Photography Challenge- Day 9

Photo someone you love.

I knew right away who I would photo.

My dog!

JUST KIDDING.

The Hubbs. I want to photo The Hubbs.

I knew yesterday I wanted to take a picture of him, but it was a crazy morning and he left the same time the kids did, and then he didn't come back until late last night cause he was out schmoozing with some bank people..... does it sound like I'm complaining? I'm really not. It just left me no time with any light source.

So this morning, as I write this at 6:47am, I have decided to ambush him. After all, I just need ONE picture. So the goal is to get my boys ready for school a few minutes earlier so I can grab a photo of the person I love the mostest: The Hubbs. My Douglas.

He's amazing. He has this mischevious wink, which was one of the things that made me fall in love with him. Even though we're both older, it still makes me melt. Especially when he's teasing, or he's bought something expensive without consulting me, that wink and boyish smile usually lets him get away with anything. Usually:)



The boy can't lie to save his life. He really can't. That's a really good thing I know, but if he's trying to surprise me, or if he's trying to pull one over on me, I ALWAYS KNOW. He cannot stop grinning and saying, "WHAT???"

I particularly love that he intimidates Teaghan's guy friends when they come over. One of her best guy friends that was over a week ago jumped off the couch when Doug walked in from work. Teaghan introduced her friends and this kid walked over to Doug, threw out his hand and said, "Hi sir, I'm .... Nice to meet you." I had to walk out of the kitchen I was practically in fits. Are we really here?!?? It doesn't seem that long ago that Doug was shaking my dad's hand!!

I just love that Doug can intimidate. It makes me happy:) hee hee

He's...

*spontaneous
*a man of few words
*fun to hang out with
*loves sports
*can ice skate like a pro having never been on skates IN HIS LIFE while I fell down 3 times
*tries to teach me new things, like ping pong. He achieved Saint status after that.
*always orders the best stuff when we go out to eat. I've learned to always ask his opinion. And I'm usually the food critic!
*always remembers my birthday and valentines day as SEPARATE days. My birthday is two days after Valentine's. He probably should've never dated me if he knew what he was in for:)
*very hard worker
*very smart
*great dad
*bad mechanic:)
*buys me things he knows is going to irritate him later, but he knows how happy it'll make me
*organized
*very choosy about his friends. If you're a friend, you better feel lucky.
*opinionated
*let's me get out with friends pretty much whenever
*loves me like nobody's business

This list is not in any order of priority, but he is all of those and more. And he's turning 40 in a couple of months so maybe that's where all this introspection has come from.

So I ask myself, how do I NOT photo this amazing person?

:)

Photography Challenge Day 8

Day eight's challenge is to photograph a bad habit. This one is particularly hard as I am practically perfect and have no bad habits to speak of.

RIIIGGHHHTT.

However, trying to figure out what bad habit to photo is hard, let alone WHICH bad habit I want to broadcast out there in cyber space. As I tell my girls, what you put out on the internet STAYS out there on the internet. It's sort of like the saying, "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas." Not to mention the fact that it is so very hard to photo something that is abstract. Some bad habits just aren't tangible.

(I'll leave you to the guessing games as to what bad habits I have that aren't tangible, cause I am SOOOO not going to list them.)

The point being is that this blog post may be more about a blog post than about photography. But since I tend to be wordy whenever I do this challenge, well.... nothing's new. :)

Of course it just occurred to me that this is a photography challenge. It is a CHALLENGE to photo a bad habit.

Duh.

So like a knight riding into battle with his sword drawn, or rather wielding a vacuum or spatula, onto Day 8!!

First and foremost, I blame this next habit on the hubbs. If you know me, you know it's hard for me to take ownership of my own faults. I'm just genetically wired that way. :) Just kidding. However, I do LOOOVE to read. Love it. LOVE IT. However, unless I've actually GOT something to read, like I went to the library, a friend lent me the Twilight book (that was the beginning of the end. In all honesty I just wanted to read that book so I could say I hated it at book club. Needless to say I stayed up till 4am reading that blasted thing) or some other series to read, or someone recommended something, I typically don't read. But when I do have something to read, like when Doug bought me the Hunger Games before book 3 was out, everything just goes to pot. The house doesn't get cleaned, dinner doesn't get cooked, the kids look like urchins... oh wait, that's tax season. And to be honest, this is what happens when I read a good series.

Then Doug buys me a Kindle, where there is a virtual library at my fingertips. At my fingertips!! It makes me giddy just thinking about it. Will the hubbs ever learn:) But even though he knows how I am when I read, he STILL got it for me anyway. Now if that isn't true love, I don't know what is!




Membership does have its perks:)



What I think is even more fabulous is that I can get on my phone app and download books straight to my Kindle. But then wherever I'm saved in my reading on my Kindle, I can pick up and read on my phone. Technology is so amazing!!



Pinterest is another obsession slash bad habit. Put both those together and you've got a deadly combo. Pinterest started off with good intentions- I just wanted to use it as storage for projects. I was tired of printing off everything and storing it a binder that I never did get around to looking at again. But here's the irony: instead of looking at the pins I already have to see what projects I want to get done, I spend time clicking on that darn "see more pins" button!!

Hence the obsession.



The bad habit is that I spend too much time on it. And honestly, what is it about Pinterest that is so addicting?? I actually spent some time thinking about this. (self analysis happens once in a millenia so I felt pretty proud I could conjure it for this blog post) I figured out that for me, pushing that "Pin it" button sort of feels like I've done them already. Even though I know that's not remotely true, they've still been pinned to MY boards, like I've somehow got claim on them. The more I pin, the better I feel. Not really, but you get the point. It's like a full color spread of your to do list complete with instructions. Oh how I love my boards.


Obviously I need to change my profile picture, but when did I get that many pins? See! Obviously I fit the addiction profile when I can't tell you how it came to this.