Week 2: Packages

I LOVE GETTING MAIL.  Good mail that is.  Not the crappy bills or advertisements that usually go straight into the recycling bin. I'm talking about the good stuff, like Christmas cards and wedding invitations.  The type of mail that has a return address from a real person in the corner.  The best is when you come home and there's a package sitting on your front step.  A PACKAGE!!  Getting a package ranks up there with Tillamook ice cream and new episodes of Downton Abbey.  Even though I was the one that probably bought something online, I tend to have a terrible memory and usually can't remember exactly what I bought, and so it's EXCITING!

This week I came home from the grocery store and there it was.

Anticipation

Matt recently ordered an additional controller and the new Nike Training game for the XBox Connect.  I was pretty excited about it.  I've been looking for some new exercise program to do, and this one seemed pretty good.  It had been a couple weeks, so maybe this was it!  Obviously the box was too large for a game, but maybe the game and the controller had come in the same box?  Maybe?  Maybe?

It is disappointing to open a piece of mail that appears to be a letter from someone and find it is just another bank wanting you to refinance your house.  It is also disappointing to open an envelope and discover it's only an invitation to a Scentsy party (I really hate those types of things, no offense).  Even worse is the disappointment that comes from thinking that the game has finally come in the mail, only to find out it's your husband's ridiculously large Professional Engineering Study Guide. Guhhhhh.
  

Disappointment. . .

Oh well.  At least it's not me that has to study that hideous looking book. 

The game came a few days later, but in the mean time I entertained myself with light painting.  Which, yeah, ok it's not great photography, but come on, it still is pretty cool, isn't it? 

I also started a new project.  I found sheer curtain panels for $5 each, and lined them with a $5 bed sheet.  So far I only have one of four or possibly six panels done, but what do you think? 

(All thanks to your sewing machine Emily! :) )

This picture was actually quite hard to take.  The window is huge and with the snow on the ground and the sun shining, there is way too much light coming in.  If I have most of the window in the frame, the curtains and walls are underexposed and you can't see the detail on the curtains.  If I adjust exposure to the wall, too much light comes through and the curtains appear as a white blotch.  I tried to balance the exposure in the middle.  Does anyone have any suggestions on what to do in these types of situations?

That is all for this week.  Happy photographing!