Finally...

Summer has arrived here in the PNW!!! For my birthday, #4 gave me new camera....I can't even begin to tell you how cool of a gift this was. For those of you who know me, you'll understand. You'd think that dating a professional photographer we'd have tons of pictures of us and the things we do. Well...we do, but sometimes they take a backseat to his actual work (go figure) and also, they are REALLY nice pictures...not necessarily the goofy, just for fun pics of day to day stuff. So, having a camera of my own has been something I've been hinting at (apparently pretty well) so that we can have those kind of photos. Plus, it's an added bonus for the blog. There are so many things on the camera that I have no idea what they mean, so bare with me as I figure things out...thankfully I have a pretty good teacher!

Unfortunately, you're going to have to wait just a bit more before seeing any pics...we were so busy this weekend having fun and taking pictures I haven't had time to download and organize them yet. But, I promise I'll post more this week with pictures! So, stay tuned for a very overdue post about my birthday, the annual Bainbridge Island Rotary Rummage Sale (it's amazing) and our day at the Gay Pride Parade yesterday in downtown Seattle.

Enjoy the sun!

I told you I didn't know what I was doing...

So, remember how I said I had started a couple of other blogs? Well, I had kind of forgotten about another one that I created months ago, but never did so much as post one thing. How did I forget that I created a blog? Ahhh yes, my life is so busy and exciting that I simply forgot- LOL! Anyways, back to what I was saying...I think the other blog title and theme better fits my rants and raves about my passions concerning poverty, global warming, social justice, etc. so I've decided to post over there. See? I'm only on my 4th post here and I've already started another blog. Ack! I'm hoping this is a trend that stops here. However, I still do have rants about annoyingly ignorant people and raves about just fun and random stuff in my life...I don't think those things really fit with the theme of the other blog so I decided to keep 3+3 for all that other stuff. Wow, am I crazy or what?! I haven't been able to maintain a blog...ever...and here I am deciding to maintain 2 at the same time - gasp-

I'll be making a few changes to the format of this one - and there are no promises to how often I'll post on this one...or the other for that matter. I promise more frequently than I have with my past blogs, but that's pretty easy for me to say!

So, without further ado (is that correct?), welcome to my other blog Small Change.

Ear to Ear

Just a quick post to say THANK YOU #4...you made my birthday so awesomely fantastic! I'm still grinning ear to ear and... i'm at work, and... it's a Monday- so that is saying a lot! Thank you so much, I love you.

What's in a name? Nothing, really.

Why 3+3 you ask? Or maybe you don’t, because I doubt anyone is actually reading this. Well, for the one person who might stumble across this sometime I’ll tell you (and of course you, #4). I turned 33 today. I’ve wanted to start a blog for a while (in fact I have started 2 or 3 already but haven’t maintained them) and while it’s not the big 4-0 (which, btw, I think it is ridiculously silly that we consider 40 old and need black balloons and stupid jokes of being over the hill…your age is your age…you can’t do anything about it, and 40 is NOT old…get used to it) it’s about time I start acting on some of my ideas and passions and get myself out of this funk. What better way than to start a(nother) blog? What funk is that, you ask? The funk of being so frustrated with things like global warming, plastic, poverty, war, politics, work, annoyingly ignorant people…I could go on, but I think you get the point (if you don’t you probably won’t like this blog – thanks for stopping by though!)…I’m so frustrated and poor #4 has to listen to me bitch about it every day. Of course, I could just write stuff in my journal/notebook…the notebook that I carry with me in my bag every damn day but rarely ever open…or, I could hold myself (more) accountable by putting everything (well, not everything) on a blog where the whole world (or just you, the person reading this right now, who stumbled across this blog I don’t know how) could see it. There’s something about knowing that there is a possibility that others will see it that somehow, in my weird mind, makes me feel more accountable and that just maybe I am doing my little part, because while I may be frustrated, I know there are actions, even little ones, all of us can do to ease the frustrations and make a difference (cheesy? Yes. But true) – that, and maybe if I’m posting it for the world to see #4 won’t have to deal with my annoying rants every day! Anyways, back to what I was saying…what was that…oh yeah, why 3+3? Well duh, I’m 33 today…and um, well, I thought about calling it “33things” but that was already taken by someone who hasn’t posted, by the way, since 2004…kind of funny since it’s a blog about 33 things they wanted to do before they died…and they didn’t even get to the list in all 2 posts that they made! Maybe they realized they didn’t really want to do anything before dying…hmm. But why does it equal 33 (3+3 that is)? Hell if I know…it’s just what I came up with, ok? I’d like to say it has some deeper or more creative meaning, but I’d be lying…and I don’t like lying. At all.

So there you have it…kind of. To be quite frank, I have no clue about this whole blog thing. Heck, I spend a lot of time reading other peoples’, but when it comes to authoring my own, I have no clue what I’m doing…so bare with me…yes, I’m talking to you, whoever you are. I promise, it won’t be all complaining…I’m passionate about a lot of things, and many of those are wonderful causes I think more people should know about…

Please come back and visit again…oh and leave a comment too, if you please!

This is dedicated to you, #4

Blog, blog, blog you always tell me…well, here you go! This blog is dedicated to you…and just pretend it has a bright pink post-it that says “33” on it, ok? We’ll see where it leads and I’ll be definitely wanting your help and advice- thanks for pushing and encouraging me…