doing: work-kinda- on a monday. lame
feeling: TIRED!
listing to: nothing but beautiful silence!
i'm going to apologize in advance because i'm sure this will be full of misspellings. my eyes are crossing because i have such a headache! i'm trying to work but i needed a break!
Christmas. wow. we were crazy busy for 3 days straight! Ethan had a bit of a mishap at the DeHaan house on Christmas Eve. it involved running with a firetruck and ended in 2 battle wounds, one of wich will hopefully NOT turn into a scar! Ethan opened so many presents i'm sure his head was spinning! he got some great things that he just loves! matt and i were a little more low key. we got a few good things, money, giftcards, ect. all in all it was an excellent holiday!
Birthday. my birthday was yesterday! wooo for 26! i went to church in the morning, alone. my boys wanted to stay at home. then we all met at Pizza Hut(of course) for lunch. i got to see Nate Ethell, he's in Iowa for a week-ish and his family was at the Hut too! it was great to see him! and so random! i love randoms!
then i packed myself up and headed to Des Moines for some well deserved shopping! i went to a couple places that i dont usually go. didn't find much of what i was looking for... but i did find! there were some good sales too so it was a good trip! after i got home i fed Ethan and we took him to my parents casa. he hung out with Papa and Uncle Ben(who was sickly so i dont think they hung out too much!) and we went to celebrate at mexican! we met Bri Guy and his mom, my Mom, Ann, John Schmaltz and-suprisingly- Andrew Larson there! it was so fun! and a random group too! not usually who we all get together with but it was great! i had wwaayy too much tequila! but it was the really really good stuff, so NO HANGOVER!!
we hung out for a couple hours and then everyone collectivly decided that i needed to go to bed! i laughed at matt for a good half hour and then passed out hard!
today i simply have a headache. i actually got up this morning and made a good breakfast! it was yummy! i need to start doing that more!
not much else is going on. New Years looks like its going to be a quiet one. we can't find a sitter so i think we'll just hang out and watch a movie or two, get pizza and call it a night. matt and i have never been huge on the "staying up until midnight" thing... so we pry won't!! hopefully we'll be able to find something to do that won't make us out to be too totally lame! ah well, such is life!
i must go work some more. i want to finish a bunch of orders so my bin will be EMPTY! that will be a wonderful birthday present!!
Monday, December 29, 2008
Monday, December 15, 2008
i'm listening for the sound of your voice
doing: stealing my bros laptop and parents internet connection
feeling: DAMN COLD!
i'm getting pretty sick of not having internet at my house. i'm doing suprisingly without cable, but no internet is a killer. you never realize just how much and often you use it until you can't anymore! like when i'm bored watching yet another hour of football on a sunday i think of a million things that i'd like to do online... but can't! might have to talk to Matty about that.
Ethan and i are just hanging out at my parents house this morning. my car needed an oil change... about 3 months ago. since we didnt have any money matt said he'd do it himself. well now its 3 months later, he hasn't done it, and i'm afraid my car will die at any second from lack of oil. so he finally gave up the $30 and i'm having it changed. hopefully they'll call me soon because i do have a few things at home that i'd like to get done today.
sometimes i wish i worked on mondays just for the simple fact that i'd have my day already planned out. i'm pretty much caught up on laundry and thats usually what i do on mondays. but i DO have a batch of sugar cookie dough in the fridge that's dying to be made! i'll be doing that during nap time! yyuummyyy!!
matt and i are going to finish our Christmas shopping tonight. the saddest part of our holiday season is that we can buy the majority of our presents at wal mart. sad sad sad..... oh well, at least we know it'll be semi-cheaper right!?
matt's sister heather will be home this weekend! that'll be fun because i dont think i've seen her for over a year! also this weekend starts our official holiday season. we go to Panama for the Croghan Christmas sunday, Gma Darlenen's for the Russell Christmas Wednesday (i think) then like 3 more christmas' including the actual day! good times. oh yeah, then its my BIRTHDAY!! woot woot!
i'm getting antsy, i hate not having a car.
i should go relieve Ben from reading endless books to Ethan! poor guy! got woken up by Ethan and then is reading to him! such is the life of being Uncle!!
feeling: DAMN COLD!
i'm getting pretty sick of not having internet at my house. i'm doing suprisingly without cable, but no internet is a killer. you never realize just how much and often you use it until you can't anymore! like when i'm bored watching yet another hour of football on a sunday i think of a million things that i'd like to do online... but can't! might have to talk to Matty about that.
Ethan and i are just hanging out at my parents house this morning. my car needed an oil change... about 3 months ago. since we didnt have any money matt said he'd do it himself. well now its 3 months later, he hasn't done it, and i'm afraid my car will die at any second from lack of oil. so he finally gave up the $30 and i'm having it changed. hopefully they'll call me soon because i do have a few things at home that i'd like to get done today.
sometimes i wish i worked on mondays just for the simple fact that i'd have my day already planned out. i'm pretty much caught up on laundry and thats usually what i do on mondays. but i DO have a batch of sugar cookie dough in the fridge that's dying to be made! i'll be doing that during nap time! yyuummyyy!!
matt and i are going to finish our Christmas shopping tonight. the saddest part of our holiday season is that we can buy the majority of our presents at wal mart. sad sad sad..... oh well, at least we know it'll be semi-cheaper right!?
matt's sister heather will be home this weekend! that'll be fun because i dont think i've seen her for over a year! also this weekend starts our official holiday season. we go to Panama for the Croghan Christmas sunday, Gma Darlenen's for the Russell Christmas Wednesday (i think) then like 3 more christmas' including the actual day! good times. oh yeah, then its my BIRTHDAY!! woot woot!
i'm getting antsy, i hate not having a car.
i should go relieve Ben from reading endless books to Ethan! poor guy! got woken up by Ethan and then is reading to him! such is the life of being Uncle!!
Friday, December 12, 2008
"i walked a thousand miles...."
two in two days?! how about that!
i just wanted to write about my dream last night because its harder for me to talk about it than it is to write about it. i dreamt about my Grandpa last night. he died when i was a Jr.? so its been quite a few years. but i'm working on setting up a blog site for my family so that we can all keep in touch easier-in my head this is a great idea... we'll see though. so i know thats where it came from, but we were at the farm and he was there-his hair was wild and he was walking with a cane, but it was still him! and he was telling some of us grandkids about the side of this barn that my dad and his brothers and sisters had written on. and i just stared at him and kept thinking "remember everything he says" and crying (just like im crying now). i have NO idea what he said to me in the dream, but i woke up happy!
i have an appointment coming in soon so i need to get ready for it! its a bitty baby! i hope shes good! :)
i just wanted to write about my dream last night because its harder for me to talk about it than it is to write about it. i dreamt about my Grandpa last night. he died when i was a Jr.? so its been quite a few years. but i'm working on setting up a blog site for my family so that we can all keep in touch easier-in my head this is a great idea... we'll see though. so i know thats where it came from, but we were at the farm and he was there-his hair was wild and he was walking with a cane, but it was still him! and he was telling some of us grandkids about the side of this barn that my dad and his brothers and sisters had written on. and i just stared at him and kept thinking "remember everything he says" and crying (just like im crying now). i have NO idea what he said to me in the dream, but i woke up happy!
i have an appointment coming in soon so i need to get ready for it! its a bitty baby! i hope shes good! :)
Thursday, December 11, 2008
"so kiss me hard because its the last time that i'll let you..."
doing: working
listening to: Breaking Benjamin Pandora Radio
feeling: good!
i've been MIA for awhile, and for good reason. i've been SO busy with work that its not even funny! i've made over 40 Christmas Cards this year not to mention working on orders and albums and all that other stuff! its been a bit crazy around here! but finally this week i feel like we are caught up! i can breath again!!!
so whats been happening? Thanksgiving was a couple weeks ago and it was wonderful! we went to my in-laws for lunch and i think i went back 3 times to get just a little more of soemthing! it was good to just sit and relax and EAT! around 5 or 6 we finally left (yeah, we hang out with our parents!) and we went over to MY parents house! my aunt and uncle and cousin were up from MO so i wanted to have some time with them! Ethan was elated that both of his uncles were home AND cousin Eric! he wouldn't stop talking about them! he actually still asks if Eric is at my parents house!
after Thanksgiving its just been a whirlwind of days. i can't even remember half of the things that happened..... i might need to start taking that herb that helps you remember things.... my short term memory is shot. all the days run together!
today is 2 weeks until Christmas and i'm NOT ready for it! i still have presents to get in order and cards to address and send. and treats to make!! i need a baking day! i'd really enjoy that! too much to do... too much to remember!!! aahhh!!!
tomorrow night we have our Designer Images holiday party! we're going to eat at Court Avenue Brewery, go ice skating(yeah that'll be funny), and then go hang out at IN Play, or All Play, whatever it is!
Saturday night is the Donald W Croghan holiday party! we are going to eat steak, at Johnny's i think. it'll be good whereever we go! and then i'm not sure what were going to do. we talked about the dueling piano bar, but we might just end up at the mall for cheesecake or ice cream! my daddy likes his sweets, and i do not disagree with him!!
Sunday i will hopefully get to relax a bit! Jess and i are planning to go see Twilight!!! YYEEAAAYY! Kville matinee is $3! best price ever! i'm excited to see it again!
i thought i had a lot more to write, but i guess i don't. llaammee!!
OH, i took pictures of Shannon when she was home for Thanksgiving! I posted some of them on my facebook Designer Images page! they turned out great! (i hope you like them Shan! and i promise i'll get them online for you!!)
have a good weekend everyone! stay warm!!
listening to: Breaking Benjamin Pandora Radio
feeling: good!
i've been MIA for awhile, and for good reason. i've been SO busy with work that its not even funny! i've made over 40 Christmas Cards this year not to mention working on orders and albums and all that other stuff! its been a bit crazy around here! but finally this week i feel like we are caught up! i can breath again!!!
so whats been happening? Thanksgiving was a couple weeks ago and it was wonderful! we went to my in-laws for lunch and i think i went back 3 times to get just a little more of soemthing! it was good to just sit and relax and EAT! around 5 or 6 we finally left (yeah, we hang out with our parents!) and we went over to MY parents house! my aunt and uncle and cousin were up from MO so i wanted to have some time with them! Ethan was elated that both of his uncles were home AND cousin Eric! he wouldn't stop talking about them! he actually still asks if Eric is at my parents house!
after Thanksgiving its just been a whirlwind of days. i can't even remember half of the things that happened..... i might need to start taking that herb that helps you remember things.... my short term memory is shot. all the days run together!
today is 2 weeks until Christmas and i'm NOT ready for it! i still have presents to get in order and cards to address and send. and treats to make!! i need a baking day! i'd really enjoy that! too much to do... too much to remember!!! aahhh!!!
tomorrow night we have our Designer Images holiday party! we're going to eat at Court Avenue Brewery, go ice skating(yeah that'll be funny), and then go hang out at IN Play, or All Play, whatever it is!
Saturday night is the Donald W Croghan holiday party! we are going to eat steak, at Johnny's i think. it'll be good whereever we go! and then i'm not sure what were going to do. we talked about the dueling piano bar, but we might just end up at the mall for cheesecake or ice cream! my daddy likes his sweets, and i do not disagree with him!!
Sunday i will hopefully get to relax a bit! Jess and i are planning to go see Twilight!!! YYEEAAAYY! Kville matinee is $3! best price ever! i'm excited to see it again!
i thought i had a lot more to write, but i guess i don't. llaammee!!
OH, i took pictures of Shannon when she was home for Thanksgiving! I posted some of them on my facebook Designer Images page! they turned out great! (i hope you like them Shan! and i promise i'll get them online for you!!)
have a good weekend everyone! stay warm!!
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Twilight Bitches!!
doing: sitting at the in-laws after a very enjoyable Thanksgiving day!
listening to: the family chatting about Mikes brothers.
feeling: full and hungry at the same time!!
first off-Twilight the movie. i have been looking forward to this movie FOREVER! ever since Shan got us hooked on the books i've been crazy for them! so Matt and i finally FINALLY got out of town to see it last night(wednesday) in I-town. we sat, we watched and we LOVED!! it is just wonderful! i loved it!
okay, i had absolutley NO pre-conseptions about the movie going into it. i figured that if they got the characters rigth and followed the story at least for the most part it would turn out good. sure sure, some stuff was changed, but they had to be. not everything was exactly like the book, but it was in the general direction of the book. the characters were cast GREAT! matt and i both thought that they did a great job with casting! and, also, i'd agree that Kristin Stewarts performance could have been stepped up a knotch, she wasnt exactly like i pictured Bella in the way that she acted.
all in all, i don't care what anyone else says. if people think that the movies should be EXACTLY like the books then they should start footing the bills for the movies... oh yeah, and be able to sit though a 4 hour production.. because thats about how long it'll be!!
loved it!!
whew......!
and now for the rest of my life. the most exciting thing is that our friend Shan Varn is back in Kville!! yeay! we five girls got together on saturday night and it was so fun! we talked and snacked for hours! just like old times! then on tuesday i asked Shan to come to Pella and be my model for the afternoon! it was fun and she just hung out and talked with Jeff and i.... Shan... i'm sorry again about my boss!! :) it's been great to have her around! and once Terri gets her act together and gets text messaging and perhaps a FaceBook page(yeah right) we'll all be connected once again!! i'm hoping that we'll get a chance to go out again this weekend again before she goes back to Mexas. and Shan, we promise that someday we'll save enough money to come and visit you! or meet you in Vegas, or a cruise.... or the Carribbean!!!
and now, Thanksgiving is over. it was wonderful and lazy and delicious!! we are off to hang out with the Heckmans who are over at my parents house and eat pizza. that's how the Croghan's do Thanksgiving!! haha!!
i hope you all had a good day!!
have a great lloonngg weekend!!
listening to: the family chatting about Mikes brothers.
feeling: full and hungry at the same time!!
first off-Twilight the movie. i have been looking forward to this movie FOREVER! ever since Shan got us hooked on the books i've been crazy for them! so Matt and i finally FINALLY got out of town to see it last night(wednesday) in I-town. we sat, we watched and we LOVED!! it is just wonderful! i loved it!
okay, i had absolutley NO pre-conseptions about the movie going into it. i figured that if they got the characters rigth and followed the story at least for the most part it would turn out good. sure sure, some stuff was changed, but they had to be. not everything was exactly like the book, but it was in the general direction of the book. the characters were cast GREAT! matt and i both thought that they did a great job with casting! and, also, i'd agree that Kristin Stewarts performance could have been stepped up a knotch, she wasnt exactly like i pictured Bella in the way that she acted.
all in all, i don't care what anyone else says. if people think that the movies should be EXACTLY like the books then they should start footing the bills for the movies... oh yeah, and be able to sit though a 4 hour production.. because thats about how long it'll be!!
loved it!!
whew......!
and now for the rest of my life. the most exciting thing is that our friend Shan Varn is back in Kville!! yeay! we five girls got together on saturday night and it was so fun! we talked and snacked for hours! just like old times! then on tuesday i asked Shan to come to Pella and be my model for the afternoon! it was fun and she just hung out and talked with Jeff and i.... Shan... i'm sorry again about my boss!! :) it's been great to have her around! and once Terri gets her act together and gets text messaging and perhaps a FaceBook page(yeah right) we'll all be connected once again!! i'm hoping that we'll get a chance to go out again this weekend again before she goes back to Mexas. and Shan, we promise that someday we'll save enough money to come and visit you! or meet you in Vegas, or a cruise.... or the Carribbean!!!
and now, Thanksgiving is over. it was wonderful and lazy and delicious!! we are off to hang out with the Heckmans who are over at my parents house and eat pizza. that's how the Croghan's do Thanksgiving!! haha!!
i hope you all had a good day!!
have a great lloonngg weekend!!
Friday, November 21, 2008
"the end will be much quicker than the beginning..."
WONDERFUL news about today is that Twilight comes out today!! i've been looking forward to this movie for MONTHS! i won't get to go tonight.. but hopefully this weekend i'll be able to find time!!!
also, the new Blackberry Storm was released today! it looks SSOO wonderful, but i'm not quite ready to give up my current Blackberry.. i love it too much!
at: work
doing: making Christmas Cards... just assume from now on that's what i'm doing!
listening to: The Damnwells Pandora radio (i LOVE The Damnwells!!)
feeling: sick and tired and ready to get some work DONE!
its been awhile! i've had a lot going on and nothing going on at the same time. its November... well, almost December! how did that happen!? i've been making Christmas Cards like its my lifeline for the last few weeks. i've also been taking work home to try to get myself caught up. its not working. and now its crunch time-people are going to expect things back before Christmas... and i'm just not sure that we'll be able to deliver! people will live, i'm pretty sure of it. i just don't enjoy the phone calls!
other than work being overwhelming.... my family is doing well! we've all 3 had this cough/runny nose thing thats going around. Ethan's over his now which is GREAT! he's been sleeping in until almost 8 every morning this week! its really nice! i can actually get ready almost completley before he wakes up! i hope he keeps it up too! hes still rotten as can be and sweet as sugar all at the same time! he's started saying "i love you" when i say it to him! melts my heart every time! and he's gotten into giving kisses on owies too! he still thinks that all my freckles are owies.. that just means more kisses for me!! :)
matt is slowly getting himself ready for tax season. he didn't get enrolled for classes again this semester, which is sort of okay. but all three of the classes that he needs to finish his degree are offered next term! so he's ready for that, and i know he's ready to be done with school!! now his biggest decision is wether to go on and get his CPA or to just stay with an accounting degree. he talkes about doing both so we'll just have to see how it goes. i think he's still enjoying his job! he hasn't talked about quitting for awhile so that's a good sign!
as for the rest of general life its going okay. we shot our last wedding last Saturday! yeay for free Saturdays! so i'll get to go help with Jess' house a bit more. of course, its almost all done... but i hear they are painting this week and that happens to be the ONLY thing that i'm decent at! hopefully i'll get in there for a couple hours tomorrow morning! we see Roby just about every night. he's pretty much a constant at our house, which i have no problem with at all! he and matt have been getting free $1 movies at FamVid for the last couple weeks, so we've been watching movies almost every night! its fun!!
well, i have to start thinking about lunch. i'm not hungry at all for what i brought... wish i had crackers to eat with it-its brown soup FYI (thats dinty moore beef stew) but i suppose i should eat soemthing or i wont get anything but wheat thins.
have a good weekend all!
Thursday, October 30, 2008
..sleep with my memories...
doing: working, sorta....
listening to: Pandora "The Damnwells" radio
feeling: thirsty
its been a long month.
how my months have been so jam packed, i have no idea! the days are shorter and my work days are way too short! sure, i don't want to have to be here for 12 hours, but a couple extra would be okay! our senior season is slowly coming down, but now everyone wants Christmas Cards... and they want 3 different options and they want me to email them and they want to choose, but change them.... ugh!! i have templates for a reason!! i LOVE designing things like that, but not when i have a list of 20 and each person wants 3 different cards!! i dont have that kind of TIME!
that was my vent.
October has been a bitch. we had 2 weddings on the 11th. mine was a big one! but it was SO fun! and the images look great! this past weekend we had the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure that we photographed. 24,000 people in a tiny space in 40degree weather. it was a blast.... no, it was really fun! thats always a fun event, and for such a great cause! after the race i went home and put on sweats!! then i had to come back to work and download everything.
Sunday we headed to Des Moines for Fall Seminar. that, again, was an interesting event. i was excited to get out of town, even for 48 hours, and be with photographers! its always nice to talk cameras and PhotoShop and RAW's with people that know!! but, by the time dinner was over i was ready for bed and my house. sometimes i just wonder about those events. all in all it was pretty good. Mackenzie and i got our asses out of bed early to go see jaymie and mindy's talk, they were good and they are young (they went to Hawkeye with me!) so their stuff was good and made us start to think! and sometimes for Kenz and i, that is a bad thing! not for us... for our bosses!!!
fastforward...
its now November, i didnt have time to finish this post last time i worked on it.
this past week has been crazy---again! we've had things to do and places to go for about the past 5 days. on sunday i actually just stood in my living room because i actually had NOTHING to do! it was unsettling....
we took Sr pics of Regan Sarver on Friday morning and they were AWESOME! we went to DM and her and her mom pretty much gave us the freedom to do whatever we wanted! we love those clients!
saturday Matt and i went to help with Jess' habitat house. they were putting up sheet rock and there were lots of people there. we didnt get to help a ton, but i know what parts i held up! that stuff is HEAVY!! my tiny arms hardly held up! but i'm tough! i'm hoping to go help again, for at least a little bit, this saturday. i think that hopefully they are getting to a point where i can actually help and be usefull! right now i'm just a little girl that knows nothing!!
sunday i shot the Knoxville Basketball girls poster! we went to the airport(in kxville) because they have 2 little yellow planes! once Jeff gets started on the poster i'm sure it'll turn out awesome! the picture never works like it should in your head... so you have to finishing it in photoshop! after that we went to my church for the Turkey Dinner--sorry, Fall Dinner. it was good but Ethan was running to stay awake, so that was a bit annoying.
i really feel like i dont have enough time for anything. i have a list... and another list.. oh yeah, and another list of stuff that i have to get done at work then i get home and have a list there. then i have all my extra stuff, like updating the work blog and facebook page that i dont have time to do! i feel like i'm drowning in work and now it gets dark at freaking 5:00!! that doesn't help!
i'm just a whiner! now, i'm going to start on another one of those endless lists that i have!
have a good one!!
ps. i'm going to see HANSON TOMORROW!!! wowoooooo!! they are going to be in DM for the first time in FOREVER, Heath and i are totally excited to go!!!
listening to: Pandora "The Damnwells" radio
feeling: thirsty
its been a long month.
how my months have been so jam packed, i have no idea! the days are shorter and my work days are way too short! sure, i don't want to have to be here for 12 hours, but a couple extra would be okay! our senior season is slowly coming down, but now everyone wants Christmas Cards... and they want 3 different options and they want me to email them and they want to choose, but change them.... ugh!! i have templates for a reason!! i LOVE designing things like that, but not when i have a list of 20 and each person wants 3 different cards!! i dont have that kind of TIME!
that was my vent.
October has been a bitch. we had 2 weddings on the 11th. mine was a big one! but it was SO fun! and the images look great! this past weekend we had the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure that we photographed. 24,000 people in a tiny space in 40degree weather. it was a blast.... no, it was really fun! thats always a fun event, and for such a great cause! after the race i went home and put on sweats!! then i had to come back to work and download everything.
Sunday we headed to Des Moines for Fall Seminar. that, again, was an interesting event. i was excited to get out of town, even for 48 hours, and be with photographers! its always nice to talk cameras and PhotoShop and RAW's with people that know!! but, by the time dinner was over i was ready for bed and my house. sometimes i just wonder about those events. all in all it was pretty good. Mackenzie and i got our asses out of bed early to go see jaymie and mindy's talk, they were good and they are young (they went to Hawkeye with me!) so their stuff was good and made us start to think! and sometimes for Kenz and i, that is a bad thing! not for us... for our bosses!!!
fastforward...
its now November, i didnt have time to finish this post last time i worked on it.
this past week has been crazy---again! we've had things to do and places to go for about the past 5 days. on sunday i actually just stood in my living room because i actually had NOTHING to do! it was unsettling....
we took Sr pics of Regan Sarver on Friday morning and they were AWESOME! we went to DM and her and her mom pretty much gave us the freedom to do whatever we wanted! we love those clients!
saturday Matt and i went to help with Jess' habitat house. they were putting up sheet rock and there were lots of people there. we didnt get to help a ton, but i know what parts i held up! that stuff is HEAVY!! my tiny arms hardly held up! but i'm tough! i'm hoping to go help again, for at least a little bit, this saturday. i think that hopefully they are getting to a point where i can actually help and be usefull! right now i'm just a little girl that knows nothing!!
sunday i shot the Knoxville Basketball girls poster! we went to the airport(in kxville) because they have 2 little yellow planes! once Jeff gets started on the poster i'm sure it'll turn out awesome! the picture never works like it should in your head... so you have to finishing it in photoshop! after that we went to my church for the Turkey Dinner--sorry, Fall Dinner. it was good but Ethan was running to stay awake, so that was a bit annoying.
i really feel like i dont have enough time for anything. i have a list... and another list.. oh yeah, and another list of stuff that i have to get done at work then i get home and have a list there. then i have all my extra stuff, like updating the work blog and facebook page that i dont have time to do! i feel like i'm drowning in work and now it gets dark at freaking 5:00!! that doesn't help!
i'm just a whiner! now, i'm going to start on another one of those endless lists that i have!
have a good one!!
ps. i'm going to see HANSON TOMORROW!!! wowoooooo!! they are going to be in DM for the first time in FOREVER, Heath and i are totally excited to go!!!
Thursday, October 16, 2008
"yeah i can't hear much but the melody coming from you..."
doing: trying to work. all of my drives seem to be full and its slowing me down!
listening to: my ipod featuring The Damnwells! (in LOVE!)
feeling: awful. my whole body aches,.. and its a stress ache. my body is slowly closing in on itsself.... and its pretty much my fault.
this month has sucked ROYALY. and it's not just one thing, its everything! every little thing triggers something else that triggers something else. its endless. however, i do hope that once this month is over it WILL stop! i hope i hope i hope.
we have just had a ton of things going on this month. every single day, not kidding, jeffs had a shoot. its either a newly scheduled one or a rescheduled senior. then our double wedding on the 11th really killed us (both went well, but we were stressing) and the Komen Race is on the 25th. Fall Seminar is the 26th and 27th and yet more appointments until November.! we now have 2 inturns that are doing a great job at whatever we throw at them! and they are both so up beat that it keeps us grounded just having them around! fantastic is a word to describe them!
on top of all of my work stuff i have to worry about family stuff. matt and i have been pretty good for the last few weeks/months. we've just been good. until i ask for something, then it turns into something thats neither here nor there. lets just say i didnt sleep well last night. i try to impliment that "never go to bed angry" thing.... sometimes im up for quite awhile....
i'm feeling pretty anxious about the whole situation, so hopefully we'll be able to talk about it tonight, but i'm so tired of this circle that we're in. we have been doing great though. this might just be a speed bump that we have to get over.
such is life.
on a much brighter note... ETHAN TURNS 2 ON MONDAY!!! my baby boy will be TWO! and official toddler! he's growing up TOO FAST!! just recently his sentence structure has gotten better! sometimes we still can't understand him... but he tells us what he wants pretty well!
he's still a total boy, into trucks and tractors and race cars! he loves his Disney Movies too! his new favorite is Peter Pan! hopefully he'll get a few more for his birthday because he loves watching movies!!
well, now i have to go do some work. hopefully my computer will cooperate with me! they haven't been too happy about working these last couple days!
have a good week and weekend!
listening to: my ipod featuring The Damnwells! (in LOVE!)
feeling: awful. my whole body aches,.. and its a stress ache. my body is slowly closing in on itsself.... and its pretty much my fault.
this month has sucked ROYALY. and it's not just one thing, its everything! every little thing triggers something else that triggers something else. its endless. however, i do hope that once this month is over it WILL stop! i hope i hope i hope.
we have just had a ton of things going on this month. every single day, not kidding, jeffs had a shoot. its either a newly scheduled one or a rescheduled senior. then our double wedding on the 11th really killed us (both went well, but we were stressing) and the Komen Race is on the 25th. Fall Seminar is the 26th and 27th and yet more appointments until November.! we now have 2 inturns that are doing a great job at whatever we throw at them! and they are both so up beat that it keeps us grounded just having them around! fantastic is a word to describe them!
on top of all of my work stuff i have to worry about family stuff. matt and i have been pretty good for the last few weeks/months. we've just been good. until i ask for something, then it turns into something thats neither here nor there. lets just say i didnt sleep well last night. i try to impliment that "never go to bed angry" thing.... sometimes im up for quite awhile....
i'm feeling pretty anxious about the whole situation, so hopefully we'll be able to talk about it tonight, but i'm so tired of this circle that we're in. we have been doing great though. this might just be a speed bump that we have to get over.
such is life.
on a much brighter note... ETHAN TURNS 2 ON MONDAY!!! my baby boy will be TWO! and official toddler! he's growing up TOO FAST!! just recently his sentence structure has gotten better! sometimes we still can't understand him... but he tells us what he wants pretty well!
he's still a total boy, into trucks and tractors and race cars! he loves his Disney Movies too! his new favorite is Peter Pan! hopefully he'll get a few more for his birthday because he loves watching movies!!
well, now i have to go do some work. hopefully my computer will cooperate with me! they haven't been too happy about working these last couple days!
have a good week and weekend!
Sunday, October 12, 2008
pink...is my new obsession!
doing: chilling in Panama with my fam!
listening to: my Grandma and my family chatting in the dining room
feeling: RELIEVED!
this past week has been AWFUL! last Friday i had an awful day and it stayed with me all weekend. i was just grouchy with really no reason to be. then the week went slow but fast at the same time. i had a HUGE wedding on Saturday that i was stressing over all week, so that didn't really help me! then i just kept getting nothing done at work. you know how that is? you work so hard and at the end of the day you don't feel like you've accomplished a damn thing! i hate that!
thursday came around and i had to actually start thinking about this wedding and so started the stress. i was head shooter and it was an all day wedding. we were at the church at 9 to start shooting the bride getting her hair done and i didn't leave the reception until close to 11. all day. it turned out that the day went great! great great great! everything went really smooth, people where where they were supposed to be when they were supposed to be there! it was wonderful! and i had 3 girls that helped me, shoot, organize, carry things, tear down. everything! i'm so thankful they took a saturday out to help me! i would have been totally a mess without them! i know its hard for people to take time out to do that when its not their full time job, but i hope that they had fun and feel like they got some great shots!!
the wedding was at St. Ambrose Cathedral in downtown DM. the church is amazing! pretty much anywhere you went outside or in the sacuary was a wonderful shot! after the ceremony we went to a few places downtown DM. a red walking bridge on 2nd. Court Avenue to a bar and a closed bar! we walked the wedding party down the center of the road, not Court but the road beside Dos Rios. the wedding party stopped a fire truck and we got a shot by that! then we went to the capital and did some more things there! the reception was wonderful at Hy Vee Conference Center, they do a wonderful job! dinner and cake was fab! and the dance was so fun!
i got home a little after midnight and my whole body just ached! such is standing all day. however i did find comfy shoes that i COULD stand in all day! they gave me blisters on the tops of my feet because they are a flip flop type sandal, but i can totally live with that!!
sunday morning Ethan and i packed up and headed for Panama to spend some time with my family! i have been looking forward to this for a week! that's pretty much whats been keeping me sane!! my aunt and uncle are here from Colorado so its been really fun to hang out with them!
Ethan is playing with his cousin Jason (they are 3 months apart). we've been waiting for them to get to the point where they actually play together and they finally do! they have been downstairs laughing hysterically with the older boys for the last half hour!
i think i need some more crackers and cheese dip! (we pretty much will eat all night!!)
have a good week!
listening to: my Grandma and my family chatting in the dining room
feeling: RELIEVED!
this past week has been AWFUL! last Friday i had an awful day and it stayed with me all weekend. i was just grouchy with really no reason to be. then the week went slow but fast at the same time. i had a HUGE wedding on Saturday that i was stressing over all week, so that didn't really help me! then i just kept getting nothing done at work. you know how that is? you work so hard and at the end of the day you don't feel like you've accomplished a damn thing! i hate that!
thursday came around and i had to actually start thinking about this wedding and so started the stress. i was head shooter and it was an all day wedding. we were at the church at 9 to start shooting the bride getting her hair done and i didn't leave the reception until close to 11. all day. it turned out that the day went great! great great great! everything went really smooth, people where where they were supposed to be when they were supposed to be there! it was wonderful! and i had 3 girls that helped me, shoot, organize, carry things, tear down. everything! i'm so thankful they took a saturday out to help me! i would have been totally a mess without them! i know its hard for people to take time out to do that when its not their full time job, but i hope that they had fun and feel like they got some great shots!!
the wedding was at St. Ambrose Cathedral in downtown DM. the church is amazing! pretty much anywhere you went outside or in the sacuary was a wonderful shot! after the ceremony we went to a few places downtown DM. a red walking bridge on 2nd. Court Avenue to a bar and a closed bar! we walked the wedding party down the center of the road, not Court but the road beside Dos Rios. the wedding party stopped a fire truck and we got a shot by that! then we went to the capital and did some more things there! the reception was wonderful at Hy Vee Conference Center, they do a wonderful job! dinner and cake was fab! and the dance was so fun!
i got home a little after midnight and my whole body just ached! such is standing all day. however i did find comfy shoes that i COULD stand in all day! they gave me blisters on the tops of my feet because they are a flip flop type sandal, but i can totally live with that!!
sunday morning Ethan and i packed up and headed for Panama to spend some time with my family! i have been looking forward to this for a week! that's pretty much whats been keeping me sane!! my aunt and uncle are here from Colorado so its been really fun to hang out with them!
Ethan is playing with his cousin Jason (they are 3 months apart). we've been waiting for them to get to the point where they actually play together and they finally do! they have been downstairs laughing hysterically with the older boys for the last half hour!
i think i need some more crackers and cheese dip! (we pretty much will eat all night!!)
have a good week!
Friday, October 3, 2008
" i woke up in a car....."
feeling: blah.
doing: trying to work if my PShop would stay open!
listening to: 'The Get Up Kids' Pandora radio!
things have been good!
this week has been really long and i have NO desire to be here today. but its friday so that makes it better!
last month was crazy and this month isn't looking like it'll slow down at all. bummer. but its okay to be busy... i just have to get myself caught up and motivated!
first off--money-- we got into that debt program and its finally kicking in! we aren't getting constant calls from companies, none at all actually! and we've gotten all of our card statements that show lower interest rates and things getting paid! it makes me so happy!! if we keep this going we'll be out of credit card debt in 4 years or less!! *happy dance* its like a huge weight! of course, we're still living paycheck to paycheck.. but our bills aren't late anymore and we're not paying $100 to each of our 5 cards! always a good thing! i would deffinetly suggest this to anyone who is even starting to struggle! of course there is an amount that you have to be in debt, but if you are there then DO IT! its the best and easiest way to get out of credit card debt!
love -- aahh love! L-O-V-E love. hehe. yes, Matt and i are doing okay! finally and again! everyone has their bumps, but for the most part we are happy with and around each other! we don't fight (unless its about money ) and we actually like each other again! sadly, this took a long time for us to get back to, but we're there and its so much better!!
Ethan -- my baby boy will be TWO this month! ARG! where did the time go!? he's growing up too fast for me!! he's so smart and remembers anything you tell him! we've had to start spelling words around him because if you tell him your going to Gma&Gpas house later.... he thinks its now and he HAS to go! he loves trucks! trucks, tractors, buses, anything that moves. he's 150% boy! but he's also a mama's boy, which i LOVE! it makes my heart melt when he smiles and says "Hi Mommy!" we've also gotten him to do the "thank you" and "please" all the time! you still have to remind him sometimes but he's started to say "thank you" for almost everything! "thank you mommy!" i love it!!
my little family is perfect in almost every way. yeah, look for us on a Hallmark card! haha! of course i'm back to my baby fever. pretty much everyone that has a baby Ethan's age or right around there has either had another baby or is preggo! why not me?! because our house is too small, we don't have enough money, and we're not quite ready! but a tiny part of me want to have that accident that makes it happen! someday we'll be there and we can plan for it. not just yet.
okay, i'm going to try my PShop again.... hopefully it'll stay open this time!
yeay for work!
oh.. i'm having Subway for lunch.. it sounds freaking amazing!!
have a good weekend everyone!
doing: trying to work if my PShop would stay open!
listening to: 'The Get Up Kids' Pandora radio!
things have been good!
this week has been really long and i have NO desire to be here today. but its friday so that makes it better!
last month was crazy and this month isn't looking like it'll slow down at all. bummer. but its okay to be busy... i just have to get myself caught up and motivated!
first off--money-- we got into that debt program and its finally kicking in! we aren't getting constant calls from companies, none at all actually! and we've gotten all of our card statements that show lower interest rates and things getting paid! it makes me so happy!! if we keep this going we'll be out of credit card debt in 4 years or less!! *happy dance* its like a huge weight! of course, we're still living paycheck to paycheck.. but our bills aren't late anymore and we're not paying $100 to each of our 5 cards! always a good thing! i would deffinetly suggest this to anyone who is even starting to struggle! of course there is an amount that you have to be in debt, but if you are there then DO IT! its the best and easiest way to get out of credit card debt!
love -- aahh love! L-O-V-E love. hehe. yes, Matt and i are doing okay! finally and again! everyone has their bumps, but for the most part we are happy with and around each other! we don't fight (unless its about money ) and we actually like each other again! sadly, this took a long time for us to get back to, but we're there and its so much better!!
Ethan -- my baby boy will be TWO this month! ARG! where did the time go!? he's growing up too fast for me!! he's so smart and remembers anything you tell him! we've had to start spelling words around him because if you tell him your going to Gma&Gpas house later.... he thinks its now and he HAS to go! he loves trucks! trucks, tractors, buses, anything that moves. he's 150% boy! but he's also a mama's boy, which i LOVE! it makes my heart melt when he smiles and says "Hi Mommy!" we've also gotten him to do the "thank you" and "please" all the time! you still have to remind him sometimes but he's started to say "thank you" for almost everything! "thank you mommy!" i love it!!
my little family is perfect in almost every way. yeah, look for us on a Hallmark card! haha! of course i'm back to my baby fever. pretty much everyone that has a baby Ethan's age or right around there has either had another baby or is preggo! why not me?! because our house is too small, we don't have enough money, and we're not quite ready! but a tiny part of me want to have that accident that makes it happen! someday we'll be there and we can plan for it. not just yet.
okay, i'm going to try my PShop again.... hopefully it'll stay open this time!
yeay for work!
oh.. i'm having Subway for lunch.. it sounds freaking amazing!!
have a good weekend everyone!
Saturday, September 27, 2008
doing: nothing. nothing. nothing! until 11.
feeling: better. tired a bit still, but better than i have all week!
listening to: Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Ethan and Matt talking.
its 9am and i've been up since 7:30. i didn't sleep nearly long enough. i went to bed close to 11:30 last night. but i wasn't tired. bummer. i like to sleep.
today is our re-start of our weddings. we have about 5 more for the year, one is a double booked day and then we also have the Susan G. Komen Race in October. this month has gone crazy fast and i have a feeling that October will be the same.
the good news is that i finally found my motivation again! i worked hard on wedding albums this week and i have 5 up on the board ready to be printed! Jeff doesn't like that so much, but its good that we have ones that we CAN send! and now i only have a few more left to make and finalize! one big one is Nicole and Brandons, i'm so excited to finish theirs because-well i really need to- and i'm just hoping that it'll be just awesome! i've put too much pressure on myself to make theirs totally knock-out... and in return i just keep staring at the images with a blank mind. its annoying. but i have like 11 more pages to make (its a 30 page album), so i should be able to knock it out soon!
our wedding today will be.. interesting to say the least. i'm excited to start weddings again and get my brain working that way again. but i wish we had a different wedding to start out with. i'll let you know how the day goes, but say a silent prayer that it goes smoothly!! i'm just not quite sure about it!
jeff and i went to Des Moines yesterday to meet with my wedding for October 11. they are getting married in St. Ambrose Cathedral in downtown and its freaking FABULOUS!! you can't go wrong there! wherever you shoot its awesome!! i'm really excited and aprehensive for that day. the mom is iffy that jeff won't be there with me, but she says she trusts me completley, but shes a bit of a momzilla. so im excited because i know i will get great stuff, but scared that my great stuff wont be great to her. i just hope that i can blow her away! and i also hope that the weather is perfect and the leaves are all colored and awesome!! not too much to ask is it?!
other than being totally drained and tired this week it was fairly good! we dont' watch Reese anymore and while we are a little sad that we wont have that extra income, we are a tiny bit happy that we are back down to one child! one two year old is more manageable! haha! so we've had a good time playing with ethan this week!
Ethan's birthday is in LESS than a month!! i'm so excited! but sad becuase my baby is quickly becoming not my baby anymore. he's going to be 2!!! i can't believe that 2 years ago at this time he wasn't even born yet! its so hard to imagine life before him! although my house was a tiny bit cleaner and i wasn't constantly yelling at him to stop poking me or stop coloring on things..... life is better now!
i tried to have the "2nd child" convo with matt again last night. he just sticks with his "its too hard" reasoning.. which ISN'T good reasoning! (matthew, in case you read this... NOT GOOD ENOUGH!) having a second child isn't like babysitting another 2 year old. and while i'm not blind enough to think that it'll be a piece of cake, i think it will be more rewarding than anything. he's got his other reasons that aren't good either, but at the same time i can understand. however, i told him, i'll be 26 at the end of the year and i am NOT having children after i turn 28. so next year is the year that i will be pregnant! so he better get over his fears and whatever and have a real conversation with me about this!
oh well. such is life with a husband. i don't know why i keep him around, he drive me nutty half the time! and hogs the bed.......
hehe!! ;)
feeling: better. tired a bit still, but better than i have all week!
listening to: Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Ethan and Matt talking.
its 9am and i've been up since 7:30. i didn't sleep nearly long enough. i went to bed close to 11:30 last night. but i wasn't tired. bummer. i like to sleep.
today is our re-start of our weddings. we have about 5 more for the year, one is a double booked day and then we also have the Susan G. Komen Race in October. this month has gone crazy fast and i have a feeling that October will be the same.
the good news is that i finally found my motivation again! i worked hard on wedding albums this week and i have 5 up on the board ready to be printed! Jeff doesn't like that so much, but its good that we have ones that we CAN send! and now i only have a few more left to make and finalize! one big one is Nicole and Brandons, i'm so excited to finish theirs because-well i really need to- and i'm just hoping that it'll be just awesome! i've put too much pressure on myself to make theirs totally knock-out... and in return i just keep staring at the images with a blank mind. its annoying. but i have like 11 more pages to make (its a 30 page album), so i should be able to knock it out soon!
our wedding today will be.. interesting to say the least. i'm excited to start weddings again and get my brain working that way again. but i wish we had a different wedding to start out with. i'll let you know how the day goes, but say a silent prayer that it goes smoothly!! i'm just not quite sure about it!
jeff and i went to Des Moines yesterday to meet with my wedding for October 11. they are getting married in St. Ambrose Cathedral in downtown and its freaking FABULOUS!! you can't go wrong there! wherever you shoot its awesome!! i'm really excited and aprehensive for that day. the mom is iffy that jeff won't be there with me, but she says she trusts me completley, but shes a bit of a momzilla. so im excited because i know i will get great stuff, but scared that my great stuff wont be great to her. i just hope that i can blow her away! and i also hope that the weather is perfect and the leaves are all colored and awesome!! not too much to ask is it?!
other than being totally drained and tired this week it was fairly good! we dont' watch Reese anymore and while we are a little sad that we wont have that extra income, we are a tiny bit happy that we are back down to one child! one two year old is more manageable! haha! so we've had a good time playing with ethan this week!
Ethan's birthday is in LESS than a month!! i'm so excited! but sad becuase my baby is quickly becoming not my baby anymore. he's going to be 2!!! i can't believe that 2 years ago at this time he wasn't even born yet! its so hard to imagine life before him! although my house was a tiny bit cleaner and i wasn't constantly yelling at him to stop poking me or stop coloring on things..... life is better now!
i tried to have the "2nd child" convo with matt again last night. he just sticks with his "its too hard" reasoning.. which ISN'T good reasoning! (matthew, in case you read this... NOT GOOD ENOUGH!) having a second child isn't like babysitting another 2 year old. and while i'm not blind enough to think that it'll be a piece of cake, i think it will be more rewarding than anything. he's got his other reasons that aren't good either, but at the same time i can understand. however, i told him, i'll be 26 at the end of the year and i am NOT having children after i turn 28. so next year is the year that i will be pregnant! so he better get over his fears and whatever and have a real conversation with me about this!
oh well. such is life with a husband. i don't know why i keep him around, he drive me nutty half the time! and hogs the bed.......
hehe!! ;)
Monday, September 22, 2008
.... its a book of memories....
doing: this, and trying to talk myself into housework!
listening to: Piglets BIG Movie. Ethan's watching on the Disney Channel
feeling: tired and lazy and a bit grumpy
i finally got a few seconds to write on this thing, and actually have something to write about!
this past week has been CRAZY! i feel like i haven't been home at all! and i really haven't.
i went to a jewlery party with my Mom on monday.
i was supposed to have a meeting at church on wednesday (Reese wouldn't let me leave and broke down into tears).
on friday i had a chocolate party at my moms house. a fabulous thing if you are ever interested! its Dove chocolate and its wonderful!!
saturday matt and i went to work on jess' habitat house! we only stayed for a couple hours because our babysitter was a last minute thing, but it was still fun and we got to help at least a little!
saturday night we went to the race in Newton with jess and mike. i really went because i needed to be out with adults! and i felt like we never do anything like that anymore, just go out with our friends! it was so fun! i hate nascar type races, but it was still a great time! we laughed alot! and we all picked a car to win. mikes started in the top 10 and ended up close to the end! i picked one and halfway through the race he just disappeared! quitter!! and matt picked one that was doing really well, but he pitted EVERY time! matt was so mad! it was quite humerous! and matt didn't want to stay for the concert afterwards... lame-o... so we went home about 9:30ish.
sunday i had to go to church and then we headed off to Boone to visit Thomas the Train! that was fun, although ethan never sleeps enough before we go do something like that... so he was grouchy. made for a quick trip, but he still had a blast! There were games and story time and music and food... oh and a gift shop! we got ethan a rail set and a moterized Thomas for his birthday! and my rents got him a tee shirt! they had a petting zoo too that he really liked! and of course the train ride that he just loves! he likes riding on buses or trains or anything like that!
now, its monday. and i'm so exhausted! i just want to lay in bed all day! of course ethan wont let me do that, and i'm done with my book..... and i can't sleep during the day so thats kind of out of the question. too bad. i have to talk myself inot doing some housework that i really would rather not do. and i have to get some retouching done on my laptop! everyone is caught up at work except for me. i need to start going in on mondays to work, but i just dont want to pay for the sitter. and half days seem like such a waste. i feel like id get over there and then have to come home. maybe i can start trying to take ethan over with a load of movies! that might work okay!
.... laundry is calling for me. *sigh*
have a good week!
listening to: Piglets BIG Movie. Ethan's watching on the Disney Channel
feeling: tired and lazy and a bit grumpy
i finally got a few seconds to write on this thing, and actually have something to write about!
this past week has been CRAZY! i feel like i haven't been home at all! and i really haven't.
i went to a jewlery party with my Mom on monday.
i was supposed to have a meeting at church on wednesday (Reese wouldn't let me leave and broke down into tears).
on friday i had a chocolate party at my moms house. a fabulous thing if you are ever interested! its Dove chocolate and its wonderful!!
saturday matt and i went to work on jess' habitat house! we only stayed for a couple hours because our babysitter was a last minute thing, but it was still fun and we got to help at least a little!
saturday night we went to the race in Newton with jess and mike. i really went because i needed to be out with adults! and i felt like we never do anything like that anymore, just go out with our friends! it was so fun! i hate nascar type races, but it was still a great time! we laughed alot! and we all picked a car to win. mikes started in the top 10 and ended up close to the end! i picked one and halfway through the race he just disappeared! quitter!! and matt picked one that was doing really well, but he pitted EVERY time! matt was so mad! it was quite humerous! and matt didn't want to stay for the concert afterwards... lame-o... so we went home about 9:30ish.
sunday i had to go to church and then we headed off to Boone to visit Thomas the Train! that was fun, although ethan never sleeps enough before we go do something like that... so he was grouchy. made for a quick trip, but he still had a blast! There were games and story time and music and food... oh and a gift shop! we got ethan a rail set and a moterized Thomas for his birthday! and my rents got him a tee shirt! they had a petting zoo too that he really liked! and of course the train ride that he just loves! he likes riding on buses or trains or anything like that!
now, its monday. and i'm so exhausted! i just want to lay in bed all day! of course ethan wont let me do that, and i'm done with my book..... and i can't sleep during the day so thats kind of out of the question. too bad. i have to talk myself inot doing some housework that i really would rather not do. and i have to get some retouching done on my laptop! everyone is caught up at work except for me. i need to start going in on mondays to work, but i just dont want to pay for the sitter. and half days seem like such a waste. i feel like id get over there and then have to come home. maybe i can start trying to take ethan over with a load of movies! that might work okay!
.... laundry is calling for me. *sigh*
have a good week!
Friday, September 12, 2008
"oohh backstabber...backstabber"
doing: downloading some last minute music for my trip this weekend. yes Shan, i like The Dredsen Dolls!!!
feeling: tired and anxious. i'm awful at packing and i'll be doing it as im walking out the door tomorrow... i hate that!
this week has been eventful and yet un-eventful at the same time. its been a pretty good week at work. Jeff and i are actually 100% caught up on Senior proofs! thats been a hard thing to come back from after loosing our inturn! my wedding albums arent toooo bad, but my order bin is a mess! i just ended up staring at my screen today for about a half hour becuase i couldn't decide what to do! i hate doing that, but when there is SO much to do i just have no clue where to start!
the little piddly stuff has already started. usually i get that closer to Christmas time when families want just one image worked and sent to them then fixed then sent again. or finding a cd from 3 years ago because they need a print for Gma by next week! yeah, that kind of stuff has already started. little annoying, but i have to say that the Christmas cards that i've made so far have rocked! i might have a good year!
i've been trying so hard in my head to think of a good, realistic way for me to get caught up on my stuff. i don't like asking Jeff to take orders home to retouch, lord knows he already does enough stuff around there! i think i'm going to have to start going in on Mondays. at least for part of the day. then i can turn off the phones and just work for a few hours straight! i need to get better at bringing work home with me, but its just so hard here! i can't stay up all that late and when we have 2year old running around until 9 that doesnt leave much time to do anything else. besides... i'm so freaking tired i just want to sit and NOT think!! i feel the pressure of Christmas season coming on already. we've already decided that September snuck up on us. we both keep thinking that we have weeks and weeks for things.. but really its only 4 days away. awful.
ethan. is a joy. hes going to be 2 in a month! i can't believe it! it seems like SO long ago that he was a teeny little baby! but he's growing and changing all the time! hes starting to talk in complete sentences... sometimes! thats amazing to me! everything he does amazes me really. like tonight when he was eating his crayons and then spitting them onto his color sheet...... amazing....
he still copies everything you say. if you ask him if he wants juice, he'll ask you right back if you want juice! he's getting yes and no down for little things, but not for things that he doesnt really understand as well. anyways... amazing little thing he is! now i have the joy, and headache, of planning his birthday party!
this weekend, tomorrow at 9am, ethan and i are heading to missouri for the weekend. my aunt and uncle are having a party for their 25th wedding anniversary and both of their 50th birthdays! it'll be fun and nice to get out of town for a bit! matts not coming, because he didnt want to. it'll be nice for him to hang out with his friends without ethan and i around!
next weekend, sunday, we and my parents are taking a trip to Boone to see Thomas the Train! who knew i'd ever get so excited about a damn train! i KNOW that ethan is going to freak out! and i hope hope hope that he has a wonderful time!
september is full and october is getting to be that way too. in october we have 2 weddings on the 11th. i'm a little nervous about it but the bride and groom are so fun that i think it'll be just fine! then on the 25th is the Susan G. Koman Race for the Cure! that will be fun simply because we wont have any weddings afterwards! i'm excited about that! then november brings families families families and christmas cards galore! i'm NOT ready for that! but after that, hopefully, this year we will have an actual slow time! i'm thinking like 2 months at least! last year we had 2 weeks. literally. thats not enough!
i have to finish my downloading and get to bed! i'm so tired i'm not even sure that i can read my book tonight! tracy = on the 3rd book of the Twilight series! i'm in LOVE! :)
have a good weekend.... and oh yeah.... GO HAWKS!!!!!!!!
feeling: tired and anxious. i'm awful at packing and i'll be doing it as im walking out the door tomorrow... i hate that!
this week has been eventful and yet un-eventful at the same time. its been a pretty good week at work. Jeff and i are actually 100% caught up on Senior proofs! thats been a hard thing to come back from after loosing our inturn! my wedding albums arent toooo bad, but my order bin is a mess! i just ended up staring at my screen today for about a half hour becuase i couldn't decide what to do! i hate doing that, but when there is SO much to do i just have no clue where to start!
the little piddly stuff has already started. usually i get that closer to Christmas time when families want just one image worked and sent to them then fixed then sent again. or finding a cd from 3 years ago because they need a print for Gma by next week! yeah, that kind of stuff has already started. little annoying, but i have to say that the Christmas cards that i've made so far have rocked! i might have a good year!
i've been trying so hard in my head to think of a good, realistic way for me to get caught up on my stuff. i don't like asking Jeff to take orders home to retouch, lord knows he already does enough stuff around there! i think i'm going to have to start going in on Mondays. at least for part of the day. then i can turn off the phones and just work for a few hours straight! i need to get better at bringing work home with me, but its just so hard here! i can't stay up all that late and when we have 2year old running around until 9 that doesnt leave much time to do anything else. besides... i'm so freaking tired i just want to sit and NOT think!! i feel the pressure of Christmas season coming on already. we've already decided that September snuck up on us. we both keep thinking that we have weeks and weeks for things.. but really its only 4 days away. awful.
ethan. is a joy. hes going to be 2 in a month! i can't believe it! it seems like SO long ago that he was a teeny little baby! but he's growing and changing all the time! hes starting to talk in complete sentences... sometimes! thats amazing to me! everything he does amazes me really. like tonight when he was eating his crayons and then spitting them onto his color sheet...... amazing....
he still copies everything you say. if you ask him if he wants juice, he'll ask you right back if you want juice! he's getting yes and no down for little things, but not for things that he doesnt really understand as well. anyways... amazing little thing he is! now i have the joy, and headache, of planning his birthday party!
this weekend, tomorrow at 9am, ethan and i are heading to missouri for the weekend. my aunt and uncle are having a party for their 25th wedding anniversary and both of their 50th birthdays! it'll be fun and nice to get out of town for a bit! matts not coming, because he didnt want to. it'll be nice for him to hang out with his friends without ethan and i around!
next weekend, sunday, we and my parents are taking a trip to Boone to see Thomas the Train! who knew i'd ever get so excited about a damn train! i KNOW that ethan is going to freak out! and i hope hope hope that he has a wonderful time!
september is full and october is getting to be that way too. in october we have 2 weddings on the 11th. i'm a little nervous about it but the bride and groom are so fun that i think it'll be just fine! then on the 25th is the Susan G. Koman Race for the Cure! that will be fun simply because we wont have any weddings afterwards! i'm excited about that! then november brings families families families and christmas cards galore! i'm NOT ready for that! but after that, hopefully, this year we will have an actual slow time! i'm thinking like 2 months at least! last year we had 2 weeks. literally. thats not enough!
i have to finish my downloading and get to bed! i'm so tired i'm not even sure that i can read my book tonight! tracy = on the 3rd book of the Twilight series! i'm in LOVE! :)
have a good weekend.... and oh yeah.... GO HAWKS!!!!!!!!
Friday, September 5, 2008
art is art is art....
as far as art goes there are many forms of it. my favorite, obviously, is the photographic form. there is also painting, sculpting, drawing. all the ones that you normally think of. but art comes in so many other forms.
there is music, when played so perfectly that your mind can see a clear image of what the music is portraying. or you can see a clear picture or scene play out right behind your eyelids.
there is dance, dancers can make any song their own simply by the steps they use. in any of these forms the interpretation of art can be taken differently by different people.
unless the artist give a solid image for the viewer to keep, the possibilities are endless to what the viewer comes up with! its a beautiful thing when it can be interpreted so many different ways!
of course the one form of art that can't be construed too many ways is writing. in some cases writing would not be considered an art form, but i think that when done properly writing is one of the best forms of art out there! a writer can take their reader on endless journeys, there are ups and down and feelings and places that the reader wouldn't normally sense. back to my first sentence, there are different ways that a writing can be taken, but when you are reading a novel there is really only one direction that the reader can take, and that is whatever way the writer wants you to feel.
i'm sure you are wondering whats brought all this on. i know, my blogs are always this deep and meaningful...... *insert eye roll* i love to read, when i have time. it seems i have less and less time these days. but sometimes you get a book that takes you to all those different emotional states and takes you to such wonderful places that you just want to stay lost in it forever! the book that i am now refering to is Twilight. since its now a huge phoenomenom i'm, naturally, just now getting on the wagon! i seem to be late on those sorts of things!
anyways, i knew once i got through the first chapter that this book would suck me in. and in the first chapter not much happens! but Stephanie Meyer has a wonderful gift for writing that just pulls you in!
now i'm a bit further into the book and i find myself thinking about it constantly! its such a wonderful love story, and i'm a sucker for love stories, that i'm constantly wondering what will happen next! on top of that the love interest is an interesting, intelligent, strong, sexy vampire! i, again, am a sucker for the supernatural type stories like this! for example Harry Potter is on the top of my list of great novels!
as i am now totally obsessed with the Twilight series, i will tell anyone who will listen that, at least the first one, is a GREAT book!! (thats the only one i've read so far)
i'm looking forward to the movie to come out in November, i'm almost overly excited actually! plus i love the actor that is playing Edward.
i must go read more now because i know whats coming... and i cant wait to get to it!! :)
there is music, when played so perfectly that your mind can see a clear image of what the music is portraying. or you can see a clear picture or scene play out right behind your eyelids.
there is dance, dancers can make any song their own simply by the steps they use. in any of these forms the interpretation of art can be taken differently by different people.
unless the artist give a solid image for the viewer to keep, the possibilities are endless to what the viewer comes up with! its a beautiful thing when it can be interpreted so many different ways!
of course the one form of art that can't be construed too many ways is writing. in some cases writing would not be considered an art form, but i think that when done properly writing is one of the best forms of art out there! a writer can take their reader on endless journeys, there are ups and down and feelings and places that the reader wouldn't normally sense. back to my first sentence, there are different ways that a writing can be taken, but when you are reading a novel there is really only one direction that the reader can take, and that is whatever way the writer wants you to feel.
i'm sure you are wondering whats brought all this on. i know, my blogs are always this deep and meaningful...... *insert eye roll* i love to read, when i have time. it seems i have less and less time these days. but sometimes you get a book that takes you to all those different emotional states and takes you to such wonderful places that you just want to stay lost in it forever! the book that i am now refering to is Twilight. since its now a huge phoenomenom i'm, naturally, just now getting on the wagon! i seem to be late on those sorts of things!
anyways, i knew once i got through the first chapter that this book would suck me in. and in the first chapter not much happens! but Stephanie Meyer has a wonderful gift for writing that just pulls you in!
now i'm a bit further into the book and i find myself thinking about it constantly! its such a wonderful love story, and i'm a sucker for love stories, that i'm constantly wondering what will happen next! on top of that the love interest is an interesting, intelligent, strong, sexy vampire! i, again, am a sucker for the supernatural type stories like this! for example Harry Potter is on the top of my list of great novels!
as i am now totally obsessed with the Twilight series, i will tell anyone who will listen that, at least the first one, is a GREAT book!! (thats the only one i've read so far)
i'm looking forward to the movie to come out in November, i'm almost overly excited actually! plus i love the actor that is playing Edward.
i must go read more now because i know whats coming... and i cant wait to get to it!! :)
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
some hearts just get lucky
doing: i've hit my wall. its almost 4 and i've done all the work i can today!
feeling: okay, a bit tired
i've done WORK today kids! i got almost all of my orders from my bin done! i only have 3 left and they are all ones that i've taken in the last two days!! SWEET!!
Tracy= happily catching up on work!
this weekend was long and nice and lazy! we really didn't have many set plans for the weekend, we just kind of took it as it came. i tried really hard to not take a shower before noon every day! i did pretty well! hehe!
saturday we did some housework and then Greg and Heather came over in the evening. it was Greg and my's drinking night! since we had no sitter and no real money we just played some cards and drank a few beers! matt ended up sleeping in until 11 on Sunday! i finally made Ethan go in and wake his ass up! we were, again, lazy for most of the day! in the evening Matt asked his parents to watch Ethan for a few hours so we could go hang out with our friends. it was Myers' birthday on monday so we did some celebrating sunday night!
monday came and we planned to grill out so we spent most of the day trying to get the boys to plan something. finally i told them what to do and when to do it! we had a bunch of people over and it was so fun!! THEN it was PREMIERRRRR NIGHT on the CW! One Tree Hill and Gossip Girl! they were both wonderful!! i'm not going to say anything because i know Shan hasn't seen it! but Shan.... you will FREAK! its so great! and great twists too!!
on tuesday i was actually quite glad to come back to work! partly because i was getting my hair done that night, the other part was that my weekend was just long enough!
and getting my hair done was the BEST thing ever!! i needed it dyed and i went dark again! i love the dark!! and she shaped it and made my bangs shorter! now i have some actual definition to my hair and i got rid of that stupid curl!! i love my hair again!!
today was actually great! i got a TON of orders done! i now keep finding dumb things that i'll have to do. such as, our Snap drive just informed me that its full. we hate when the Snap gets full!! its where we put all of our Seniors. so once its full we can't put anything else on it, duh! so we have to go through and decide what to get rid of, what to burn and what we need to keep. its always a teidous process that i hate! oh well, its gotta be done!
tonight i get the kids, Reese and Ethan, all to myself. Matt and his dad are going to an ICubs game tonight(given that its not raining) so i'm going to hang out at my parents house. just a change of scenery for all three of us! hopefully i can get some album work done and they can play! now my delemia is what to make for dinner. i told my mom i'd cook. since i'm bringing 2 two year olds to her house its the least i can do! spaghetti just sounds SO good,... but its not toddler friendly! ESPECIALLY to these toddlers! i suppose i could just toss them in the tub before we head home.... hhhmmmm.....
well, its 4:30 and i've got some more deleting of seniors to do! ffuunn!
have a good one!
feeling: okay, a bit tired
i've done WORK today kids! i got almost all of my orders from my bin done! i only have 3 left and they are all ones that i've taken in the last two days!! SWEET!!
Tracy= happily catching up on work!
this weekend was long and nice and lazy! we really didn't have many set plans for the weekend, we just kind of took it as it came. i tried really hard to not take a shower before noon every day! i did pretty well! hehe!
saturday we did some housework and then Greg and Heather came over in the evening. it was Greg and my's drinking night! since we had no sitter and no real money we just played some cards and drank a few beers! matt ended up sleeping in until 11 on Sunday! i finally made Ethan go in and wake his ass up! we were, again, lazy for most of the day! in the evening Matt asked his parents to watch Ethan for a few hours so we could go hang out with our friends. it was Myers' birthday on monday so we did some celebrating sunday night!
monday came and we planned to grill out so we spent most of the day trying to get the boys to plan something. finally i told them what to do and when to do it! we had a bunch of people over and it was so fun!! THEN it was PREMIERRRRR NIGHT on the CW! One Tree Hill and Gossip Girl! they were both wonderful!! i'm not going to say anything because i know Shan hasn't seen it! but Shan.... you will FREAK! its so great! and great twists too!!
on tuesday i was actually quite glad to come back to work! partly because i was getting my hair done that night, the other part was that my weekend was just long enough!
and getting my hair done was the BEST thing ever!! i needed it dyed and i went dark again! i love the dark!! and she shaped it and made my bangs shorter! now i have some actual definition to my hair and i got rid of that stupid curl!! i love my hair again!!
today was actually great! i got a TON of orders done! i now keep finding dumb things that i'll have to do. such as, our Snap drive just informed me that its full. we hate when the Snap gets full!! its where we put all of our Seniors. so once its full we can't put anything else on it, duh! so we have to go through and decide what to get rid of, what to burn and what we need to keep. its always a teidous process that i hate! oh well, its gotta be done!
tonight i get the kids, Reese and Ethan, all to myself. Matt and his dad are going to an ICubs game tonight(given that its not raining) so i'm going to hang out at my parents house. just a change of scenery for all three of us! hopefully i can get some album work done and they can play! now my delemia is what to make for dinner. i told my mom i'd cook. since i'm bringing 2 two year olds to her house its the least i can do! spaghetti just sounds SO good,... but its not toddler friendly! ESPECIALLY to these toddlers! i suppose i could just toss them in the tub before we head home.... hhhmmmm.....
well, its 4:30 and i've got some more deleting of seniors to do! ffuunn!
have a good one!
Friday, August 29, 2008
doing: just trying to decide what to work on first
feeling: SO much better
listening to: silence, beautiful beautiful silence!
this morning is the first morning in over a week that i've eaten breakfast without feeling crazy with pain! my throat is FINALLY feeling better and i couldn't be happier!! i've been to the point of tears in the last week because its hurt so bad! my mom says i'm just a baby when it comes to my throat hurting, but its been about an 8 on a scale of 1-10! i can hardly eat dinner because it just hurts to swallow! so finally this medicine is doing its job and i'll be able to be a-OK for the weekend!!
this weekend! Labor Day weekend! its not longer for me, but for everyone else it will be! Saturday is the FIRST Iowa Football game of the season!! yipppeeee!! i'm an Iowa fan, first, but this year i'm going to be an Appilation State fan as well!! they could go all the way! i think that Iowa State won their game last night too! we kept missing the actual game and getting the commercials, but the part that i did see they were winning! go Iowa teams!
we will have everyone over for the game Saturday. we, hopefully, wont have issues with mediacom carrying the games this year like last year. although, we only didnt get like 2 games, so it wasnt bad at all! then on Saturday night we are taking Greggy out for DRINKS! him and Ashley broke up this past week and as a big sister i feel its my duty to take him to the bar for shots...... what are big sisters for?! that and i KNOW that he drinks now, like a fish actually, so hes got no excuse to not come out with me! so i hope that we'll have some fun for a couple hours! the boys are all mad because you can't smoke in the bars anymore so they don't think its worth it to go.... but i don't mind one bit!! i wont stink like stale smoke when i get home!
sunday and monday we don't have anything planned. we'll pry grill on monday because that's just usually what we do! and monday night is the SEASON PREMIER of One Tree Hill and Gossip Girl!!!!!!! i'm so SO excited for them! they just re-played the finallies last week so that gets you all excited again for the new ones to start up! and the final season of ER is on this year! it looks promising, as it always does in the commercials. but Dr. Carter is back!! hes a hottie! and the finally was great! so i really have high hopes!
well its almost 10, i suppose i should start working on something!
have a great weekend!
feeling: SO much better
listening to: silence, beautiful beautiful silence!
this morning is the first morning in over a week that i've eaten breakfast without feeling crazy with pain! my throat is FINALLY feeling better and i couldn't be happier!! i've been to the point of tears in the last week because its hurt so bad! my mom says i'm just a baby when it comes to my throat hurting, but its been about an 8 on a scale of 1-10! i can hardly eat dinner because it just hurts to swallow! so finally this medicine is doing its job and i'll be able to be a-OK for the weekend!!
this weekend! Labor Day weekend! its not longer for me, but for everyone else it will be! Saturday is the FIRST Iowa Football game of the season!! yipppeeee!! i'm an Iowa fan, first, but this year i'm going to be an Appilation State fan as well!! they could go all the way! i think that Iowa State won their game last night too! we kept missing the actual game and getting the commercials, but the part that i did see they were winning! go Iowa teams!
we will have everyone over for the game Saturday. we, hopefully, wont have issues with mediacom carrying the games this year like last year. although, we only didnt get like 2 games, so it wasnt bad at all! then on Saturday night we are taking Greggy out for DRINKS! him and Ashley broke up this past week and as a big sister i feel its my duty to take him to the bar for shots...... what are big sisters for?! that and i KNOW that he drinks now, like a fish actually, so hes got no excuse to not come out with me! so i hope that we'll have some fun for a couple hours! the boys are all mad because you can't smoke in the bars anymore so they don't think its worth it to go.... but i don't mind one bit!! i wont stink like stale smoke when i get home!
sunday and monday we don't have anything planned. we'll pry grill on monday because that's just usually what we do! and monday night is the SEASON PREMIER of One Tree Hill and Gossip Girl!!!!!!! i'm so SO excited for them! they just re-played the finallies last week so that gets you all excited again for the new ones to start up! and the final season of ER is on this year! it looks promising, as it always does in the commercials. but Dr. Carter is back!! hes a hottie! and the finally was great! so i really have high hopes!
well its almost 10, i suppose i should start working on something!
have a great weekend!
Monday, August 25, 2008
do you know that i cry... and its not the good kind
doing: looking for something to make for dinner. nnneeww recipe time!!!
listening to: that stupid popper toy that Ethan is pushing around, the Food Network and parts of The Lion King.
feeling: like crap!!! i've been sick since Thursday and its getting OLD!
as you know we've started to babysit for Brigettes daughter Reese. five days a week from 3:30ish to midnight. Brigette works the night shift at 3M. Reese is about 4 months older than Ethan but they have the same thought roller coaster going on. its always "MY" toy and if they want it they'll take it! so we're, of course, working extra hard on the whole "sharing" thing.
naturally its hard! anything to do with two toddlers is hard! and it also makes me have a new appreciation for my babysitters!! because i have two and i go crazy, but they have 5 or 6 and make it through 8-10 hours a day 5 days a week!!
i just picked up my house and once Reese walks in its like they go into super destructive toddler mode. they are at each other constantly and do things that they normally wouldn't do if they were alone..... because they KNOW its naughty!!
matt and i have been talking for quite awhile about starting to try again, but we're both a little unsure about when we want to start. my boss gave me a 3 month window... and thats long gone! of course i'd like to be able to plan the perfect time to have another baby, when work isnt busy and when we dont have a million things going on at home... but you can't. so i just don't think we're going to worry about it! i would, however, not really mind having our second around a month or so of when we had Ethan.... cause then-if its a boy- he'll fit Ethans old clothes!!! sneaky!! :)
either way, i'm ready. if it were to happen anytime, unplanned, i'd be okay. but we are trying to have some sort of a plan! we'll see! i'm just ready for another itty bitty! i love the clothes, the blankies, the bottles, the baths, even the car seat! i just loves babies! my worry now is what am i going to do once the second one is grown up! i'm not having another one!! uhm... friends... that means YOU will have to have babies so i can get all that out of my system! ( i buy good presents/clothes too!! )
now i think i have to make a shopping list, once the guys get here i have to run to the store so we can eat dinner!
listening to: that stupid popper toy that Ethan is pushing around, the Food Network and parts of The Lion King.
feeling: like crap!!! i've been sick since Thursday and its getting OLD!
as you know we've started to babysit for Brigettes daughter Reese. five days a week from 3:30ish to midnight. Brigette works the night shift at 3M. Reese is about 4 months older than Ethan but they have the same thought roller coaster going on. its always "MY" toy and if they want it they'll take it! so we're, of course, working extra hard on the whole "sharing" thing.
naturally its hard! anything to do with two toddlers is hard! and it also makes me have a new appreciation for my babysitters!! because i have two and i go crazy, but they have 5 or 6 and make it through 8-10 hours a day 5 days a week!!
i just picked up my house and once Reese walks in its like they go into super destructive toddler mode. they are at each other constantly and do things that they normally wouldn't do if they were alone..... because they KNOW its naughty!!
matt and i have been talking for quite awhile about starting to try again, but we're both a little unsure about when we want to start. my boss gave me a 3 month window... and thats long gone! of course i'd like to be able to plan the perfect time to have another baby, when work isnt busy and when we dont have a million things going on at home... but you can't. so i just don't think we're going to worry about it! i would, however, not really mind having our second around a month or so of when we had Ethan.... cause then-if its a boy- he'll fit Ethans old clothes!!! sneaky!! :)
either way, i'm ready. if it were to happen anytime, unplanned, i'd be okay. but we are trying to have some sort of a plan! we'll see! i'm just ready for another itty bitty! i love the clothes, the blankies, the bottles, the baths, even the car seat! i just loves babies! my worry now is what am i going to do once the second one is grown up! i'm not having another one!! uhm... friends... that means YOU will have to have babies so i can get all that out of my system! ( i buy good presents/clothes too!! )
now i think i have to make a shopping list, once the guys get here i have to run to the store so we can eat dinner!
Saturday, August 23, 2008
"standing from here, you wouldn't say so if you were me.."
doing: just woke up and i wanted to blog a bit
listening to: matthew's snores and the oddly loud hum of my computer.
feeling: a bit sick still, but much better
today is saturday and i got to SLEEP IN! okay okay, its only 8:30 so its not really considered sleeping in in most peoples eyes. but to me its like a dream! yeserday was matthew and my's FIVE year anniversary! crazy right?! so his parents kept ethan over night so we could go out and celebrate!
backtrack. this week has been so long! first ethan was sick with a fever and a runny nose. he got over that on wednesday and then matt got sick. he stayed home for 2 days from work, went to the doctor on thursday and found out he had a deep sinus infection. fun. then it was my turn, i woke up wednesday night and was so cold i was shivering! i made it to work for about 2.5 hours and then i had to go back home! friday i went to the doctor because my throat had started to hurt so bad! i thought i had strep, but it ended up being just a virus. so i stayed home friday and tried desperatley to feel better so we could go out!
we went out to eat at Biaggis, our favorite place to go and celebrate, and it was fabulous!! as it always is! i had wanted to go wine tasting at the new Jasper Winery location in Des Moines, but since we both didn't feel all that great we decided dinner was enough for one night. we did, however, go and walk through Old Navy and BB&Beyond. we bought ourselves a new set of wooden spoons for presents!
in the "contemorary" wedding gift list, for 5 years you are supposed to buy wood as a present. hence the wooden spoons.
after the shopping we came back home and watched some tv. i popped some tylenol PM and i was out! we're totally romantic in know, but what can ya do!?
this week has given me a couple new things to think about. my little brother, greg, has been dating ashley flattery for quite awhile now. i think they'd said it'd be five years soon. ashley's been in equador for the summer for her study abroad program and she just recently called and broke it off with greg. he's been pretty heartbroken and i feel awful for him! but, i'm hoping that he'll be able to live up the college life a little more now, they both will i think, because they won't have someone else to worry about. and, if its meant to be then they'll find each other again down the line. this got me thinking a bit about matt and i. we are high school sweet hearts, we've been together since our sophmore year! not to make anyone feel old but that was like 10 years ago! how we managed to make it work out i'll never know! but we did, and now we've celebrated our five years of being married! i plan on celebrating many many more and i couldn't be happier! i guess it just takes some people longer to find the one that they are meant to be with, and some people get lucky and find that someone back in high school-when they aren't even thinking long term!
now to switch over totally, we had another open house on thrusday night! betty and mike cunningham are our realtors and they are great! betty said that there were a bunch of people that came through!!! we even had one guy come through and then came back through AGAIN last night! thats a good sign!!! theres also a crazy lady that has been through and told us she was interested and also another couple that had been interested before. three people!!?? sweett!! we've done the price reduction thing, which we really didn't want to, but we want to sell more than anything! now we are just crossing our fingers that someone will put an offer down! crazy lady said that she'd want us out within two months. NO PROBLEM! talk about a whirl wind of excitement and stress! but i'd be happy happy happy to do it!!
its time for me to start my morning with waffles! they sound so good! buscits sound good too, but i dont have the right stuff for those. waffles it is! oh and bacon!!! mmm!!! :)
listening to: matthew's snores and the oddly loud hum of my computer.
feeling: a bit sick still, but much better
today is saturday and i got to SLEEP IN! okay okay, its only 8:30 so its not really considered sleeping in in most peoples eyes. but to me its like a dream! yeserday was matthew and my's FIVE year anniversary! crazy right?! so his parents kept ethan over night so we could go out and celebrate!
backtrack. this week has been so long! first ethan was sick with a fever and a runny nose. he got over that on wednesday and then matt got sick. he stayed home for 2 days from work, went to the doctor on thursday and found out he had a deep sinus infection. fun. then it was my turn, i woke up wednesday night and was so cold i was shivering! i made it to work for about 2.5 hours and then i had to go back home! friday i went to the doctor because my throat had started to hurt so bad! i thought i had strep, but it ended up being just a virus. so i stayed home friday and tried desperatley to feel better so we could go out!
we went out to eat at Biaggis, our favorite place to go and celebrate, and it was fabulous!! as it always is! i had wanted to go wine tasting at the new Jasper Winery location in Des Moines, but since we both didn't feel all that great we decided dinner was enough for one night. we did, however, go and walk through Old Navy and BB&Beyond. we bought ourselves a new set of wooden spoons for presents!
in the "contemorary" wedding gift list, for 5 years you are supposed to buy wood as a present. hence the wooden spoons.
after the shopping we came back home and watched some tv. i popped some tylenol PM and i was out! we're totally romantic in know, but what can ya do!?
this week has given me a couple new things to think about. my little brother, greg, has been dating ashley flattery for quite awhile now. i think they'd said it'd be five years soon. ashley's been in equador for the summer for her study abroad program and she just recently called and broke it off with greg. he's been pretty heartbroken and i feel awful for him! but, i'm hoping that he'll be able to live up the college life a little more now, they both will i think, because they won't have someone else to worry about. and, if its meant to be then they'll find each other again down the line. this got me thinking a bit about matt and i. we are high school sweet hearts, we've been together since our sophmore year! not to make anyone feel old but that was like 10 years ago! how we managed to make it work out i'll never know! but we did, and now we've celebrated our five years of being married! i plan on celebrating many many more and i couldn't be happier! i guess it just takes some people longer to find the one that they are meant to be with, and some people get lucky and find that someone back in high school-when they aren't even thinking long term!
now to switch over totally, we had another open house on thrusday night! betty and mike cunningham are our realtors and they are great! betty said that there were a bunch of people that came through!!! we even had one guy come through and then came back through AGAIN last night! thats a good sign!!! theres also a crazy lady that has been through and told us she was interested and also another couple that had been interested before. three people!!?? sweett!! we've done the price reduction thing, which we really didn't want to, but we want to sell more than anything! now we are just crossing our fingers that someone will put an offer down! crazy lady said that she'd want us out within two months. NO PROBLEM! talk about a whirl wind of excitement and stress! but i'd be happy happy happy to do it!!
its time for me to start my morning with waffles! they sound so good! buscits sound good too, but i dont have the right stuff for those. waffles it is! oh and bacon!!! mmm!!! :)
Friday, August 15, 2008
"one more years come and gone.... and nothing had changed at all..."
doing: guess.....
listening to: Bethany Joy Lenz/Galeotti ( i love her!! )
feeling: a sudden burst of energy!
its 4:16 and i'm working. always working. i actually need to be working on putting crap on my laptop so i can work at home this weekend! but it might not happen,... sorry Jeff! :) i'm working on getting some Senior books sent to the lab before i head out for the night!
Asheley has been our "intern" this summer and shes ROCKED! shes had some messups, but who doesn't right? but she has been SO great about editing/pretouching/printing our appointments!! i really dont have to do anything! and i honestly don't know about anything!! Jeff asks me all the time and i'm like.., "i dont know!"
but sadly all good things much come to an end. Asheley is coming in to work next Tuesday and Wednesday mornings and then shes off to school at UNI! good for her, bad for us!! we are currently looking for an inturn from Central, but no luck just yet. for me this means that i have to take over all work once again. i've enjoyed not having to answer the phones or deal with editing and things like that. bummer.....
our rockin computer guy just got us back a revamped computer! he made it super RAM filled and some other stuff so it'll run smooth as silk(until Jeff and i F it up... we usually do.) anyways, we are going to set that up in the office (we'll now have 5 computers and 6 screens when we have our laptops up) sounds like alot, but its really not quite enough just yet!! i have 2 screens on my computer so i can spread out my tools when i'm working in PhotoShop. i have a laptop to send orders to the lap so i don't bog down my computer. Jeff has the same, he works on his main computer and then uses his laptop for another task or lab stuff. and then our new computer will be set up to specifically run our editing program. that program is pretty big and uses a lot of memory at one time, so we will have one computer to run it so we wont slow down our others!
okay, it sounds like overkill... and it may be. but we'll be happy with it! hopefully we can run a little more efficiently!
now its 4:30, i should load up my laptop so i can work this weekend..... lame.
tonight we are going out to the lake to take a family picture! my mom decided that we needed a new one for Christmas cards on oohhh monday! so here we are! suprisinly we all got together a time to do it! odd for us. but i think it will be fun! and then--BOYS--we won't have to do another one later!!!!
have a great weekend!!
listening to: Bethany Joy Lenz/Galeotti ( i love her!! )
feeling: a sudden burst of energy!
its 4:16 and i'm working. always working. i actually need to be working on putting crap on my laptop so i can work at home this weekend! but it might not happen,... sorry Jeff! :) i'm working on getting some Senior books sent to the lab before i head out for the night!
Asheley has been our "intern" this summer and shes ROCKED! shes had some messups, but who doesn't right? but she has been SO great about editing/pretouching/printing our appointments!! i really dont have to do anything! and i honestly don't know about anything!! Jeff asks me all the time and i'm like.., "i dont know!"
but sadly all good things much come to an end. Asheley is coming in to work next Tuesday and Wednesday mornings and then shes off to school at UNI! good for her, bad for us!! we are currently looking for an inturn from Central, but no luck just yet. for me this means that i have to take over all work once again. i've enjoyed not having to answer the phones or deal with editing and things like that. bummer.....
our rockin computer guy just got us back a revamped computer! he made it super RAM filled and some other stuff so it'll run smooth as silk(until Jeff and i F it up... we usually do.) anyways, we are going to set that up in the office (we'll now have 5 computers and 6 screens when we have our laptops up) sounds like alot, but its really not quite enough just yet!! i have 2 screens on my computer so i can spread out my tools when i'm working in PhotoShop. i have a laptop to send orders to the lap so i don't bog down my computer. Jeff has the same, he works on his main computer and then uses his laptop for another task or lab stuff. and then our new computer will be set up to specifically run our editing program. that program is pretty big and uses a lot of memory at one time, so we will have one computer to run it so we wont slow down our others!
okay, it sounds like overkill... and it may be. but we'll be happy with it! hopefully we can run a little more efficiently!
now its 4:30, i should load up my laptop so i can work this weekend..... lame.
tonight we are going out to the lake to take a family picture! my mom decided that we needed a new one for Christmas cards on oohhh monday! so here we are! suprisinly we all got together a time to do it! odd for us. but i think it will be fun! and then--BOYS--we won't have to do another one later!!!!
have a great weekend!!
Thursday, August 14, 2008
wonder what it'll be next
doing: work work work!
feeling: a headache and a little down for some reason.
listening to: my ipod in about 2 seconds. ah yes, "I Am" by Hanson is the first on the list!
so as i'm working away, retouching endless orders and collages, an image floats into my brain. this image is of the hallway in East Elementary and i'm walking out of the lunch room to my locker. and nothing seemes more importatnt to me than getting my coat as fast as i can to walk out to recess with my friends.
back to reality. i dont need a coat right now!!!
when did those feelings stop? when was the most important things shifted? was it Junior High(yes, some of us did go to JUNIOR high!) when it was so important to simply look cool standing in line for milk at lunch. or looking cool in front of that one specific guy or girl? or was it High School when you still had to look and act cool, but grades were getting up there? or getting that paper in just at the right time? or making sure you write your paper so Mr. Stultz won't throw it back in your face!? or then again, it could have been college when you had to pull an all night cram session because if you failed one more test.......!
could your most important thing shift from day to day? or do you just make a list in your head and at the end of the day that importance is still the same as it was when you woke up?
i'm thinking that theres always something that comes along that ends up being more important. no matter how old you get, theres always something. i think you just have to decide what you want to be the most important. is it school? is it your boyfriend or girlfriend? or is is your job, the job that you've wanted forever?! (or did those cram sessions in school so you could be creditable at it!) it could be your family, your spouse, your children! whatever it is and whenever it comes around in your life it will be the most important thing to you! at least until something else comes along and edges it out.
for me, at this point in my life, the most important thing is my family. Matt and Ethan won't come second to anything for me! i have my lists. Lord knows i NEED my lists! my computer is covered in post-its! its awful! but at the end of the day they are #1 on my list!
who is the most important person in your life? your spouse? your kids? your boy/girlfriend?
what is the most important thing in your life? your job? your home? your schooling? your social life?
and finally, how do you balance all of those things to make you a well rounded person?
feeling: a headache and a little down for some reason.
listening to: my ipod in about 2 seconds. ah yes, "I Am" by Hanson is the first on the list!
so as i'm working away, retouching endless orders and collages, an image floats into my brain. this image is of the hallway in East Elementary and i'm walking out of the lunch room to my locker. and nothing seemes more importatnt to me than getting my coat as fast as i can to walk out to recess with my friends.
back to reality. i dont need a coat right now!!!
when did those feelings stop? when was the most important things shifted? was it Junior High(yes, some of us did go to JUNIOR high!) when it was so important to simply look cool standing in line for milk at lunch. or looking cool in front of that one specific guy or girl? or was it High School when you still had to look and act cool, but grades were getting up there? or getting that paper in just at the right time? or making sure you write your paper so Mr. Stultz won't throw it back in your face!? or then again, it could have been college when you had to pull an all night cram session because if you failed one more test.......!
could your most important thing shift from day to day? or do you just make a list in your head and at the end of the day that importance is still the same as it was when you woke up?
i'm thinking that theres always something that comes along that ends up being more important. no matter how old you get, theres always something. i think you just have to decide what you want to be the most important. is it school? is it your boyfriend or girlfriend? or is is your job, the job that you've wanted forever?! (or did those cram sessions in school so you could be creditable at it!) it could be your family, your spouse, your children! whatever it is and whenever it comes around in your life it will be the most important thing to you! at least until something else comes along and edges it out.
for me, at this point in my life, the most important thing is my family. Matt and Ethan won't come second to anything for me! i have my lists. Lord knows i NEED my lists! my computer is covered in post-its! its awful! but at the end of the day they are #1 on my list!
who is the most important person in your life? your spouse? your kids? your boy/girlfriend?
what is the most important thing in your life? your job? your home? your schooling? your social life?
and finally, how do you balance all of those things to make you a well rounded person?
Monday, August 11, 2008
its been a long week!
Nationals is finally over. it takes about a full week to get everyone here in town, and Sunday morning by 9:30 everyone is gone! hard to believe since everyone pry stays up until 2 or 3 am the night before!
we had a camper in our yard this year. my friend Justin from long ago (we actually met at the races in high school!) him and his parents and uncle stayed on our little cement slab. they were a blast! they brought a little pool and set it up. it was really nice to cool off in after a hot afternoon! and it was the "spa" after the races - clothing optional, no pointing and laughing and flash photography not recommended. we didn't get to try that one out, but i hear it was open all night!
the week was a bit of a whirlwind, but good all the same! we got to eat some of the good food from the stands. walk around... and also stay away from.. all the extra people! There was plenty of drunkenness and grilling, the weather was wonderful and the races were exciting! we had our party night on friday. we played beer pong until late. the races let out and everyone else went under the grandstands and matt and i went to bed. well... matt had been there for awhile at that point, but i went cause i was tired!
now, back to reality.
i'm hoping to talk matt into going to the State Fair one night this week. since you get in half price after 5 i figured that would benifit us! and i think that i'll be really heartbroken if i don't get to go this year! Nationals food just wasn't up to par as it has been in the past and this couple weeks of great food is what i really look forward to!! so hopefully we'll get to do that, plus Ethan will love the fair even more this year! animals and tractors are his dream!
back in the reality thing-i have laundry to do. *sigh*
one exciting thing. matt woke me up at 12:30 last night because he kept hearing sirins and seeing lights. we went outside and a house down the street from us was totally engulfed in flames! it was SO wild! there were police and fire trucks everywhere! we went back to sleep but i think they had just started getting water on it when we went to look. the house is a complete loss too. you can see inside and everything is just black! they said on the news that there was an older man pulled out before the fire fighters got there, but other than that i dont think there was anyone else in the house. thats a good thing.
okay, laundry for real!!!
Thursday, August 7, 2008
"" i'm only human, and thats my saving grace...""
doing: work. what else??
feeling: tired! i need an afternoon nap in the worst way!!
listening to: Nickelback..... its on the radio, NOT my choice! my laptop wont connect to the network though so I couldnt get to my Pandora!!
i recently went on a downloading spree for new music. i was in desperate need of it! and since i usually listen to the classic rock station in my car i'm not really up on the newest music!! yeah yeah, i live in the past.. whatever! i just can't handle 107.5 or 102.5 for long. its all the same and its all rap/hip hop whatever that should only be played repeatedly in the clubs!
anyhow, my downloading spree got me a few new artists that i'm loving! but my favorite by far is Bethany Joy Galeotti (Haley on One Tree Hill). shes my girl! i love all of her stuff! so my ipod has been on constant BJG for the last couple days!!
if you haven't already heard, Nationals are in town. we welcome about 30,000 more people that we need into our town for 4 days of fried food, beer and more dirt and races than you can handle! the bonus this year is that the weather has been WONDERFUL!! after last years disappointment of rain-outs i didn't think anyone would even come back! the bad news is there isnt a Rotary tent this year. pie and ice cream is the ONLY reason i look forward to this crazy week... and its not there this year. i almost cried when matt told me. sure, there is still good food... but not home-made rasberry pie, or fantastic lemonade... or turkey breast sands! *crying*
on the work front, this week has really gone by quickly. i've gotten a few major things finished and now i'm back to working on not-all-that-important stuff. id really like to do some cleaning of the studio, but i just havent gotten the motivation just yet. maybe in an hour.... or tomorrow....
time to get back to it.
enjoy the weather while it lasts!! :)
feeling: tired! i need an afternoon nap in the worst way!!
listening to: Nickelback..... its on the radio, NOT my choice! my laptop wont connect to the network though so I couldnt get to my Pandora!!
i recently went on a downloading spree for new music. i was in desperate need of it! and since i usually listen to the classic rock station in my car i'm not really up on the newest music!! yeah yeah, i live in the past.. whatever! i just can't handle 107.5 or 102.5 for long. its all the same and its all rap/hip hop whatever that should only be played repeatedly in the clubs!
anyhow, my downloading spree got me a few new artists that i'm loving! but my favorite by far is Bethany Joy Galeotti (Haley on One Tree Hill). shes my girl! i love all of her stuff! so my ipod has been on constant BJG for the last couple days!!
if you haven't already heard, Nationals are in town. we welcome about 30,000 more people that we need into our town for 4 days of fried food, beer and more dirt and races than you can handle! the bonus this year is that the weather has been WONDERFUL!! after last years disappointment of rain-outs i didn't think anyone would even come back! the bad news is there isnt a Rotary tent this year. pie and ice cream is the ONLY reason i look forward to this crazy week... and its not there this year. i almost cried when matt told me. sure, there is still good food... but not home-made rasberry pie, or fantastic lemonade... or turkey breast sands! *crying*
on the work front, this week has really gone by quickly. i've gotten a few major things finished and now i'm back to working on not-all-that-important stuff. id really like to do some cleaning of the studio, but i just havent gotten the motivation just yet. maybe in an hour.... or tomorrow....
time to get back to it.
enjoy the weather while it lasts!! :)
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
teddy grahams!
doing: eating the best snack ever! chocolate teddy grahams!
feeling: a headache. its nasty
listening to: Bethany Joy Galeotti(Lenz)
i'm just sitting here at work, working on a couple engagement albums. my headache is really hindering my ability to be creative, but i think i'm managing okay.
this weekend was WONDERFUL! pry the best one i've had in quite awhile! i had almost zero stress! Ethan was so so good! and i actually had things to do that i wanted to do(not just laundry..)
my new obsession, other than new music and teddy grahams, is a video game. Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix for xbox. it sounds lame, but those are the kinds of games! they aren't too hard and i dont have to run around shooting people to win! i had to take it back to fam-vid. late fees are killer! but i'm going to have to go to game stop and pick one up for myself one of these days! i played for 3 days and only have about 25% of the game "discovered" thats a long ways from 100%!!
tonight i'm going with Ann to a Chocolate Party!! thats right... chocolate!! i'm excited because what better party could there possibly be!!?? my face might break out., but thats the price you pay for chocolate!!
i'm ready to head home, yeay for 5:00!!
feeling: a headache. its nasty
listening to: Bethany Joy Galeotti(Lenz)
i'm just sitting here at work, working on a couple engagement albums. my headache is really hindering my ability to be creative, but i think i'm managing okay.
this weekend was WONDERFUL! pry the best one i've had in quite awhile! i had almost zero stress! Ethan was so so good! and i actually had things to do that i wanted to do(not just laundry..)
my new obsession, other than new music and teddy grahams, is a video game. Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix for xbox. it sounds lame, but those are the kinds of games! they aren't too hard and i dont have to run around shooting people to win! i had to take it back to fam-vid. late fees are killer! but i'm going to have to go to game stop and pick one up for myself one of these days! i played for 3 days and only have about 25% of the game "discovered" thats a long ways from 100%!!
tonight i'm going with Ann to a Chocolate Party!! thats right... chocolate!! i'm excited because what better party could there possibly be!!?? my face might break out., but thats the price you pay for chocolate!!
i'm ready to head home, yeay for 5:00!!
Monday, August 4, 2008
the first one
hello to all!
its my first post, obviously. just wanted to check it out and see how this all works!
just a little about me, my name is Tracy and i'm a photographer in Pella. i love my job so much! its the best to get up in the morning and actually be excited about what you do for a living!!
my little family is my world! Ethan will be 2 in October and we couldnt ask for a better little man! Matthew and i will be celebrating our 5 year anniversary this August 22! we are on each others nerves constantly(as all married couples pry are) but i couldnt live without him!
thats all for now!
its my first post, obviously. just wanted to check it out and see how this all works!
just a little about me, my name is Tracy and i'm a photographer in Pella. i love my job so much! its the best to get up in the morning and actually be excited about what you do for a living!!
my little family is my world! Ethan will be 2 in October and we couldnt ask for a better little man! Matthew and i will be celebrating our 5 year anniversary this August 22! we are on each others nerves constantly(as all married couples pry are) but i couldnt live without him!
thats all for now!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
