Apologies and Excuses

All evidence to the contrary, I am still here.  Truth be told, I thought about taking down the blog.  But my better half informed me that this is what the internet is for - more information.  How can it possibly be true that the world wide void is still in want of more information.  But since I seem to value other's opinions above my own, I'm leaving the blog up.

As I mentioned, I knew better than to try to take a picture & read something daily.  Turns out my life and/or focus doesn't really allow for weekly either.  However, furthering my photography knowledge is still important to me, so...

In light of my apparent inability to maintain a weekly schedule, I'm changing the format a little bit.  I won't be posting pictures every week.  I typically post my pictures in a forum I am involved in, and posting here is just one more step.  Apparently I'm supposed to post pictures on a blog in order to get it to come up on search engines, but what the heck...I'm not really doing this for the search engines anyway.  I do plan to still get some pictures up here, but I don't want that to stand in the way of posting in general.   I will still try to take one picture a week, you may just not see it.

Instead of having weekly assignments/reports as though someone could follow along, I'll just be summarizing the chapter I read when I get around to it.  I'll aim for once a week, but no promises.  At least this way if you check back once a month, you can get a brief overview of whatever chapters I've managed to actually read.  Who knows, you might even be able to pick up something worthwhile.

Lastly, for some reason I feel compelled to apologize.  A lot.  As my husband says quoting a movie - "don't be sorry, be quiet."  (In a nice way...not in a shut-your-face way.)  So here's my last time to apologize on this blog.  From now on, I just write, even if it's been a year since my last post.  No more apologies...after these:

Sorry it's been so long...
Sorry I haven't posted in awhile...
Sorry I haven't read anything worthwhile in a bit...
Sorry I can't seem to find the right words...
Sorry it's been over a month...
Sorry I suck...

Ok.  I've said it.  And of course, what apology is complete without an excuse?  So, here are my list of excuses.  Hopefully they won't all apply at once, but I'm sure at some point or another most of them will be true:

...Life's been busy.
...I had a baby.
...My grandmother/grandfather died.
...I've been swamped with photo sessions (hooray!).
...We're moving.
...My kiddo was sick.
...My husband was sick.
...I was sick.
...We were travelling.
...I'm a new aunt!
...I've taken on a new hobby.
...I just didn't make the time.

Whew.  Now that all the apologies and excuses are out of the way, it's time to move on.  And so begins a new era for this blog.  Let's hope it sticks.