Guest Post: On the road.

Hey, y’all.  Cautionary Girl here.  I was employed with the very important task of filling teh internets in on where Sarahthe is, since she didn’t make good on her promise to blog last night (tsk! we are all SO worried!).  This is my first time ever guest blogging, so please forgive my blatant excitement.   Though I must confess that the self link love up there feels a whole lot like masturbation.

Anywho, down to business, since I doubt you’re here to hear me talk about masturbation (though for more on THAT, follow the link love [irony!]).  Sarah has set off on a road trip with her 6-months pregnant cousin, Amy, whose husband is in Afghanistan, and Amy’s children (Sarah’s cousins? second cousins? wtf?), who are 5 and 3.  Sarah the Saint’s mission is to wrangle teh baybees who are NOT in utero so that Amy can focus a little on the one who IS in utero.

Geeze.  You think she would’ve selected a more eloquent guest blogger.  Or at least someone who is inventive enough to create a term for “Sarah’s cousins’s children.”

They will be traveling to Arkansas and Georgia, and Sarah has yet to tell me when she will return, but I will give a prize to anyone who can convince me that they will miss Sarah more than I.

More to Follow

I’m having a much better day today.  I’m writing this now, and I’m going to come back later tonight and write more. I just wanted you all to know that I’m better today.  

Glad that’s settled. :)

Sadness as a Houseguest

Somedays I’m really okay that I’m not in school right now.  Days like when I’m rolling around town with Sarah1 and the nieces, days like yesterday when I have the whole family over to my house to hang out for July 4th.  

Then, some days, I’m still really sad.  On those days I always tell myself it’s okay, I’ve just been delayed a year.  Sadness sometimes listens to rationale.  

But then there are other days.  Days when the sadness demands to be heard, days when the sadness is so real and unreasonable that it sits in my living room and demands to be paid attention to.  Today is one of those days.  This morning the sadness met me in my bed, sneaking up on me when I wasn’t even expecting it.  I’ll entertain it for today, giving it the attention it’s been demanding, all the while I’ll be secretly formulating a plan, a new strategy of attack, so that I can allude it again tomorrow.

Introducing Sarah E. Martin Photography

I know I’ve been quiet here lately, but I promise, I have a good excuse. I decided to make good use of this free time I have, so I’ve been working on this:

Juliana, Cutest Baby Evar

Go To Sarah E. Martin’s Photography Blog

Go check it out. It’s still a work-in-progress. I’ve been pulling some of my favorite photos out of my personal archives, and I’m working (mostly) in chronological order. The best pictures, (and the transition to the 40D) are still yet-to-come.