There’s two things that I’ve fallen out of the habit of doing lately: blogging and photographing.  Blogging has fallen by the wayside, mostly because I just don’t feel like there is truly anything interesting to write about with me right now.  I have a decent group of students (the joys of teaching upperclassmen), and my days pretty much consist of trying to navigate my way through the dissertation proposal, and trying to get organized for an upcoming conference.  I mean, I hate to blog “Today I wrote.  Again.”  Thus, I stay mum.

The photography, well, there’s just no excuse.  The quality of my pictures has gone down (I feel) and the only reason for that is because I never pull my camera out anymore.

So I decided to kick start both back by doing a daily picture.  That way, I get to both pull out my camera and challenge myself to be creative again (which I’ve missed terribly), and try to get back in the habit of blogging.  I appreciate you who have been faithfully sticking with me through the long silences.

Therefore, today I’ll present the cheat picture to kick off this experiment.  The cats are easy targets.  I changed the sheets and made the bed this morning – this requires Allie’s help.  By help, I mean I put the sheet and blankets on the bed, and she attacks them.  As I was finishing, she jumped down and got her toy, and brought it up.  We played.  I call this “Attack Cat”.

We think she likes it so much because it looks like Emma, but she doesn’t get in trouble for whacking the crap out of it.