to contain my excitement.
But let me tell you, it is REALLY hard!!!
I bought my 5D like a week and a half ago, and it's STILL NOT HERE!
But tonight, I received the shipping notification and it will be here in the next few days! WOOHOO!!!
Pictures will be forthcoming...
But if you can't wait until then, check out the photography blog and see what i've been up to :)
I read a post the other day about autumn. This girl is such a sweetheart and was explaining how she prefers the word autumn over fall.
I think that is so romantical :)
Anyways, it got me thinking about why I love autumn...
As much as I love summer and the warm weather, there is something intoxicating about the smells that you start noticing when the windows close as the colder months approach.
All year round, I enjoy a good frappacino every once in awihle... but only when it starts cooling down do I really enjoy the lattes... I especially love the chatting that occurs while said drink is consumed :)
Now's also about the time the fire's start burnin in the wood stove. One of the best feelings in the world is curling up on the couch with my WIRELESS internet that now WORKS! and doing my lovely internet activities such as blogging, or chatting or emailing or photo editing... all whilst enjoying the burning flames of the fireplace and possibly multi-tasking even further and watching a movie.
I gotta take my breaks where i get 'em ya know!
Each season brings its own unique colors... but autumn... mmmmm... autumn brings the most vibrant array of colors. I think I appreciate it more because we only see these colors for a very short time.
In the early autumn i love watching the colors change daily. Then as the season shifts the leaves begin to fall and cover the ground with their amazing color. Then... they start drying up... and make that super amazing crunchy sound under your feet.
Yah, and then there's the fact that i'm allergic to leaf mold and dust etc... so playing too long in the leaves results in sinus pressure... that's always fun haha
What else do i love about autumn... oh! I almost forgot the BEST PART! the day that daylight savings ENDS! A whole extra hour to sleep... does that ever happen... mmm, not really :) but it's the psychological part that helps :)
When I was little, my mom would take us to mendon ponds at different times through the year. but my favorite and most memorable time was in the autumn when the cattails turned and the milkweeds were popped. I tried doing that again about 3 years ago and ended up with enormously puffy eyes and a runny nose that wouldn't quit. It was pretty sick. I'll just let that one stay a nice memory :)
So what do you love about this time of year? Is it the on-set of the new holiday season or maybe the diligence that is inherent as school sets in? Do you have memories of what makes this time special? it's important to remember these things... and write them down so when you feel like you don't have good memories, you can look back and remind yourself that "oh yah!" you really do! :)
post from one year ago today: fall appreciation
I am aware that this blog has been turning into a personal promo for my photography business. I guess that's ok... sometimes. But i think it's been too long since I've been writing meaninful (or even funny) stuff.
I made a list of potential things to blog about the other day, and I want to get back to it. I love writing, and the reason I started this blog was to allow myself an outlet for that side of my creativity.
So here i go, attempting to get back into the spirit of true blogging and writing the things i want to remember the rest of my life... or at least the things i think about and make me wonder :)
Hold on tight, it can only get better from here!
I'm currently working on thinking of things to blog about that DON'T involve my photography business, but in the meantime, I wanted to ask you all a favor.
I don't really understand how or when or why I somehow happen to have so many readers. But I do, the stats don't lie... but the comments do! how does that work anyways?
Ok so, I posted over at my photo blog today in an attempt to spread it around. I just want the blog to get traffic mostly right now, and since I'm not really sure how to do that without being blunt, that's what I'm doing!
So here's what i'm asking. If you have me added or linked, or whatever you call it, would you please hop on over to my photo blog and link me there too? :)
I will love you oh so much!
Ok, back to real world blogging. I have a list I made in church the other day... bad me! why was i thinking about blogging during church...
another hilarious post from one year ago yesterday: but my lips hurt real bad
read it, you know you want to ;) you might understand the hidden side of chapstic addiction better after you do LOL!
***UPDATED!***
Wow! you guys are good! It probably didn't have anything to do with the fact that i twittered about it when I did it LOL! I realized that after I posted this.
But YES! I bought the 5D yesterday! I still have to wait for it though. What a downer, seriously.
I mean, it's so much more exciting to go to a store and fork over your cash and walk away with it in your hand.
When I bought the camera yesterday, I didn't even know that I had bought it. I pushed the submit button waiting for the payment info to pop up, but it didn't. Because I had already purchased stuff on there and it was stored.
Anyways, I am BEYOND EXCITED. I kinda wish I could postpone my 2 sessions this weekend so I could use the new one. But who cares! I've been rockin the old one, I'm gonna go out with a bang!
I decided to stop posting my shoots on here as much as I now have my photo blog up and running. I have yet to create a link to it on here, but I will :)
In the meantime, if you want to check out my most recent October shoots, check it out at amandaslakesphotography.blogspot.com.
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ok, now go ahead. GUESS!
(i'll give a hint in the morning if noone has figured it out yet... just take a stab ;)
Today, I'm over here at Sgt and Mrs Hub giving a review about the camera I currently use.
It's my first guest post, and honestly I'm a little beside myself. What is the proper etiquette in a case such as this?
Should I sit in front of the computer all day and STALK her blog just so that I can see the comments coming in???
I could continue speculating as to what my options are... but i'll just stop there. because going any further would be just that. speculation. Since my intent IS to sit her and stalk the blog aaaall day LOL!
Too bad i actually have a life... otherwise my butt might become attached to the chair. besides having a life, there is a 7 month old in the background who has decided to wake up... Well I guess if he never actually went to sleep... he's not really waking up.
This brings me to a point I have been meaning to make for like at least a month and have not gotten to doing it yet!
About a month and a half ago, I took on a new charge. He was 5 months at the time, he's now 7. and his name is Jonah. He is super adorable and soooo laid back. Except when it's time to go to sleep. HA! I won't even go into that.
He's adorable right? Seriously, his cuteness makes up for the whole not sleeping thing LOL!
I just basically wanted to share him with the blog world and give myself yet another excuse for my highly intermittent blogging.
Alrighty, I'm back to stalking Andrea's blog now! Come on over and check it out :)
post from one year ago yesterday (again with the yesterday, but seriously, if it was lame, i would just skip it. and trust me, there were a lot of lame ones. this one's actually funny): where are you black sweatshirt?
The other night, my dear friend alicia texted me a picture of a smoothie she was drinking.
That was all it took. I told her i would be over ASAP so that she could make me one. I seriously love smoothies.
Unfortunately for me, she was amidst doing homework and i was not to bother her with my presence. Instead i settled for a chocolate milkshake from McDonalds... and consequently was awake all night.
However, I am on my way to meet her tonight... so that she can make me a delicious smoothie. And i am so excited. Look, i'm blogging about it!
I'm thinkin we will watch ps i love you also because the other night we tried to watch it and i literally couldn't do it. i was just so tired.
That's enough of that. I am aware of the fact that this post is pretty boring, but who cares! I'm on my way to cadre now, and then off to alicia's after!!!
We got our first real snow this morning. I'll tell ya what, we have the craziest weather here! Just last week it was totally warm and all around beautiful.
Usually after the fall leaves all come down, we just have cold, cold and colder until Christmas where we are met with a lovely shade of brown on the ground. The combination of unraked dead leaves, dying grass and mud.
But this year, it snowed in October!
I realized something (again) when I came in to work this morning. Things are more exciting when you're still a kid. All of the kids were excited about the snow. I was just moaning about how I had to clean it off my car ;)
But seriously, it's really cool to be reminded of how we once saw things as children. Even when I'm old, I hope I can have kids around on a regular basis so I won't forget to be like one. I don't want to grow up!!!
Post from one year ago (yesterday) I HAD to post this anyways, because it's huuularious. At least I think so ;): stalk me
Today marks the day of my one year blogging life.
I have had more fun with this silly little blog over the last year than I could have ever imagined!
I've made new friends and been able to connect with people I've always known but not really known :)
Anyways, before I left to pick andy up from preschool this morning, I actually had something exciting to write here. I thought to myself, "self, you should at least write a few words so you don't forget what it was you were going to write." and my other self said, "noooooooooo, that's silly. You don't need to write it down! of course you will remember what it was. You do after all have a mind like a steel trap (with a lot of holes in it)"
Of course I forgot what it was. And I was hoping that by sitting here long enough, typing about how I don't remember it... that I would remember. But I don't. So I decided instead to make this post pretty much as boring as possible. If you're still reading by this point... I seriously owe you a hug. You must really love me haha!
Anyways, these pictures below are to represent "BB" and "AB" Before blogging, and after blogging. Not much difference, and I feel really lame-O posting this entire post but haha this is my blog and I can do whatever i want!
Me about 3 months before blogging ever occurred to me.
Stats:
- 5'6"
- hazel eyes
- long, almost blonde hair
- single (in the midst of emotional turmoil over an unnamed member of the opposite gender)
- at my lowest adult weight
- two whole and intact eyebrows
- yellow teeth (gross)
Me after 51 weeks of blogging.
Stats:
- 5'6" still
- hazel eyes still
- short, totally blonde hair
- single (no longerin the midst of emotional turmoil over an unnamed member of the opposite gender)
- still at my lowest adult weight (woohoo!)
- one whole and intact eyebrow (the right one decided to go rogue and with the aid of some well meaning tweezers went on a vacation, it's decided to take it's time coming back...)
- slightly whiter teeth as a result of Crest whitestrips (yay!)
Hopefully I was able to salvage this post to some degree. I've come a long way in a year and i keep looking back SO glad that I started this blog. It has been a lot of fun and I thoroughly intend to continue this blogging fun :)
Post from one year ago today: does God play poker? aka MY FIRST POST EVER!
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