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Catching Up

I have been horrible at keeping this blog up since I've been freelancing Mondays through Thursdays. When I work at a job outside of my home, everything else kind of falls away. I guess that's one reason why I don't like working a full-time job. There's a lot of other things I want to do with my time! Anyway, here are some photos of what I've been up to in my free time in the past month.

Trout Fishing

We went to my Dad and Molly's house this weekend in CT. My dad goes fishing a lot and we asked if he would take us. We spent the day at a beautiful river, and we did pretty well! We caught about 8 trout, but we let 5 of them go. The next morning Dad grilled them up for our breakfast. What a great experience.

Photo Shoot

I did a photo shoot with my friends Eric and Matt for my new improved website and for some promotional postcards and such. It was really fun.

Shhh, it's a Quiet Day!

This morning when I woke up, it was so blissfully silent that I declared today a Quiet Day. This means no music, and minimal talking. I just want to enjoy the silence for as long as I can, you know? I always put music on as soon as I wake up and it's going all day. And I usually listen to Sirius XM radio and I get really annoyed with the DJs or with stupid songs that I don't like. So by having a quiet day, I'm cutting out those annoyances too. Everybody wins. It's been pretty peaceful. I have found myself going to put on the music a few times, absentmindedly of course. I bring noise into my life without even thinking about it most days. Well, not today. I decided if it starts to get loud outside, like construction or dogs barking or kids yelling, then I can put the music on. Those things are more disruptive to my sanity than bad songs on the radio. So, I offer the challenge to you. Can you have a quiet day? Tomorrow I'm going to try a "no computer day". Boy, do I waste a lot of time on the internet.

Goodspeed Opera House

This place is so inspiring to me.

Key Lime Pie Project

I found this craft project idea in a book called 52 Projects. Make a key lime pie, take pictures of it. Take pictures of people eating it. Then hand-write the recipe out and put it in a box with the pictures and a bag of key limes. Send it to a friend with directions that they should share their photos with you, and pass it on. I'm totally paraphrasing the whole project, you get the gist of it. It was really fun. We need to work on our graham cracker crust techniques however. It wasn't as successful as it could've been. It was delicious though!