friday * (w/evening update)
I don’t know why it seems like I don’t have much time for OD anymore; I’m sure from the outside it looks like I’m on the internet all day long. In any case, I haven’t been spending much time online the past few days because of The Sick. I’ve missed two days of work (not by choice, they sent me home), and just generally felt like crap. Changing weather always mucks up my immune system for a few weeks. So, for two days I basically sat on my ass and watched TV. Watched the whole first season of "Bones," and did nothing resembling anything productive. Fun times.
I have an engagement shoot this evening, for my incredibly stuck-up cousin who’s getting married in June. I almost had a heart attack when she contacted me to schedule a session; she and I went to the same high school (in the same grade!) and barely said four words to one another in four years. I’m excited about the job though, because having her as a client will push my exposure into another group of people entirely, and get me closer to my ideal market. And, she wanted the session done at Marshall University, and I’m loving that because the grounds at MU are gorgeous and there’s some awesome new architecture there as well. Plus, my last two sessions (the two senior ones) were basically pro bono, so money is good. I need to get boring officey type stuff like printer cartridges and CD labels. A business cannot stand on product alone, apparently. One must have labels of various shapes and sizes to make it work.
What else, what else?
Oh! I know….I might be pregnant.
Totally an accident. Well, an accident in that, the condom was right there beside the bed and were both just kind of….*ahem*….into things and forgot about it.
Normally, I wouldn’t even assume pregnancy, because really – what are the chances? BUT. I conceived both Chloe and Benjamin at this time of year, so it’s obviously a fertile time for me. It was right around my expected ovulation time, too, as my cycles have pretty much evened out again. And, I just kind of had that "feeling," that intuition type feeling right after that normally ends up dead on for me. It’s been about ten days, so I’m going to pick up a test this evening and test in the morning.
I will be supremely happy if it is positive, just because I’d gotten used to the idea of not being "allowed" to have more kids and this would be like a wonderful gift. If not, then I’ll probably be a little disappointed, but as we’re not exactly in the ideal "expecting a newbie" state right now, then that’ll be fine.
We’ll see, I guess.
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I just had the weirdest evening. It was a combination of the most wonderful and most horrible experiences!
First the good: my photo session ended up being AWESOME!! I’m SOOOO excited, looking at the raw images as I’m uploading them, because I can tell they’re going to be so great when I’m finished. Cassie (my cousin) and her fiancee were perfect "models" and let me drag them all around campus. We started out at the Memorial Fountain, down to Old Main, allll the way down to the other end of campus, and then across the highway to the newly built alumni center (which is gorgeous). I had the best time, and both Cassie and her fiancee are gorgeous, beautiful people so they were supremely easy to photograph.
As for the bad, my idiot self didn’t drink ANY water before going out to run around on the campus in 90 degree weather. Needless to say, by the time we were finished my blood pressure was sky high and I was just about in dehydration mode. My lips got chapped, my skin was red and blotchy…it was not pretty. I drank a HUGE water from the McD’s drive through on the way home and chased that with two more 20oz bottles at Mom’s house this evening and I’m feeling much better. I still have a small lingering headache, but I’ve been combating that with more water and small amounts of caffeine so I’m hoping I’ll be right as rain soon.
I took some really great photos at Mom’s this evening, too. Great shots of the kids, and I was playing around trying to properly backlight some flowers with the setting sun, and a lot of those turned out great. I’ll try to do a photo post sometime this weekend…but for now I’m going to go relax on the couch and watch some Bones.
My Stick Family from WiddlyTinks.com