It took a while to put together my free photo book last weekend, but it has already arrived (a couple of days ago).

Woohoo!! Talk about fast!

We got our first digital camera in 2002, and have done little other than store them on the computer. (We put on disks periodically for our parents - was our backup system - we are now paying for periodic online backups, too. More for other things than pictures, but just to point out we have the backup thing well covered).

We've printed out some pictures here and there, but the ink always seems so expensive. (Usually get free extra/unwanted photo paper from my dad).

Anyway, I signed up on Shutterfly for the free photo book coupon I had, and since I was a *new customer* (hadn't used Shutterfly in almost a decade) I also got 50 free prints. So, spent several hours today picking out the 50 prints, cropping, labeling, etc. (It is sweet that they put the date automatically on the back - and I added descriptive info. LOVE IT!)

I did not look at every photo from 2002 - current. BUT, our photos are well organized, and I usually save the best in a slimmed down edited version in a separate "edited" folder for each month. For Facebook or to e-mail to family, etc. Apparently, that is genius. I went through all the "edited" folders and picked out my favorites. Found a few photos I had forgotten about and that made me laugh. Also some other gems. I got from about 2002 - 2009, and whittled it down to about 40 pictures.

In the end, I kind of think it is good that I waited so long to do so. After some time, it was easier to narrow down the best of the best. I'll probably just keep the pics in an envelope and won't really bother with a photo album - there aren't that many. I will give a few of the prints I ordered to family and friends.

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BM got his soccer game out of the way nice and early this morning. By some miracle we have absolutely nothing planned for the rest of the weekend. The day has kind of gotten away from me here, as it is HOT and will probably hit the pool until bedtime. BUT, tomorrow I plan to get off my lazy butt and do something around the house. I don't really remember the last time I did any real housework (besides the basics/every day type stuff). No deep cleaning for months?

We are trying hulu plus free trial and am pretty impressed on first impression. However, they make it very hard to get free hulu content if you subscribe. & we haven't watched any commercials in about a decade, so I can tell that will be real annoying (you can't zip through them). BUT, a few short commercials here and there - I suppose is fair to save a significant amount of money on cable. That said, even the PBS shows have commercials - which is pretty annoying.

Anyway, we have to pay something like $40/year to get Hulu free content, since we are subscribing to hulu plus. Oy vey. MEans hulu will be closer to $15/month than $10/month. But still beats cable buy a mile!