Day 5 of 100

A picture of what you did today.

 

I did it!  I touched my toes!

I am EXTREMELY inflexible.  Always have been.  As a result I have never been able to touch my toes with my legs remaining straight.  For the past several days I have been doing yoga and an exercise ball mini work-out.  Yesterday for the first time I can remember, I stretched and touched my toes.  It was awesome.

Day 4 of 100

A picture of you and your friends.

Almost all my friends are a great distance away from me right now.  Some went home for the summer.  Some are working or interning at a church not in my area.  One is in Vegas and another in Africa doing amazing work for God.  Some are making life transitions and are preparing for their own future in a completely different state.  For one reason or another most of my friends are not physically with me.  So this will have to suffice...

Two disclaimers: 1) Just because you are not one of the 6 people "pictured" here, does not mean you are not my friend.  I actually made a long list of people to draw, but only 6 fit on my paper and these were the first 6 that I had ideas for.  2) My friends are NOT topless.  But even if they were, they are stick figures, people.  Geesh.

Day 3 of 100

A picture of you in the morning.

Did you honestly think I would post a picture of me on the internet for the world to see without my hair done?

Styling my hair, eating cereal, and doing my make-up are three essentials in my morning routine. 

I have a thing for make-up, particularly eyeshadow.  I have all different shades of grays, greens, browns, pinks, and purples.  I have lots of blues too, but rarely use them.  Today I am wearing three colors, purple on my lids, green at the outer edge, and a light yellow up to my brow.  Yesterday I had on four.  I purchase most of my eyeshadow in pallets at the dollar store.  Cheap eyeshadow is the best! 

A collage I am in the process of making is all eyes with amazing eye shadow.  I want to put it in my bathroom to inspire me when I do my own make-up in the morning.

And I think it will be cool to look at as well as slightly freakish.

Day 2 of 100

Seriously Corey Jones, seriously?

Day 2: A picture that defines your life.

Could he have made the second day any more difficult?

A picture... that defines... my life.  The first thing I thought of was getting a bunch of stuff that "defines" me: some of my crafting things, something that represents my work, something that represents my mother, something that represents my husband, etc... and arranging them on the floor.  Then I could elevate myself slightly above all those things while kneeling before a cross (Doesn't everyone have access to a large wooden cross?)  Decent idea, but way to much work.  This is not a test.  Its supposed to be fun.  Think simple.

Ok... then maybe just me kneeling before the cross.  Easy.  Simple.  Accurate.  Well... mostly accurate.  Truth be told, if I am defining my life, I'm not always kneeling.  Sometimes I'm laying prostrate, fallen on my face before my Lord.  Other times, I am in the fetal position.  Sometimes I am crying and other times screaming.  Occasionally I have my back to him with my fingers in my ears.  And sometimes I am in time out.  There are times I am not even at the cross, but at His throne and in His lap.

So a picture that defines my life.

This is not a test.  Its supposed to be fun.

Yesterday we went to the beach and an idea struck me. 

Easy.  Simple.  Definitely fun.  Perfect.

Day 1

Yesterday Corey surprised me and gave me a new camera! It is a Fugi Film, 12 mega pixel, 5x wide zoom piece of fine working technology. And it records movies in high def! I am so excited! No more borrowing the school camera or using MACU yearbook photos to document our life. Yeah!

But it also came with a challenge (what a creative and sweet husband I have). “100 Days in Photographs” For the next 100 days I am supposed to take one picture every day. Corey already assigned the first 30. I hope I can accomplish this task. I am posting them here in hopes that it forces me to blog a little more too.

Day one: a picture of yourself and your new camera.

And so begins the journey…

Compliments

Before falling into sleep last night, my mind raced with questioning and uncertainty.  That was followed by two bizzaro vivid dreams that I remember distinctly.  I believe I had a third dream that I can not recall now.  I also woke up an hour early for my typical Saturday rising and I sat in my living room feeling what I can only describe as off.  I facebooked (yes, facebooked is a verb) for awhile and then sat staring into space.  "What am I going to do with the next two hours?"  You see, my husband sleeps in until 11am on Saturdays (and that's only because that's when I can't take it any more and get him out of bed).  So I got myself ready for the day and went on a walk around town.  I hoped it would re-center me and disipate my "off" feelings.

And to some extent it did help: being in the sun, getting my blood pumping a bit, walking and thinking...
but then I took a short stroll by the swamp and was overcome by horseflies.  Little, triangle shaped, emerald green, sting like a bee horseflies.  One landed on my glasses.  I didn't like that much.  If I watched my shadow, I could see them swarm around me, landing on my head and shoulders.  That freaked me out.  One got caught in my hat.  That REALLY freaked me out.  I swatted and squirmed and even ran, but they persisted that I was sweet and worth it (which really, who could deny?)  I finally escaped into my cool air conditioned apartment with only a few itchy bumps from successful bites. 

But the feeling of being off returned and thinking about the horseflies sent me into a crying fit.  Knowing Corey and I planned to read at Muddys I retreated upstairs in search of a new book.  Scanning my shelf of "Books to Read" my gaze stumbled upon a wee little journal I had forgotten existed.  In it are several pages of compliments given to me during my college years that I transcribed.  I read the pages and found myself feeling better, even positive.

So thanks to those who saw something worth complimenting back in the day.  You probably don't even know you made it in this book, but what you said then helped make today good again.

Stupid horseflies.