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i am broken.

blah!

i am a super sucky blogger or i guess i'm not b/c i don't blog HA.
I felt like i needed to at least write something today. there's a storm coming in and it sounds pretty cool. and we're under a severe thunderstorm warning -- great. I better get off the puter, the lights keep flickering.

just buggy

I was talking about bug pictures today at work, so i decided to post. i may use the grasshopper for the fair, or possibly a gorilla that i took at disney.

happy un-fourth of july

well it's the eight of july, but i have photos from the fourth. i did download all of my photos from florida this evening, so i can soon share some of those. i took 993 photos! not all of them are great (i seem to be having a focus issue), but others are really cool. anyway, it's been really busy with weddings and such, but i'm hoping to get "back on track" soon. i have one more wedding to go to next week and then i need to work on popcorn fest stuff and fair projects. i decided against entering anythin in the munster salon show this year. last year it didn't get accepted, that didn't make me decide against it. the reason i'm going to wait, is b/c i want to start working on my polaroids. i need to do something to seperate me fromt the other photographers. i need to experiment and really test my limits -- so next year!

wow

I actually worked on this site! Can you believe it? Let's see how long this lasts.

I had a great time at Becca and Jon's wedding. It was beautiful and we had a lot of fun dancing. I've never danced in front anyone before so I had a hard time getting used to it. After awhile I just didn't care. As for the rest of this weekend -- not so good at all.

new layout

i'm working on a new layout. it's almost there.

Happy Easter

I am in a perdicament with my computer. I finally am going to buy Adobe CS3 suite, but I'm having a hard time just doing it. It's a lot of money and it's hard to spend it on something intangible like programs for my computer. The thing is that before I can buy these programs I need to buy more memory. I just don't know how much to get and which one. Do I need to back up my files? Just so many unanswered questions. I've posted a message on the apple website and people have helped me, but for some odd reason I don't feel confident enought to actually buy the RAM. Plus, they haven't really answered the questions I have posted. I think it's all stems back to the idea of buying the programs. I think I just need to bite the bullet and do it... tomorrow.

Once I spend money on the computer stuff then I can actually buy film for my new polaroid camera and a battery too.

I really want to re-layout this site, but I want to be able to use my new software to do so. It's a just a big circle of lack of confidence, actually i think it's more like a wonky oval right now.

Yummy things :)

This site could possible take all of my money, their things are way cool. Dude (I just had to add that extra dude it there to top things off)

this fall...

I am going to my first CUBS game!! Wahoo!!

I bought my mom and I tickets for Sept. 21 (Friday) @ 1:20

I am unbelieveably excited, as I've never been to a professional baseball game and they're playing the Pirates, which was always my grandma's favorite game to watch!

a new addiction

i have a new online addiction thanks to patti. it's webkinz.com. this isn't good. basically, the scenario is that you buy these little stuffed animals at the store (i have the hippo). you go online and it becomes a virtual pet that's on your computer. now you have to take care of it, like feed it, clothe it and house it. but in order to do so you must earn money, by playing games, answering trivia, etc. it's really fun and that's the problem. it's too much fun. i have accomplished nothing in the real world, although Petunia, my hippos now has a nice bed, a tv, flowers, hardwood floors and plenty of food. this can't be good...

why oh why...

...can't i live near here?

white and nerdy

so i'm much nerdier than i thought. jeez i'm a dork!

2007!

a new year and a new day. mom and i went to the movies today. we saw "the holiday", which was really cute. my only problem with the movie was not the movie itself. it was the ignorant person sitting in front of us. we got to the theater about a half hour before the show (we were second to be seat). so we were able to get good seats. then the masses came, all of the seats were filling up very quickly, plus we were in a small theater. when we originally sat down, we had all of coats on the seat next to me, but as more people started to come we held our coats on our laps to make room. everyone seemed to cooperate, except for the woman in front of us. she was by herself and sat with one seat on either side of her. an older couple walked in and asked her if she could please move over, she said "NO", so they left the theater. a bit later, a mother and her daughter asked her very nicely if she could please move over and again she said NO. the mom asked her why and she said again "NO, I'm not moving". what a total ASS! it really makes me lose faith in the goodness of people. so the theater was basically packed, but this lady took up 3 seats! it's just so frustrating to see another human being acting so selfish... *grr*

Happy (almost) New Year!

Well, I'm alive. This new work schedule has really screwed up my days. I was looking over my photos this past year and calculated how many I have taken with both of my cameras. A whopping total of *drumroll please* 2,726! Can you believe it? Of course not all of them are great, but at least photography is the one thing I keep up. I just wish the weather would get a little more photo friendly so I can find some cool, winter subjects. So Happy New Year and here's to 3,000 photos!

Productiveness

i was productive today -- on this site at least. i put up the new layout for my artwork. it's based off of my vintage camera collection. it only took me a month to get the gumption to do it, but i did it. i built it so long ago i almost forgot how to set up the coding for it, but it wasn't too bad to figure out. now all i need to do is update it. that is my next goal.

ugh

UGH! what a hectic few weeks. it's just been unbelievable with all of the changes at work, plus all of the projects we have to finish in such a short amount of time. mom and i went to an antique show. i got some random things and at least one christmas present. i plan on making a list tonite of the christmas presents that i need to buy or make. we went to the mall today and it was already pretty crazy with the shopping. i still can't believe it's almost thanksgiving. when becca s. told me on monday i was in shock. i guess i knew, but it didn't sink in until she mentioned it. it was astonished!

weekend

mom and i went to 5 craft shows yesterday. they're ok. but i think i like going more just b/c my likes them and it's something we can do together. we went to 1 by our house, 2 in highland and 2 in munster. we really didn't get too much. i always try to find a really crazy handmade christmas ornament for the tree. last year i found this little bear that was dressed like an angel librarian. i had to buy it. this year i already found a crazy cardinal made out of poof balls. i'll have to post pix.

crazy puppy

this is one wild doggie. i was out taking pictures of one of our trees the other morning and mila began rolling around in the leaves. this basically captures her true essence -- she's wild.

work was super crazy today, there's a lot going on an a lot to take in. i'm so glad it's the weekend. i can't wait until monday for our bead making class, plus it's Becca's birthday!

in honor of halloween

this has been a very long week and a super busy friday. it really helped that i have some really great friends to help me throughout the busy days. Tomorrow is girls nite, i'm so excited. it's always a blast, then my mom and i are headed to brown county for a few days. i just finished backing up my photos and updating the ipod. i am going to miss my little puppies while were gone. i'm watching scarey movie 3 right now, it's pretty funny, i've never seen it before.... lol

i *heart* youtube.com

went to the apple orchard today, fun times. i am so pooped tho. we got apple and pumpkin donuts, plus some gala apples. did i ever tell you how much i LOVE apples?! :)