doing: finishing up the Knoxville Dance Teams Calendar! I have 2 more "months" left to design... and only one picture. we might have a problem.....
feeling: tired!
wanting: FOOD!
today has been long to say the least. we were up super early to go and photograph the kids in PlayShop (local 5 and under preschool). its always fun and the kids are always entertaining, but it was early and neither of us felt like it! but it went very smoothly and we'll be there again tomorrow!
i realized that my last entry was on Ethan's birthday. since that was quite a while ago i thought i should update you on my life.
we've decided to take our house off the market for the winter. we had a glimmer of hope with a trade, but it didnt' end up panning out. so we decided to not renew, take it off until spring and then it'll be all new and fresh! aanndd we'll start all over. Matthew told me today that my "problem" is that i only think in absolutes. either we sell or we dont. either we live here forever or we get out. theres no middle ground. while that is true to some extent i could tell him the same thing. i say, lets build on, he says- we can't. i say - lets check with the bank, he says- we wont get anything. so--darling--if you are reading this, lets try to be more positive with each other.....
i try to think of ways to make our situation better or different and the answer always seems to be 'no' or 'we're poor'. its ebbing at my patience on the matter and thats the exact reason why i become shrill and bitchy when we "talk" about it. (i put talk in quotes because that really means fight and yell.) sure my suggestions may not be the best or thought out toally, but its only a suggestion. not like i went to the bank behind his back and am like "hey! we got 30K to build onto the house!"
thats not what i meant to talk about. mainly it was we're trying with the house selling again in the spring.
as for work. we just got back from our Fall Seminar, it was Nov 1&2! we always look forward to these simply because we aren't in the office! we dont HAVE to work and we can just be dorky and talk about photography ALL DAY LONG!! and everyone we talk to there loves it as much as we do!! we had 2 great speakers this year, Kirk Voclaine and John Hartman.
Kirk is a fabulous senior photographer! he has a smart head on his shoulders and it shows! the funny thing about him is that he is NOT even close to who you'd think of when you see his images!
http://www.kvphoto.com/ <-- Kirks website
http://seethelight.ca/img/speakers/kirkvoclain.jpg <-- Kirk
we got to hear him talk about his studio, his business, his photographing techniques and his photoshop work. it was all interesting and i got some good notes out of it!
John Hartman was our other speaker. he talked mostly about the business part of it. he told us how he shoots and a little about selling. i got some good notes from him too!
http://web.mac.com/jrhartman/Contemporary_Photography/Home.html <-- John's website
all in all-like we always do-we came back inspired!! now, like always, we just need to find an outlet and time to put all this stuff to action!
the other "fun" part of Seminar (i put fun in quotes because i mean not-so-fun) was that Jeff-being on the board-is in charge of hospitality this year. this means that he--WE--have to pick up speakers from the airport, get food and drinks ready for the hospitality room that's open most every night and a bunch of other little things. since Jeff is SUCH a generous boss.. he LETS me help him. lets just say i was up at 2am on Monday morning washing dishes in the hotel bathtub. and that was only one night! at Winter Seminar there are 3 nights. we have to have a meal plan and hope we dont run out (which we did this time) and have plenty of booze because, lets face it, photographers like to drizink!
well, i have an order coming in soon and then i get to go home! i'm SO hungry! and i have a church meeting tonight. it never stops does it! hopefully i'll be home in time for Glee! that will make my night!! I LOVE GOOD TV!!!!
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