Lady with a camera, my nature therapy day.

 I went to the local garden yesterday to play photographer and get some nature therapy. Here are some of the photos I took.

I thought the Heron was a statue at first. It was nice to spend time watching it. I think it hunts the koi fish.

I love seeing all types of nature when I get the chance to be out in nature. 

I wish I could have gotten more photos of this little lizard.

But my camera battery died 😢. 

What I find funny is I think the lizard is cute, but if you took the legs off it would be a snake and I don’t like snakes. 

I love these flowers.

Enjoy your day.

Kimberly 

I thought I was good at change but the past few months have been too much.

 I have worked at the same place for 9 years. Things get changed every now and then and I have felt like I was good with the changes.  But lately I feel like everything is changing and I’m wondering if it will ever calm down. 

I haven’t been good with the changes.  I’ve felt stressed and annoyed.  I like my routine and feel like it’s been turned sideways.

The other week I asked my direct manager if there was any more change they could possibly do. She just looked at me and said, I think there’s going to be management change places.  

That did happen, but I was glad my direct manager didn’t get moved. 

Yesterday I went to a meeting and they made even more changes.  I want to get a temporary tattoo to put on my wrist that says “go with the flow”. To remind me to not stress about the change, but to flow with it.  

How do you manage stress when there is lots of change at work?

Kimberly 

Balloons and phone calls that’s what my day was filled with.

 On Saturdays where I work I make lots of balloons. That’s the life for a guest service worker.  I make balloons, I answer phone calls. I give people their cake orders. 

And I also give customers their sandwich orders.

I help people fix their accounts and find items they want to purchase.

Yesterday was a very long and busy day. 

So they say AI is going to take over guests service jobs.

Are they making robots to take my place? 

This is what the AI program thought robot worker would look like.

I hope it never happens.

I think people are better for customers service jobs.

What do you think?

Kimberly 

A project almost finished, organizing my bird photography.

After hours of moving bird photos from sd cards to an external hard drive I am almost done organizing my bird photos.

The next step will be to create a life bird photography book.

I have 2 SD cards left to work through.

I’m so proud that I have kept working on this project.

My next project will be organizing my flower photography.

 

My favorite bird, little adventure bird.

Kimberly 

33 day dates with my Prince Charming.

 I’m having fun asking the AI program to make cartoon pictures for me.  Not sure who would go walking in the woods in heels and dress clothes. But this couple is cute. It’s a young version of my husband and I.  

We have gone on 33 day dates so far this year.  We were talking about how nice it is to go on dates in the middle of the week.  Why is this so nice? Because no one else is out during the week.  It’s so less crowded. 

We had a nice walk, then we went to lunch.

We had a very nice day. 

Some photos from our date.

Kimberly 

Taken with my little camera.

Here are some photos from our 33rd day date of the year.

We went back to Farmington bay bird sanctuary.

We were looking for frogs and turtles.

A damselfly riding on a feather.

I like thistles.

 

Little bird came with us. See the sunflowers in the background, they grow in the wild but I can’t get them to grow in my garden. 

The heron was in front of these beautiful purple flowers. 

Look at its giant foot.

Kimberly 

My fitness journey, my butt no longer hurts riding my exercise bike!

About 3 years ago we bought a stationary bike.

My thought was that it would be quite compared to the treadmill.

The problem was sitting on it for a long time was not comfortable.

When our treadmill broke this spring,

I was determined to keep exercising so I started riding the bike again. With a new seat, and determination I kept with my fitness program and now I look forward to riding the bike.

I think changing the seat made it much more comfortable.

I enjoy having a fitness program called IFit. It has trainers that you can bike with that takes you to places around the world. They also give really good advice about fitness and nutrition. 

I have been playing with an AI photo app.

You write what you want it to create.

I find it interesting, but can you find the mistake in the picture?

I have been adding weight lifting to my exercise routine. Someday maybe I will have muscles like this drawing.

But that will probably take some time.

I am not good with drawing, and the AI program has issues too.

Kimberly