spoiled rotten

That would be ME I am referring to. I'm spoiled rotten in many ways. Gosh, I'm temporarily living with a great family on Martha's Vineyard and can ride my bike to the freaking beach everyday if I want. [which I do] Who doesn't love that? But also I realized....drum roll please big revelation coming here "wow, I was way spoiled by my friend's awesome image editing setup in Denver." I knew I would be starting at square one with my workflow [the best on my Dell is PS 7.0 and a 30 day version of Lightroom] but not having the ability to edit my photos the way I am used to is a HUGE adjustment. I'm learning a lot from the 10 books [literally] I checked out from the library, but greatly annoyed by basics that I don't know. (how do I create an action to shrink my images?) My learning curve is going to have to be very big! If you notice a decline in the creativity of my work it's because instead of 500 choices I now have 5. I'm confident that I will absolutely figure it out, but bear with me it may take a while...

Pics below are of 11 year old Chase and 4.5 yr old Peter who I am nannying for this summer. Missing is 16 yr old Taylor whose eyes I have yet to actually capture with my camera because they are constantly glued to his computer screen with some crazy game he plays with people all over the world. I'll catch him on a break though! He's been good to me. Lent me a monitor and installed PS for me. Thanks!

Chase: He's awesome and goes for bike rides with me!!!
Peter: He likes Dinosaurs and saying "excuse me please"