just being me

Just a quickie...

Ive been proofing like crazy. not much time for scrappy stuff except for the June SOMO kit because everyone's gotta make time for that. The biz stuff has been put on a hold for a little bit - Ive found that I can accept payment legally without having a legal business entity. Ill be paying some poopy taxes at the end of the year but whatev. I still need to do a lot of detail business planning and portfolio building.

Speaking of, I got the PLEASURE of doing this on Saturday:

    

Is she not the most gorgeous little girl you have ever seen? I love that I can say this unbiased since I dont have a little girl of my own. Seriously, she is going to be an amazingly beautiful woman. Shes 3. I know! She is so outgoing and sweet. I ran into her and her mom and just came out an asked her if I could do a shoot at no cost for my portfolio. Her mom was delighted and we did it two days later. They were visiting here from GA and was leaving that night. HOW LUCKY!? It was like perfection - you know being at the right place at the right time. The only thing is she did not want her photo taken. She thought she did before the shoot and once it was getting too much I was going to leave and she didnt want me to so she let me take a few at the very end, those are the magenta dress ones. All of the others were just pure luck. So out of about 420 photos I got a whole 7. But who cares, I have 7 good ones and there will be more shoots of her in the future. Once she is more comfortable with me and the camera and she has a nap before the shoot I am sure I will be getting some killer ones next time. I am determined to make her a model, she has all of the potential and she told her mom she would like to do that so Id at least like to give it a try. I am just so glad I met these two wonderful women, I made some great new friends. It was such fun and the session ended with lots of hugs. : )

Okay, must go to bed. Gotta work on a slideshow tomorrow for Sara (the girl below) and then its off to stupid REAL work. lol

ciao for now.

   

"Do you ever have that feeling in your body..."

"...like you just wanna break out some hardcore dancemoves? You know when you hear that song that gives you that energy, like you just feel it in you and you need to release it! *all said while hardcore sit-dancing on the couch next to nicholas*

Nick: "Not like that."

So while on my way home after a poopy night at work, in the pouring rain and s-l-o-w m-o-t-i-o-n traffic, this song comes on the radio. Its a song I havent heard in some time and I REALLY really love it. You know, those kind of songs that you make a mental note to download so you can add it to your ipod? Well that was it. I cranked it up and just enjoyed my little tiny piece of heaven after a crappy night. It was nice. : )

Fast forward to about 12:15am. I am proofing photos from the photoshoot mentioned below and that mental note pops up! which is even more of a plus considering I always losing those mental notes and dont find them until its the wrong place and the wrong time therefore resulting in me making yet another mental note which really is the same one from before but just a refresh. I excitedly type in the band name because I couldnt remember the song title, see what I mean, just so I can hear it again while I download it and luckily find the music video. *Insert above conversation here. Also, imagine my arms being thrust into the air excitedly and sit-dancing on the couch, it adds to the hilarity. Oh and add a scared and confused look to Nick's face as he watches me and answers my question, thats got to be the best part. : ) *

I loved the video so much and thought that maybe I should blog about it to always have at my disposal and share with friends as well, but it wasnt the kind that you can embed to your blog. So as I am searching for an embeddable video so that we can hear the song over and again I stumble upon this insanity:

Nicholas and I were laughing so hard at this. It only got better when we caught these things:

• The guitarist's pursed lips
• The drummer's seriousness
• The vocalist is actually doing a pretty good job
• The Repetitive thrustings from Dr. Pepper
• The fact that they actually arent a bad looking group of guys.
• The paper drumsticks Nick caught this one and I almost peed I was laughing so hard.

Not to mention that I could totally see myself doing this. In fact it is something I have done, only with a mirror in place of the webcam. what....havent we all? Although I didnt actually have a guitar, nor did I create drumsticks out of paper or any other material. Oh and this comment left by someone about the video saying, "Wow this is seriously the gayest thing I have ever seen. I thought only girls got together and did this sort of stuff," is just the icing on top of it all. Seriously seriously made my night. Where's the cherry you say? as if it could get any better... Well this is just one video out of a collection of tribute "jam sessions" of AudioSlave songs by this group. These are the things that amuse me. I love my humor. : )

So that was the song. the one that gave me that feeling. And the hardcore sit-dancing...it was totally off beat. Love that the best. : ) Those are the best kinda feelings. Music makes up most of my soul, can you tell?

Moving on....I have been proofing ALL night. I just cant stop it. Sara is so brilliantly beautiful and fun, its addicting. I SO cant wait to do this for a living. You cant even imagine the giddy-ness I get while proofing photos. Its sort of sad, but mostly good news. I shouldnt post any more here until she gets to see them but here's my second favorite photo of the year that I just sent for printing tonight:

That hunk of gorgeous is what I get to wake up next to every morning! Lucky lucky me! Im not bragging, but if I was could you blame me!?! lol Cant wait to marry this man.....but for now I cant wait to scrap this photo. : )

Hopefully that's what I'll be doing tomorrow afternoon before work. Im excite to do the Story of my Own challenge for this month, we're all going to scrap a conversation! hence the inspiration for tonights title. I used to write down our funny conversations, which was often, but I always misplaced them. We exchange the silliest thoughts, life is never boring between us two. I am always laughing or giggling...or both. : ) I recorded a convo we had on here before. Thats the one Im going to scrap. It was a little one but was an important one.

Need to make a trip to the LSS tomorrow too. Lisa is having a crazy 50% off sale and I am afraid that all that amazing Making Memories funky vintage will be picked through by the time I get to it! I must have my Funky Vintage. Mucho importanto.

For now, its time for bed. Man I have a lot to say. If only you could see/hear/think the thoughts that go on inside my head! I cant even decipher it sometimes....its just so much. Ciao for now. : )

"Fine, we'll have a lovely garden party..."

...and you're not invited"

Okay, I have been wanting to blog about this since we first saw this movie but I just havent been able to find the time. Then, instead of bloggin about it we saw it AGAIN! Im talking about Pirates of the Caribbean: At world's end. Nicholas and I caught the last showing on Friday night and it was surprisingly not full (we have a thing about waiting a while after it comes out to avoid rude interruptions throughout the film like we've experienced before) I just COULD NOT wait to see this movie. LOVE POTC! I loved it SO much I really wanted to see it again and Nicholas totally agreed with me so we saw the second to last showing on Sunday night. Oddly, it was busier on sunday than it was on Friday. ANYWAY, I laughed SO much and although there are a few plot holes and I dont understand why they ended it the way they did both of us would go watch it another time. as I am typing this nick is telling me that he really wants to go again. Johnny Depp is maddeningly talented and does a superb job in this film! LOVE IT! Make a date night with your sig. other or your best friend and go see it! Of course you have to watch the first two before you see the third one but it is so worth the $9.

I was asked to do another shoot this week for a sweet girl, Sara, that I work with. Her mom saw the referral card that I gave to Hayley (my first shoot, read below) and Sara said that she got so excited because its exactly what they wanted but didnt even know it! Her mom is so cute, she was so anxious that she came in to my work to eat dinner so that she could ask me in person to do a Senior shoot of her daughter, even though Sara had already asked me and I agreed. It was really nice to meet her and it seemed more real to me that I will be doing this for money sooner than later like I had expected. I hadnt any hope for business to come from Hayley, especially this soon. I didnt charge her of course. I dont think Ill be comfortable charging anyone for me to take their photo until I am FULLY comfortable with what I am doing and can consistently produce above quality shots. But it seems that I need to open for business real soon so I can start accepting payment. : )

Here are a few peeks:

and this outtake helps me show just how much fun we had being silly and thinking out of the box:

These girls just make it too easy though. I have loads of fun, they are absolutely GORGEOUS inside and out, and such naturals in front of the camera. I need tougher subjects! 

I got my Story of my own kit the day before yesterday! OMFreakingGosh! Love Elsie everywhere!  Its so funny because its the same day I Rushed to the Ruban Rouge to get my Elsie fix after waiting so long. I LOVE LOVE LOVE this kit! The stamps Rock as always! The only thing that sucks is that being independent, I dont get to travel at all, so I dont have much to scrap about regarding travel. I am going to Chicago next month which I am COMPLETELY and UTTERLY excited about! I am going to be going for October Afternoon, a rocking stamp company that will be debuting their first line at CHA. I had planned on going anyway but now Ill be representing a fab company, owned by fab people and Ill have more money to spend in the city! I just can NOT let myself get all worked up in the moment of it and forget to take photos. I always do that. lol. But anyway, go check out this kit! ROCKS MY MONTH OFF!

Alright, my pinky finger is cramping and I need to get some sleepy-time so Ill check ya later!

The title is a quote from Jack Sparrow in the POTC:AWE movie. : ) seriously, go watch it!