A journey of a thousand miles...

I admit it. I'm a procrastinator. I'm actually legitimately busy a lot of the time, which makes it very easy for me to make satisfactory excuses to myself about the procrastinating, but the bottom line is that even if I won the lottery and didn't have to work, cook, clean or brush my own teeth, I probably still would not get certain things done. I think this is pretty much true of most people - you do what you want to do, and think of as many reasons as possible to avoid that stuff you just can't get excited about. For example, in three weeks, it will be my sixth wedding anniversary (?!?!?!) and my wedding scrapbook has exactly one double page spread, which I did not even make. It is not that I am not excited to HAVE a scrapbook - I would love to have it! It's just that I can't seem to get myself motivated to MAKE the scrapbook. Weirldy, it isn't that I hate doing it, I just don't love doing it the same way I love reading a book, laying around doing nothing, thinking etc.

So about 2 years ago when I came across digital photobooks, I thought that I had been saved from a life of shame devoid of demonstrable memories due to my inability to scrapbook. In the initial excitement, I did get about 5 of my own books done for various trips, but life got busier and it got harder and harder to keep up, and when the newness of it all wore off, it turns out digital photobooks share a lot of traits with actual scrapbooks, and there are a lot of the same, valid reasons for not doing them...

So we come to my subject today. I am not literally going anywhere (well, not until I go the Olympics in February and a cruise/Disneyland in March - YAY!! !@*(&@ more photobooks/scrapbooks to feel guilty about not doing!), but I am really trying to focus on getting key things done in a timely manner, by focusing on the small managable aspects. That ship has clearly sailed when it comes to my wedding, but my baby just turned one, and I think I'm ready to turn over a new leaf! So yesterday I started the Year One photobook project.

Holy crap did we take a lot of pictures of this kid!!! The box of photos and negatives from my wedding (I know, I think we were the last EVER real film shoot) are starting to look awefully appealing. I got through about the first month (about 10 pages...!!) and then the roadblocks began. Between two computers and 3 portable hard drives, I am starting to feel a little overwhelmed by the task of narrowing the book down to "only" 100 pages. My boy, if you're lucky I will have your book done by the time it's your turn to get married!