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Aiden's sevenmonth photog.shoot

Check out digital.memory for a post of shots from Aiden's sevenmonth photog.shoot.

 

sevenmonths

Whoa.

Aiden is seven months old? How did that happen? Where has this year gone?

 

 

happy sevenmonthbirthday, fiery boy!

it's just good business

We got Monsters vs Aliens last week.

This week I will finish up ellabelle newbebe.shoot edits,
set up Elena's headshots,
edit her other pictures,
edit SmithKids shots,
work on AlexanderFamily mini.shoot, and
MAYBE get started on wedding shots.

I called at&t this morning about my DSL acting goofy. I ended up talking with a networking specialist; she was VERY nice. She said from everything they could see on their end my DSL looked GREAT, which was very frustrating for us both. She said since my service seems to be dropping and my modem box is rebooting, something PROBABLY is wrong with the modem. They've got a trace on my line for the next 24 hours to see if they can detect any problems, and she's already scheduled a service tech for Thursday morning justincase I'll need someone out here to do anything. I drop connection a few times a day according to my modem and my computer, but she said the only times in October I wasn't connected were two days in early October. I thought back and realized that on those two days I had everything unplugged because I was moving furniture. 

I am expecting about four photography-related packages in the mail.

I'm planning to print off invoices for everything digital.memory-related I've purchased online this year so that I can start looking at including that stuff in our taxes for 2009. My photography-related expenses have absolutely trounced my photography-related income. Mmhmm. 

Time change has totally got us thrown for a loop. I'm so hungry...

testing - again

book cover

hiatus | an explanation?

I have been trying to not complain so much.

One of my "complaining habits" has been to sit down at the computer, open up the Compose New Post screen, and just type until I feel better (or get sick of myself). Lately, though, I have been confronted with the open, available-to-others nature of the internet (again). At the same time I've been struggling with issues and in areas that just really aren't ANYBODY's business, much less just-anybody's business. 

I've had to examine some feelings and some practices that are ugly.
I've had to evaluate some relationships that I thought were safe.
I've had to give myself time to come to terms with what my role is and should be.
I've had to figure out how the heck to balance an increase in the photog.workload with a simultaneous increase (Oh, ho ho whoa, whoa.) in the amount of effort I'm trying to apply to my top three relationships(God, Jonathan, and the boys).

It's made for some unposted blog entries. Okay, at first there were quite a few unposted blog entries. Lately I haven't even tried. I see that as progress.

So. 

I've almost dropped off the face of the blog world. I have sort of kept up with a few pictures, and I have been posting pictures at smugmug and on Facebook. I haven't connected with people very well lately. (I've thought about you, really I have! And I pray for you, too!) But I feel like right now I need to spend my time and energy and resources figuring out how to connect with God and with Jonathan and with the boys in more meaningful and lasting ways than we've been interacting. 

And now Quinn is trying to escape through the front door, so I should probably get off the computer and deter him.

(HOPEFULLY soon to come: vacation picture links, Aiden Scoots!, G&P's house, a note about photo paper - from digital.memory, and more Fall decorations... so stay tuned! But don't hold your breath...)