Saturday, March 28, 2015

No pictures, just a few words

        As I settle in, on this last Saturday of March, with my FP at my side I am thinking that writing a book can become an obsession!  It seems that the only thing I have thought about for the last few weeks is the book and a bit of tennis.  I have pictures scattered all over in the house.  When I first made contact with LuLu the guy mentioned that there was a $6 charge for each picture and the reason was pictures are more work to put in a book and some people wanted to make a book into a 100+ picture album!!  I mentioned that I did want to put in maybe a total of 25 pictures/sketches.  He gave that to me because there was a special going on and I did purchase the middle package, not the low end one!  Well here I am up to 34 pictures/sketches and there are MANY scattered about the house that I would like in the book.  BUT I may even end up putting less than 34 in.  I am locked into the sketches as I hired the sketches done.  Just like a person who has to eat the last food because I paid for it and it can't go to waste, I have to use the sketches that I paid for.  AND they are turning out to be outstanding in quality so sure, they go into the book.  I just am so sad that that darn Lee family had such cute kids, if that had not been the case I could cut out more pictures!!!!!  Anyway I will insert picture captions this weekend, change some pictures if I can get better quality and submit everything Monday.  I do not want to work on the book much next week as we will have company Monday night-early Saturday morning.  I don't know if Gary/Mary get up early so I suppose I can get up early and work.  I have been doing a lot of work from 5-8 AM.  
        Now the negative side of this book.  I tend to eat when I am focused on a project so I have put on several pounds these last couple of weeks.  They HAVE to come off soon!  The other negative side is I tend to focus and sometimes do things before I think through what I am doing.  A few days ago I wrote an e-mail which never should have been written. The words came across in a way that I did not even believe.  BUT, as we all know, once the spoken or written word is out you can not erase it.  I did what I could to change it but I hate it when I do things like that.  All I can say is this book is getting to me but soon it will be history.
          It was Terry's and my 4th anniversary yesterday.  It does not seem like it has been four years.  The amount of things we have crammed into 48 months seems unbelievable.  It has been a wonderful time and I hope/pray that it continues for many more years. I have become really excited about this book and, for sure, it would not be in the works if not for Terry. 
       I have reached another level of tennis I believe.  The down side is I had so so many levels to reach! Early this week a friend and I played a match.  If a person were to match us with the other team you would say the better player on the other team was better than me.  The less skilled player on the other team would be better than my partner.  In the end we won 10-8 in a one set 90 minute match.  It was one of the highlights of the winter tennis.  Of course all the matches here are friendly and in the end you say good match and look at who you will be playing the next day BUT that match was special and it certainly is fun to have those once in a while.  
      I do not play tennis today but I rode over to the courts to see what was happening.  We got at least an inch of rain last night but the courts are fine.  The clay actually needs water.
      We are starting to think about our return trip to MN.  We will take in 4 national parks on our way and probably take about 3 weeks but we still have about 6 weeks here.  One has to be sure that life isn't what will happen instead of what is happening.
      It does not seem possible but that delicious FP is gone.

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