Visual Days: Week 48 (November 27

It is March 3, 2012. I am not done with this blog! In fact I am only on Week 41 out of 52. I have 12 weeks to go. The blog was supposed to be completed by February 19, 2012, one year after I started it. It was also supposed to be published every week coinciding with the current week. Obviously this did not happen. Throughout the year of doing the blog I found it very difficult to keep up with it week to week. Some weeks I was right on time, others I fell behind. In November I fell about 3 weeks behind and I was desperately trying to catch up before the mad rush of what December always brings. I think I published 3 weeks in the last few days of November when I was home sick with strep throat. I thought I was doing great and was finally catching up! Then on the morning of December 3, while I was working on publishing the current week, my computer died. Not just temporarily died, really dead! No hard drive and 2 weeks of work lost. (We now back up every night!) It was a slow process of acknowledging what really just happened and remembering what I had done, and then in reality lost and had to redo.

For my own sanity at the time, I had to let the blog go. I got through December and all its craziness of the holidays and was frantically trying to finish a public art project too. I thought about restarting the blog at the New Year, but the public art project that was originally suppose to be done by December 31 was extended until January 31. This was good for the public art project, but not good for me returning to my blog. During the month of January, I also lost my grandma. She passed away at the age of 91. She lived a long full life, but it is always hard to say goodbye. I flew to Columbus, Ohio and cried, remembered, and laughed a lot with my family. Losing my grandma really put losing my hard drive into perspective. Life is really precious! Each day has significance.

The public art project was completed on January 31. As for February, I recuperated, reenergized, and regrouped. It’s March and I’m ready to go. I WILL FINISH THIS BLOG! It just is not going to be in the way that I originally planned it to be, and it obviously will not coincide with the current calendar any more. The blog is ultimately about life and everyday occurrences. Sometimes life gets in the way. Life also goes on. Here we go again.......