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First Grade Timeline – Part 2

  • Posted on April 11, 2009 at 10:43 pm

I finished going through our photo collection at about 3:30pm today. I realized a few things, as I went through seven years worth of digital photography:

  1. I need to start snapping pics again. The difference between the sheer volume of pictures from 2001 and today is startling.
  2. Saving the pictures in dated file folders isn’t really necessary anymore – the exif data provides the date taken.
  3. It’s about time I read a book or two about photography. There are entirely too many craptastic pictures on my hard drive.

Going through the first few years was difficult. Seeing the pictures of Tig was emotional, as was deciding if I should include pictures of him in the final project. (Yes, I did print pictures of him with us.)

When the boys woke up this morning they immediately glommed on and started looking at the pictures. Did they help pick any out? Of COURSE not, they were too busy saying “There’s Baby Daniel! There’s Baby Joseph! Mommy? Who IS that? (That’s you, Baby!)

There are 73 photos on my kitchen table, waiting to be sorted through (by Daniel this time), glued to the timeline, and captioned.

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Time passages

  • Posted on April 9, 2009 at 1:00 pm

The assignment came home from school last week. It’s a typical first-grade timeline project: put pictures of yourself on this paper and write a story. Write YOUR story. Due on the 14th.

We (I) haven’t even started on it yet.

A large part of Daniel’s first year was lost in the Great Hard Drive Crash of 2004. The pictures that I *do* have were sent to me by his father after we split up. They are the pictures that mattered to him, the pictures HE picked out of the hundred pictures I would shoot each time we went out.

There are so many emotions tangled up in this project. Out of my three children, he is the only one to spend any time at all with his DNA contributor. He doesn’t remember those times, of course – but we do have pictures of them together.

The easy way out, of course, is to give him exactly what the project calls for: pictures of him from birth to age 7.

(Suck it up and go through the photos, Emily.)

He looks just like his Daddy.

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I should probably set some goals for ’08, huh?

  • Posted on January 31, 2008 at 2:14 pm

It’s the end of January, I do believe I should speak to The Goals.

A carryover from ’07 – Get my GPA up. The F in management dinged me a good one. Lesson: If you’ve already been a manager, learning about management concepts is going to make you laugh your ass off and not take the class seriously. I know, I know – I should’ve dropped the class.

Travel This is the 2008 MUST DO. Not only have I promised Daniel a trip to the beach, I have to *gulp* get on a plane and blast my way to the West Coast, kids in tow. Holly is moving, and will be living close enough to My Brother The Golden Child to visit both. I can introduce myself to his nine- and five-year-old progeny, and perhaps guilt-trip him into bringing his family back East for a visit while Mamaw is still living and my Sainted Mama is still on the shiny side of lucidity.

(Yes, you read that correctly. My brother has children, and I’ve never met them. I’ve only met his wife once, and was quite rude. The first hubs and I were arguing at the time of her visit, and I was so pissed off at him that I snarled at EVERYone. Ask Holly – apparently I scare people when I snarl.)

Snowflake as much as I can. There’s really no reason for me to have any debt other than student loans, so every non-committed penny is going toward paying off my card and then to a new(er) vehicle. And then, most likely to the student loans.

Things in the back of my mind: Moving. Guiding Mom away from the Doublewide Paradise she seems hell-bent on creating. Rolling my own DVR (I need to be able to rip and store our DVD movies on a hard drive. Hard drives can’t get scratched by little boys.) Finish tweaking this theme (which involves sucking it up, going through my pic archives, and doing the effin’ edits.). Getting my Electronics Graveyard into one place, recycling what can be and probably either freecycle or ebay what can’t. Putting The Goals down because it’s just another “thing” to keep up with…

Goals that I’ve completely put down: improving my “social life”. Assembling this puzzle. (Yes, that post was written in 2006. Yes, it’s still in the box. Go me!)

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