I realize it's again been too long since I've blogged. Working 7 days a week has prevented me from having any fun time. I really don't have time to be blogging now since I have pictures to be working, but I'm taking some time anyway.
So the day before Halloween I bought a new camera. Nikon D80. Not the "newest" but a step up from my old D50 and I love it.
I also bought a new and FABULOUS lens- 16 - 50mm f2.8 love it
Great piece of glass....love this lens.
So the plan is to have Karl start shooting with me. So far, he hasn't but before wedding season picks up I'm hoping to have him second on a few things. If not, Cianah is going to help. :) Someone is going to start helping with this. I'm getting worn out.
So Friday was Halloween. My lovely new job let us go early (with pay) because they ROCK. Went to the Colenburgs to pick up the younger Colenburgs and Melanie to come trick or treating.
So Cianah got this Vampiress costume for Kelci's Halloween party the previous week but didn't want to wear that to school. So for school and the football game that night she was an "anti- Barbie" Which is in itself Cianah. Anti- anything within the establishment.
Ok so these are ALL Cianah's "real" clothes, minus the wig that I'm still not sure who she stole it from.
She thinks she's making a statement. I'm pretty sure that all this has already been done. I'm pretty sure there were some freaks in the 80s and 90s that looked just like this "special" child. Whatever...she's not letting "the man" keep her down.
Tati was a bar wench. I'm not sure why? She really wanted to be Frenchy from Grease, but the $65 for outfit ruled it out. Maybe once I get that money tree to grow she can be Frenchy.
Bree was a vampire. None of her pictures turned out and I am WAY too lazy today to retake them.
I took pictures of the Colenburgs too but I don't feel like working those right now. I have so many "real" pictures to work I don't want to do anything else.
So after taking the Colenburgs home that night and taking the Colenburgs home I had to deal with Cianah. Apparently at the football game one of her friends "made out" with some guy she didn't know. Then Cianah, apparently the moral authority was pissed. And then Kelci was mad at Cianah for being mad at the other girl...blah, blah, blah. Ok so all of the girls that have EVER been in High School and gotten OUT of HS....know how "normal" this is.
I finally told her that if I was mad at all my friends that were sluts in HS, I would have had very few friends. lol
So drama, drama, drama...by Saturday night the "slut" was spending the night at our house. All is well with the world.
Sunday I did a photo shoot for the Radfords and the Chards. So it turns out that it's not the best idea. The thought process was that having other kids there that would distract when you weren't taking a pictures. However it turns out that other child distract you while you are taking pictures. And they also divert you from wanting to take pictures. So we ended up reshooting the Chards the following weekend.
Anyway I think they turned out well:
Chards take 1:
Then Karl and I ran off to the Rams game. We had GREAT seats....too bad we played Arizona and got killed. It was still a lot of fun.
After grocery shopping and normal Sunday routine it was the start of a new work week....
So I still like the job a lot. So easy. So stress free. Although SOMETIMES I still have questions from Medicine Shoppe people and it brings it all back into focus. Panic Attack central.
So I totally think in the first week of working accounts I had the system down. So nice to have a system. For those of you who work in AR at Medicine Shoppe...you know what I mean.
So work is smooth. I'd say the only downfall, it's too quiet. So I am not getting moved over to the "outcast" building. No one really talks at work. It's the quietest collection office I have ever worked in. Most people do a fair amount of collections via email so there's rarely a need to use the phone. I use the phone most of the time. There isn't a lot of banter and socializing like what I am used to. And the other thing is I can totally see me being bored at this job in a year. So there's that. But for now I'll take the peace and stress free job that pays me very well.
So Cianah started soccer with practice on Monday nights and games on Saturday. Which is great since Bree has basketball practice on Tuesday nights and games on Saturday. So with 2 sports and photo shoots every weekend...I needed reinforcements. My mom had to take Bree to last Saturday's game while Karl took Cianah to her soccer game. I haven't been to anything so no pictures.
I had a senior pictures shoot on Saturday morning. It was cold but I much prefer outdoor pictures so I am still sticking to that, cold and all. I'm still not done working her pictures but here's the link to the ones that are up:
Then Saturday afternoon we took our own family pictures. Crystal and Dan or Colortouch Photography took us to this fabulous park. I don't have the pictures back yet (they are even busier than I am)
Then Sunday was the Chard's retake day:
I came home and slept from noon until 3...I was beat. It was cold and I don't think I got the chill out for days.
Then back to the 9-5 or 7:30 - 4:30. Work was fine. I got a few promises to pay so hopefully those will be coming in.
This weekend I've got the Heathman/Ysaguire family on Saturday and the Hollander Family on Sunday. We may try to squeeze the Purcell's and the Head's in on one of those days too.
It's supposed to be COLD on Saturday, but we still plan on being outside. Sunday isn't supposed to be as bad. I think the 50s so I can do that.
I don't have anything scheduled for the 22 & 23 so fingers crossed I can actually watch a game....YEAH.
Then it's Thanksgiving and Black Friday shopping....
I hope that brings you all up to date. Nothing overly funny, but it may be more about the fact that I can barely remember my name let alone what funny things happened in Hobdy Life.
Ok funny story. On Friday night we went shopping to get some new clothes for our pictures. So in the car between stores, everyone was getting along...Tati said to Bree about still being mad. I asked what she was talking about. So apparently MONTHS and MONTHS possible a year ago someone used the bathroom and used too much toilet paper. Karl went into the bathroom was was ranting about the toilet being clogged up.
Ok so there's this fabulous invention called a plunger....apparently he's never heard of it.
So he asked each kid who did it. If you've ever been in the Hobdy House you'd know that NO ONE EVER does it. So none of the kids clogged the toilet. So he says great then we'll flip a coin and some one has to scoop the toilet paper out of the toilet. Tati lost.
So she again, never considering the plunger sitting right next to the toilet scoops all the toilet paper out of the toilet until it will flush. Yep NASTY!! So as soon as Tati finishes cleaning up the mess.....Bryana comes clean that it was her that took the big "duke" and clogged the toilet. Apparently I was sitting on the couch ignoring this whole incident...or at least that's how the kids tell the story. I don' t think I would have been able to ignore all that. So we are all rolling with the recollection of this story and Tati again says to Bree, "I haven't forgotten about it, when we're 50 I'm still going to be mad about having to scoop your poop."
That's a day in the life of the Hobdy house. If I could only take the time to tell you how NUTS it really is here, you may completely understand me craziness. Gotta love those kids.
Scoop your poop! Thats classic.
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