Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
– Robert Frost

What to do, which path to take … questions that consume my late night thoughts as of late when I try to go to sleep … listen to my gut, or take the one of least resistence.

Now, many years later the appeal of spending an afternoon crashing in a hammock in the backyard and enjoying a good book (nowhere near a body of water!) has hit again. If only I had a place to put one … I’d be purchasing this one in an instant!

MIA

Any of the three would fit my lack of posting the last two or three weeks. Its been that crazy. I manage to post on the biz blog, but that’s about it.

Add in the pesky abcessed tooth I’ve had a partial root canal on that’s given me grief for most of the past week, a new medication that has thrown me for a loop (I can only handle nausea for so long before I throw in the towel), and hayfever allergies that are aggravating everything … and I’m doing good to make it through the entire workday and go home to edit client images at night.

I’m still not sure how I managed to get through three portrait sessions (from 9 am until 4:30 pm) last Saturday without caving to the hydrocodone until I got back home that evening. Yes, the tooth pain from last Thursday’s root canal (part 1) was still that bad on Saturday. Didn’t ease up until late Monday. Stopped taking the new medication a couple days ago until I can do some research into it and see if there’s a way to get a lower dosage or something …

Meanwhile, as I have the energy, I’ve been working on a ton of projects for my business that are ‘under wraps’ for right now (aka: they’re not done just yet or won’t be publicly posted). And I’m slowly getting everything where I want to be/do. Just going broke doing so. Good news is I’ll have a couple of second shooting opportunities coming up to help finance some of it!

Around here I think I’m gonna take this blog in a slightly different direction — regressing backwards. I’m discontinuing the mid week loves for awhile and the third Monday giveaway is on hold until fall. Since this domain is now tied into my business on the commercial/travel side, I’m trying to decide whether to keep it as a personal blog that I just won’t link on the main part of the site anymore or take it onto its own domain. Not sure yet. We’ll see …

With that, I must get back to the dozen plus tasks I have to complete at some point in the next three months … have a great weekend!

So — leave me a comment with one of the two things (or both):

(1) A question I’ve not answered / been asked / posted here before (feel free to scan the archives)

(2) An idea for an upcoming post — that includes themes for Mid Week Loves as well

Also — I know I have a biz blog for client photos and a photoblog I rarely have time to post personal photos to — but would anyone be interested in seeing photos here that don’t make the cut for either of those blogs?

Back to photo editing …

…my new lenses that Brown has been too lazy to deliver since Friday and so I have to drive the area depot to pick them up so I can try them out before Steph’s wedding on Saturday.

…people to be honest and upfront. I’m tired of getting the run around, lied to, exaggerated, and so on.

…to move on with life and stop hoping for something that isn’t going to happen.

…several years of my life back so I could pursue passions of mine rather than the wild goose chase I’ve been on, that in the end, has been for nothing.

…people to respect my decisions about my life and stop playing devil’s advocate, going off on me, or getting mad cause I’m not doing what they want for me. I used to want it, and now I realize I don’t want it as badly as I did when I started this particular journey. I don’t have the drive to put another eight years into something that I have been told I can continue jumping through hoops to achieve if I were desperate enough. But I’m not. And I can live with those decisions. Its everyone else that seems to have a problem with my decisions.

…gas prices to go down, or at least come to a halt, the economy to improve, and inflation to subside temporarily.

…my stock portfolio to go back up to where it was in January.

…to pursue what makes me happy, not what makes someone else happy or what someone else wants for me more than I want anymore. Or allows someone else to go out and brag/one-up everyone at what should make me happy but isn’t.

…my decisions to be respected and honored without complaint, rants, irate tantrums, and anything else along that line. Yeah, I know this sounds about like the one above. But, in this case, it deserves repeating for a few folks. Even if they don’t read here.

The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness. We need to be careful, upon achieving happiness, not to lose the virtues which have produced it.

–Harry Harrison

What’s your favorite kind of weather?
Cool I guess I should be a bit more specific…around low to mid 70s for the high, high 50s to the 60s for the low. Sunny, some clouds, and a slight breeze. Don’t get that much around these parts though, which is the ‘beauty’ of mother nature in Texas I guess. Oh, and very little humidity. Humidity is very much not my friend. That’s when I begin to like West Texas’ climate

What kind of plants do you take care of on a regular basis?
Sadly, I completely lack the green thumb to care for much of anything in the flora realm. I’ve managed to kill many a houseplant that should be hard to kill. Currently my mother has ‘inherited’ a gorgeous purple calla lily I purchased around Easter with hopes that a green thumb would surface!

However, I am pretty good at keeping cut flowers alive much longer than I can those with the roots still attached. I think I kept some carnations in full bloom for three weeks with some bottled water and an aspirin when I worked in the computer lab many moons ago!

Thanks Laura for the questions

Anyone else have any to submit via comment or email? Send them in…I have a few more to post here this week.

Do I or not? That is the question…figuratively and literally.