Saturday, November 15, 2003
Tonight I break the cycle!
In the last week I've been off work. I chose to not take any jobs this week after a month long temp job. I planned to straighten my house, do chores I'd overlooked, SCRUB THE DISGUSTING TOILETS, get caught up on the bills, you know, the stuff I haven't had time to do because I was working full time and preparing for the arts and crafts fair. It all pretty much took up all my time.
Well here's a little bit about how the week has gone in comparison to my plans from above.
I've been so lazy. I've watched TV. I did manage to SORT OF straighten, I DID pay my bills so the electricity won't be turned off anytime soon, nor will the phone. I had to make sure I was able to get to you, as I'm sure I would have been missed! I also did manage to scrub the toilets. I was becoming afraid that there was something living in there and that's just not right! Bryan is not even here to blame for the grossness! All in all I've been sitting around doing a lot of nothing though. Such a great big lot of nothing that I'm in my pajamas. Yes it's nearly midnight, but I have been in the pj's since I put them on 2 nights ago. Yes. TWO complete days in my pj's.
What else did I do? Well I managed to get myself into this awful cycle! So I get through the day resting on my laurels, then I watch my nightly TV shows, then about 9 but probably closer to 10pm I log onto the internet and post a photo to my fotolog (check out tonights photo! It looks like the sky is on fire!!!) and then I come to you and blog my heart out!
Problem is that at that point I say to myself, "self? You need to catch up on your blog reading! you need to peruse the other fotologgers and bloggers sites!" So off I go, reading Charlie, Cocoadeath, Em, Belle de Jour,Kenny and Kelly and then probably checking out some of their links to other blogs.
Ugh...by the time I'm done I look down and it's nearly 3am! What the hell! So then I RUN to bed. The dog wakes me at about 7 requesting her breakfast by pressing her cold wet nose into my hand and nudging it. Oh god...4 hours of sleep! You'd think I'd be ready to crash by dinner time which would break the cycle. But no. I feed her and go back to sleep. THEN I wake up at about 11am! All in all its not cool. I hate sleeping the day away! This used to be my normal sleep pattern when I was a young thing of 21. It was all cool then! Hell I could hang with getting up at 7 back then after 4 hours of sleep. It was within my norm to do that (because often I had to after partying all night go to work by 8am!) Once you turn my decrepit age of 36 it becomes a bit harder to do!
Oh yes I know everyone sleeps in once in awhile. Have a lie in on a Saturday morning, no biggie! But my idea of sleeping in these days is around 9, 10 at the very latest! And then ONLY if I was out late! I like to get up around 7 or 730, or even 8. So anyhow, all this blog reading must stop when it's late at night! I purposely logged on earlier today and did a lot of my blog and flog catchup, so tonight once I post I'm BREAKING THE CYCLE! I'm headed to bed at a reasonable hour.
Of course then the problem will be will I be able to fall asleep? Dunno. With BKKay gone for six weeks on a TDY to San Antonio, I get nervous to be alone at night, so I sleep with the TV on as it blocks all those house settling, noone's really there, but it sure sounds like it, noises. The next dilemma is that if the channel is on a program (as opposed to a music channel) then I will listen and therefore stay awake. It's so lame! But I guess that's better than staying awake because I'm scared due to hearing noises!
Well I better go. Dunno if I'll sleep this early, but I'll be there, doing the right thing. You know, the thing that puts me back into my regular, routine, 36 year old sleep cycle. Keep your fingers crossed for me!
Well here's a little bit about how the week has gone in comparison to my plans from above.
I've been so lazy. I've watched TV. I did manage to SORT OF straighten, I DID pay my bills so the electricity won't be turned off anytime soon, nor will the phone. I had to make sure I was able to get to you, as I'm sure I would have been missed! I also did manage to scrub the toilets. I was becoming afraid that there was something living in there and that's just not right! Bryan is not even here to blame for the grossness! All in all I've been sitting around doing a lot of nothing though. Such a great big lot of nothing that I'm in my pajamas. Yes it's nearly midnight, but I have been in the pj's since I put them on 2 nights ago. Yes. TWO complete days in my pj's.
What else did I do? Well I managed to get myself into this awful cycle! So I get through the day resting on my laurels, then I watch my nightly TV shows, then about 9 but probably closer to 10pm I log onto the internet and post a photo to my fotolog (check out tonights photo! It looks like the sky is on fire!!!) and then I come to you and blog my heart out!
Problem is that at that point I say to myself, "self? You need to catch up on your blog reading! you need to peruse the other fotologgers and bloggers sites!" So off I go, reading Charlie, Cocoadeath, Em, Belle de Jour,Kenny and Kelly and then probably checking out some of their links to other blogs.
Ugh...by the time I'm done I look down and it's nearly 3am! What the hell! So then I RUN to bed. The dog wakes me at about 7 requesting her breakfast by pressing her cold wet nose into my hand and nudging it. Oh god...4 hours of sleep! You'd think I'd be ready to crash by dinner time which would break the cycle. But no. I feed her and go back to sleep. THEN I wake up at about 11am! All in all its not cool. I hate sleeping the day away! This used to be my normal sleep pattern when I was a young thing of 21. It was all cool then! Hell I could hang with getting up at 7 back then after 4 hours of sleep. It was within my norm to do that (because often I had to after partying all night go to work by 8am!) Once you turn my decrepit age of 36 it becomes a bit harder to do!
Oh yes I know everyone sleeps in once in awhile. Have a lie in on a Saturday morning, no biggie! But my idea of sleeping in these days is around 9, 10 at the very latest! And then ONLY if I was out late! I like to get up around 7 or 730, or even 8. So anyhow, all this blog reading must stop when it's late at night! I purposely logged on earlier today and did a lot of my blog and flog catchup, so tonight once I post I'm BREAKING THE CYCLE! I'm headed to bed at a reasonable hour.
Of course then the problem will be will I be able to fall asleep? Dunno. With BKKay gone for six weeks on a TDY to San Antonio, I get nervous to be alone at night, so I sleep with the TV on as it blocks all those house settling, noone's really there, but it sure sounds like it, noises. The next dilemma is that if the channel is on a program (as opposed to a music channel) then I will listen and therefore stay awake. It's so lame! But I guess that's better than staying awake because I'm scared due to hearing noises!
Well I better go. Dunno if I'll sleep this early, but I'll be there, doing the right thing. You know, the thing that puts me back into my regular, routine, 36 year old sleep cycle. Keep your fingers crossed for me!
Friday, November 14, 2003
PS
Carrot Top, you aren't far behind. Actually you may be ahead and I've just become numb to your retardedness.
OH. And by the way, I don't think anyone is believing the Carrot Top is hot angle. Give it up man!
OH. And by the way, I don't think anyone is believing the Carrot Top is hot angle. Give it up man!
Award for the TV Commercial presently bugging the SHIT out of me!
And the winner isssssssss? John Stamos who USED to be hot and his stupid 10-10-987 commercials!
Does the man have nothing better to do? I'm sure he does. Is he that hard up that he must sink to these levels of annoyances? Could be. Why would ANY damn one be bugging the shit out of people to discuss 10-10-987 as he is portrayed as doing in this ad!
For shits sake man...are there NO acting jobs available? Maybe you need to talk to the Olsen twins and get a job in one of their movies!
Does the man have nothing better to do? I'm sure he does. Is he that hard up that he must sink to these levels of annoyances? Could be. Why would ANY damn one be bugging the shit out of people to discuss 10-10-987 as he is portrayed as doing in this ad!
For shits sake man...are there NO acting jobs available? Maybe you need to talk to the Olsen twins and get a job in one of their movies!
Thursday, November 13, 2003
Something's bugging me!
It used to be that people would stick up for you if you were in the right and someone else was in the wrong. Is that my perception or is that how it really used to be?
These days it seems that if you're being mugged right in front of 50 onlookers they'll just keep on walking and act like nothing's happening.
OK, so here's the thing that REALLY chaps my ass about this entire subject. Let me take you right to the point! These days, if you have 2 friends who are also friends with each other, and one of the two does something REALLY crap-assed shitty to you, it seems to me that the other friend will usually tell you how they think it's awful that it happened to you, but will never say anything to the other person; or will say something to the affect of "that's between you and her/him and I don't want to get involved because I'm friends with them too". THIS IS ABSOLUTE SHIT!
In the old days (I'm 36, how old could the days be?) OK dammit, in my days of yesteryear...my childhood, whatever! If this same scenario happened, I remember the other friend taking the side of the one who was in the right. I'm not talking about scenarios where its a spat and both sides are equally wrong, I'm talking about one person is clearly in the wrong. People would step up and say "HEY YOU ARE WRONG! WE WON'T PUT UP WITH THIS TYPE OF BEHAVIOR! YOU'RE BANISHED FROM THE GROUP UNTIL YOU A. APOLOGIZE OR B. MAKE AMENDS FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE". Seems as though people had to take responsibility for what they did, instead of this silent lets not talk about it BS that happens today! Oh people may have talked about it behind your back but they'd also say it to your face just as often!
And while I am afraid of confrontations in a major way, this is still my preferred way of being. I always knew where I stood and there seemed to be justice in the world.
I really HATE when something terrible is done to you by another so called friend and the rest of the group just lets it and never says a THING to the person, or even give you any kind of support because they don't want to get involved or make waves! Why would we want to be friends with people who will do terrible things to others? Why not make waves and say HEY! I don't think so! The worst that can happen is you lose a friend who is a shit to other people!
Why am I blogging about this? I really don't know! It came to me and has been on my mind. Nothing has happened to put this train of thought into my head, well not lately. Things like that happen all the time.
I think really I just got to thinking about why the world is the way it is today. All the children who have no manners, teenagers who also have no manners (product of a "put your child in time out instead of spanking" society I say!) and show disrespect at every turn. Perhaps if their peers and their parents made them responsible for their actions as it was done in my childhood (at least within my family) then maybe things would start to improve. I don't know when we got off track, but something needs to be fixed within our society, in a major way!
Of course, there's the rare diamond in the rough! My friend R? She's said diamond. I don't care if I am being utterly ridiculous about something stupid and completely WRONG. She'll back me. She's my girl and she's got my back! All I have to say is "HE/SHE/IT IS A BASTARD AND A JERK!" and she's the first one to say "WHAT AN ASSHOLE!!" or "MOTHERFUCKER!!" I think she was raised the same way I was...and its a rare thing these days! It's good to have a friend like that. No matter what the situation I know she'll always be in my corner! So thanks R, I appreciate you and your endless support of whatever my situation of the day is!
These days it seems that if you're being mugged right in front of 50 onlookers they'll just keep on walking and act like nothing's happening.
OK, so here's the thing that REALLY chaps my ass about this entire subject. Let me take you right to the point! These days, if you have 2 friends who are also friends with each other, and one of the two does something REALLY crap-assed shitty to you, it seems to me that the other friend will usually tell you how they think it's awful that it happened to you, but will never say anything to the other person; or will say something to the affect of "that's between you and her/him and I don't want to get involved because I'm friends with them too". THIS IS ABSOLUTE SHIT!
In the old days (I'm 36, how old could the days be?) OK dammit, in my days of yesteryear...my childhood, whatever! If this same scenario happened, I remember the other friend taking the side of the one who was in the right. I'm not talking about scenarios where its a spat and both sides are equally wrong, I'm talking about one person is clearly in the wrong. People would step up and say "HEY YOU ARE WRONG! WE WON'T PUT UP WITH THIS TYPE OF BEHAVIOR! YOU'RE BANISHED FROM THE GROUP UNTIL YOU A. APOLOGIZE OR B. MAKE AMENDS FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE". Seems as though people had to take responsibility for what they did, instead of this silent lets not talk about it BS that happens today! Oh people may have talked about it behind your back but they'd also say it to your face just as often!
And while I am afraid of confrontations in a major way, this is still my preferred way of being. I always knew where I stood and there seemed to be justice in the world.
I really HATE when something terrible is done to you by another so called friend and the rest of the group just lets it and never says a THING to the person, or even give you any kind of support because they don't want to get involved or make waves! Why would we want to be friends with people who will do terrible things to others? Why not make waves and say HEY! I don't think so! The worst that can happen is you lose a friend who is a shit to other people!
Why am I blogging about this? I really don't know! It came to me and has been on my mind. Nothing has happened to put this train of thought into my head, well not lately. Things like that happen all the time.
I think really I just got to thinking about why the world is the way it is today. All the children who have no manners, teenagers who also have no manners (product of a "put your child in time out instead of spanking" society I say!) and show disrespect at every turn. Perhaps if their peers and their parents made them responsible for their actions as it was done in my childhood (at least within my family) then maybe things would start to improve. I don't know when we got off track, but something needs to be fixed within our society, in a major way!
Of course, there's the rare diamond in the rough! My friend R? She's said diamond. I don't care if I am being utterly ridiculous about something stupid and completely WRONG. She'll back me. She's my girl and she's got my back! All I have to say is "HE/SHE/IT IS A BASTARD AND A JERK!" and she's the first one to say "WHAT AN ASSHOLE!!" or "MOTHERFUCKER!!" I think she was raised the same way I was...and its a rare thing these days! It's good to have a friend like that. No matter what the situation I know she'll always be in my corner! So thanks R, I appreciate you and your endless support of whatever my situation of the day is!
There's something about Mary - Kay.
And it's REALLY getting on my nerves!
Last weekend I shot this family's Christmas pictures. They didn't turn out as well as I would have hoped, but oh well. I'm still learning and not every photo I take will turn out. Anyhow, this family also happens to be BKKay's boss and his family. (BKKay is Bryan's Black girl name...in case you wondered...which now you're probably REALLY wondering considering he's a DUDE--and as white as you get! Long story short, he goes by BK as a nickname and something about it made me think of ShaNayNay from that old sitcom Martin...thus Bryan's black girl name is BKKay. He Hates It.)
OK, so where was I? Oh yeah...well anyhow, the boss's family is really nice. However, when I met the wife, we got to talking and I asked her what she did. She said she was an independent beauty consultant or something like that. I must have given her a confused look because then she she went on to say that she did facials and make overs. Oh and while we're at it, would I like to have a free facial? She's got a certain amount she must do to reach her goals, and it would help her out! Well later, when she gave me her card, I realize what she REALLY does. She SELLS MARY KAY! This is their new thing! They don't come right out and tell you that they sell it, they go on about the free facials etc, and THEN when you're good and excited about getting a spa treatment (in your head anyway...never in theirs!) they try to rope you into buying their products! It's so LAME! I HATE THAT SHIT!
First of all, come right out and TELL me. Don't try to trick me. I'm much too smart for that! Second of all, I HATE THAT SHIT! Not the make up per se, but the whole pressure to do the facial, pressure to buy the products which are ALWAYS expensive!! Just the PRESSURE in general!
So until this weekend I'd managed to avoid her and her free facial. But now she's after me! She and her district manager (who also happens to be her bests friend) showed up at the arts and crafts fair. It's my own fault because I told her about it while trying to plan the christmas card photo shoot. So they get a table and arrive looking all made up the way Mary Kay girls tend to! So they start telling me how I should come to their friday night event. There's gonna be some great speaker. See they're trying to fool me into thinking that they only want me to go because supposedly ANY woman should go who wants to go into business for herself. The woman is totally motivating and wonderful! But see? I got their number now! They want to corner me into buying their complete line of make up OR joining up and start selling myself! SOMEONE PLEASE SHOOT ME THE DAY I PRONOUNCE IM BECOMING A BEAUTY CONSULTANT FOR MARY KAY. PLEASE? NO DUDE, I'M SERIOUS!
So I've given her the excuse that my sister may come to town with the baby. That gets me out of the Friday night (no babys allowed!) but now she wants to come to my house and give both of us facials. Of course my sis had mentioned some time ago that she MIGHT come to visit this week, but has since changed her mind and isn't coming. I don't know how I'll get out of this! Maybe I'll just get her free facial and buy one thing and then move on! I'm on a serious budget, I don't need to be buying makeup and shit for me! Christmas, for those of you who have not hit panic mode yet, is a mere FIVE weeks away! With me not working full time I REALLY need to concentrate on getting xmas gifts! So this is really bad timing, it really is. The whole thing makes me grumpy and mad that I am succombing to this type of pressure!
However, there's not really any graceful way out of it now is there. First of all, the boss thing. Second of all, there's the whole she's supporting me and my craft, so I feel obligated to support her in her thing, right? It's just SO lame. What should I do? Any suggestions from the peanut gallery? Please! I'm desperate! I'll do almost anything! HELP!
Last weekend I shot this family's Christmas pictures. They didn't turn out as well as I would have hoped, but oh well. I'm still learning and not every photo I take will turn out. Anyhow, this family also happens to be BKKay's boss and his family. (BKKay is Bryan's Black girl name...in case you wondered...which now you're probably REALLY wondering considering he's a DUDE--and as white as you get! Long story short, he goes by BK as a nickname and something about it made me think of ShaNayNay from that old sitcom Martin...thus Bryan's black girl name is BKKay. He Hates It.)
OK, so where was I? Oh yeah...well anyhow, the boss's family is really nice. However, when I met the wife, we got to talking and I asked her what she did. She said she was an independent beauty consultant or something like that. I must have given her a confused look because then she she went on to say that she did facials and make overs. Oh and while we're at it, would I like to have a free facial? She's got a certain amount she must do to reach her goals, and it would help her out! Well later, when she gave me her card, I realize what she REALLY does. She SELLS MARY KAY! This is their new thing! They don't come right out and tell you that they sell it, they go on about the free facials etc, and THEN when you're good and excited about getting a spa treatment (in your head anyway...never in theirs!) they try to rope you into buying their products! It's so LAME! I HATE THAT SHIT!
First of all, come right out and TELL me. Don't try to trick me. I'm much too smart for that! Second of all, I HATE THAT SHIT! Not the make up per se, but the whole pressure to do the facial, pressure to buy the products which are ALWAYS expensive!! Just the PRESSURE in general!
So until this weekend I'd managed to avoid her and her free facial. But now she's after me! She and her district manager (who also happens to be her bests friend) showed up at the arts and crafts fair. It's my own fault because I told her about it while trying to plan the christmas card photo shoot. So they get a table and arrive looking all made up the way Mary Kay girls tend to! So they start telling me how I should come to their friday night event. There's gonna be some great speaker. See they're trying to fool me into thinking that they only want me to go because supposedly ANY woman should go who wants to go into business for herself. The woman is totally motivating and wonderful! But see? I got their number now! They want to corner me into buying their complete line of make up OR joining up and start selling myself! SOMEONE PLEASE SHOOT ME THE DAY I PRONOUNCE IM BECOMING A BEAUTY CONSULTANT FOR MARY KAY. PLEASE? NO DUDE, I'M SERIOUS!
So I've given her the excuse that my sister may come to town with the baby. That gets me out of the Friday night (no babys allowed!) but now she wants to come to my house and give both of us facials. Of course my sis had mentioned some time ago that she MIGHT come to visit this week, but has since changed her mind and isn't coming. I don't know how I'll get out of this! Maybe I'll just get her free facial and buy one thing and then move on! I'm on a serious budget, I don't need to be buying makeup and shit for me! Christmas, for those of you who have not hit panic mode yet, is a mere FIVE weeks away! With me not working full time I REALLY need to concentrate on getting xmas gifts! So this is really bad timing, it really is. The whole thing makes me grumpy and mad that I am succombing to this type of pressure!
However, there's not really any graceful way out of it now is there. First of all, the boss thing. Second of all, there's the whole she's supporting me and my craft, so I feel obligated to support her in her thing, right? It's just SO lame. What should I do? Any suggestions from the peanut gallery? Please! I'm desperate! I'll do almost anything! HELP!
Tuesday, November 11, 2003
Full Scale Hermit Mode
Well after a month of working for the HOA from Hell I finally got a day that I did not have to do ANYthing! Even the weekends were full! This weekend I had the arts and crafts Saturday, and a photoshoot on Sunday. Last weekend I was in Phoenix with my sister. The weekend before that I was in Bisbee with my friend C and the weekend before that I went down to Nogales with R and her mother in law. Not only all that, but in the evenings during the workweek, I was working on making my notecards. See? I was needing a day off in a REALLY bad way. It's no wonder I slept like I did on Saturday afternoon!
So when I got up today I didn't even get dressed until 4pm. I very nearly didn't shower, (hermit mode hit me hard today!) but then, as I was going to meet my friend R at her place of business (the newly opened very hoity toity, upscale and SUPER FABULOUS mall - La Encantada) for dinner, and due to its status on the list of places that you probably want to dress a WEE bit nicer, I decided a shower was in order! I did wear Jeans, however they were boot cut. I swear I did not look like a bum! Well, maybe a little bit, but things could have been much worse had the shower been skipped! Lets just leave it at that!
I had such a nice day of doing nothing much! I did finally get to sort through my mail and straightened things. Tomorrow the plan is to actually CLEAN the house. Nice concept. A clean toilet and shower would be really in order about now, cuz I don't even have a man in the house to blame the filfth on! He's been gone for 2 weeks, and things are getting nasty in the Kelley household! Ugh. Why did I allow things to get into this state? LAME. Well, I guess I just have to bite the bullet and do it. No sense whining about it here right?
Anyhow, back to hermit mode. It was pure selfish enjoyment of a monday. I even sat there smiling for a minute or two thinking about how everyone else in the working world was sitting at their work station wishing they were me sitting at home! Great moment by the way...it felt really GOOD! Oh this won't become a trend, the temp agency is already after me to commit to some dates. I'm avoiding them this week as much as possible as I don't want to work this week. I need some space between the month at the HOA and the next assignment!
And tonight I met R at La Encantada. Have I said how FABULOSO it is? It's just BEAUTIFUL. It's an outdoor mall and there's a lot of statues and color and flowers and tiled stairways...I could sit there all day long and enjoy the fountains! A MALL shouldn't be this nice!!! Oh but it is. It's so nice that almost all the shops in there are high falutin pricey joints! It's the kind of place you'd go to get something EXTRA special to wear for an important evening out. And of all things there's a gourmet grocery store in there, and of course, it's the place you'd go to buy those EXTRA SPECIAL steaks for a birthday supper. BTW it also had a sushi bar in it! We ate there tonight and it was TASTY!! There's another sushi bar in the mall. It's called of all things, RA. Pronounced RAW. Go figure! We went in there and it's kind of hard rock like. Lots of loud music and young people. We sat there for at least 30 minutes and STILL had not been given water or a menu. The waitress came by once (about 20 minutes into our wait) and said she'd be right back however, she never did! We left feeling as though we weren't served due to our geriatric status (at least compared to the rest of the young ones in the place!). We headed to AJ's (the gourmet grocery) and ate their sushi which was GREAT!
Anyhow, it was a non productive but good day. Nothing too exciting, but good none the less.
How was your day? Were you sitting at work jealous of me sitting at home relaxing??? Cuz that's the way I pictured it...heh heh heh...still smiling about it too!
So when I got up today I didn't even get dressed until 4pm. I very nearly didn't shower, (hermit mode hit me hard today!) but then, as I was going to meet my friend R at her place of business (the newly opened very hoity toity, upscale and SUPER FABULOUS mall - La Encantada) for dinner, and due to its status on the list of places that you probably want to dress a WEE bit nicer, I decided a shower was in order! I did wear Jeans, however they were boot cut. I swear I did not look like a bum! Well, maybe a little bit, but things could have been much worse had the shower been skipped! Lets just leave it at that!
I had such a nice day of doing nothing much! I did finally get to sort through my mail and straightened things. Tomorrow the plan is to actually CLEAN the house. Nice concept. A clean toilet and shower would be really in order about now, cuz I don't even have a man in the house to blame the filfth on! He's been gone for 2 weeks, and things are getting nasty in the Kelley household! Ugh. Why did I allow things to get into this state? LAME. Well, I guess I just have to bite the bullet and do it. No sense whining about it here right?
Anyhow, back to hermit mode. It was pure selfish enjoyment of a monday. I even sat there smiling for a minute or two thinking about how everyone else in the working world was sitting at their work station wishing they were me sitting at home! Great moment by the way...it felt really GOOD! Oh this won't become a trend, the temp agency is already after me to commit to some dates. I'm avoiding them this week as much as possible as I don't want to work this week. I need some space between the month at the HOA and the next assignment!
And tonight I met R at La Encantada. Have I said how FABULOSO it is? It's just BEAUTIFUL. It's an outdoor mall and there's a lot of statues and color and flowers and tiled stairways...I could sit there all day long and enjoy the fountains! A MALL shouldn't be this nice!!! Oh but it is. It's so nice that almost all the shops in there are high falutin pricey joints! It's the kind of place you'd go to get something EXTRA special to wear for an important evening out. And of all things there's a gourmet grocery store in there, and of course, it's the place you'd go to buy those EXTRA SPECIAL steaks for a birthday supper. BTW it also had a sushi bar in it! We ate there tonight and it was TASTY!! There's another sushi bar in the mall. It's called of all things, RA. Pronounced RAW. Go figure! We went in there and it's kind of hard rock like. Lots of loud music and young people. We sat there for at least 30 minutes and STILL had not been given water or a menu. The waitress came by once (about 20 minutes into our wait) and said she'd be right back however, she never did! We left feeling as though we weren't served due to our geriatric status (at least compared to the rest of the young ones in the place!). We headed to AJ's (the gourmet grocery) and ate their sushi which was GREAT!
Anyhow, it was a non productive but good day. Nothing too exciting, but good none the less.
How was your day? Were you sitting at work jealous of me sitting at home relaxing??? Cuz that's the way I pictured it...heh heh heh...still smiling about it too!
Sunday, November 09, 2003
Exhaustion does reap a few rewards because today I feel GREAT!
Yesterday after the arts and crafts fair I came home and CRASHED. I don't mean I took a nap, I mean at 3:30 in the afternoon I crashed and burned and didn't get up until 7 this morning! I did wake up breifly when the phone rang and my friend R told me there was a lunar eclipse that I attempted to go out and photograph, but immediately following I went to sleep again and slept til morning.
Today I feel GREAT! I must have really needed that sleep is all I can think because today I feel fan-effing-tabulous!
So the Arts and Crafts sale. How many cards did I sell? Was I a raving success? Was it worth all the hard work? Well the answers are in order - zero, no and maybe. I sold no cards whatsoever! I was very disappointed! However, I am not completely down and out because we didn't get a good turnout and I wasnt the only one who didn't sell anything. The crocheted and knitted sweater lady sold nothing (and said that was a first for her!) and one of the artists who was there only sold a $2 drawing and that's it. Oh and the silk flower arrangement people only sold one or two things. See? I'm not SUCH a loser now am I? Can't get over it...there was very little response. Surprising, but oh well. I'm looking at it as I have stock now for other things. OH and I had people coming by looking at my photos and ooohing and aaahing right and left...no one bought though, or even asked me how much they were! Then I had a guy come by and give me his card telling me that if I ever wanted to create a website he'd help me. THEN he came back and asked if I did stock photography. I told him that I didn't contribute to any sites for that, but that was the direction I wanted to go. He told me that he wanted to look at some of my work because he likes to support local artists and also the photo libraries he buys stock photos from are being used by everyone! So I gave him my fotolog address and my email address and I guess we'll see what happens! That could be promising!
Today I met a couple (to take their pics - you PERV! NOT THOSE KIND OF PICS! FAMILY CHRISTMAS PICS!) and also their children near the zoo to do a photoshoot for their christmas photos. I was very nervous about this because it was Bryan's boss and his family. I will turn in the film tomorrow to develop and I'm praying they will turn out! Don't know why they wouldnt, but if they do they could be just BEAUTIFUL pictures! I'm excited but trying to not be too overly optimistic!
Well so that's all that happened to me this weekend. Kinda boring but true. So Im headed to bed...maybe this week will prove to be a whole lot more interesting. Lets hope so! I do get to see R the Reject tomorrow when I turn in my key they gave me for the arts and crafts fair, maybe he'll make an inappropriate gesture or try to grab me from behind or something...lets hope for the sake of this blog he does! On the other hand...maybe not! I don't need no rejects grabbing me! Uh...NO THANKS!
Today I feel GREAT! I must have really needed that sleep is all I can think because today I feel fan-effing-tabulous!
So the Arts and Crafts sale. How many cards did I sell? Was I a raving success? Was it worth all the hard work? Well the answers are in order - zero, no and maybe. I sold no cards whatsoever! I was very disappointed! However, I am not completely down and out because we didn't get a good turnout and I wasnt the only one who didn't sell anything. The crocheted and knitted sweater lady sold nothing (and said that was a first for her!) and one of the artists who was there only sold a $2 drawing and that's it. Oh and the silk flower arrangement people only sold one or two things. See? I'm not SUCH a loser now am I? Can't get over it...there was very little response. Surprising, but oh well. I'm looking at it as I have stock now for other things. OH and I had people coming by looking at my photos and ooohing and aaahing right and left...no one bought though, or even asked me how much they were! Then I had a guy come by and give me his card telling me that if I ever wanted to create a website he'd help me. THEN he came back and asked if I did stock photography. I told him that I didn't contribute to any sites for that, but that was the direction I wanted to go. He told me that he wanted to look at some of my work because he likes to support local artists and also the photo libraries he buys stock photos from are being used by everyone! So I gave him my fotolog address and my email address and I guess we'll see what happens! That could be promising!
Today I met a couple (to take their pics - you PERV! NOT THOSE KIND OF PICS! FAMILY CHRISTMAS PICS!) and also their children near the zoo to do a photoshoot for their christmas photos. I was very nervous about this because it was Bryan's boss and his family. I will turn in the film tomorrow to develop and I'm praying they will turn out! Don't know why they wouldnt, but if they do they could be just BEAUTIFUL pictures! I'm excited but trying to not be too overly optimistic!
Well so that's all that happened to me this weekend. Kinda boring but true. So Im headed to bed...maybe this week will prove to be a whole lot more interesting. Lets hope so! I do get to see R the Reject tomorrow when I turn in my key they gave me for the arts and crafts fair, maybe he'll make an inappropriate gesture or try to grab me from behind or something...lets hope for the sake of this blog he does! On the other hand...maybe not! I don't need no rejects grabbing me! Uh...NO THANKS!
