New Lens on Life

Yesterday’s Thankful for: Folks willing to give you a helping hand. Whether it’s online or IRL, I appreciate the people that are still about helping others and am very thankful for them. Without them, I’d have no hope for humanity. Yesterday I needed help a few times throughout the day, and folks were ready to jump in—and then online I needed help getting some gear on my monk and a couple of guildies took up the task to assist me (while many others have completely disappeared). So that was very nice of everyone. AND!!! It's getting lighter earlier ... this makes me so freakin' happy.

Planner’s QoTD: “I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.” – Oscar Wilde

To have simple taste, you’re 98.9% of the time happy with whatever you get, so of course, you’d always be satisfied with the best :P Ooooo Oscaaaaa! 

Anywho! I’m pretty content with how my photos came out last night… I am hoping as I start to get back into the grind, I’ll manage to slowly take better and better photos. Messing with settings is a big part of the dealio. I would try to do a photo a day, but whenever I set that down as something I want to do, I don’t do it… so I’ll just say this… if it happens, awesome, if not, no biggie.

The only gripe I have with the camera I'm using at the moment is the zoom on it is kind of poopy. It doesn’t focus at all half the time… so I did what I said I was not going to do and bought a new camera (shhhhhh, stop yelling… I know!). 

BUT it has some really amazing reviews, and the price already had me pretty sold, but then I went and looked through albums of photos people have taken using the camera and even clearly novice photographers… The pictures looked great! 

So yeah, I ended up buying the Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II (pictured here, not mine --yet).  

I'll see if I can stopover at the bros' house on Friday or Saturday and test out some photos on my niece/Goddaughter.  I mean I'll see them Sunday no matter what so there's then too.  Now time to plan some weekend trips to get some photos! Bwahahahaha.

Enough squeeing on that ... (sounds wrong but keeping it).

Writing
Today I've been working on a draft outline for a new book idea in between lulls of work. I am pretty excited about this idea, but I've been excited for many others in the past too and never completed a book, sooooo nothing to get excited about :P I'm an oxymoron (or just moron :D), I know. 

It has been about a year though since I've felt pumped about an idea for a book so I will see where this will take me. I'm hoping to actually get a good outline half done by the end of tonight but will see. If it becomes a more firm project, I'll definitely share details (and excerpts of whatever I may write). 

Reading
I have too many distractions when I get home so my reading of the second book of the year is slow going. I really hope to zone out tonight and finish it. It's also not exactly a super exciting, can't wait to get to the next chapter, type of book so that's probably why I'm not pushing aside other hobbies for this book (as I have for others). 

This happened last year too at the beginning. I picked some rough few books so I didn't really get going until about March where I found those that excited me enough to read 3 and 4 a week. Hoping to come across more of those this year. *Fingers crossed*

Warcraft
As mentioned above, a couple guild members helped out last night and took me through a Mythic+. Of course, no actual gear dropped in it for me (did for all of them that they could use lol), but I'll still have a guaranteed item in my box on Tuesday. We may do more this weekend, but folks were tired last night when we finished around 10:30pm, and so we all bounced. 

Sleep Issues
Speaking of tired... I have been having the crappiest week for sleep. I think the first few nights were clearly 'new bed' stuff, but last night in my comfy bed I kept waking up every hour or two and it was just awful. Today I feel like I'm running on fumes, but I know the second I get home, I won't be able to sleep and the cycle will repeat. Ugh. 

The Witcher
(Almost) Last but not least, I will finally watch Witcher this weekend. I'm dying to see this show and have already heard so many great things about it. Shit part? It's only EIGHT episodes. 

What is this new crap trend?! I hate it. At least do the 13 ones (which I already hated with a passion but is way better than 8). I miss the days when shows actually ran freaking 22-24 episodes.  I get that the world is changing in television, but I don't see why more streaming means fewer episodes? It can still be 22?

How about giving people a FULL 22 episode season to truly fall in love with the characters, writing, plot, etc. You cannot expect people to fall head over heels in 2-3 episodes unless they are already super invested in the genre/show (like Witcher which still only has 8 episodes). This is why most of the time, I will no longer start a show unless it already has at least three seasons out. I refuse to get so invested only for it to be canceled after season one or a short season two (like Constantine...that show was so amazing, they barely promoted it, and so they canceled it after a few episodes and then people finally saw it down the line and were like WTF this is awesome, why cancel it?! yeah... No more!). NOPE. 

Learn to Say No
I really need to learn this. I always try to be accommodating at work or fear that if I say no to my friends, they won't ask me out again ... I just dont always want to go out or hang out with people and that is OKAY. I know it's okay and yet I continue to say yes, knowing I realllllly don't want to go and then end up either backing out or having a horrible time. So I should just save us all the headaches by saying NO. 

I actually just did it right now, and I feel pretty good about it. I did it politely of course, but I'm just not up for socializing for four hours straight (or more cuz people don't know when to disperse).  I didn't make excuses either, just said that my introvert-ness is at an all-time high at the moment and I can't make it...but TY for the invite.