Posted By Klutzy Shutterbug on January 6, 2010
Soon I will get more active…soon life will give me something to write about that might interest….anyone.
For now, you are stuck with pictures of my life.
So, this one is old. It isn’t from today. I’m not cheating, I simply stumbled upon it and it reminds me: TAKE DOWN THE CHRISTMAS DECOEATIONS on the front porch and put back up your flags.
I also want to enter a photo contest that I wonder if this is good enough.
Posted By Klutzy Shutterbug on January 5, 2010
I promised myself I would keep up and I am. However, last night, I was all prepared to photograph my day and I got a call from my dad late to say that my mom was having a bad night at the hospital so I went up there to keep her company through the night. I got the internet…about 2am with no camera in site.
I’ve slept most of the day, so even this won’t be riveting….but I am determined to finish….something.
So, here is my other unfinished “I’m going to get to it” project. Christmas decorations. I got the motivation to take them down, its just the storing them that is the problem now.
Posted By Klutzy Shutterbug on January 3, 2010
So, It is 9:11pm and I almost didn’t get my deadline today but I am stubborn and this is getting done this year! It doesn’t help that my internet is being so completely screwy that I can’t do anything. So here’s hoping that day 2 happens.
Day 2. We purchased a late xmas gift for each other. New laptops. We’ve wanted them for a couple years….being that our last ones went kaput early on so we decided to treat ourselves. *With the promise that the money spending slooooows down soon and we have to eat at home for the next 70 years.
So not a very good picture. But that is one of our new ASUS laptops. More to come later when my internet wants to stop acting like a douche.
Posted By Klutzy Shutterbug on January 2, 2010
So, if you are one of my 3 readers, you know that I tried to no avail to stay on top of my blog. Life was a little crazier than I anticipated and I got a little side-tracked. As Jeff likes to remind me, I am cluttering his RSS feed and not updating. So here goes. My new years resolution is to do this “365 days of pictures”. So, I start today, 01/02/10 and will conclude on 01/02/11.
I start today with the first “outing” of the year. A weekend day used to explore something different. I haven’t shared this with the Nerd yet, but I hope to be able to do at least one exploration “mission” a week as well to help make my 365 days of photos a bit more adventurous as well.
We went to our state capitol, Raleigh, NC today. While there we explored the capitol building and then decided to find some warmth at the Crabtree Valley mall.
Posted By Klutzy Shutterbug on November 2, 2009
Getting this up early so I don’t forget. I took my camera outside for the first time in awhile and took some shots around the yard and the dogs. My favorite is my little furry poser, Echo. She’s a bit of a ham considering she’s not human.
My little furry attention whore
Posted By Klutzy Shutterbug on November 2, 2009
Ok so I slacked yesterday a bit. We had a huge cookout here for our families and I was so busy from the time I opened my eyes last night until I closed them. So heres a post to make up for it.
The moon on Halloween night
The first is from Halloween night. It isn’t a great one because I am not a night sky photographer. I don’t get the best ones at night because I don’t have a tripod or a steady hand. The moon was awesome for Halloween. Clouds moving by fast in a thin layer and it was bright and full.
This is some of the remnants of our cookout..the day after
The remains of the cookout yesterday…some of them at least. This morning I hopped up with a lot of energy and cleaned up the mess that was left behind and gathered all the dry goods on the table for later. What you can’t see is the table full of sodas and the fridge I can’t stuff anything else into because of all the leftovers.
Posted By Klutzy Shutterbug on October 31, 2009
Ok so I kind of ran over the time…it is actually day 4 but its been a mad house here.
This is a bad picture, taken with my Iphone of the candy I had to give out for trick-or-treaters! Better one tomorrow but I didn’t want to flake out on day 3!
Tomorrow we are having our first cookout in NC at our new home. We’ve never been able to throw one for the family so we decided to start now. Somewhere, in my brilliant planning, I decided to make cupcakes and play Martha Stewart. Boy, its almost 2am and I’m still baking.
Posted By Klutzy Shutterbug on October 30, 2009
So far the pictures aren’t great but they are a reflection of my day. Today…my mums. Why you ask? Well, I’ll make a whole nother blog post about that but this mum is one of four on my porch…helps decorate it a bit. The picture is the damage done to my $20 mum by a child not watched by their mother.
Posted By Klutzy Shutterbug on October 29, 2009
For 365 days I hope to complete a goal I have made for myself. A picture a day. A day in the life of a klutz and the nerd.I never know what will pop up but I hope this will encourage me to have my camera at the ready and snap something fun each day.
Here’s your glimpse into day 1
My work area and Iphone
Posted By Klutzy Shutterbug on October 28, 2009
I thought I knew where to begin after my extended absence from my blog. I started this blog in hopes of getting some thoughts out and having a place to let off steam from time to time and here I go neglecting it for so long. I hope soon to be able to feel the inspiration to blog…at least every other day. We shall see. I’d also like to figure out how to bring in some more traffic. My wonderful friends read it and for that I am thankful 
Where to begin is really the question at hand here. Most everyone that I know reads this knows what life has been like for the last few months, for any new readers I will get a condensed version. (As condensed as I ever get that is).
Over the last few months, life has seriously changed. I posted minor details in a post below somewhere but basically, The Nerd got out of the military and accepted a job in our hometown of Fayetteville, North Carolina. We drove 2200 miles from Arizona to North Carolina and began our journey in settling down again. The trip was actually fairly fun and we stopped at a few places along the way like The Oklahoma City Memorial and were even welcomed into some friend’s home that we were “meeting” for the first time outside of the internet. It was definitely a road trip to remember.
After a month or so of being here we found a new home. For now, we are renting with plans to buy in the next year or so when we find just the “right” fit.
I am slowly unpacking, decorating and buying to fill up the new place…keyword being slowly. We have a formal dining room now even…that was difficult. I’m not even sure what to do with a “formal” dining room, so it has become a new place to have to decorate and the table ends up still as the catch-all. Go shopping? The bags land on the table or floor and there they stay until the time is taken to actually do something with it.
Speaking of shopping…I never knew that “settling” cost so much money. I guess we’ve always just gotten by with what we had because we always had different houses and never knew what would fit. Moving everything constantly and finding the heartbreaking evidence of something cherished shattered into a million pieces doesn’t give you the want to go buy something nice and later have it ruined.
Anyway, I’m rambling as I tend to do all too often. That is the gist of what has happened the last few months. I’ll get some pictures up by the end of the week of how the new house looks once it is all clean and ready to go. We are having a sort of house warming party this weekend so by Sat night I hope to have it in tip top shape finally.
In other news, The Nerd and I got new computers so I am hoping to be able to do more with this one. I need to get my other one hooked up and ready so I can transfer some pictures over and get my music collection. Before we left Arizona, we had downloaded approximately 4,000 songs and I got more into a music mood so I need to continue that. Any good new music out there? We got XM/Sirius when we got here and I keep up on the top hits right now mostly and occasionally I will find a good one that is obscure.
Like, did you know Seether had recently rerecorded George Michael’s Careless Whisper?
Well, that’s my update post. I hope to be able to get back into this and blog about the daily happenings in NC and in the life of a Klutzy Shutterbug. I hope to also be able to dust off my camera and start a photo a day for 365 days too. I have lofty goals.
Self proclaimed klutz, amateur photographer, wife, daughter, friend and computer nerd. I ramble a lot and teach myself as much as possible. Passionate debater with many diverse opinions that I like to share....a lot.
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