Friday wrapped up another fantastic run of 7 Days. I wasn’t really in the mood on Day 1 last weekend. But as usual the week of taking self-portraits; viewing everyone else’s creative, silly, honest, fun shots; and commenting up a storm worked its magic and brought me right out of my funk. It’s a fact: 7 Dayers are the defunkifyingest group on Flickr. I’m already looking forward to the next one in December.

This was my alternate for Day 7. I felt left out of all the dottery photos, so I took a photo of me, drinking my tea, looking out at the rain. This photo has two 7 Days connections: I was with Lauren C. when I painted this mug, and the tea that I’m drinking is the PG Tips that Lauren H gave me when we met up with her last summer.

Just for kicks, here’s a short video I shot at the Ontario airport in California last month, right after Elliora learned to play peekaboo. It cracks me up how she doesn’t quite get that she needs to cover her face for this game to work, though she’s gotten better since then.

Part of the reason I’m randomly posting this second video now is because I was scrolling through old blog posts today, looking for one I was sure I’d written about our three-day power outage last January when my parents were here…and I didn’t find it because I never wrote it. I also never wrote about Elliora’s baptism and Rachel coming to visit! I can’t believe how many things have gone unblogged in the past year. Sheesh. I need to just start blogging things, even if the posts aren’t well-organized and the photos aren’t all edited and uploaded yet.

While we’re being random, we might as well end this post with an adorable photo of Elliora and Annalie driving a grocery cart at the store recently.

I’ve been planning to use these crazy bathroom mirrors at one of our favorite Indian restaurants for a 7 Days shot since the first time I saw them. They’re kind of hard to photograph, though, because of the way they’re laid out. So I decided a mosaic of the best shots was the way to go. (View largest size to see detail.)

I’ve been kind of grouchy lately since I’ve been sick. I wore this shirt today (purchased a long time ago at TeeFury) to remind myself that today is always a good day, with the right attitude.

And then we got Starbucks, and saw a pretty amazing sunset on the way home from dinner. Life does not suck.

p.s. I’ve had a fun new banner up for a little while but I keep forgetting to mention it. Thanks again, Brenda!

I had so many ideas for today’s theme (OUTSIDE), and almost none of them worked out. I took this one while we were at Annalie’s dance class, just messing around with one of the toys Elliora was playing with. And even though I took about ten more shots similar to this, the first one was by far the best.