DAY 6: OBSESSON

This is my current obsession Candy Crush. I am on level 277, which is so hard. It might be time to find a new obsession.

DAY 5: AFTER DARK

 

The windows of my daughter's house. We were going over play a game of Settlers. BTW Owen won.

DAY 4: SOMETHING GREEN

Our front lawn, nice and green. My grandson Gavin cut the lawn for me, while I was at work. It made me very happy. Thanks Gavin

 DAY 3: CLOUDS

Clouds that were over my house.

DAY 2: WHAT YOU WORE

I wore my uniform to work.

Day 1: Self Portrait

 

A self portrait of me, which I am not a big fan of. I like being behind the camera.

First Post In A Long Time

It's been a very long time since  my last post. I hae started to do a 30 Day Photo Challenge.
I found a list on pinterest and started doing it.

This is the list of daily prompts. It looks like a good list. It will be interesting to see if I actually take a picture a day.

#4 January 4, 2013

Worked until 12:30.

Tonight Rain went to Flick & Float at the Y, Ethan and Gavin were there also.

Mike and Penny stopped by for a little visit.

That is Sydney getting in the picture.

TV Shows & Movies watched tonight

                                                               Chopped

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The Honeymooners

The Big Bang Theory

The Saint Meets The Tiger

#3 January 3, 2013

I worked today until 12:45.
Other than that nothing much happened.

FAMILY MOVIE NIGHT
 We watched Tangled. We had seen it before at the theater in London. It is a cute movie.

Later I watched After the Thin Man. I absolutely love this series.

Also Jimmy Stewart is in this movie.

  

I love William Powell his acting is wonderful. He can do comedy and drama and everything in between.

# 2 January 2, 2013

Today is Perry's birthday. 

I am off. Just a lazy day, trying to get back into the routines of pre holiday season.

TV Shows and Movies We Watched Tonight

 Top Chef Seattle premiere was on tonight. It looks like a good season.
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                                       One of my photos, with a little sentiment.

2013

This is my first post of 2013 and my first in over 6 months. I have not had the inkling to do any posts until now. For now I am going to try a different approach and think of this as a daily journal. I'm not exactly sure how I will go about this, or if I will even keep it up, but I am going to try. I am hoping to do a project life type of album this year, so this will help me to keep everything in order.
I hope everyone has a wonderful new year with lots of hope, love and adventure.

#1 January 1, 2013

This was my mom's 75th birthday. She looks so good for 75. We had a surprise birthday party for her on Boxing Day. She was thrilled with that.

Sadly it also the anniversary of the death of my cousins 21/2 year old son, Kiran. My cousin Brian and his wife Sejal asked his family and friends to wear Kiran's favourite colour yellow on this day in remembrance of him. And then he wanted us to send him a picture of us dressed in yellow. So all that were here that day did just that. We felt honoured that we could do this for these beautiful people. 
Mike and Penny came over for the afternoon. And Ethan and Gavin wanted to come over to play with Rain. Logan and Cathy were already here. We ordered pizza and had a nice meal together.
Cathy and mom took off the decorations on the Christmas tree.
Amberley & Perry went to Sarnia for Perry's birthday. They met up with Owen, I was buying his Samsung tablet and he gave it to them to bring home to me. My laptop broke during the holidays, so when he said he would sell it to me I jumped at the opportunity. I was thrilled to get it, but it takes time getting used to a tablet, I had to stop thinking of it as a computer and start thinking of it as a mobile device.
All in all it was a good day.

 TV Shows And Movies Watched:
The Big Bang Theory

Black Widow

Instagram Tuesday

Instagram Photos

  

Summer Fun with Rain, Sydney & Perry

 So far my highest score on Scramble Free.

 

Brittany and Me

 

A Farmer's Field

A Tree Along A Pathway

Girls Night

My brother Mike took Rain and my nephew Logan (who is here for March break) out for supper and then back to his house where they all watched a hockey game. So mom and I went out for supper at Kelsey's. Mom had a veggie burger and I had the fish and chips, it was a great meal and I had excellent company. Afterwards we came home and decided to watch Casablanca. Neither one of has had seen it in a long time, we really enjoyed it. Such a great classic movie.

Do You Pinterest?

I avoided joining Pinterest for a long time and then it happened. I decided to go with the flow now I find I am Pining all the time. I am even Pinterest hopping as well. There are so many wonderful ideas out there. If you are throwing a birthday party, all you have to do is search it on Pinterest and you get hundreds of party ideas. There are different boards for almost anything that you can think of.

My First Post Of 2012

Its been awhile since I last entered a post. Life for me has changed a great deal, but it is all good. First off starting in Sept. my grandson Rain moved in with me and my mom. It was decided between his mom and me that this was the best thing for him right now. He adjusted very well. His school grades are great, he is reading very well and he just seems happy. So you can imagine life with an 8 year old. Life is much busier and tiring but the rewards for me are wonderful. Secondly I quit my job of 34 years in Sept. I was not getting enough hours there and I had gotten a full time job at a call centre. I was there for about 3 weeks. My mom went into the hospital and we both realized that the amount of hours I was working was to much. You see when I was working my mom would watch Rain, though he is no trouble it is still an adjustment, and I also realized that this was not what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.
In Oct. I started working as seasonal help for Future Shop (Best Buy). I really liked it there and the people are fantastic to work for, but I just didn't feel a 100% comfortable there. Since I knew that I would be done on Jan. 7, I sent out some resumes.
No Frills called me in Jan. for an interview later that week, I was hired on the spot and I absolutly love it there. It is what I know, I am getting lots of hours, the people are wonderful and I find it much less stressful than the Superstore. Also at this store I do overrides, price matches and returns. It works out well with Rain, because I can take him to the bus in the morning and I usually get home in time (when working evenings) to say goodnight to him. I love my life.

Ethan and Rain are now 8, Gavin turns 7 next month and Sydney is 2. Owen is 20 and is working full time in Strathroy. If he gets permanent full time he is planning on moving there next year. Brittany is 26 now and still living in London, she is looking for a new place to live. She has been diagnosed with neuropathy and is in constant pain. Amberley is 29 and she is having tests to see if she has neuropathy, it is hereditary (their dad has it), she has a daycare in her house, and I am her backup and helper. My mom is doing well, she is such a great help with Rain. So now I am caught up I can go on with other things.

Lovely

                  Me and my wonderful mother.

Free Photo Editing Software

2010 two of my favourite people

This photo was edited in befunky.com. It reminds me of the the Fugifilm Instax, that Ali Edwards uses in her Project Life album.

 

This editing program is called pixlr.com. I liked this one also for the different effects and the frames.

This one I used Photoscape. There are several things I like about this one. I like the many types of frames and collage pages it has.

For this one I used LunaPic, this software has several animations and frames, and different effects. It is pretty easy to use.

I used Phixr on this one, although it had a some interesting effects it is the one I liked the least.
And then there are the old standbys Picassa and Picnik. I use both of these all the time. It is nice to know that there is a software program that can do almost anything that you can think of.
Even though it is nice to be able to enhance, add an effect, or even change it completely the originals are nice to have.
I hope you enjoyed this little demonstration of free photo editing software.   
Happy editing.

All pictures taken by Terry Stull Allison

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