My first NaBloPoMo blog post. Well, sort of and frankly, I am lost for words.

Anyway, this photo was taken at my MIL’s place when we celebrated the lantern festival. More photos to come as soon as I get down to processing them.

There is just so much on my mind right now. Just today, the pead mentioned that I looked tired. Well, I should feel alot more refreshed and rejuvenated after a 10 day trip. I kinda…sorta…I’m still recovering from that dreaded jet-lag. Plus, I made the mistake of not taking that antihistamine pill on the plane. So, I didn’t get much sleep.

And of course, forget about sleep these days. Its a luxury and a rare find. Almost as rare as finding a Moen faucet. LOL…no I am just kidding. See what sleep deprivation can do to you; it can really make your mind go crazy hehehhe…

As usual, the weekend is looming and tomorrow, we have a dinner appointment and on Sunday, we’ll be having a mini birthday celebration party. Albeit a little early but from experience, weekends are always the best time to celebrate anything.

So, that said, we will have to go shopping since we are the ones throwing the party. Parties are no good and fun without presents. We will probably do that tomorrow; today, I will have to get the house cleaned up and do my homework  (compare life insurance).

It all started when I decided it was time I needed more space in my HD. That was successfully done no doubt. Now, my computer memory feels so brand new. Plus, I cannot believe the number of photos that I took – it’s crazy out there! You know what the worst part is? It looks like it’s never going to end..my photo-taking and all…*gasp*. Oh well, I’ll know it when I cross that bridge.

Then, I started tweaking my mommy blog. Gave it a new look. I took this featured image, chopped it up into nifty pieces and stitched it all up again. The end result was this :

A new header for my blog. Cool isn’t it? See what wonders your images can do for you?

Now, I have plenty more things to tweak since I am a complete noob and all. Code-work isn’t that great for me; I have to learn it the hard way..And with that, I’m off. But I’ll be talking to you again soon. Happy weekend!

Now, that I’ve upgraded it, it’s ok now and the comments have popped up. However, save for some plugins. Hence, this post is meant to do just that or I could write about farmhouse sinks..:-)

So, did you notice my new blog layout? I like it for it’s simplicity. I have been looking around the past couple of days for a new theme and I actually was about to give up. Well, until now at least.

However, it’s still not what I want ultimately but it’ll do – for now

The weekend’s looming and it’s one that I am hoping that would bring me some good news. What you might ask? Not now, I won’t say much at the moment cos I’m afraid I might jinx it. But, it has got everything to do with my camera..*wink*

Apart from that, we’d also be making our way to visit Gnat’s long time colleague and mentor, F, who together with his wife will be relocating to Argentina. Work related. Gnat and F have been working together for more than 10 years and he treats Gnat like the son he never had. So, you can imagine how difficult and emotional his goodbye speech was the other day.

In truth, deciding on what to give F and his lovely wife as a going-away present was rather difficult. I mean, what do you give to someone who has had everything that they’d want or hope for or probably even more? It’s not and never an easy task I’ll tell you that much. I believe with the 2 of them, they have lived life probably to the fullest and everything else is merely secondary. They have truly been there, done that if you know what I mean.

So, I’ve decided..probably against my better judgment (you’ll see why), to give them one of my photos, in print bound together in a nice and neat frame. I’m not that comfortable with my photos. Maybe I did take a couple of decent shots but I’m still by no means confident that they are a hit. Hence, my concern that the photo Gnat and I have carefully chosen may not suit their liking. But, you know, we didn’t want to just get something off from the shelf, wrap it and go “here, have a great trip. Send us a POSTcard”. It’s kind of meaning-less don’t ya think?

Anyway, since we’ve decided that this would be a more meaningful gift to give, I am keeping my fingers crossed that they’d love it. Or at least, understand the gesture, you know.

I’ve gotta go get that done today.

I’m a little nervous. And I have not even started selling my prints yet — something that has been playing around on my mind lately. I might just give it a shot. Sort of close my eyes and take aim – land me a big one..heheheh…ah…when that happens, you’ll hear about it for sure.

p.s : the image above isn’t the one we chose. I’ll take a snap shot of the final piece later.