Camera Woes

February 29, 2012 By 2 Comments

My camera is at the Nikon hospital again :(

It was acting up before we left on our trip.  I’d dropped it back in December & the light meter would stay on continuously and drain the battery if the switch was in the on position.  Not a huge problem as long as  I remembered to turn it off when I was taking a photo & I always carried a spare battery with me on our trip.

But it was also DIRTY!  Look at all those dust spots up there.  I didn’t bother to figure out if they were on the lens I was using or on the camera sensor, but they are so annoying! Some pictures they blend in well & aren’t noticable, but in my any of the shots where the sky is showing, they are very obvious & I’ve been using the heck out of Lightroom’s spot removal brush as I go through all my Argentina and Chile vacation photos.  This was our view from our hotel in Santiago out towards the Andes.

I approved the repairs from Nikon yesterday & hopefully my camera will be on it’s way back to me this week.  I’ve had a heck of a time keeping this camera clean, but need to try harder so I can spend less time cleaning up photos!

It’s Leap Day! I feel compelled to do something exciting and memorable!  I can’t believe I was blogging about visiting Christ the Redemeer statue in Rio on our Brazil & Argentina trip 4 years ago…how time flies!

GOOD NEWS OF THE DAY: Seriously awesome day- lots of good things happening & I need to celebrate leap day!

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Hola

February 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Things might be a little light around here for a few weeks.  I’ve been slammed at work, still trying to wade through thousands of photos from our trip & get them blog ready for the blog.  I’ll be honest and admit that the trip was a difficult one that didn’t quite go as planned, but I’m happy to share some of the good & the bad highlights of our trip shortly.  It’s after 10PM (well past my bedtime) and I just finished working for the night & I’m still trying to listen to a business podcast before I hit the sack.  I am also investing a very large chunk of my time and energy into launching a new website that will keep me busy the rest of the year.  My waking hours have been consumed with research, organizing list, firing off emails, finding the right people to work with on my vision.  If you have a passion for seeing the beautiful in people, enjoy photography and/or yoga- let me know!  I’m looking for anybody & everybody to be a part of this grand venture.  Hopefully I can get more caught up this weekend & get started on sharing our (mis)adventures in Argentina & Chile.

GOOD NEWS OF THE DAY:  Although I ran & did yoga this morning, I went to my first real Pilates class with the fancy machines tonight with my friend.

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SS: Modern

February 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment


Sunday Scribblings #308  Modern

Clearly the only thing Google image search knows about modern is modern home & furnishings.  I wouldn’t consider my decorating or architecture style modern (at least as depicted in those photos).  I do like clean & minimal, but still functional, living and cozy.   Husband on the other hand loves big spaces, small furniture and very clean lines.  I’d consider the way he dresses very modern.

When I stop to thing about all the necessities and toys of modern life, I am so overwhelmed.  I don’t think I had a cell phone until I was living in Austin at age 20 (maybe around 2000?), but I can’t imagine life without one now. I consult my phone & Google numerous time a day for answers to a wide range of questions.

It’ s insane how quickly what is considered modern is changing- just a few years ago the iPad and twitter weren’t around, now they are a huge part of modern culture.

I can really appreciate things that stand the test of time and are feel modern & contemporary still: yoga, faith, self-love, writing, art, knitting, reading.  I love that all these things have been around for decades, but they are being embraced more than ever as people return to things that bring them joy.

I love living in modern times & I don’t think I’d rather go back in life in the Victorian era or any other time in history- unless I was a rich, white male.  Living in these times is so fascinating- so much going on politically, the whole globe is changing so fast & is so inter-connected.

Modern is now.  My now is an ambitious new project, working out, travel for work, blogging, getting through my vacation photos, taking care of sick pups, finishing the chores this weekend, networking with everybody I can get to listen to me about my bold ideas, learning & soaking up tons of information.

Modern is as good as it gets now. We can’t do any better than the technology than what we have now.  It’s familiar and expected- such as modern conveniences.   The things you’d want in a house or a car or computer, all the latest gadgets and things to make you life seemingly easier.

GOOD NEWS OF THE DAY: So good to be home this weekend- got tons accomplished, which includes work, personal projects, household chores, running, and hanging out with friends.

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I’m Not a Wine Snob

February 24, 2012 By 3 Comments

This is waaay old- like from last fall, but I’m running out of posts until I can get through my crazy long process with the thousands of photos I took on our vacation.  I wandered into Kroger one day & they had a basket full of vines marked down very cheap.  Now, I”m not at all particular about what wines I drink & grabbed a several bottles of anything that looked interesting.

It wasn’t great wine, but then I noticed some crazy stuff in my glass.  Then I looked into the bottle & saw this!

Um, I have no idea what happened to this wine, but it wasn’t good & it wasn’t easy to get these pictures!

Now, I’m generally not a wine snob & was happy to be drinking $6 wine right up until it had things floating in it!  I’ll be sticking to at least $8 wine from now on :)

GOOD NEWS OF THE DAY:  My mom is having her retirement party today & I’m so excited to go!

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Review: Evita the Real Life of Eva Peron

February 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Evita- The Real Life of Eva Peron

Before traveling to far off lands, I typically like to pick up a book or two to read about the history or a significant person in that country or culture.  For Argentina, the easy choice was Evita & my fascination with politics since our last trip made it an enjoyable read.  Although much of her life is surrounded by myth, mystery, legend and propaganda, it was a great biography that attempted to separate fact from fiction.  Eva Peron lead an incredible life from a poverty through acting and finally becoming one of Argentina’s most beloved political leaders and philanthropists.  Reading about such a fascinating personality was a great way to learn a little about the very volatile and dangerous political history of the country where military coups & riots were normal only a few decades ago.

The first book I actually tried to read for our trip was In Patagonia written as memoir about the author’s travels during the 1940′s through the vast & lonely wild west of South America.  At that time Argentina and Chile, especially the rugged and mountainous land between them, were the “new” American wild west- vast, untamed, lawless, filled with immigrants.  This book isn’t so much a story with a plot as it is a collection of narratives about the people he meets & the places the traveled.  Although some of the vignettes were fascinating, I had a hard time really getting into the book & didn’t actually finish it.  I read enough to get a taste of the majesty of the land and the type of people that sought refuge in such a remote and challenging place.  Although we missed most of Patagonia this time (so bummed…), I learned a great deal about the people & culture of the area.

GOOD NEWS OF THE DAY: I’m going shopping this afternoon & then another girls GTG tonight.

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