Still Catching On

Well . . . I have to admit it will be hard for me to keep up with this blog.  I find it hard to quickly write my thoughts and move on with life.  In fact, tonight I thought to myself:  'I'll just write a quick post since I'll be going to bed in an hour, post a picture and be done.' Then I got to thinking . . . I'm so much like one of my students when it comes to writing.  She spends at least twice as much time as other students with each sentence that she carefully painstakingly writes on her paper. Then, if she doesn't feel confident in it, out comes the eraser.  Not to mention her perfectionism.  She does not quickly swipe across the paper to remove the bulk of stray marks as other first graders, but holds tightly to her Pink Pearl eraser as she removes absolutely every mark to create an almost 'perfect' surface, to the brink of holes.  Today as we continued our tradition of writing birthday letters to the birthday person, she spent almost 10 minutes writing "Dear <friend>, I hop you have a gud birthday pardy."  Next thing I know she has erased the entire sentence and started over.  I've been encouraging her to write as much as she can, as quickly as she can, before she forgets her ideas during writing time.  "We can always fix mistakes and letters later" I told her.  Oh well . . . maybe she will be like her teacher someday . . . reading her emails 10 times over before daring to reach for the send button.  So . . . long story short . . . I need at least 30 minutes . . . maybe 45 . . . to write one of these blogs.

So, for the real reason I was going to make a post today.  Below you will find the contents of an Amazon package that arrived in my mailbox today!  It's the long awaited Nikkor 70-300mm VR zoom lens for my D3000.  Isn't it beautiful!