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!! ;)
Saturday, September 27, 2008
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!
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