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Wednesday’s stuff
-the new camera is on it’s way!! Hurry, UPS man, hurry!
-my new favorite word of Timmy’s is "alidrator" (yeah, that would be refridgerator- no idea how he ended up with that translation)
-I managed to get all the pictures of the new baby shoot yesterday off my camera today. Yet another thanks to Beth, this time for the USB cable. I spent the greater part of today editing those pictures. They are now in an album to the left. Hope you love them C and R. I will work on the announcement asap.
-I was a bad mommy today and forgot to put the boys pre-paid ice cream day coupons in their lunchboxes. They weren’t terribly upset, but I promised a Carvel run tommorrow night to make up for it. I am having a hard time remembering everything they need for every day… reading logs, ice cream days, cello, recorder. I must update the calendar tonight.
-Booked two new photoshoots for Sunday today- one beach, one Christmas mini session. Busy, busy!! I gotta get that new camera up and running as soon as it gets here.
-decorated the outside of the house for Halloween today. Lots o pumpkins.
-I am SO behind on the laundry. And the cleaning. And the checkbook balancing. And the everyday stuff like emptying the dishwasher and making the beds. And the mail. And answering emails. And returning phone calls. And the scrapbooking. Oy, the scrapbooking. I am so unmotivated, it’s scary. I am so busy with the whole photography thing that the scrapbook thing seems to have fallen by the wayside. I feel guilty. I feel a little ill every time I walk past the scrapbook room. I have had a page layed out on the desk for over a month. It’s still there. I think it will probably remain there. For a LONG time still.
-there are definitely not enough hours in the day as indicated by the above point.
-tommorrow is RED DAY at Timmy’s school. I had better catch up on the laundry now or else he will not be wearing any RED at all.
-tommorrow I am going to the orthopedic podiatrist. Finally. I have a bunion (yes, a bunion. I know, I’m like 80 years old) and my whole foot is REALLY HURTING. All the time now. I’m not looking forward to hearing what this doctor is going to tell me. I can hear the words "surgery" and "soon" lingering in the office already.
-you know that expression "he would lose his head if it wasn’t attached"? Yeah, well, that is my son, Jack. He hurts my head. Almost every single day he forgets something. Like a notebook he has a homework assignment in, or to hand something in at school, or that he has to get dressed in the morning before school(not even kidding on that one, it happened a few times). Scary.
-it’s Wednesday and there is no LOST yet. I can’t wait for that to start. I need one night to fat out on the couch. It’s something to look forward to I guess.
Laundry’s calling.
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Pow! Baby!
Well, here she is. Patrick’s teacher from 1st grade and her husband’s brand new little girl. She is just beautiful!! Only a week old and she dosen’t even have that newborn look about her at all.
I had such a great time photographing everyone today (thanks again, Beth, for the camera loan!). She was such a good baby, awake and asleep. With the whole camera debacale, I can’t get the other 220 pictures I took today off of the camera until the new one arrives, so these two will have to hold you over until then. Isn’t she so sweet and pink?? I can’t wait to show you the rest. And how much do we love the basket??? -
the East House
Every year over Columbus Day weekend, we head out to John’s parents house on the east end. This year due to some colds, conflicting schedules with photoshoots, and the fact it is sometimes just way too hard to pack everyone up for two nights, we only did a day trip. But we did manage to cram in a zillion things in the one day. We went pumpkin picking, which included the hay ride, the bounce house, and the corn maze. We went out to a nice lunch. Timmy napped at the house with John while I took the boys to a few stores (didn’t buy anything), to the ‘east beach’, and for a drive around the area. Then we all loaded back in (along with the 24 pumpkins we bought), went out to Greenport to the carousel, the park on the water, and the duck store- where each boy got 2 little rubber duckies and Timmy got a pirate flag. We hit the Elbow Room for the BEST marinated steaks in the universe (sorry, Nel) for dinner and must’ve gotten there at the perfect time as there was no wait- that never, ever happens. We all really missed having Nelson with us this year (he always comes out for the weekend too) and it was very strange being there without him.
The pumpkin patch.
The hay ride:
The corn maze: (Jack found the coolest, fuzziest, huge caterpillar)
The east beach (where it was warm enough out that people were swimming in the sound, sunbathing, and I urged the boys to go into the water too)
The carousel:
And the park:
That about covers it in pictures.
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It’s BROKEN!!!!
My camera broke. Today. I can’t even believe it. Well, I sorta can. Apparently, the digital Rebel is supposed to last for 10-20,000 shots (the shutter only lasts that long) and I have significantly more than that. I’m probably in the 30,000 range. I have had the camera for almost 5 years! So it has well surpassed my expectations. I was wrapping up the shoot with Billy, and I got the dreaded Error 99 message. I tried all the tricks that are listed in various places online for fixing it, but I just know it’s the shutter- I can hear it. It just won’t take any pictures. None. At. All.
I dropped it off to my camera store in town. Mark told me it will be 4-6 weeks until I even know what is wrong with it and how much it will cost to fix. Yes, 4-6 WEEKS. I am having serious separation anxiety. I have never been apart from my camera for that long since I got it. Oy.
For those of you who have upcoming shoots with me, don’t worry. I have a backup plan. Well, two plans actually. One, I borrowed my good friend Beth’s digital rebel body tonight so I will have that for tommorrow’s shoot. Thank you so much Beth- I owe you as usual. I still have all my lenses and flash cards, and speedlight, so I’m good to go (and I even got my lenses cleaned today-so they are all sparkly and clear!). Two, my very wonderful parents bought me a new camera YESTERDAY. Talk about good timing! I will be getting the Canon 30D by the end of this week.
Woohoo!!!! So either my current camera died from overuse or because it was so sad it is becoming the backup camera. So, once it is fixed, I will have a really good backup camera to take with me on all my shoots. I usually end up borrowing Beth’s for those "non-do-over" shoots (ie. parties, the wedding, anything that there is no rescheduling for) as my backup, but sometimes she needs her camera too!So that’s my sad story for today. At least it didn’t die during or before a shoot when it would have been REALLY bad.
Off to a newborn shoot tommorrow morning- I’m really excited for that one. It’s Mrs. P- the same one I did the maternity shoot for, now the baby (girl) is here. Look for pictures soon.
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Billy
This is our cousin, Billy, who is an actor and comedian (and a good one, too). He needed updated headshots so I got drafted- well, really I kinda volunteered- to do them. He came out from Queens for the afternoon and we hit a few spots around town that I thought might work. 
We had a good time, and Billy was a real good sport (although he was the one who picked out his clothes) because it was 90 degrees here today and he’s wearing a wool sweater and blazer. I couldn’t look at him without sweating. He ended up staying for dinner tonight which usually only happens once a year on Thanksgiving. But it turns out that today is Canadian Thanksgiving, so it worked out okay.
Billy, I hope these are to your liking and I hope they help you (& me too) get lots of work!