photos will actually be in order and there will be some labels and explanations as needed. That will save us from standing next to the tv all day saying - "Yes, this was our trip to Thredbo" - "Oh, that's an Echidna".
Anyway, this whole process necessitated an afternoon on the couch with Joe going through my pictures folder. I have come to realise that I am not nearly as organised as I like to think I am... The pinnacle of embarrassment came when I had to show him a folder entitled "Random Australia" in which I had pitched an alarming number of completely random photos. Add to that the existence of additional random folders in my on-line Picasa account that I had uploaded from my phone; and I am truly feeling sorry for him. We had many conversations like this one yesterday:
"Oh honey, I don't really like that photo - you should really put up the one of the Botanical Garden"
"Where are those ones?"
"Oh, they are in the folder called Nature - Sydney - Garden"
"That one is empty"
"Oh..... Did you try Random Australia?"
"Yeah"
"Oh.... Here, let me have the mouse"
click.... click.... click... click...
"Here they are! On-line in my Uploaded Blog Pictures folder"
"Thanks (almost invisible eyeroll)"
Anyway, the upshot of all of this is that we went through all the photos from our Easter holiday and they are now sorted and done. I was going to have this blog post actually be about Melbourne with some pictures; but now it's sort of long and I don't want to blow everything at once!
Tomorrow my pretties - tomorrow....
But here's an arty picture of the Opera House to tide you over (I know that it doesn't have anything to do with our trip to Melbourne; but I'm feeling guilty for not having any other photos in this post!)
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How did I miss this post? No idea!
Hope you are having a wonderful time in the states!
Hi Amanda - Don't feel bad about missing the post - I missed your comment until just now :O