two bare feet on the dashboard...

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Say what? August 8th was the last post in this silly, random, whirlwind of a blog? What, exactly, is the dealio with that?

This girl is a s-l-a-c-k-e-r. That's what.

I became so overwhelmed at all the photographs I longed to post (which takes forever and three days to upload...), and the stories I couldn't wait to share, and all the adventures of the summer I wanted to document so I could reminisce when I'm gray and crazier and my memory doesn't serve me so well - that I just couldn't make myself spend the time in front of the computer screen to chug through it all. So, instead I did nothing. Not even a mini-update. Just... nothing. I hid in real life, with my beach towel, my frisbee, and every last drop of sunshine I could gather, and stayed as far away from little Mac as possible.

Eventually I felt guilty for my slackerness. And I still wanted to share my stories. So hopefully, really hopefully within the next week I'll have settled down and tended to the blog. No promises though because (WARNING: somewhat related passionate tangent ahead)...

We're losing approximately two minutes of daylight. Every! Single! Day! So get out there people - enjoy the beautiful weather, the disgusting humidity, the heat. Because it's fading quickly. And pretty soon we'll be tromping around in boots and seven layers of sweaterscoatsandwoolstockings complaining that it's so blasted miserably cold.

Go outside! Go play! Remember what it was like to be a kid and soak up this sweet summertime. Get off your duffs, away from the television and computer monitors and comfy air-conditioning. Just pretty please live up summer while it lasts!

And I'll get around to posting as soon as my pool pass runs out...

north star...

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It was an incredible, beautiful, and wonderfully athletic weekend at the lake. My shoulders and ribcage feel stretched beyond capacity, and my sinuses are still filled with algae-green lake water from frequent crash and burns. But we conquered. Slalom ski, wakeboard, knee board, and skis - we conquered.

Lawn chair naps, fire-pit grilled burgers, Big Dippers, and ghost stories - we conquered those too.

I don't wanna be back to civilization.

But I don't WANNA!

joy to the world...

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About 7pm this evening I had the dorkiest smile on my face. The kind that doesn't happen everyday. More so just at Christmastime when you're five years old and waiting oh so patiently to unwrap the (hopefully, pretty-please-I'll-never-ask-for-anything-again-in-my-life) Cabbage Patch doll. That's what makes those smiles special and extra dorky when they do come around.

I had just met the guy who is going to be developing my photography brand. He is awesome. Awesome, awesome.

AWESOME.

Oh, and that's why I didn't get around to posting the summer in review photos today. That and a lot of other reasons. There was no time for little Mac. Too much life happening this beautiful day. Perhaps early next week. I've got a lake to get to this weekend...

the sweet life...

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It's not my fault I'm up this late. It's not my fault and I will regret it terribly in the morning. Should have known better than to drink strong coffee at 8:30pm. And now that I'm awake and all sorts of reflective, why not a quick post... A friend of mine recently stumbled upon the ol' blog, and mentioned how it's been up since 2005. I sort of laughed and thought, yep, kinda crazy. But I didn't really think about it until my caffeine-buzzed drive home. 2005. A Little Spark of Madness has been a part of the Blogger society for five years. Then for a second I felt old. And then I got over it (uh, for the most part).

So I looked it up when I got home. Turns out he was right... in seven more days the blog is five years old. Sort of funny the whole thing got started in order to post and share photos with friends and family. Yes, that was because back then Facebook didn't have a photo uploading option. Or photo albums period. (Gasp - there was a time Facebook didn't have photo-sharing capabilities? My word. What did we do with all our spare time? Mighty good question my friend... )

Thanks to everyone's readership and support through the blog. It is a joy to share my life with you, and for you to endure all my ramblings and musings... I'm very grateful.

The celebration will be marked by posting a plethora (and I do mean plethora) of photos from the happenings of this spring/summer, hopefully by tomorrow sometime. So help me slow-downloading function, that I do not pull out all my sun-bleached hair by the time that post is complete.

Happy five years and 287 posts.