Just a couple of quickie, small photos to get you ready for what is to come! We’re working hard to get the project finished this weekend, and it looks like we might just make it. New windows and some windows are now doors — tons of changes and I think she’s looking pretty darned awesome.
I don’t want it. I hate drama.
I’m not talking about a performance form here — I’m referencing the urban definition of making a big deal over something unnecessarily.
So what’s wrong with drama? Well, *points up at the urban definition* — it’s unnecessary. It complicates everything. When you make a big deal of something trivial, you end up ignoring the little things that should be a big deal — the simple wonderful existence of life, for example. Drama makes life harder — the sky is not falling kids. Once you get stuck in the never ending drama — worrying about what irrelevant people think — you’ll never get anything done. Why make a big ole’ production when you could simply get on with things?
We often focus on the urgent, and not the important. Now that applies to our personal as well as our professional lives, doesn’t it? Going to a football game is urgent — it’s at a specific time at a specific place. If you want to watch the latest NASCAR race or get newsy grit from Nancy Grace on the tube, those things are urgent too. You simply can’t power on the TV and watch them whenever you want to, even if they are important to you.
So now you are broke. You have no money. Zero. Zilch. Nada. Zagro. What is the one thing you like to do that is not urgent? Something that’s important to you that you can do any old time you want to.
Photography is my one thing. What’s yours?
I went to bed at 3:30 am yesterday morning and was up by 7:30 am. It’s after 1:00 am now and I’m still up. But today, I realized something…
For those of you that knew my dad, Dallas McKain, he was a hard worker. Hard work was something he loved, but it was also something he loved talking about. He used to call family meetings when Scott and I were being ungrateful little turds to remind us of how he walked 5 miles to school every single day, even in the snow. As a family with 13 siblings, they got 1 pair of new shoes a year, with the exception of Dad and his youngest brother, Max, who wore the hand-me-downs. Those stories were true.
But no matter when you talked to Dad, he hadn’t slept for 3 nights and hadn’t eaten in 2 days. I’m telling you, those comments were a slight exaggeration (sorry, Dad). So today as I’m lecturing Ben on helping me more, I hear myself telling him that I haven’t slept. Later, I’m talking to Mom on the phone and I hear myself telling her the same thing.
*face palm* I’ve turned into Dad!!
I already know how old-fashioned I sound when I say, “When we were kids we rode bikes and played tag and baseball in the telephone lot beside my Nanny’s and frisbee in the street and walked on big wooden spools left by the telephone company and jumped rope.” I know I sound old when I say, “When we were in high school we picked up the telephone and talked to our friends and drove laps around town to meet them for face to face communication.” And I know I still sound old when I say, “As adults, we went to the lake and water skied and fished and played cards with friends and shared food and took our kids to the park and hiked and swam and played in the creek.”
I know recommended business practices insofar as social media from time spent with the Vandiver Group — but still, on Facebook, Farmtown bugs me less than my friends making business posts (and if y’all send me one more chicken I’m dumping you as a friend!). On Twitter, friends posting link after link that when clicked are merely sites wanting to sell me something do nothing but piss me off and waste my time.
Miley Cyrus, aka Hannah Montana, shut down her Twitter account, and is urging friends to get rid of Internet addictions and concentrate on life. Fans are upset, and it’s reported even her father is pleading with her to reopen and again take time to let the world know what she’s doing. What is wrong with a 16 year-old not spending a ton of time on a Twitter account? And do her tweets really promote her career?
My feelings are mixed in this regard — yours may be too when you see this…
According to CNN, the movie that took a mere $11k to produce, ‘Paranormal Activity’, raked in $7.1 million bucks over the weekend using a campaign of limited showings, social media and word-of-mouth fan buzz. They didn’t even have a traditional movie trailer. Wow!
On the other hand, you have Beyonce. This tweet should get you up-to-speed…
I guess everything in moderation — but still, I just don’t know…