You are in My World Now

I finally finished going over all the pictures I took this summer. What a job! We had a busy summer with more house guests than usual, and somehow I just never found the time to go over all the pictures that I took of the things we did this summer.

Of course, I transferred the pictures from our digital cameras to the computer, but I didn’t spend time editing them like I usually do.

As a result I have several folders of photos that need to be cropped or resized. I don’t know why, but I hate editing my photos! It’s not like it’s hard to do, but I take a LOT of pictures … so it’s very time consuming and I never seem to have a lot of spare time! Maybe it’s a good thing that this summer was kind of cold and rainy … I didn’t take as many photos as I normally do!

Do you edit your digital photos? If you do, do you enjoy doing it, or is it a task that you put off like I do?

BTW if you’d like to see some of my photos check out my photo blog Breath of Life.

I’ve been off work due to Crohn’s for going on five years now. It’s tough being on medical leave from a job you love for so long. I’m sick of feeling sick all of the time and frankly I’m more than a little bored.

Unfortunately it doesn’t look like I’ll be returning to work any time soon. I’m just not getting better. I tried a new medication this month that was supposed to help lower my pain levels and of course I ended up getting hives and having other reactions to it … so, so much for that. Too bad too, because I think it was helping a bit!

So now my doctor wants me to put in a new disability appeal. I did that the first year I was off work but they turned me down, but now that I’ve been off for so long my doctor thinks I might have a chance at getting disability coverage from work … so I might give it a try.

It was so disappointing last time when I was turned down though. That’s one reason why I put off trying again. So wish me luck!

We just found out recently that my niece will be getting married at the end of the year. She had been planning to get married next June, but her fiance joined the armed forces and he’ll be shipping out in January (I think) so they pushed the wedding date up.

So now I’m trying to figure out what to get them for a wedding gift. Of course, we’ve had a lot of financial problems this year so while I want to get them something very nice I also have to try to keep the expenses down.

At least it’s a good time of year to be looking for a gift since there will be lots of Christmas sales coming up! No Black Friday sales here in Canada of course – since we already had Thanksgiving in October (and we don’t have a big sale associated with it unlike our US counterparts).

They are just starting out so I guess they need just about everything … well everything but Couture Jewelry since my niece grew up with a mom and aunt me) in the jewelery trade. LOL

Any good wedding gift ideas for a couple just starting out?