Every once in a while on Facebook, I post “Current Mood” and just post a link to a YouTube video of a favorite song.
This time of year, it’s often a Christmas song.
This song from this episode of “Sesame Street” was one of my favorites growing up– I cannot tell you how many times I watched this episode when I was little.
‘Tis the season, y’all.
Side note: The Carrollton Trojans play in the state playoffs at Mercedez-Benz Stadium tonight. We’re going to win!!
Oliver is very excited because he has been invited to hang out with the broadcast kids and they are going to get a behind-the-scenes tour of GPB’s broadcast setup.
Liam is traveling with the band, and Porter is coming along as well.
I made a reflective guided journal. I set out the specific parameters in both Gemini and Google AI Studio and between the two of them, I came up with quarterly segments filled with weekly goals, and daily prompts.
I made it for myself primarily, with the goal of maybe sharing it with the wider world.
It’s going to take some time to format though; while I have the content, I have a specific way I want that content formatted and there is no easy way to handle that in a bulk way into Canva, which is what I am using for the formatting.
I am very, very, happy with the content, though. It’s something I would use, I think it will be both fun and uplifting. I’m impatient to get it done but realistically, it will likely not be done by January 1.
Time is not really relevant however; the journal is not formatted to be time-dependent.
I was inspired to make a reflective, guided journal primarily as a self-help tool for myself, to help get myself through the year in an even-keel sort of temperament while also setting new goals. Gemini helped me set out parameters that allow the journal to be helpful without dispensing psychiatric or medical advice.
I hadn’t really intended to come up with a whole product, except that I wanted something pretty for myself.
So, caroline price luxe: intentional living guided journal is on the way.
And all of a sudden, very easily, there is a photography business, complete with LLC and business license, and insurance, and all the things, all over again.
I paid for and picked up my occupational tax certificate on a trauma anniversary, and for most of the day, I was busy, occupied, and proud of myself.
Night comes, bedtime comes, and doubt creeps in.
It’s a sign that it is bedtime.
Caroline Price Luxe didn’t happen overnight. But, it did happen in less than ten days. It took less than 24 hours to have my occupational tax certificate in hand, actually. The city of Carrollton likes to facilitate the establishment of new businesses.
And Gemini helped me re-vamp my logo using my chosen blog colors and my chosen font (well, Gemini picked the sage in my blog colors too, when I provided the precise shade of pink I use, but that’s another story).
And I haven’t forgotten for a single second what I was doing this time last year. And I wrote a Facebook post about it, but I’m not going to dwell here.
Tonight I’m going to bed content that if I want to accept fees for a session I can, and the parameters for sessions are that my beloved Cinelux lenses be used. My Cinelux lenses are the gold standard for cinematic, timeless photography. Photographs made with these lenses look straight out of a movie because quite literally, these are large format movie projection lenses.
And tomorrow, I’m going to make a renewed commitment to attempting to live in the present.
After all, that’s all we really have.
The photo below is representative of what the best of the Cinelux lenses can do. It’s the photo I chose to announce the new venture on Instagram. Kaitlyn and Jonathan were so kind to model for me.
In the coming weeks and months, there will be more model calls. The very nature of Caroline Price Luxe means that a brand new portfolio has to be built from scratch. If you are interested in participating, please inquire.
Jared and I got in a fight today. And the content or reason is not important, nor is how it resolved other than to say that it is over now.
In the process, though, I found out something that reminded me of why Jared is my hero:
Before my October meeting with the man-who-shall-not-be-named, Jared sent said person a message demanding respect for me during said meeting.
Jared never told me a word about it, until the heat of the moment today, when I accused him of never standing up for me against said individual.
And that specific knowledge goes a long way toward both healing last December, and also making me feel very, very, very safe with my husband. It also rather dramatically explains that while verbal harassment occurred in October, physical boundaries were observed.
I’ve long known that Jared will go to bat, at great length, for me.
But knowing that he warned this particular individual as to protecting my safety, regardless of what actually happened, I am certain went a long way toward ensuring at least physical boundaries were observed.
I love my husband. Emotional and physical safety and protection are just two more reasons why. Indeed, they are the whole reason I chose Jared 22 years ago, when presented between the choice of the two of them.
