I’m Still Here….

Yep, I’m still here….I know it may not seem that way because I haven’t posted anything in a while – since the end of November, to be exact. But, I am definitely still here!

First….I did take pics for the Daily Photo Challenge throughout December and even kept up with the Advent Photo Challenge AND did a 10-day “Life is Good” challenge! I just forgot to post them….and, to be quite honest, there weren’t any that stuck out as exceptional or inspiring. Which brings me to my second point of why I’ve been an absent blogger: I stopped doing the photo challenges. I got really bored with it. As of the end of December, I had been doing the challenges in some version for eight years…with the exception of a couple little breaks here and there. It felt like the prompts weren’t very interesting or creative, anymore. I was just going through the motions of taking a photo of something….anything…..every day and it felt forced! So, I stopped! Maybe I’ll go back to it someday, but I don’t have any interest in doing it again anytime soon.

I hoped maybe I would get back into some form of creative writing. That is how this blog first started back in August 2007! I logged on every day or every few days and just wrote….I’d pick something that happened that day and write a story about it. I really enjoyed that and I’m not sure why I let my blog evolve away from that format over the years. So, I was thinking maybe that’s what I’d do with it, again! But….well….with anything like this, you gotta get in the habit of doing it and life got in the way and I just didn’t make myself sit down and get started! Maybe this will help me kick off the chance to get back in the habit. We’ll see…..hehehe!!!

I did go on a little adventure that I didn’t write about in December. I went with the Busy Buddies group to Sight and Sound Theater in Pennsylvania to see their “Miracle of Christmas” show…..WOW!!! If you’ve never been to Sight and Sound, you really should experience their shows – any show – they are all wonderful…..BUT….if you ever get the chance to experience “Miracle of Christmas”, you absolutely have to! It was incredible! We stayed at a very nice hotel for the overnight trip, ate lots of great food, did some shopping, and saw the show. Photos aren’t allowed during the performance, but I got this pre-show shot of the ad for the show coming and one off their website of the cast during the finale. The word SPECTACULAR doesn’t do it justice at all!

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The fun part of this adventure was that I served as the tour escort! I was asked if I might like to escort the group and I thought – why not???!!! So, I did! I had a BLAST! My job was to coordinate with the contacts at each stop, be sure everyone made it on the bus before it left each stop, we got everywhere on time, and everyone knew what to do and when to do it. I had a couple hiccups that were easily sorted out and I didn’t lose anyone….so, I guess I was successful in doing my job! 🙂 And, I had fun doing it!

We’ve had an easy winter here in WNY, so far…..one storm came through a couple weeks ago that resulted in a good dumping of snow over a few days and we just got about 2-3 inches from last night through this morning and that’s about it…..so far….knock on wood!!! It’s been cold, but not half bad…..and that rascally rodent didn’t see his shadow, so as far as he’s concerned we’ll have an early spring! Time will tell…..of course, regardless of what ole Phil says, the calendar always says that spring is six weeks from Groundhog Day, so there is that! Today, the sun is shining and the sky is a gorgeous blue and all is well in the world….except for the snow on the ground, but, hey, it’s winter in WNY, right?

So…..that’s my “brain dump” for today…..let’s see if I can get in the groove of writing or doing some sort of post fairly regularly from here on! Fingers crossed!