It's never too late...

It's been a long time...and we were politely demanded upon that we start actively blogging again, so that is what we'll do.  I can go on and on about the excuses as to why we haven't kept up with this blog...but realistically, all they are is excuses.

When we decided to take on our new business, we said we wanted a work life balance. Yeah...unless you know what you are in store for, you can say whatever you want, but it doesn't mean anything.  It can though...you just have to be the one in control.

With one year behind us, we know what we are up against this summer (summer is our busy season), but we choose to be in control of our balance and choose to re-evaluate our priorities and stick to them.

This of course includes our health.  We've let our health...really for lack of a better word - deteriorate since I originally started this job...and even more so when we took on the business.  Let me tell you, dragging 30-50 lbs of photography equipment through houses and up and down stairs, up and down hills, over large estates of property is HELL when you also carry so much body weight too.

Since I know most of the people who follow this blog, most of you know that I just turned 30 and Kurt is going to be 40 in a couple of years.  We don't want to be heavy anymore.  The bottom line is that we won't enjoy what short lives we'll end up having.  Morbid, yes, but also a reality.

It's going to take us a little bit to get this blog rolling back into the same fashion it was before, but it will.  We are TIRED of giving up on things.  We are always looking for help and guidance too...as the original point of this blog was not only be accountable to ourselves, but to others (its the people pleaser in us - hehe). Even if that help is a reminder - "I haven't seen a post in a couple of days." - we don't care...bring it on!! :)

We've already begun to implement a better diet, which mostly means that we started cooking at home more regularly then going out, but I'll discuss that at another time - maybe later today...we'll see.

I do have to say thank you to our family and friends who are always reminding us to take care of ourselves (some more bluntly than others, but we still love you anyways).

Until later,

This may be the only way...

Hello world...we are still here!!

The last year has been disappointing.  Almost exactly a year ago, I started working again, and that led the the downfall of all I had been doing.  Kurt tried hard for a while, but lost the motivation himself. 

Now that we are doing this business on our own, we thought we could dictate our schedule...but we seem to really be having difficulty with that.  I don't know if its because we find it difficult to schedule it onto our calendar as an "appointment", when really we know that if someone wanted us to shoot at that time, we could move things around, or if we are just looking for an excuse to by lazy.  Or maybe both.

But it's really challenging, to go from being (for lack of a better term) a bump on a log to being active.  I am constantly desperate for the easy way.  

The biggest thing about really getting back to this is tied between two thoughts: 1) we were shooting on Friday in Caughlin Ranch and had to walk this trail to shoot the back of the house...and the trip back up to the road was a 11% grade that couldn't have been more than 1/16th of a mile...and we were dying, out of breath, ready to fall over (I was carrying 20lbs of equipment, but that shouldn't be an excuse), and 2) we spend...not a lot, but more than we could, to go to a gym we actually do enjoy once we get there...and it's a waste when we don't go.

Another huge problem, besides motivation - because that will always be a problem for me - is that we rarely prepare a meal at home and when we do, it is something cheap, cheerful and bad for us.  We need to make a habit of grocery shopping and meal planning again.  This is where the lazy catches up with me again.

So anyway, that is just a bit of what has been going on lately.  I don't anticipate that we'll be blogging everyday, but we will definitely update once or twice a week.  We are going into the busy season, so I guess there isn't a better time to start including our healthier lifestyle into our schedule.

Until later,