Lacking in Photos

Sorry I haven't posted any photos in a real long time. Haven't taken any (how sad) -- however, I'll make it up to you all if you help me with one thing:

I need a business name. 

I have always worked under Shanna McKay Photography, and that's all well fine and good, but I have had 22 years of people massacring my name - do I really want them to forever do it with my business as well?

That being said, we have options. 

- McKay Photos

- Charmed Photography

- Joli Photos

- I am not creative enough for this shit.

Please please please - business name ideas? I'd love to hear them. 

And ASAP. 

I was going to go register my DBA and all that today, but now I'm having serious second thoughts as to what to register it under.

County Clerk

DBA's are confusing in so far as I don't know which I need to fill out, therefore first thing tomorrow, I'm going to the County Clerk's office and finding out from a real live person what exactly I need to fill out. Then there's a Tax ID # application (which doesn't appear to take long at all) and filing. Lots of official stuff. I also need to set up a system for itemizing and saving important receipts and whatnot so I can do all that write-off stuff & exemptions. From there, I need to figure out where and how to do my taxes the right way from the get-go.

Wow. When did adulthood happen? Anyone else feel as ill-prepared as me?

Somewhere in the middle of my day tomorrow,  I am having lunch with Jill before she heads off with the other BeefyKids to see Dave later this week. 

Here's to being an adult and still making time to be a little irresponsible.

Thrift & Opinions

Opinion first:

Sex & the City 2 was terrible. I LOVE satc, but this movie was scraping the bottom of the barrel. It was way too long, the plot took tooooo long to develop and didn't need to go to freaking Abu Dhabi to create a resolution. The decadence was unnecessary in this economy, Samantha's one liners are no longer witty and are rather predictable, and I was just overall underwhelmed.

But enough of that.

In other news, I am poor and open minded this summer. I am intending to utilize the Thrifty Shopper and Salvy whenever possible when I need to add to my wardrobe rather than hit up the mall. The main reason I came to this decision is that I have noticed a trend in clothes in the mall are already busted and vintaged looking - why spend money on new "old" clothes when I can spend less on the same thing already old? I am avoiding buying new clothes, but should I need to... let's try to amp my style up a little and twist it all around with some hobo chic flair. I might attempt to learn to hand sew again too... here's to hoping.

I intend to get ballsy this summer.

Why should my style be any different?

Pro Photographer?

I'm not going to get my hopes up, I'm just throwing this out there.

I potentially have several gigs for the summer.. only 2 are official, but the rest are in the works and I"m following every lead I get:

1) Anita's niece and nephew senior portraits 2nd weekend of June (a split gig with Hanners, half of my pay is going for Aerosmith tickets in August ha!)

2) Jordan's headshots in and out of drag for promotion to move to Fl. (paying)

3) Jordan's mom Mimi wants me to shoot her other son's senior portraits (paying)

4) Merlin's show for July's First Friday (not paying, but press, advertising, networking, and maybe selling some books)

5) Suicide Girl in mid July (might pay, might just be good portfolio stuff)

6) August Wedding (already booked & contracted)

7) September 18th @ TREXX: Mr USofA Pageant - *the* photographer, with advertising.

Yikes. I'm gonna pick up DBA forms next week and see how much it's going to cost me to like.. do this. I might actually be... a.. a.. a real photographer. 

Scariestbest feeling ever.

June 18th is going to be amazing. I literally can't wait for this: