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The Crazy Life

November 16, 2008 – 5:04 pm

It’s been one of those weekends…on the go, lots.

I dropped Baby Mac off at the Apple store to find out it’s just the backlight out, not the video card. The beautiful thing is that I am getting it done, and the last job done will be REFUNDED! Sa-WEET! Gotta love the service from Apple. It is so worth it when you are debating over spending the extra money for their products. I think it will be ready on Monday since they had to order the part (a whole new monitor portion).

After that, I had dinner with the lovely Maura! We ate at JBucks in the lower level at the mall and drank wine, chatted and laughed. Love that girl! I didn’t take a good picture after looking at my camera, but here’s one she took with her cell. Hello evil, red eyes!

My hair really went flat. Ugh.

The next day, I attended a psychic party with Maura and it was a riot. The things this woman told me were pretty funny, and some hitting on the money. I won’t go into sharing them, but I know you have to go into these things laughing and knowing it’s really just entertainment. We have the power to make what happens to us happen just by staying on that thought pattern and positivity.

I also totally missed that there was a St. Louis photographer’s meetup and got the message about 30 minutes before it was starting. So, I drug my butt out to Schlafley’s Bottleworks for a bit. Raquita was there which was nice to see her again. I feel like I don’t get to see her enough. Making some new contacts and getting to know some other photographers is such a good thing for me. Hopefully can make me get out there and explore my city more. Here’s my daily photo from last night:

My point and shoot does a pretty okay job.

And, finally, today, I had lunch with one of my Twitter friends, Michele. I FINALLY went to the Royale down in south city and was excited to try something new. Love it. Loved the talk with Michele and getting to know her better. Plus, laughing at things like some guy’s plumber’s crack hanging out. She tried to get a picture but there was a pole in the way. I love that my friends are goofy and immature like me. ;) Outside, I snapped a shot of their sign with the famous Obama paintings on the side of the building. That Powershot rocks!

I’m pretty much exhausted now. I keep telling myself I need to get on these last session edits, but think I need to just slow down tonight. Yeah, gonna try that. Unless my ADHD kicks in and I can’t focus on relaxing. Yeah, I have to focus to relax.

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Don’t Give Up on Me!

November 14, 2008 – 12:02 pm

It’s been kind of crazy with everything going on and I just haven’t been motivated to sit down and write a real blog post about life and everything. Figured, I’d better jump in here and say hello and update you.

I have been busy with dog shoots and have another one to get edited from earlier this week. What a cutie that Maggie is! Stay tuned for images from that session soon.

As I mentioned earlier, I attended the New Kids on the Block concert with Kristie Grote (that’s little Megan’s mama) and her friend, Stacy. We had so much fun. We laughed so hard about how silly we used to be over them and when they would hit the high notes or make a certain move we screamed and then busted our guts laughing at ourselves. The audience was just 15 years older really. I purchased a new Canon Powershot camera just before the show because a) I really wanted a smaller, point and shoot camera, and b) I needed memories of this event and couldn’t take in my dslr. Here’s my favorite from the night:

I can tell you this…I am getting old when the next morning I’m too tired to even think straight.

I’ve been working on some projects in the digital scrapbook world that should be out next month. Soon, I’ll have a new digital kit in my store that you can check out, but I’ll save that for another post closer to the time.

I do have a new postcard template up at Pink Ink Studios for photographers gearing up to do some rebranding or marketing soon.

We took our family Christmas photos this past weekend too. Here’s the shots I think we’re going to use:

Now to design the Christmas card!

The past few days, Baby Mac has been acting up again. As you may recall, before I left for RT’08 last month, the video card died. I took it in and they sent it off to be replaced. Now, when it goes into sleep mode or sometimes powers off, the video doesn’t want to come back. Well, it does, but it’s probably like a 90% grey so much that you can barely even see what’s on the screen. This pisses me off. For a while it would come back on once it warmed up after about 10 minutes, but now nothing. So, I have an appointment at the Genius Bar at Apple today. I’m not too happy about that hardware failure! I use it for all my iChats and well, can’t do that. I did order a new webcam and some speakers for Mac Lovin’ so at least I can use that feature on here when I have to. Hopefully the laptop can be fixed at no cost to me. Don’t they gaurantee that replacement?

After I drop that off on the upper level at West County mall, I will head downstairs to meet my good friend, Maura for dinner and drinks at J. Bucks. Looking forward to that.

Finally, come check out my 100 Days of Moo (you) project - where we take a photo representing ourselves in some way and will print them out on Moo cards after 100 are done. I’m actually keeping up with this!

Alright, time to get busy again today. Lots going on all weekend!

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Bailey

November 5, 2008 – 4:27 pm

I finally pushed through and finished up Bailey’s images. How sweet. Still crying even after knowing he left last week to go to heaven. Those eyes spoke so much to me. Thank you for letting me spend your last few hours with you, lovely Bailey.

If you click here, you can view the slideshow of Bailey with his bestest buds, Nuvi and Spanky. Thank you to Drew & Deidre for letting me do this for you!

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Random Blabber

November 2, 2008 – 12:36 pm

Well, here’s a nice, long Sunday blog post for you. Hope you can keep your eyes open long enough.

It was a pretty hectic day on Friday as we finished up the final details on decorating the house. I ended up going with a costume that was just the bathrobe and curlers for my hair. No, no pictures. Sorry. But, I have a little video. It’s 4 minutes long, and just goes through all the outside decor. I took it before it go too dark so you could actually see things. Trust me, in the dark it was so much better.


Halloween from scoobyholly on Vimeo.

And, shots from the night too:

There are more photos on my Flickr stream by clicking here.

Jack and Daisy even let me dress them up for a few short minutes!

My lil devil and angel! :)

I’ve had a cold, unsure how I got it, but am still holding true to my theory that I always get sick after photographing kids (or was around my young cousins at family gatherings). I just have no immune system it seems when they are in my presence. I’m not exactly miserable, which is good. Nyquil makes for awesome sleeps.

Yesterday was also an important day for my family. November 1st, my father passed away 15 years ago. I celebrate his life because you can tell I was his child. Determined, no patience and into gadgets and technology. I think he would be pretty impressed with the information age.

I didn’t do a lot yesterday. Relaxed quite a bit. However, my friends and I started up a little photo challenge called 100 Days of Moo (You). Meaning, we’re shooting ourselves in some fashion for 100 days and then will have them printed out on the 100 mini Moo cards to put into some sort of project. Anyone can join, but we’re really trying to challenge ourselves to actually keep this one up. I suck at these things and am trying. Here are my first two shots.

To join in, just click here and visit the group.

I’m also excited because Amy Kant has joined Pink Ink Studios and is creating amazingly awesome designs for photographers. You can visit her store here. I have other designers coming too! I think you’ll be in love if you’re a photographer!!!

We were going to do our family Christmas photos today, but Andrea’s sweet Larry is sick. Not well. We’re hoping things go okay for him. If you remember him, he’s the one with wheels!

Keep ‘em in your thoughts.

Now, I need to figure out what’s going on today. Like, resting and designing is in order, for sure!

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Remembering Bailey

October 29, 2008 – 1:00 am

Yesterday, my friend, Maura, called me about coming to photograph her sister’s dog, Bailey. Bailey has cancer. Bailey is very sick and well, it was urgent that I come and take some photographs for them. I just was waiting to be told what time I was needed to go because it wouldn’t be long. I was greeted by Deidre, her son, and three dogs. Two very cautious and unsure what I was doing in their home, and the other, calm and yet still interested. Though the big difference was the sadness in his eyes.

This was such a hard thing for me because I looked back at Merlin’s photos before I left for this shoot, wanting to make sure that I didn’t miss a beat. What I knew the family would want and love to look at forever. And, yet, it brought back so many memories of the days Merlin was so sick.

Thank goodness for sunglasses.

Remembering Bailey

Remembering Bailey

As I watched this boy lie next to Bailey and hug him, I asked him, “what do you love most about Bailey?” and he answered this:

“Bailey is always the one that keeps all the other dogs calm. He just looks at them and they all relax. I wonder who he’ll pass the torch onto when he is gone.”

My heart melted.

I’ve cried for them and only wish I had gotten to know Bailey when he was healthy and happy.

As I left, he walked over to me - very slowly and frail-like and I said goodbye to him, knowing that would be the last time I would see him.

Bailey’s fight ended shortly after. Please hug your fur-babies.

I’ll have more photos of Bailey once I get caught up with other proofing. If you are interested in having your dogs photographed please contact me about capturing their memories. You can visit my website by clicking here.

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