i’ve switched over from greymatter to wordpress.. i started this blog with greymatter all the way in september 2001 – and it was about time i did something new :p
i still love greymatter, it was very easy to use but it didn’t have the ability to categorise my entries, which i think is in need since i’ve been blogging for almost 6 years now!
excuse me if you still see things change, i’m still fiddling around with the code 🙂
i’ve kept comments disabled so i don’t have any dramas with spam and my webhosts again..
hooray! last thursday we passed 16 weeks along in the pregnancy!
i’m starting to feel more like myself, unpregnant and itching for a shopping spree! i do have a cold (sore throat, throbbing headache and the sniffles) but nothing the bub and i can’t handle.
in the past week, i’ve gone to thinking i’m never going to get a baby bump, to the start of a definate change in shape. things go very quickly, apparently, in the next couple of weeks. my jeans no longer do up (yes i still wear them.. the horror of an open fly!) so i’m trying to get creative now that it’s getting colder and colder. i don’t think the world is ready for me to walk around with a doona cape..
had a check up at the hospital today, and the obstetrician gave me the go ahead to see a midwife for the rest of the pregnancy, things are going very well 🙂 i also got to hear the heartbeat again today!! the little one was hiding way lower than i thought, but it’s beating strong and the doc was very happy.
i’ve been feeling the little movements more and more in the past month – from maybe once a week, to maybe 5-6 times a day now. i love it! but i can’t wait for the REAL kicks so Regan can cop it .. i mean so he can join in on the fun 😉 😛
my next appointment is the scan at 19 weeks to see how things are going and to find out the baby’s gender!!!!! at first, i really thought it was a girl but this past week i’ve really been swayed to believe it’s a boy… we have about 3 weeks to go, so let the guessing begin!! Regan and I will definately find out, but whether we’ll tell anyone else is yet to be decided…
p.s. for anyone waiting on emails from me, i apologise! the account is on my laptop, and my laptop doesn’t connect to the internet 80% of the time for some weird reason …
If you’ve been a part of the photoblogging community, at any time in the past 5 years, you will know Heather and Derek.
Heather Champ and Derek Powazek, who in my eyes, are two of the pioneers of photography on the internet and are a constant source of inspiration and creativity for hundreds, if not thousands of people around the world.
When I received an email from them in 2004 about their newest creation, JPG Magazine, there was no doubt I wanted to be a part of their dream. I was excited to be involved with people who truly loved photography and the spirit of community and sharing, and I am still proud to this day to tell people I was in the first issue, Origin (and on the cover, no less!).
It was with this passion that I kept supporting Heather, Derek and JPG over the next issues, and would wholeheartedly keep it up as long as they keep up with the great work too. It was exciting to see their work and themselves in an amazing publication, but more importantly to see their dream realised together.
Sadly, their involvement with the magazine is no longer, and as their friend and someone who still believes in the spirit of the photography community and it’s origin, my involvement will cease here also.
I am not doing this to be melodramatic, but to make a point to myself, that when you believe in someone and something, that you follow it through to the very end. And if the end comes quicker than you think, that you are able to see where you came from and what YOU want to do next. Don’t let anyone else make up your mind or your heart for you.
We all have an end, but we all have a beginning.
Take me back to the start, Heather & Derek. I’m ready for whatever you’ve got planned.
JPG Magazine – Issues One to Six are still at Lulu.
Check them out if you can because Paul sure doesn’t want you to.
