Quickie

Must have been some crazy-ass 24 hour thing, because today I feel fantastic in comparison. 

Been being a good little biddness photog (and, might I add, an excellent friend / care-package sender) all day. I'm wrapping up some edits still now, but I wanted to let you all know that I am more than alive and more or less healthy.

One last thing: WHY haven't I found or made a pair of these yet?

Too cute. Want.

Got some cute to share with me? 

I'm sort of grossly out of character cute feeling lately. I know who to blame.

Really?

What has two thumbs and a fever in August?

This kid.

Who honestly gets flu symptoms in one of the hottest months?

I've had a fever since yesterday afternoon, slept like hell (if you could call it sleep at all), and felt like death this morning.

Mommy got me flu medicine, juice, jello, toast, and Vanity Fair while I was bedridden because she's the best (and thankfully Mondays are her days off so I had someone to whine to in my feverish stupor this morning). 

Feeling all over insanely achey, even typing hurts my fingers to be completely honest. 

I'm hoping this goes away tomorrow, I don't have time for this. Today was enough time wasted.

I really hope it isn't actually the flu. I especially don't have time for a real illness.

But, do you really think early flu symptoms would keep me from my 6Bests Dinner Date? You'd be sadly mistaken.

This kid is a trooper.

PS

This is my 201 post. 

I thought maybe I'd share some fun sites, on the offchance you were unaware of them.

www.fuckyeahtattoos.tumblr.com

http://dearblankpleaseblank.com/

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=47670

http://twitter.com/shitmydadsays

enjoy!

Another Week

I've gotten so terrible at updating in a timely fashion. 

It has been such a great week that started out merely as a great weekend. Unforeseen events extended it into a great week. There's no comparison. 

I got to see some of my favorite people, do my favorite work, and on top of everything, I FINALLY found my bike!!!!

 (Pre-wash & new tires, added today)

(Jill went to town cleaning up the handlebars for me, they were BROWN.)

I've been searching for a bike with fenders all summer long. This one just popped up in Lisle, NY on the  way to Ithaca a day trip. With some elbow grease and a whole lot of tire replacement, my baby is all cleaned up and works. The tires are... sort of bent, so when I go slow, it sorta... wobbles? But it's also raining right now, so I'm not going to take a "real" picture, and my first ride was... soggy. 

BUT It's BEAUTIFUL!!! Needs a paint job, due to the rust spots, but I can wait on it because the current color (where it still looks shiny) is gorgeous. 

In. Love.

In other news, Jill & I made a road trip to see Miss Manning and Agent Sculley - the pool was beautiful, the sun was out, Manning made a pizza, and there were mustaches by the end of the night.

I'm really happy these days. 

How happy have you been this week?

Wow I suck

So sorry for the lack of updates - I was in Maine for the past week, and while I want to tell you all every detail of the trip, I'm sort of exhausted with telling everyone stories in person. I will say I definitely needed the vacation, and it was so refreshing to see Kate again. The wedding was beautiful, the weather was beautiful, even the food all week was beautiful!

Coming home felt so good though. I missed my own bed. I missed my NY traffic (as opposed to the shit I put up with in the other states we traveled). I missed beer in my fridge (as opposed to being told they couldn't accept out of state IDs, they'd only serve under 25 at the concert, and having everyone do a double take to my ID ["You... don't look like this at all...? Did you dye and cut your hair or something?" well yes, actually, that photo is almost 2 years old... sorry I grew up.]). 

Home is good. Always busy. I'm shooting the Miles Wedding tomorrow, with several smaller senior shots in the line up but none totally booked yet, as well as a children's shoot early next week. Still working out the kinks in a contract for September (which I'm glad I didn't share details about yet because it's been up in the air for a few weeks now...) I am scheduling a small business meeting with a counselor for sometime in the next 2 weeks and working out the legal/financial side of things that I haven't been able to navigate myself yet. 

In other news - super random: I might become a part time semi professional house sitter? (Go figure, my favorite hobby is sitting.) Warren's contacted me about sitting again with the dog & cats while he's in Canters this fall. This will be a much more extended stay than last time, and I will certainly be able to freelance during the stay. This takes a whole lot of pressure off of looking for another "real" job this winter while I have no studio and will be struggling a bit to make photo ends meet. This summer has been pretty productive but not in a personal way - I still don't have a puppy and I still don't have any apartment prospects.

BUT there's a bright side! If I'm not paying rent, house sitting makes total sense because I won't be living in one place, and paying for another at the same time. 

I have had another offer sort of on the table about sitting for a short vacation in Binghamton, but he hasn't gotten back to me yet. Good thing pets tend to like me, I like sitting houses with pets for me to play with and smother with attention and love. 

In other other news - this weekend is looking to have great weather,  so I'm wholeheartedly expecting inspiration everywhere, wrapped up with fun and popsicles (& kisses).

What have you all been up to?