As you probably surmised from the sudden end to blog posts after launching my new site -- I collapsed this weekend. Thank you to all of you who took time to look at my site and leave feedback. I appreciate it SOOO much. I had such a huge sense of accomplishment from finally getting my new website launched that I decided to give myself the weekend off.
This time of year is my absolute favorite. I love the cool air, the Christmas music, the holiday cookies (which I have an abundance of this year. I'm keeping them in my freezer and taking out two at a time to savor them as long as possible.) All I want to do this time of year is curl up in front of a fire with family and my Dixie dog. I want to read good books, bake and play card games. I want time to stand still.
The problem is IT DOESN'T. Instead it seems to speed up. The holidays are a busy time for photographers. Everyone wants their photos for their Christmas cards, their books for gifts and they all need them yesterday. Plus you have to juggle printing and album company deadlines to get everything done in time for Christmas. But I also live in Arizona. Our wedding season is totally different than the rest of the country. So all you photographers who live elsewhere, imagine also having your summer wedding season on top of the holiday rush. IT'S INSANITY. Add my website to the mix and you are reading one crazy-workaholic-photographer's blog right now.
The workaholic side of myself looks at a day that is open on my schedule and thinks, "Instead of taking a day off, I could plow through my TO-DO list, get a ton of stuff done and I'll feel so much less stressed out." The holiday-lover side of me screams back, "NO! You have to take a day off and enjoy all the things you love about this time of year otherwise it will be over and you will have completely missed it." Thus the internal multiple personality war rages within me every year around this time. For the last couple weeks the workaholic has won out. Sometimes I just can't relax and take a day off with a million things hanging over my head. So I plow through and end up feeling better at the end of the day. But once my website was launched I decided to celebrate by allowing my holiday-lover to take over this weekend. I slept in. I caught up on Tivo. I snuggled Dixie a lot. I ran every day (yay me!), hung out at my parents' house, played games and got most of my Christmas shopping done (thanks Target!) It felt so good.
I have one more wedding coming up this Saturday before I can close the book on 2009. What an amazing year it's been. I feel so blessed.
This time of year is my absolute favorite. I love the cool air, the Christmas music, the holiday cookies (which I have an abundance of this year. I'm keeping them in my freezer and taking out two at a time to savor them as long as possible.) All I want to do this time of year is curl up in front of a fire with family and my Dixie dog. I want to read good books, bake and play card games. I want time to stand still.
The problem is IT DOESN'T. Instead it seems to speed up. The holidays are a busy time for photographers. Everyone wants their photos for their Christmas cards, their books for gifts and they all need them yesterday. Plus you have to juggle printing and album company deadlines to get everything done in time for Christmas. But I also live in Arizona. Our wedding season is totally different than the rest of the country. So all you photographers who live elsewhere, imagine also having your summer wedding season on top of the holiday rush. IT'S INSANITY. Add my website to the mix and you are reading one crazy-workaholic-photographer's blog right now.
The workaholic side of myself looks at a day that is open on my schedule and thinks, "Instead of taking a day off, I could plow through my TO-DO list, get a ton of stuff done and I'll feel so much less stressed out." The holiday-lover side of me screams back, "NO! You have to take a day off and enjoy all the things you love about this time of year otherwise it will be over and you will have completely missed it." Thus the internal multiple personality war rages within me every year around this time. For the last couple weeks the workaholic has won out. Sometimes I just can't relax and take a day off with a million things hanging over my head. So I plow through and end up feeling better at the end of the day. But once my website was launched I decided to celebrate by allowing my holiday-lover to take over this weekend. I slept in. I caught up on Tivo. I snuggled Dixie a lot. I ran every day (yay me!), hung out at my parents' house, played games and got most of my Christmas shopping done (thanks Target!) It felt so good.
I have one more wedding coming up this Saturday before I can close the book on 2009. What an amazing year it's been. I feel so blessed.
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