in the words of the greatest songwriters of our time, Lennon and McCartney

ob-la-di ob-la-da life goes on - bra!! (why bra....? who shrieks bra....? like ever....???!) i much prefer this to the lamest expression e-v-e-r: 'it is what it is'. yeah, ob-la-di indeedy :|

it's 5am and i am wide awake making......

a book of last year's favorites pictures (except january to march which are lost in techno-space but now i don't want really them to come back, even though a very nice british 'neighbour' (horray!!) has a clean room and has offered to help... because i'm up to june already and it would complicate things....)

(ps it's only about 6 months late... it was supposed to be my christmas gift from me to me)

anyway i have 1473 favorite 'must include - absolutely important 2009 storytelling pictures' to choose from :|

and i am spending far too many idyllic hours gazing at all those pictures and not enough time arranging them onto perfect little templates :|

i just love looking at pictures of the summer holidays... and pictures of vacations in little log cabins... and pictures of birthday parties and christmas morning and first days of school and last days of summer... i get so hopelessly lost in the memories that arranging the book never gets beyond page 14 :|

i'm probably the only person excited for 6 less days of school next year due to budget cuts... because it means more pictures of beach days and apple picking and whistlestop trips to Vegas

and i wonder if it's just me, but i always look at last year's pictures (or the year before's... any pictures that aren't today's pictures) and feel like i took so much better pictures then and wonder if my camera is broken or whether i just quit trying hard enough :(

oh well, i need more coffee and music... back later xoxo

our neighbor's yard (i don't know why........)