Man I Loved My Break. Man I Love Digital Cameras.

What a fantastic blogging break.   I feel refreshed and sharp as a tack now.  Ok I definitely feel refreshed but sharp as a tack hasn't been me since a car ran into me and I flew over the hood and smacked my head on it's windshield.  I will never again be as sharp as a tack.  The only thing I can maybe hope for is a really thick....knitting needle?

Anywho.  I don't think even I realized how much I needed a break and it wasn't only from blogging.  I don't know about you but I get overwhelmed every once in awhile.  Things pile up and I feel like I am slowly smothering in a world going 110 miles an hour 24 hours a day.   There is never enough time to 'catch up' yet more things get piled on.  Something has to give and it's usually me being aware enough to tell myself I am useless to anyone if I am walking around feeling overwhelmed all the time.  So I take a break.  I have done this for as long as I can remember and it's probably why I have been able to raise three kids mostly on my own and still keep fairly sane.  Oh stop it.  I said fairly sane, I didn't say completely sane.

It's funny too because in the past there were no trips to 'take you away'.  No way.  It was turn off the phones, hide your truck in the garage and try and get some peace that way.  In the past a trip wasn't even thought of as the funds just weren't there.  Then as time went on the excuse was Gregg was too busy and time-wise it never worked out with his job.  Now?  Now Gregg is still very busy but we have decided to spend some of our kids inheritance and travel more.  Oh oops.  To the T kids who are reading this, sorry about that inheritance thing.  We were going to tell you.  Honest.

Many days after my Prince Edward Island trip, I finally decided to take the flash card out of my camera and look at the pictures from the trip.  I will admit there were more pictures then I thought had been taken.  I pulled out my camera a lot on the trip, but I just wasn't into the whole picture taking thing.

This being my first 'big' holiday in my lifetime, I really do feel less is more when it comes to holidays though.  Unlike many of the people we saw in hotels where the bellmen were pushing around 8 or 9 suitcases for only one couple.  I still brought a few lenses because like I said, I'm a new traveler.  The huge lesson I learned?  I hardly used those lenses and when I did, I now have to take my camera in to be serviced because dust got into it with all those lens changes and I now see specks on my pictures.  Thank goodness for Photoshop.  I still have a lot of pictures, just not a ton like I would normally have.  And really...how many pictures of lighthouses does one person really need?

As my handy dandy card reader was downloading the pictures onto my computer I cringed at some of the pictures.  Actually there were about 25 pictures like these three I'm showing here.  You just have to love the sports setting on your camera because man can you get a lot of pictures with only a few clicks.

It reminded me again why I love my digital camera because there was a time I would have brought my film into Kodak and asked them to print them out for me, only to get home and see half a package of pictures like these staring back at me.  Then I would have said six swear words and thrown them in the garbage.

Because really?  What chubby person on the face of the planet wants close-up pictures like these floating around the planet?  Not me that's for sure.

In my defense though.....

I'm sure it's the lens that makes my teeth look so bad and allows my huge pores to show up so well in the pictures, and let's not even point out the Rudolph nose shall we or the fact Gregg is supposed to be in this picture with me.  It's the lens I tell you.  It's just gotta be the lens.

Comments

[junebug]

Breaks are good for you. Especially holiday breaks. I don't think we're getting away this year. We're planning a big one next year though.

[Teena in Toronto]

You look happy :)

[Penney]

Your beautiful Joy, inside and out!!

[Burfica]

Well I was gonna say that picture had to be of your daughter. hehehehe

I see you lost your nose and mouth in the last two. hehehehehe

I end up with a whole roll of my finger or thumb. My husband has even watched me hold my complete hands behind the camera and just do one finger on the clicker and it never fails, my finger or thumb is in the shot. lmaoooooooo

[chrisb]

You have a lovely sunny smile~ clearly having a great time. Spending the kids inheritance is what I have been doing for the past few years. I feel I don't have that long before I get past wanting to fly long distances. I've recently booked a trip to China for next April!

[bichonpawz]

Good for you, Joy! And the pictures make you look relaxed and refreshed my friend!! I have had company, company, company and not a minute to blog or comment. That's the downside of havin' a place on the lake!! Thanks so much for bein' you!!

[frannie]

I'm so glad that you got to go-- I know you had the best time! and got a break-- that made it worth it all by itself!

now, if only I could get one of those break things....

[she]

this is why i normally let the hubby take all the pics on the few occassions we've traveled together. he's got a knack for it. me, i tend to take pictures of my toes...

[Anglophile Football Fanatic]

1st big holiday? Really? You mean the longest?

[the planet of janet]

you look wonderful, hon. all refreshed and back on your game!

[Pamela]

I can tell you were having a blast.. sunburn on your cute nose.

I get overwhelmed quite often -- I wish that a break would make me feel as refreshed as you indicate.

[Dawn]

Oh, I can see part of Gregg. Truthfully, when I looked at the first photo, I was wondering if it was you. Weird, must be the lens.

[kitten (Katie)]

I like to see funny pictures like that. Like someone said and I agree 100%, you are very beautiful, inside and out!!!