Project for the long weekend!

[cjsmith]

Originally my family vacation was going to start today, so when its dates got changed, I was left without any particular Labor Day weekend plans. A three-day weekend with no particular plans! So I made a list of things I'd like to get done:

• Get my whole DRAWER full of clothes awaiting repair or modification to a tailor finally
• Buy new shoes, or repair the ones I have on (they have a hole under each big toe)
• Write material for my next big square dance weekend, coming up soon
• Get plane tickets for said square dance weekend, since I can't trust that we won't sell the airplane before I have to go
• Get plane tickets for my family vacation

Of course, I am now immersed in a project that is none of these. :-) I am sorting and organizing all of the photographs I've taken since probably about 1989.

I used to be really good about sorting things as I went along. Then I lived in Paris for a while, took lots of pictures, and came back to the States only to discover that anything developed in a European photo lab won't fit in American albums. Oops. So every time I thought about organizing photos, from that point on, I would try to figure out a decent solution to the problem of a few hundred photographs I didn't want to cut up with scissors. Well... more than a decade later... it's time to move on, SKIP that problem for now, and sort everything ELSE.

This ought to be fun.

Naturally, I now have a somewhat similar problem: many of these photos are 3x5, and those albums are extinct! :-( I may just have to put the smaller photos in 4x6 albums. Ugly ugly ugly... but maybe that's what I get for letting it go so long.