It's Bound To Get Better....Right?!

         Okay....I'm breaking new ground here people! Whoever leads their post with a 'bad' photo?!....I do, that's who! ^_^ I'm trying to make a point. Roll with me for a minute on this one. :-]
      We always, always, always break our heads trying to take the most perfect photos....to get them at the right angle...to shade them just right....to make sure they're sharp enough...and that the color is vivid enough, etc...etc....etc.!! But today I want to show you my 'bad'!!! LOL
     My fuzzed up...

        ...and out of focus flower pictures.

            My light-less backyard photos...

       My subject-less, daytime...(that looks like nighttime)...photos....

       My 'Almost got it!!' photos, where the detail in the leaf was good...but the bee was out of focus!

       So why?!....Why did I feel the need to show you my 'bad' today?!...To make a point that there is always room to improve!...ALWAYS!!
      Something happened yesterday...I'm going to spare you the details...that got me REALLY mad!!!! It was one of those kind of things where I had been enduring an on-going situation for a loooong time and ONE MORE KINK IN THE HOSE...so to speak...took me over the edge!!!
      When this 'situation' happened in the past I would excuse the individuals involved and remind myself that 'nobody's perfect'!....Then it would happen again and I would say: "They probably just forgot!"....It would happen again and I would say: "It's probably me. Let me do something to remind them."
       My excuses for the behavior went even farther.....'They have a lot on their plates.'....'They're trying their best!'....'I need to learn to be more patient.'...But yesterday I finally looked at how 'bad' this is!!! I finally realized...when my hubby got mad and 'went to bat for me'....that this oversight and disrespect is UNACCEPTABLE!! And even further....My 'let-it-slide' attitude appears to be making the situation worse, not better!!! So, I need to become a 'SQUEAKY WHEEL' !!!
     It's time to really look at the 'bad' of it!! The wear and tear to my self-esteem. The discouragement and feeling that maybe nobody really cares anyway. The 'bad' personality traits of people who should really know better...and do better!! The 'dragging of the feet', the lackadaisicalness, the 'dropping of the ball of responsibility'!! The over-looking of how 'I' might be feeling in the way the situation is being handled...And the apparent 'NOT caring!! :-(

                  (via Phoot)

              Now, I know that I'm not the only person in the world that ever had people around them...people that they loved and cared for, by the way... treat them with seeming disrespect, while at the same time they were claiming that that was not their intention!...But I'm here to tell you, DISRESPECTFUL PEOPLE, that no matter what your 'intention' is, when you repeatedly over-look and discount the feelings of someone you claim to love....it feels 'bad'. VERY 'bad'!!
      So, now that I've actually looked at the 'bad' of it...and 'squeaked' about it!...here's 'hoping' the situation will start to open up onto a new understanding!

       I mean, there's always room for improvement, right?!....It's bound to get better now, right?!....RIGHT?!!!
       If photo taking,...with experience...and proper lighting...and looking at things from a different angle...and clearing things up and bringing them into better focus...can get better....

       ....it can happen with things and people in our life too!.....Right?! :-) .... I sure hope so, because I don't want to do 'another' post about this subject!!! I already wrote two poems about it!! LOL
       {As a side note: Thank you Mr. Wug for always being exactly who I know 'You' to be! XOXOX  You're my 'by my side', 'number one', 'fighter of all things wrong'! :-] I love you!!}
     Okay....A couple of quick reminders: If any of you are interested in the pocketbook Giveaway, don't forget to enter. I haven't gotten a lot of entries so far.
     And I finished the black and white shawl/scarf!!..Woohoo!! (Click on photos for sources)

       I added 3 buttons for a little bit of interest. They let the shawl be worn in a lot of different ways too.

       It's already listed in the shop too, if you're interested...See! Some things are clearly just 'black and white'! ^_^
      Oh Yeah! I sold this brooch yesterday too!

      Now I just have to start a campaign to get this little 'baby' off my hands and out of my shop!! ^_^

      Have a good week everybody!! And if it hasn't started very good, no worries.....it's bound to get better! :-))


Let's talk about our bad

Let's talk about what we've done bad.
Not talk about what we did right.
Let's talk about what we have messed up.
Not what's been clearly black and white.

All the photos that we've taken,
that we want no one to see.
All the cakes that fell apart.
Things that deserved apology.

It's easy rolling out our 'good'.
We do that every single day.
But Oooo! The 'bad' things we destroy
we quickly want to put away!

So, let's be bigger than our 'bad'.
Let's see some beauty in 'mistake'.
Let's give a pause to being 'perfect',
and give ourselves a little break!