19,044 things organized

This morning I had a message from Dropbox in my inbox.

Until about a year ago all my phone pictures went straight to Dropbox.  I would move them into the correct folders and iPhoto (now called Photos).  I was always about two or three years behind!  Last year Robert helped me set up my pictures so that they automatically went into iPhoto.  I could just create a new album in iPhoto, drag the pictures into their albums and be done.  Any pictures that went back to live in Dropbox I just export every so often.  These are pictures that are not keepsakes - inspiration for art, ukulele songs/chords, pictures from books etc.  The only small issue with this new system is that I still had about three years of pictures to organize in Dropbox!  Every so often I moved about a hundred at a time.  I was slowly whittling away at it.

When I was told I was going to be on bed rest for almost three weeks I decided I was going to finish moving not only the rest of those remaining pictures in dropbox (about two years worth) but also all the really old picture albums from 2004-2008, which is when I switched to a Mac.

It was a lot of work, but it was easy to do laying on my back.  I officially finished it all on Tuesday this week!  Everything is organized, easy to find, and I now have the joy of all my pictures from the past 20 years being in one place.  19, 044 things organized! 

Next week I have my first check-up since the surgery, and I am excited to get one step closer to taking steps again.  I've had a few hairy days where it felt like my foot was constantly getting stuck in a patch of stinging nettles, and that has mostly disappeared.  I am now just dealing with a lot of heat, swooshing pressure, tingling, and some deep aches.  If I go lower than toes above nose for more than 10 minutes it's extremely uncomfortable.  I am hoping this is the next thing that goes away.  The sooner the better!

I'm also about a third of the way through my last semester.  My capstone class has felt terrifically challenging for being what it is, which is creating a portfolio of assignments from all of my classes.  We are sorting them by program objective first, and it's been a weird scavenger hunt that I am not always doing right.  Another class (collection development) has been challenging, but that was my expectation going into it.  Thankfully it has been interesting thus far.  My third class (event planning) is almost wrapped up and then I will do a different class for the rest of the semester.  I think it's programming for seniors.

Josie went back to work this week but has been taking care of me at night.  Nights are the worst!  So long!  Especially when I need to move about every 20 or 30 minutes.  But nothing beats an 80+ pound dog cuddling the brambly hurt away.  Each time I reach for her at night, and she's there, it's such a comfort.