Re:Running for President snowyheart: Backpacking is king! heeheehee.
I'm am such a crappy swimmer, I swear if I was ever on a boat that sank, I'd be dead, quick.
I've got a really cool canon 5 meg digi. It has so many little features, I'm tech. challenged though.
Re:Running for President browngreen: MTMO-- Funny, I just discovered swimming. I mean, I've always liked it,but have never been good. one lap and I'm out of breath,but recently that has all come together for me, and I have to pass this 18 lap Navy circuit test for class, so I've been swimming more.
LOL
I'm the same-- use my old analog Pentax k-1000and shoot ilford or Tmax. It's a heavy thing,but I love B& W photography and it takes good pictures (Or I take good pics with it)!
Do you do your own printing? I used to wish I had a darkroom and enlarger, but now... too much time to spend outside!
So, its your XH who has the camera, huh? Did you two do a lot of backpacking?
BG
Re:Running for President jen: bg~
I swam in high school and was a lifeguard throughout college, so a lot of the time, I was spending so much time in the water that I practically had gills :P
lol - I think I gave my K-1000 to my sister. I have a minolta slr, but I just end up putting it on manual anyways...and yep, the digital one was his camera. I used to develop and print my own pics in high school/college when I took photography, but haven't really since then.
We were never able to fit in as much backpacking as we planned...lots of day hikes. We'd go rockhounding a lot (he's a geologist). We did a lot more hiking/backpacking before we moved to NV...most of our vacation time after that was spent driving to CA to see family. Besides, half of our wilderness adventures bordered on misadventures - lol. Actually those are all the best stories ;D
since you live so close to so many outdoor wonders and your job is physical, I imagine that you got to a bit more backpacking than I did.
mtmo
Re:Running for President jen: I should be swimming - if you would have asked me 3 months ago, I was a swimmer, not a runner...lol, now I am totally addicted to running, and haven't had time to swim.
Those were some digital pics from before, I need to get my own digital camera now, but I normally take black and whites with my manual camera when I go out and about for wilderness adventures :)
Running for President browngreen: Since I moved out in December, I have been very in tune with exactly how much more there is to life than being married. THere's so much I want to do, so much I need to do to say I lived the life I always wanted.... and now, I'm going to do them. It's semi- like I have an obligation to myself.
Everything my H taught me, I can still do. I was sad for a long time before because I thought I"d miss out on the things he and I did together.... but now I see that just because he won't be part of it doesn't mean I can't keep doing it on my own.
The marathon training is a small part of this, but each night I go to bed thinking about what I want to accomplish in this life. The funny thing is that having a career isn't one of the things on my to do list. There's SO much else to do than work~!
There's learning a second language, there's taking a LookOut Post over the summer, there's sewing, becoming a better swimmer, hiking the continental divide, singing, volunteering at the hospital...
I'm so motivated to DO these things. I have already started on the swimming and the marathon, and I start volunteering at the hospital next month!
I guess the word is "inspired".
Also, I'm coming to terms with the fact that it doesn't look like I'll have a family (you know, with a small child and husband and I under one roof), and I'm OK wiht that. I always thought I wanted a second baby, but now it really doesn't matter if I have one or not. Life has blessed me with so much more...!
O yeah, I'll be running for president in 2020. Vote for me!
BG
