If I redesigned this blog, I would have to call it “pictures of my baby.” Because that seems to be the only content I can muster up lately. I am still writing, here and there, but I take pictures of my baby almost every day. Almost every hour. Just since I bought my new camera, in less than two months, I have taken 1083 pictures, mostly of my baby. I love taking pictures, and right now, I want to read everything I can get my hands on about photography, I want to practice, take pictures of my baby and other people’s babies. I want to set up a studio and make a career out of it.

But I know me, and I know that I don’t keep interest in most things for very long. This would be why I changed my major 4 times in college. Why I start a diet or exercise plan and forget it in the same month (hopefully I’m working on changing that soon). Why it takes me months to write a single short story. But I do find interest in things, have a short-lived passion for them, and eventually most of them seem to cycle back to me again. My music, my songwriting, my stories, and surely my pictures too. I’m good enough at everything, but I’ll never be great at anything. Although, I tell Jim that at this pace, maybe I might possibly be great at everything by the time I’m 90!

This is not a cry for attention or praise, or anything. Just a random thought. Just a realization. I don’t know if it means anything, except that I’m glad I got married. Better to be a stay-at-home mom with a bunch of student loans and going nowhere, than a waitress with a bunch of student loans and going nowhere

I’ve decided that I am finally going to run the race for the cure this year. No more just thinking about it. Now is as good a time as there ever will be. I have 50 lbs. to lose and running this race would be a great motivator for me to get in shape. I will run (not walk), and not come in last, in memory of my mom, who had 6 babies and never weighed more than 135 lbs. She died of breast cancer in 1996.

And I’m making Jim run with me, since he gained 15 lbs. of “baby weight” too

So I’m putting this out there, for all of you to witness. And now I have to do it. And I want you all to check up on me, ask me how my training is going and such. The Detroit race is on June 16th, 2007. I don’t expect to win it or anything, but I will run and not come in last. It’s something to work for.

Okay, there, now I have to do it! Eeek!