Yippee!

As of yesterday I am employed! An interview that I had went very well, and I got the news yesterday afternoon. Himself also got a raise two days ago, so now we can breathe a little easier. We've been saving up for a house, and now a little more can go into that savings!

Today I have to go into work (it feels so good to be able to say that!) to fill out paperwork and find out my schedule. The best part is I don't have to quit school, or even take only night classes. The people I'm going to be working with work around school and even second jobs, so I can get a second job for the summer if I wanted to (although parts of summer will be very busy at work).

My job is perfect: I get to work with small children (I really do love kids, even the ones who cry and scream), and I get to take pictures. I work in a portrait studio, so I get to do the thing I love and get paid well for it. I'm also hoping to photograph a wedding this summer (the bride is looking for three people, and Photo Girl and I are both hoping to do it as a team), so everything is finally falling into place (insert huge sigh of relief here).

Well, that's all for now! Post more after work!

M

Very Green!

Today I just felt green. I painted my toenails a blue/green, my fingernails are a glittery lime green, and my shirt is light green. Very fun!

Tonight Himself, Big Green Friend (even my friends are green!), Photo Girl, and myself are going to see X3 at midnight. It should be a good movie, even though the critics didn't like it as much as the other two movies.

I spend the last two days cleaning the apartment, and except for the bedroom, it's just about ready for company again. With Miss Thang rearranging anything on the entertainment center, the bookshelves, the tables, ect. It has been quite a challenge keeping up with her. She even took offence to the shamrock that Himself gave me for St. Patrick's Day that I put on the top shelf of the bookcase in the living room. I found it the next morning on the floor, looking very sad. I wasn't sure if the poor thing would survive long enough for me to put it outside (the plant, not the cat).

Well, I have to get ready to sit in line for awhile, so I had best get going now. I'll post about the movie tomorrow!

M

Quick update

I find I have some time for myself today, since the photo lab wont be open for another hour or so, and Mom's work is providing lunch for everyone.

We've had rain here for the past couple of days, which is really nice when you have allergies to grass pollen. It dampens the pollen and makes it easier for me to breathe without sneezing about a half-million times. Himself isn't allergic to anything and he makes sure to rub it in every time I start sneezing.

My project is almost done for my photo class, and I'm looking forward to seeing the finished product. What I really want to do is try to get the deck published once I do all 78 or so pictures. A long-term project, but a worthy one.

Nothing funny this time, I'm feeling far too peaceful.

M

P.S. I know I will never get through to the person mentioned in the last entry, so that is my one and only post about them.

Do you really know me?

I was just asked not to post any comments on a blog, and the author informed me that she 'knows me'. Actually for the sake of anonymity, no one on Blogger knows who I am. They may have my location, but not who I am. The only thing I have revealed is that I am Ms. Karen's Spawn.

I was shocked to read that she 'knew who I was', and that since I disagreed with her point of view on a couple of things, she felt the need to 'ban' me from her main site. As I know she is the subject of several flame-wars, I refuse to reveal her name, or her blog, but I refuse to take all this lying down! Not only that, but enough people (the important ones) already know who she is. I'm sure I'll be bombarded with hateful comments (either here on my blog, or on hers if she feels the need to check me out again, or send her own band of loyal lemmings to do her dirty work for her), but the comments will not hurt me in any way.


Yngathrrt, a fellow blogger (sorry, I can't figure out how to get a link to your blog, but I'll figure it out sooner or later ;o)) is also the victim of this other blogger, and she also refuses to back down. Good for you! I think if enough people would tell her to back off and stop playing the victim, then just maybe she'll get the hint and go away. Not likely, but we can hope.

According to this person's blog, I am the kind of parent who beats my children. I DO NOT believe in beating children, and by a 'firm hand' I mean laying down the law and not backing down. NOT spanking. She went on to ASSUME that I meant spanking when I mentioned a 'firm hand'. Well, we all know what assuming gets you. Nowhere.

So now I have been blacklisted, and all I can do is laugh. She has no idea what a fool she has made herself, and she never will. She has her head up her butt too far to see the light, and all she can do is complain about the smell.

Hearings and Interviews

Well, Himself has his traffic hearing today. He was pulled over for having tabs that expired two years ago, so after several much needed repairs to his truck, he finally got the tabs renewed. We're both hoping for his fine to just go away, but something tells me it wont (but it will be reduced).

Since putting my resume on Monster.com (a fabulous site for people trying to find a job. Why didn't I think of it before?!), I have been hit with more job offers (I have the bruises to prove it) than I can shake a stick at (a very interesting visual if you ask me). Photo Girl told me that her main job was hiring and that if I wanted to work there, I should get my carcass (my words, not hers) over to the mall and apply today (the manager is in today, and Photo Girl figures that I can get an interview on the spot today). I'm really hoping this works out, mainly because it fits with what I want to do as a career (taking pictures and making money. Heaven.).

The furry children have been behaving for the most part. I think they're too hot to do much (we've had a recent 'heat wave', and unfortunately the people who live downstairs under us seem to be from Mercury or Venus because they have their heat on all the time).

This coming weekend Himself and I get to see his parents and celebrate his birthday (along with all the other summer birthdays. I'm special since I'm the only one with a winter birthday, although that does mean that my birthday gets forgotten a lot), so that should be fun. We're also going to see X3 when it opens on Friday (actually we'll be there on Thursday so we can see the midnight showing), so our Memorial Day weekend is going to be pretty busy. I probably won't be sleeping on Friday, but it doesn't matter since one of my classes was cancelled and I hope the other one will be too (who wants to do math just before a long weekend?).

M

Movie Night

Himself and I read the Da Vinci Code awhile back, and now that the movie is out, we decided to go see it on opening night. We went with a group of friends that seemed to get larger as the night went on (we started out with three, then another person was added, then they brought two more people to the theater, Himself and I brought the cousin and Photo Girl). I think that if we had ended up seeing the later showing, we would have ended up with nine more people and not enough seats for everyone.

Big Green Friend and Photo Friend seemed to hit it off really well. I think if Big Green Friend wanted to pursue Photo Girl (a friend of mine from Photo class), he would not be met with opposition. I'm not trying to get them together, but if it happens, then great.

The movie was great for a movie, but not so great as an adaptation of a book. Although it was much better than the Harry Potter movies (movies three and four are so far from the book, it made me cringe to watch them).

Well I have to go, Big Green Friend is coming over tonight to hang out with Himself and I, and I still have to clean the living room a little more.

M

FUR!!!!!

Ah, spring has sprung, and with it comes shedding. Between the four legged children and myself, we are a furry family. Himself has gone to work with white fur on his black pants, red hair on his undershirt, and grey fur on his work shirt. By the time he gets it all off of him, more fur and hair have gravitated towards him like metal to a magnet. I started petting Little Princess and had to stop because I was removing clumps of my cat by the handful. I was afraid that if I kept petting her, she would disappear, and all that would be left would be a pile of fur. Granted, it would be a very large pile of fur. Little Princess could stand to loose a few pounds.

Just the other day I pulled out three cat hairs and an eyelash out of my right eye and two cat hairs out of my left eye. Himself told me that I would have to stop petting the cats with my eyes and start using my hands. Himself thinks he's very funny. Well, I do too.

Miss Thang hasn't been shedding much, but she has been helping Little Princess shed by forcefully removing clumps of fur from her back. Miss Thang looks all delicate, but in reality she hits like a linebacker. Both cats have taken to sleeping on my black and dark green cloak that I got at a ren faire a couple of years back, if I want to wear it this year, I have to de-fur it and then seal it into a bag.

I have to get some fur out of my eye again.

M

Still here

I'm still alive, just very busy. I hope to do a huge photo shoot today, if the weather clears up a little more, which will get me caught up on new prints for the next couple of weeks.

Temperance was a decent success, I tinted the print that I turned in today, and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. The only thing I wish I had done differently was the glossy paper that I used. Glossy paper is hard to get any kind of hand coloring onto without spraying something on it to give it a 'tooth' to catch the color. The reason I'm using glossy paper is because the color paper is glossy too, and if I had a couple different kinds of paper, the whole project would look a little odd (okay, it would look really odd).

Himself and I recently watched memoirs of a Geisha, and we both agreed that it was a good movie, just a little slow. It took a long time to progress through the story line, but it was beautiful to watch.

Well, short post today, I'm having lunch with Mom, and I still have to get the food.

M

Temperance Success!

I finally got to shoot Temperance for my project, and I'm really happy with what I got. Big Green Friend posed for me (he got his jeans sandy and sappy for me. I feel special). I'm hoping to use Himself for the next one, but since I have no idea which card I'm going to do next...

I have my models for The Moon, but now I just need one day they all have off from work. That day also has to be at least partly sunny. Finding one day that fits both the criteria is harder than it would seem.

Well, really short post today. I have some research to do for my project.

M