Maybe nobody noticed.
*whistling nonchalantly*
Oh, Hello! What’s that? Yesterday’s post you say? NaBlowhat now? Oopsie! Okay, so I missed one lousy day. Here is my schedule yesterday as my formal excuse.
9am-11:25am Take pictures at local preschool for their Thanksgiving feast.
11-30-1:30 Lunch with Grandparents and other extraneous relatives at retirement home. <sarcasm>Yum.</sarcasm>
2:30pm Drop off kid to go hiking with aforementioned relatives.
3:30-5:15pm Take pictures for a sweet family.
5:30pm Pick up grandparents to then drive for some unknown reason to eat at a meh restaurant on top of a mountain (neglecting all of the wonderful restaurants in town).
8:30pm Leave mountain top restaurant.
9:30pm Put kid-type person in bed
10pm See husband for first time today
11pm-1:30am Edit pictures
Gah, I’m sleepy! Do I have a chance of doing NaBloPoMo?
Filed under NaBloPoMo, blogging about blogging | Comment (1)Filler. Cute filler, but filler none the less.
I am working guys! I have so many pictures to edit, this is what I was afraid of when I did NaBloPoMo this year. So….here have another cute picture! I have approximately eleventy hundred pictures of this kid to work on. This one is SOOC, so here is my official post for the day. Good thing he is cute or this could get tedious quick.
It feels too early to think about…but, it is only 44 days away!
Alternate title: First World Problems
That’s right! Christmas is closer than we think. I know more than one family with their Christmas tree(s) already up. We have a strict no decorations until after Thanksgiving rule; but, it is easier on both our wallets and my sanity if I get the shopping portion of the holiday done early.
The only thing The Son says he wants for Christmas is for Santa to bring him a robot he can build himself “that talks and is really cool.” Um. Okay. Santa will do his best I am sure, Sweetness. Assuming Santa gets that taken care of, his mama and daddy would like to buy him a few presents as well. When further pushed for a hint or two, today he told me he wanted PIZZA for Christmas. Nice. Don’t think I will buy that early. Anybody in Internet land have any ideas? I would LOVE to ask his grandparents to give him Tae Kwan Do lessons for Christmas, but they tend to like to wrap things that can be played with right away.
Next dilemma? My Husband. He wants 500 hundred dollars worth of geeky things to pimp out our main family PC. But? He wants it to be MY present since I use that computer most often for editing pictures. A. So then what do I get him? B. Is it too much to hope every now and then for a girl to get something pretty and that can’t be bought at Tiger Direct? Maybe something sparkly?
As for everyone else? I have no idea. The only present I am sure about and has been bought is for my MiL because I thought she needed a new one and then saw a gorgeous one on sale the very next day.
How is your Christmas shopping coming along?
Filed under NaBloPoMo | Comments (8)Today is probably not the day to write very much.
I want to tell you about my first not good day at work as a preschool teacher. But I am afraid I might get dooced.
I want to tell you that some days I want to be back on Lexapro so bad, but that makes me sound like a drug addict.
I want to tell you about what is going on with my uterus, but no one wants to read about gynecological issues. (edited to add. I am not pregnant. Please don’t ask me if I am!)
I want to tell you the huge list of things I need to be doing right now, but it intimidates me to even think about it.
I want to tell you about so many things, but just can’t get the words out!
So have a cute picture of my kid instead.
If I were a dog I would just pee on everyone and the matter would be solved.
Have I told you about MOPS (Mother’s of PreSchoolers)? I love MOPS, this is my second year to be on the steering team and it is probably one of the most amazing groups of which I have ever been a part. Most of my close friends are now from MOPS, and a huge chunk of my photography clients are from MOPS.
In October I announced I was going to have a sale! 20% off, just for MOPS moms, in the month of November. I booked several new customers. Great news! The very next week, a mom who is new to our group announced she is a photographer too! And, will have a day where she does FREE family portraits in a local park!
And, I feel….unhappy about this. Now, I have looked at her website and she is okay, but I think I am better. I know that seems vain, but it is pretty obvious. I know I must be getting more work than her because I would NEVER have time to do free portraits in the month everyone is getting their Christmas cards done. I have had one family cancel, and I have no reason to think Photographer B is the cause. But, it still makes me feel icky.
Is 20% too little a discount for women whom I love? I am still dang affordable. Should I have MADE time to do free portraits? (I have three sessions booked for the day she is doing free shots.) Is this going to hurt my business?
It also makes me feel suspicious because she is doing them midday! Outdoor portraits in the middle of the day? Um. No. Never.
Is there anything I can do? Anything I should do? Grow up and welcome healthy competition?
Filed under NaBloPoMo, Photography, lexapro lexplains it | Comments (2)Just so you know, I think you are crazy.
I have these friends/clients whom I love. I know them very, very well, and they hire to me to take various pictures for them about three times a year. This family is so sweet, and intelligent, and has good taste. But they are crazy. And so are half of you, and I am going to tell you why.
So I took this picture of the above mentioned family for their annual Christmas card shoot. It is a good picture, I think we can all agree on that. I thought it would be such a good Christmas card that I even did a (free of charge!) mock up for this lovely mom. But.
You should also know that this family moved here a few years ago from Oklahoma…….and that they are freaking HUGE OU fans. Perhaps you don’t know any OU fans, but they do things like yell “BOOMER SOONER” and send you text messages that say BOOOOOOMMMMEEERRR SOOOONEEER just to annoy me. Anyway this precious family loves OU football so much that I think they are going to use this picture instead:
And that is why they are crazy. But it gets worse! I know people who spend THOUSANDS of dollars a year on college football tickets……and are not even alums of that school! Someone please explain it to me? It is not just the men around here. It is whole families of rabid college football fans raising little baby football fans who sit on the lap of really old football fans and who all dress in the same unflattering colors and put stupid little flags on their cars. This whole state shuts down if the big state team is playing.
Speaking of which, there is one school in my state that everyone is crazy about football wise. If you ask any academic they will tell you it is not even a very good school! But they get gobs of state money, and people dream of sending their kids there. It is nuts I tell you! Why would you save up to send your precious child to a school with a good football team even if they are not going to play football? Would you not want them to get the best education instead?
And why are people so “for” schools they did not even GO TO? Please someone help me understand.
And the money these stupid coaches get — whereas my wonderful professors had to worry about their retirement benefits? Insane. Not just insane, but morally wrong.
So in other words, please forgive me if I decline your football viewing party, or do not “like” your post being so happy about a touchdown on facebook. It is not that I don’t love you. I do love you! I just think you are CRAZY!
Filed under NaBloPoMo, Soap box, lexapro lexplains it | Comments (12)Controversy
You have probably read this blog post if you have been with a 20 feet radius of a computer in the last three days. Just in case you have not, go read it real quick, it is short and I will wait.
Great. Okay so what did you think?
This was posted by no less then seven of my friends yesterday on facebook, all with notes like “this mom is awesome!” and “this kid is so lucky!” And you know what? I disagree.
You obviously know that I feel strongly that any kind of violence or discrimination towards homosexuals ( or anyone) is wrong. You KNOW that I love people who are gay and that I am for gay rights. But, may I play the devil’s advocate for a moment? My problem with this is that the boy changed his mind, and said several times he did not want to go through with it. He had a real sense of self preservation. Is it sad that he had to? YES. Was it a valid concern? YES.
If he had never wavered, if he was 100% sure he wanted to be Daphne at his school program then I would understand better, but that is not the case. This kid changed his mind and the mom pushed him to do something he was uncomfortable with. So while this article has some great points, and some awesome one liners….I disagree with the mom. Not because she let her kid dress like a girl, but because she pushed him to do something that he was uncomfortable with. I could be wrong, I do not know this woman obviously, but this seems to be a case of her pushing her son to make a statement, kind of look how cool and accepting I am!
So would I let my son dress up like a female character for Halloween at a Christian preschool? No. I would not. Not even if he begged, pleaded, and honestly identified himself as a girl. I am sorry if that makes me sound cruel or homophobic–I consider myself to be neither- but it is a mothers first and primary purpose to protect our children, and while I realize that I can not do this forever, I think five is too young to have to stand up for a belief system. If the same scenario happened at seventeen, I would make the costume for him myself.
What do you think?