Guilty Pleasures- condemning cute little critters to a lifelong sentence in my tank.

Not a great picture but he is my new little red valentine for today.

Guilty Pleasures- procrastination googling

Googling as a way of avoiding the piles of dirty laundry waiting to be processed. I need to stop leaving my computer out and running because I am way too guilty of drive by googling.

Guilty Pleasures- Texting from the produce section

Thanks Angie for setting such a bad example for me. :-)

Guilty Pleasures- A good book with a couple others thrown in for good measure

guilty Pleasures- A roaring fire and some sizzling kielbasa

Guilty Pleasures-A hot cup of Joe

I didn't have my DSLR with me yesterday so I had to use my canon P&S for the two Starbucks pics but I made sure to take the time to enjoy this guilty pleasure.

Guilty Pleasures-Long hot soaks in the tub

Calgon take me away! No luxury of daytime soaks for me but the two little ones came out all squeaky clean today.

Personal Treasures-Time

A most personal treasure that all too often is taken for granted.

Personal Treasures-Good Friends

Personal Treasures-Family Photo Journals

I try to make these once a season and use what I write in my family blog to add narration. All the more reason to get better at taking pictures. My kids love looking at these and I am sure they will eventually become some of their own personal treasures.

Personal Treasures-My Grandmother's beach towel

Grandmothers's favorite beach towel... Precious, an excuse to visit her favorite spot by the sea in February... Priceless!

This towel has to be 30 plus years old and still works great and it is the coolest thing to see my own kids use it.

Personal Treasures-my music

A few of our many CDs. I had fun taking this picture today because it gave me the opportunity to listen to some songs that I had not played in a long time. Fun, fun!

Angie, thanks for your PS assistance. I need to break down and buy CS4. One of these days... :-)

Added some background music but it doesn't seem to be playing on all browsers? More tweeking to be done...

Personal Treasures-Washing machine and authentic dirty laundry

I should budget my time better because this one was a real quicky but surely my washing machine is a personal treasure of mine even though we have an ongoing love/hate relationship. I just can't bring myself to watermark my dirty laundry though. :-)

Personal Treasures-Number One personal treasure, my kids!

These are my most precious personal treasures but after this I will add personal treasures as I think of them but not posted in any order of significance.

Swans (white)

Okay, it is 10:30am and I already have my picture done. Maybe, just maybe I can keep this up. I thought these beautiful swans were heading over to get a piece of me when they turned my direction and paddled back to the beach at a furious pace. They ended up playing nice and once they realized that I was only interested in taking their picture and not feeding them or jumping in the water, they decided to swim off.