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weekend update & more…

No, not the Saturday Night Live version either. But lots to catch up on…

  • went to dinner tonight with John & Nelson (nothing like going out to eat with both husbands) to a restaurant in Smithtown called H2O. It was delish. Mostly seafood and delish funky sushi.
  • had a shoot on Saturday morning and then while all the boys were at the beach, I went to Barnes and Nobel all by myself (bliss) and bought a ton of new books. I was all out and I always have to have something good to read. Really enjoying Laura Lipman books (thanks for that Ken!) so I bought a new one now that I just finished two others of hers. Also picked up a biography of Marie Antoinette which is great so far. A few others that looked good and were on sale.

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  • remember how I bought that new crumpler camera bag (looks exactly like the old one just bigger)? Well, I made a new friend in the process! When I offered the old bag for sale here on the blog, I had a taker out in Iowa who it turns out has been a blogstalker since I first started the blog. She said her husband always makes fun of her cause she reads all these blogs of people she dosen’t know (I do the same thing– I find photographers blogs whose work I love and visit everyday. I have about 45 that I visit daily!). So now that we have conversed a few times via email and that she now owns my old bag, she can say she does know me. Which leads me to my next point…
  • i know you are out there blog stalkers! I’d like to get to know you so if you are so inclined, please leave me a comment here on the blog and introduce yourself? I get quite a large number of folks visiting here everyday and while I know who some of you are, there is no way I "know" all of you. So come out of hiding and say hi, ok!? It’s easy to leave a comment. Just page down to the end of this post, click on "comments" and fill in the info. I would really love to hear from you! C’mon…
  • bought yet another new camera…but this one is just your run of the mill point and shoot digital. I need something I can just toss in my bag and take with me to events that I don’t want to lug the whole setup. I took some pictures with it at the beach the other day. I have to get over the fact that the picture quality will not be the same as the 5D’s (this is a difficult thing for me). But it is easy and small and convenient so I guess I’ll take the trade off. It’s great for what it is. And I’ll be sending it with John and the boys on their baseball trip. And of course, it’s a Canon. I’m very brand loyal!

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  • we went down to the beach on Friday- and it was a beautiful day. So that was my 5th visit to the beach this summer. August can’t come soon enough! Just one more weekend of working until September. We found 3 crabs on the beach (so rare) and I had to ‘crabsit’ the little one until the boys ran back to get the camera. One was small and alive. And then we found two big ones (unfortunately dead) but one was red and and the other blue. Pretty cool.

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  • We went to the Billy Joel concert- last play at Shea about two weeks ago (been so busy posting clients shoots that I haven’t blogged much about stuff around here) and it was a blast. John and I went (he also invited some clients from work) and we had fun. Yes, John had fun. It’s true. I swear. This would’ve been the perfect time for the small camera, but we are going to see the Police and Elvis Costello in a week or so, so I’ll bring it to that (hoping that it comes back alive from the baseball trip). Anyway, Billy Joel was amazing and he had several incredible guest appearances that night (we went to the Wednesday night show)- John Mayer, Tony Bennett, John Mellencamp, and Don Henley. Our seats were not so great in that we couldn’t see the stage much cause we were blocked by speakers and lights. BUT, we were in the first row of the upperdeck and the BOUNCING of the whole level was just crazy. The whole thing was seriously bouncing up and down all the way across Shea. My friend Jen was there and she was sitting in the section below and really thought the whole upper deck was going to just fall on top of her. It was nuts- but I liked it!

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  • Last, went over to the ‘crunchy club’ on Saturday night for the Big Wave movie/pool night where the kids can go in the pool all night and watch a movie on the big giant screen. It was Alvin & the Chipmunks this year and the boys had a bunch of fun. John’s partner from work, his wife and kids met us there and I think they had a good time too. The water was warm but the air was kinda cold so we had a lot of blue lips. We didn’t get home til around 11pm. Timmy made it thru the whole thing and had a blast too.

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Think that about does it for the catching up. For now anyway. Hope everyone had a good weekend. Don’t forget to leave a comment and say hi!