hit escape............

I needed a break tonight so after supper Lloyd took me into town and we had coffee and shared a carrot cake. We grabbed a few things in Home Depot and then went to Homesense and we found some fab things for studio sets......................a little armchair for babies and toddlers to sit in, a nice highbacked formal chair for formal family portraits, and a fun big square fluffy footstool type thing that will be great for older kids fun pictures.............

The lighting doesn't arrive until tomorrow which means I only have tomorrow night to practice with the lighting effects..............I still have some fake gift boxes to wrap and some little bits and pieces to sort out..........but I think we might be ready.............

One BIG mistake though....we replaced the bulb on the stairway down to the basement. Never replace a bulb after several months!!!!.......what used to be white walls were covered in grubby little finger prints! Wow........couldn't see them with no bulb but boy are they noticeable now so I just had to wash all the walls down!

So tomorrow night I need to practice on my crew to take some pictures downstairs and see how the lighting all works and play around moving the lights and reflectors and using filters etc etc.....

I keep flitting between being extremely excited and positive and knowing this is going to be a great success, to asking myself if I am mad and telling myself this is all crazy and everyone willhate my pictures and that I should just run away!

But having a breather this evening was much needed...some time with Lloyd in this chaotic week. He is so supportive its unreal.......keeps telling me he believes in me and that it will all be great.........

I really struck lucky with him ;)

tired..............

I am drained. Just physically and emotionally drained............lack of sleep, too much on my mind, so much to do and no time to do it. Its exhausting. I will be glad when life slows down again.........Lloyd keeps telling me it will all be worth it and it will calm down once the Fall/ Christmas picture season is over....but then Christmas will be here and then our trip in January......maybe life isn't meant to slow down..............maybe I just need to get used to the rush!

Dinner tonight is an exremely lazy BOUGHT vegetable lasagna with superfries and peas for everyone else, salad for me. It was nice to literally open the oven door and just throw it in!

Next week is looking so busy...I think I am going to have to cancel a couple of plans.......the Odyssium on Monday for one..........we're there the following week anyway so I don't feel so bad about that.......

Lloyd will be arriving home in the next five minutes. Good. I need a hug!

A Doctors visit................

This morning I took DD to the Dr.s ...as we thought, she has a UTI so we got a prescription for antibiotics (I don't think she's ever had them before) and we headed to Sobeys to stock up on Cranberry Juice.......

The Dr was fab with her.....our Dr left left last year so I was a bit worried about meeting the new one. Firstly I was stunned that it has been so long since I was last at the Dr's.....th ewhole place has transformed...they've knocked into the building next door and they ahve a pharmacy now...wow has it really been that long? Then the new Doc was great...he got down on the floor and showed DD the test strip changing colour and what that meant and explained about the white blood cells, their job in the boyd and that they were a sign of infection..........when she was embarrasseed about having her pee checked he chatted to her about the fact that he spends his days checking pee...and much much worse jobs.....Susie told him that was gross and we were all laughing!

So I am finally home and I am just so tired and feeling so flat.......everything is so rushed right now to get the studio ready on time and get everything for the business sorted out.....sorting out the lighting and backdrops and insurance and website and business cards and and and......it's a good job Lloyd is a business man and knows what he's doing! I keep telling him I'm just going to run away!!!!! ;)

So in the paper today it discusses the changes to Hwy 21. I drive Hwy 21 a LOT......it is a nasty road.......speeding and overtaking but finally Sherwood Park has grown large enough and they are making it a two-lane highway.....

This is good for commuting into town BUT it has lead to devastation of trees along the whole length of highway.....it broke my heart on Tuesday to drive in and see quite that many trees just GONE.....

I wonder if that is why the big white house on Hwy 21 won't sell.....it will probably lose a lot of its land at the road side......and will be on an even more busy Hwy. They have reduced the price once already........I would NOT want to live beside Hwy 21. And that house also has a revolting cow field behind it which must smell awful in hot weather.......they should try and sell when there is snow on the ground.....I know that isn't always recommended but in this situation it would be a benefit..you can see the back of the house and the amazing walkout through the bare trees.......it looks lovely then, and the cow field will be covered in snow! And won't look boggy and nasty.......and not much road works will be happening ;)

I was thinking today........I won't be able to blog any of the portraits I take...thats going to be really hard! But the pictures belong to the client......and I wouldn't want to put someones picture online unless they were 100% comfortable and with their knowledge. So many of the pictures I take in future won't be shown here.......

But if anyone puts their pictures on their blog I will be sure to add a link so you can check out my work ;)

Tomorrow we have a homeschool get-together at Lets Play.......It will be fun and the kids will have a blast with their friends, but I could do without having to go out tomorrow.......so much to do!

And with that said, I really ahve to get back to the grind and get some work done........