Sorry if it is taking awhile today for things to load; flickr seems to be having issues, again.
I just thought I would post a positive thought for the day.
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My camera keeps acting up lately. Some days it works fine; others, not at all; and sometimes it converts the pictures I take into unreadable files. This is one of three pictures I took while trying to see if my camera would let me take photos today. 
This is the only one that came out. Not half bad; I just wish it worked more regularly because I may end up with a cute picture of my kids that isn't really there.
In case you are wondering, I collect Portuguese roosters and Swedish Dala horses. The little pigs are a gift from my older sister; three little pigs to represent my children, and one mae pig to represent me. These, too, are from Portugal.
Because most of my photos are hosted on flickr I am at their mercy. If you haven't noticed, the last few days my blog takes forever to load. It is because flickr is having issues with image hosting. So some photos just are not loading, which causes the site to never finish loading and to keep trying. Sorry for any inconvenience this causes any one. Between that and the background being white, not my first choice, my site is even hard for me to look at right now.
Sorry about the weird colors, but blogger is doing weird things to my background. My background is supposed to be black, not white: this bites. I think blogger went on Holiday.
update: A few people seem to like blogger's mistake, so I will leave it for a while and see if I like it.
I have been in tons of swaps; most are great, some have one person bail. But I have never had a swap like this last one I was in. Normally I like being the swap mama so I can make sure things go as close to plan as possible, but this swap took 1 1/2 years and is plain ridiculous at this point ( started Feb 1, 2006, now I get them on July 12, 2007). I was to send in 13 blocks and get 12 back; one set was for a gift for a special friend to every one in the swap.
Well, I got four blocks back today after being told they had been mailed at four separate times; never a word of truth in any of those statements. Then I was told that because I moved was why I don't have them -- they must have been lost in the move, because she mailed them to my old address. Well, they where never mailed to my old address; they are mailed to my new address, post marked two days ago not two months ago or three weeks or two weeks or even one week as claimed.
I truly am not mad; I am on the verge of hysterical laughter, actually. This is just so funny to me that a person can make so many excuses and get mad at every one in the group when we did our parts and she botched hers. You just gotta love the victim mentality in some people that, no matter what happens, it is someone else's fault: thus far the post man has been blamed, my move, her move, and so many other things that are not nice to blame that I am not even going to mention them. I didn't even get one of my own blocks back.
Below are the blocks I made and sent. Just so we all know, even though I am frustrated with the swap mama I will not mention her name here as I am not trying to hurt her; I just wanted to vent.
