Lunar Eclipse Night

So last night I stayed up late to watch the lunar eclipse, which was very cool. And the temp outside was very cool too; 43 degrees and windy. Just a few wisps of clouds here and there, otherwise the skies were clear. I tried to take some pictures but I don't have a good zoom or night setting on my phone, still I'm happy with what I got.  But I know what I'm going to spend the remains of my Amazon gift card on; clip on lenses for my phone. 

Here's a picture just as the eclipse was starting. You can see the little wisps of clouds around. The blue dot is an after image from the camera lens. Definitely need to have some night photo software on my phone to filter the light properly. Anyone have any suggestions?

I took this picture at near totality, although you can't guess that from the image. The little bit of light not covered up yet really reflected in the shot. But I'm really happy that you can see the blood moon coloration in the picture. I used the new tripod I got with the right piece to hold my phone or it would have been even fuzzier. More zoom needed here. 

So I'm just wondering, how many of you reading out there are bored? And what do you do to ease that feeling? I like my job a lot but when I'm home, there just isn't anything that is interesting and captivating. It's not that I don't have anything to do because believe me I have plenty that needs to be done, but precious little of it is intriguing or challenging. Now I do know that not everything in life can be that way, there's nothing intriguing about cleaning a toilet after all. But when Sandra was alive, those mundane tasks were made easier to do while having an intriguing conversation. Now that I'm a party of one, I'm finding it harder and harder to get boring tasks done. 

I've tried the "reward yourself" with something after you get a chore done. I've tried checklists but crossing things off as done isn't much of a motivation to do them for me. Just not sure how to go about finding something that is intriguing to think about during the evenings and days off. It's like "Sherlock Holmes" syndrome, I think. I need some conundrum or puzzle to work on and like Sherlock, I'm truly missing my Dr. Watson.

New Year Resolutions - Two weeks late

So, I've been thinking about resolutions for 2019. More than two weeks after New Year's Day, yes, but I am a champion procrastinator. Just missed qualifying for the Olympic team. 😜 For 2019, I've decided that it's time to finish some of these long procrastinated projects and start new ones to procrastinate on. I'm getting bored with these same old half-finished projects around, time to spice it up and get some variety in my life.

So, it's time to finish that Southwest style ripple afghan since it's the 30th anniversary of the year it was begun. I told you I was an Olympic level procrastinator! Oh, and yes, Mom, it's time to finish remodeling the kitchen. That's only 2 years overdue; a drop in the bucket in my world of procrastination.

And along the same theme, it's time to try out all these recipes I've collected over the years when something caught my fancy and I saved the recipe. I have hundreds of recipes that sound good, so in homage to the movie "Julie and Julia", this year I resolve to cook at least 200 of the saved-up recipes and find out whether they live up to the room required to save them. After all, if I clean out the ones that don't work and don't taste good, there's room to collect new recipes, right? Don't judge me, I have taken to saving them as digital .pdf files now. There's room on the back up drive. LOL

And read more! I love to read and have a lot of books, both physical and e-books. I want to be able to say with pride, yes, I have read each and every book in my library, thank you. That's a good thing to do while sitting out on the carport enjoying the breeze and the lake with Strider and Buster.

Also, it's the year of ripping all the music on CDs to .mp3 files. No sense in those 2 iPods sitting empty on the shelf. They might as well be useful, and it keeps the area around the CD changer clutter free. Now you're probably asking, why keep the CD changer then? It's the only FM receiver in the house my radio station comes in on. Sigh.

Time also to edit all the writing done over the years and put it into a readable format, even if Lisa and I are the only ones who will ever read it. And finish those four fanfiction stories I started. Time to clear my head to write new stories. And sort out those pictures to get scanned in at long last. That's only been on the agenda for six years now.

And it is the year to finally get the business up and running out of the planning stages. It went through starts and stops and fits and lulls over the last few years, but I think I finally have a handle on what I want it to look like. I've had a couple of new ideas recently that have me excited to go back to crafting and writing at long last. And a project that will, ironically enough, require me to order more beads. Yes, I have a whole shelf full of beads, but none in enough quantity for a loomed beaded bag. Fire Mountain Gems, here I come!