And as I try to make my way to the ordinary world, I will learn to survive

It's been one of those weeks. Stressful, confusing, depressing, but also good and even quite exciting at times. Quite a roller coaster. Between one pet's near death experience, another being scheduled for surgery next week, and some other unpleasantness, to put it mildly, I'm spent. On top of it all, I got run down and caught the sinus germs my co-workers were spreading around and am here at home, in bed, instead of on the road to Vegas for CES, as I was scheduled to be. Bummer.

Okay, enough with the wah, wah, poor me though. Like I said, some good things are happening too, reminding me that there is some balance in life. It's never all bad and I will not spend my time only focusing on the crappy stuff. Soon, I'll be making an announcement here about the best thing that happened for me this week, which has helped squash my pessimism.

One fun thing I started this past week is a couple of photo projects for the coming year. For a couple of different flickr groups, I'll be experimenting and hopefully gaining some skills with photographing Little Guy and Rusty once a week. Here are the first two shots:

Back to bed for me so I can get healthy soon.

Jim: If I left, what would I do with all this useless information in my head? You know?...Um, Pam's favorite flavor of which is mixed berry.

I took this food meme from Keely's blog. One of the most difficult things for me is choosing favorites of most anything. I guess I'm wishy-washy, but many favorites vary from day to day with me. So, the following answers are what I feel like fit today. This could all change tomorrow, or later today!

The Rules:

Type your answer to the questions into Flickr search.
Using only the first page of results, pick an image.
Copy and paste each of the URLs in the Mosaic Maker

And now for the questions:

1. What is your favorite restaurant? The Glenwood Pines in Ithaca, NY. (I swear that 2 of my photos came up on the first page of search results!)

2. What is your favorite type of cuisine? Pizza. Is that a cuisine? I don't know, but I could eat it for every day for every meal.

3. What is your favorite comfort food? This definitely varies, but lately it's macaroni & cheese.

4. What is your favorite childhood food? Pork chops.

5. What is your favorite dish to prepare for company? Dinner reservations. Ha! Seriously, I do not cook. Um, hmm...E likes this chicken tortilla soup I sometimes make and I did feed it to friends once.

6. What is your favorite wine? I don't really like wine or drink it very often. If I do, it's blueberry wine from the Tomasello Winery in New Jersey that a friend brings to me. I have it about once every other year. Well, a whole bottle every other year.

7. Who is your favorite chef? Since I'm not into cooking, I don't really watch any of those shows or really know many chefs. I'll go with Gordon Ramsay, as I do watch him. I love his abrasive personality and his attempts to motivate people to be excellent.

8. What is your least favorite food? I'm VERY picky so there are many, but will go with eggs. Blech.

9. What is the most adventurous food you’ve eaten? See above. I'm not a very adventurous eater, but will say venison (deer meat). That my Mom butchered on our front porch. By herself. Ick.

Photo credits:
1. Glenwood Pines, 2. Cheesy Cat Photo, 3. Creamy Three Cheese Macaroni, 4. Porkchop!, 5. Buen ProvechoOoo! :D, 6. 3.5.08 - When work sucks, 7. Gordon Ramsay., 8. Suicide..., 9. VENISON

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A few of my favorite photos that I've taken over the past couple of weeks.