So my BFF Amy over at Drawings In Motion has kicked off a themed photo adventure, to be continued by other participants throughout the coming weeks. This week was color week, so each day people needed to post photos that emphasized the color of the day. Sadly, I was too sick to get out and participate on Mon & Tues, but I’ve jumped in mid-week for Yellow Wednesday. I’m gonna be tossing all my photos for this sort of thing here, as if any of you care :) As awesome as this is for making me take photos everyday (even if it is with my P&S), I think the real outcome is overcoming my social anxiety for taking photos of public things. I am so self-conscious when it comes to whipping out the camera. I live in fear of being labeled as a tourist. Anyway, I grabbed my yellow shots on the way home from work and I think I actually got some cool ones. Even if they aren’t cool, I wrote some hilarious captions, which you would have seen already if you’d followed the link that I shared that I said you wouldn’t care about so you clicked it just to prove me wrong. Otherwise, here it is again hehe.

Also, I’m feeling better. Thanks for all the “get well soon’s”. Even though you didn’t send them, I could just feel you were all thinking of me. I’m not back to 100% but I’m functioning. I got put on a new account at work, which was actually a lot of fun to work on today. I started in on The Art of Happiness on the bus ride home, and it’s just re-enforcing all the things I’ve been doing. However, it did bring about a revelation about “desire”. He said something to the effect of desire being good if you desire what you already have or need, but not so good, if your desires consist of a bunch of wants. Even if you get the first want, it will just create the desire to outdo the first one. Eventually, however, your wants will surpass what is realistic for you to attain, and then you’re just gonna go get all down on yourself. Also, most of those wants relate to comparisons we make with the people around us. I’m totally embracing the fact that I am good at taking a shitload of content and making it all pretty on a website. And I can do it super fast. I handled the task that they had allotted a week for me to do in 4 hours. Yeah, I’m amazing haha. Anyway, point is I enjoy this stuff, even though other people think it’s trivial & mundane. I need to stop thinking about what other people think of it, and embrace the fact that an awesome agency is paying me pretty good money to do this “simple” work, allowing me to live in beautiful San Francisco. Heck yeah. It’s only when I start trying to justify my place in life to people around me that I feel it sucks, so I need to remember that I’m the only person I have to answer to and leave it at that. I wasn’t planning on a rant but it kinda happened, didn’t it?

Oh, and Tyler thinks I’m a good friend. He totally cheered me up by saying so, without me even hinting about wanting to hear it, so it’s definitely something I wanted to put on the record. Tyler’s turned out to be a pretty amazing friend, too.