"It's hard to overstate my satisfaction."

A few weeks ago, I was looking through photos of Japan after the earthquake/tsunami devastated the country. One picture in particular struck me profoundly and made me remember back a decade or so ago when I'd had the inkling to pursue a career in photojournalism. I couldn't really afford to go to college at the time, so my plan was going to be to work for a year or so, save up some money, and then go to a local college so I could commute from home. Well, long story short, I instead became a mother and haven't really looked back on the what-ifs of my youth...but that day, that picture, resonated with the teenage Karen in me and got me thinking about what I'm doing with my life. I sent Yoda an e-mail, telling him about all of this, and how I thought it'd also be great to be a radio host of sorts and interview people/ramble about things I want to ramble about. That discussion led to us deciding that we should do a podcast together.

Well, it's been about a month now, and we still are "planning" to do a podcast. He did give me a bit of homework last night, though, to get the ball rolling, and we have a plan to talk business on Wednesday and hopefully get up to Oshkosh to take some evening pics downtown. So, hopefully we'll be making some headway with that in the next week or two, and I'm really looking forward to it! This gives me 5 more days to finish these questions and maybe pose some of own, but with my leet procrastination skills, I'll get it done Wednesday morning at about 1:45am. Actually, this answers one of the questions: when are you most creative? I can be pretty creative when I'm in a hyper, sugar-filled good mood, but also in the wee hours of the morning when I'm sleep deprived and unable to stop thinking. It's the latter that I'm more inclined to write down my thoughts, though, as opposed to spurting them out in a sing-songy voice (and maybe with an accompanying dance).

This week has been good for creativity and just life in general, and today was no exception. I even had a pretty great day at work, which is always a pleasant surprise! Tonight I had some friends over for Rock Band and even got to take some pictures when I wasn't drumming away. Now I think that it's time for me to head to bed, though, so that I can get up early for some volunteering at the local Humane Society. Tomorrow will be pretty hectic, and I just can't wait for it to get here.

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