I feel like I’m trying to get my life in order. Does that ever actually work?

I bought Creative Memories’ Memory Manager – it’s a digital photo organizing program, $40. It is awesome! It has a timeline along the bottom so everything is arranged by date – and you can adjust it to select photos on one day, week, month, year, etc. Then it has a nesting folder structure so you can index photos according to subject/event/whatever. So I have all of Kate’s photos under one folder for easy access – and photos can be under multiple categories, so it can be under Kate, Natalie, and Halloween 2010. You label all photos on a 5-star system, so I have all photo rejects as 0 stars, all good want-to-keep photos as 4 stars and the select best ones I want to share with family as 5-stars (since no one really wants to see all 40 pictures I took in one sitting, ha). It exports, which is far cooler than it sounds: it exports those photos based on my search criteria. So say I want to print out all photos of Kate from September and October that are of 4-stars or more, but I only want them to be 1200 pixels or smaller (instead of my GINORMOUS photo files). Done! Easy as pie. Oh, plus the program can create separate Vaults, which means I can have one for my personal stuff and one for all the photos of adoptable cats I take for work. It also includes some pretty nice editing tools – crop, rotate, color, hue, brightness, red-eye correction (and that’s not all)… that’s more than I’d expect for the price. Plus all of it is really well designed and easy to use even for people who are not complete computer geeks like I am. I think I am in love with this program. I will be buying a copy for my mother.

::

We did not go to DC this weekend, but we watched the Rally to Restore Sanity on TV. We love Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. The performances were pretty good, it was fun to watch. But Jon’s closing speech totally kicked ass. One of my favorite quotes: